Xander King

@xanderking.bsky.social

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Just another person escaping the X binfire. You’ll soon figure out where I am on the political spectrum, and most of the assumptions you’ve just made about that are true. He/him. Otrovert.

Me, responding to a post by the amazing author Joanne Harris about simple and flowery language by sub-editing it for conciseness. She chastises me mildly…
An excerpt from an article in the Guardian, describing a forced deportation attempt by the UK to Jamaica on a scheduled flight. It reads: “There are five or six security guards - and they are hardly slight - but bundling a large, hysterical man into an economy-sized seat was always going to be a challenge, and he has the strength - for a while at least - to confound them. One man leaning forwards grabs him in a form of headlock, prompting gasps and shrieks from the other passengers. A few pull out their phones and start filming, ignoring a flight attendant's pleas that they remain in their seats. Others, eager to fly but drawn to the melee, drift rearwards for a look at this theatre of the macabre. There is a fraught stalemate as the irresistible force that is the deportation team meets the immovable object that is the would-be deportee, and it is during that brutal, noisy standoff that the mini mutiny begins. "We can't fly like this," declares one angry passenger. "It's not safe," protests another. "He'll calm down," says a flight attendant, but everyone has eyes on the pulling, pushing and the wrestling: no one believes her. She doesn't sound as it she quite believes it herself.”
A screenshot of some dafty called Kath Nugent somehow getting a comment piece in the times to complain about being taxed as a second home owner on of having inherited a second home which she would “prefer” to keep.
A screenshot of a BlueSky post by Dale Vince saying dumb shit about the MOD being “cash strapped” and suggesting that we should take money away from people trying to heat their homes in an efficient and environmentally sustainable way so that the military can go ahead and blow up more people in petrostates.
Screenshot of a post from prominent TERF, divorcee and deadbeat mum Julie Bindel, reading: “In other news, I just invited my ex-husband, and father of our 7 children, out for lunch anywhere he liked - within the Greggs, Costa price range, and he threatened me with the police, and sent me a copy of the restraining order, UPDATED! Bastard! @DreyfusJames”
Crashed Ferrari F1 car
A picture of a crucifix with simulated blood painted on it, erected on a patch of grass outside almshouses.
A picture of a chart predicting Westminster seat numbers, showing that with Greens on 25% and Reform on less than 21%, Reform would still have the most seats of any party.
Nigel Farage, at the WEF, looking like an un-ironed Herr Flick from Allo Allo.