Matt Bain
@mbain.bsky.social
Interested in video games, politics, tech, and animals. Work in software testing. Opinions sometimes my own, more often stolen from smarter people. Dogs name is Mars.
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NEW Hungary’s new PM has described Viktor Orbán’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate.
Bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK!
Alice McCool's deep dive into Orban, his propaganda college MCC – and its links to the British right ⏬
www.thenerve.news/p/viktor-orb...
Bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK!
Alice McCool's deep dive into Orban, his propaganda college MCC – and its links to the British right ⏬
www.thenerve.news/p/viktor-orb...
With Orbán gone, has the British far right lost its magic money tree?
Hungary’s new PM has described his predecessor’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate. This could be bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK – and around the rest of the...
www.thenerve.news
April 14, 2026 at 7:21 PM
NEW Hungary’s new PM has described Viktor Orbán’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate.
Bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK!
Alice McCool's deep dive into Orban, his propaganda college MCC – and its links to the British right ⏬
www.thenerve.news/p/viktor-orb...
Bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK!
Alice McCool's deep dive into Orban, his propaganda college MCC – and its links to the British right ⏬
www.thenerve.news/p/viktor-orb...
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The extent of brain worms in the political class is massively under valued
Rep. Warren Davidson on Biden's cancer diagnosis: "I feel terrible for anybody that would go through that, even someone who I really don't like much as Joe Biden...they're not credible on anything...the whole thing was a big coverup, and I suspect this cancer diagnosis is part of that whole scheme."
May 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The extent of brain worms in the political class is massively under valued
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Talk to your sons
![1
[Show an image of a basic pot of TESCO COLESLAW, on a table]
VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE:
Slaw.
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SECOND VOICE [pointing a hand at the coleslaw]:
Coleslaw.
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[We pull back to see a YOUNG MAN sat at an interview-style table in a therapy session, with a professional opposite him wearing a lanyard].
YOUNG MAN:
Slaw.
PROFESSIONAL:
No... coleslaw, Peter.
And it comes in a...?
4
YOUNG MAN:
In a... pot from... Tesco.
PROFESSIONAL:
Very good.
5
[We are now outside the room this scene is in. On the wall outside the room is a sign reading]:
ABDP:
American 'BBQ' Deradicalisation Programme
[Beneath the sign is a professional looking woman, also wearing a lanyard]:
PROFESSIONAL [with concerned, serious face]:
The process can take a long time.
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[We now hear her voiceover, but we are looking at a scene of a male hunched over a laptop in their bedroom].
PROFESSIONAL:
Every year we see more and more British men being exposed to this content from America.
7.
[We see what's on the screen: a YouTube video about AMERICAN BBQ, with a bearded, thick-glasses, plaid-shirt wearing man holding a big rack of ribs in black-gloved hands].
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[Cut to a garden scene: a typical British man is incinerating sausages on his crap little barbecue]
PROFESSIONAL V/O:
One day they're incinerating sausages like a normal person
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PROFESSIONAL V/O:
The next they re standing in front of a 'smoker' and expecting you to ask them about it.
[Same man, same scene, but he is now a heavily bearded, plaid and glasses wearing American BBQ bro, stood in front of a huge smoking cabinet bearing the legend PIT BOSS PRO, and forking a big rack of ribs. A woman is approaching his table tentatively, and politely asks:]
WOMAN:
What's tha-
BBQ BRO:
OH IT'S MYSMOKER.
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BBQ BRO:
I USE MESQUITE WOOD CHIPS.
[She looks alarmed, confused]
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BBQ BRO:
DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY SMOKE RING
[Two ABDP agents, like police officers, have arrived and are lunging for him - one saying]:
POLICE OFFICER:
Grab his tongs](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiadebllpi77q2bqooqthca34fi2ufhxs62l3pcm4wft7d4ssjceba)
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Talk to your sons
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well
turns out that the London Art Fair is *not* one of those places where everyone feels duty bound to let out a small "weyyyy" when someone drops a glass on the floor
turns out that the London Art Fair is *not* one of those places where everyone feels duty bound to let out a small "weyyyy" when someone drops a glass on the floor
January 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
well
turns out that the London Art Fair is *not* one of those places where everyone feels duty bound to let out a small "weyyyy" when someone drops a glass on the floor
turns out that the London Art Fair is *not* one of those places where everyone feels duty bound to let out a small "weyyyy" when someone drops a glass on the floor
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The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
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Move over, Fox News, there's a new conservative propaganda machine in town--one directed squarely at kids. And its propaganda is subtly hidden in ways that might lead families not to notice what their kids are being taught. Let me explain. A🧵... 1/
September 19, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Move over, Fox News, there's a new conservative propaganda machine in town--one directed squarely at kids. And its propaganda is subtly hidden in ways that might lead families not to notice what their kids are being taught. Let me explain. A🧵... 1/
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Fun snippet because I can't do a chart on the train: the voters the Conservatives lost to Reform UK are very slightly more *left* wing economically than those they lost to the LibDems
September 13, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Fun snippet because I can't do a chart on the train: the voters the Conservatives lost to Reform UK are very slightly more *left* wing economically than those they lost to the LibDems
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Methinks all these "No 10 at war stories" bear the prints of Boris Johnson's Covid party organiser, the soon to depart cabinet secretary..
www.ft.com/content/7004...
www.ft.com/content/7004...
Downing Street fights charge Sue Gray is creating ‘bottleneck’
Starmer’s chief of staff accused of micromanagement amid claims of clashes with political adviser McSweeney
www.ft.com
August 14, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Methinks all these "No 10 at war stories" bear the prints of Boris Johnson's Covid party organiser, the soon to depart cabinet secretary..
www.ft.com/content/7004...
www.ft.com/content/7004...
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To achieve this, you have to look at more sites rather than getting everything from Twitter, but you don’t have to constantly filter out an overwhelming tide of bad actors. I’ve found it less exhausting and more clarifying. And this place so far has been good. Interesting people, way less noise.
August 11, 2024 at 7:17 AM
To achieve this, you have to look at more sites rather than getting everything from Twitter, but you don’t have to constantly filter out an overwhelming tide of bad actors. I’ve found it less exhausting and more clarifying. And this place so far has been good. Interesting people, way less noise.
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What worries me most is if this is a practice run for the way he is intending to engage Twitter in the US election, and the apparent lack of strategies to deal with this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK disorder: What's Elon Musk's game?
X’s owner has chosen to wade in to opine on unrest in the UK. It isn't clear what's driving him.
www.bbc.com
August 9, 2024 at 11:41 PM
What worries me most is if this is a practice run for the way he is intending to engage Twitter in the US election, and the apparent lack of strategies to deal with this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Being this stupid really should be an aggravating factor - if it weren’t so funny www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/n...
August 9, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Being this stupid really should be an aggravating factor - if it weren’t so funny www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/n...
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Timely repost of a thing I’m dead proud of: Cunk and Shitpeas on migrants. Just to point out that the news media that incite vile racist shit often backpedal when they realise they’ve gone too far. And they’ll be back before you know it.
youtu.be/IYtDgvjwPTw?...
youtu.be/IYtDgvjwPTw?...
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August 8, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Timely repost of a thing I’m dead proud of: Cunk and Shitpeas on migrants. Just to point out that the news media that incite vile racist shit often backpedal when they realise they’ve gone too far. And they’ll be back before you know it.
youtu.be/IYtDgvjwPTw?...
youtu.be/IYtDgvjwPTw?...
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No one else could make “what is the crime? Enjoying a meal? Enjoying a succulent Chinese meal?” or “get your hands off my penis!” sound like pure Shakespeare the way this guy did, particularly while being arrested
There’s no one that did it as well as him, it’s the end of an era
There’s no one that did it as well as him, it’s the end of an era
August 7, 2024 at 11:30 PM
No one else could make “what is the crime? Enjoying a meal? Enjoying a succulent Chinese meal?” or “get your hands off my penis!” sound like pure Shakespeare the way this guy did, particularly while being arrested
There’s no one that did it as well as him, it’s the end of an era
There’s no one that did it as well as him, it’s the end of an era
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Tonight we have seen the difference between 'protests' and 'riots'.
August 7, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Tonight we have seen the difference between 'protests' and 'riots'.