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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>My 21st Century superpowers are: being impervious to culture wars influencing, conspiracy theories and gambling ads.  &#xA;———————————&#xA;Politics, Music, Football and other random cultural ephemera</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social</link><title>@valentinabass.bsky.social - Etienne Cloche</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mzlifirrkc2g</link><description>Someone should tell Jeffries that the democrats are not now “governing”as a result of Tuesday, merely they are very much in charge of ensuring the president discharges his given duties as per the constitution for the next two years. That involves rigorous, OVERSIGHT. And potentially impeachments</description><pubDate>05 Nov 2026 18:23 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlifirrkc2g</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mzlbl3zl7s2n</link><description>Justice for Brand’s victims. Good. Be great to see the next big domino fall imminently. Lift the damned injunction already!</description><pubDate>05 Nov 2026 16:21 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlbl3zl7s2n</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mzhvv6pku22f</link><description>Amazing results, obviously. À wonderful feeling this morning. But it’s now up to all Democrats to hold the leadership’s feet to the fire. Over accountability. Investigators. Schumer picked Stevens. The 2028 can’t be a leadership stitch up</description><pubDate>04 Nov 2026 08:14 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhvv6pku22f</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mzbngkmkjs2w</link><description>R.I.P Juan Atkins…a titan of electronic music</description><pubDate>01 Nov 2026 20:26 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzbngkmkjs2w</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mz4isrnkj223</link><description>Fuck AI. To be clear I want it to die in a way that a) utterly ruins the tech bros AND means that AI will not be bailed out and NOT return in its resource hungry race to the bottom for profit capitalist unregulated death spiral guise ever again.</description><pubDate>30 Oct 2026 19:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz4isrnkj223</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3myzfhcxtlc2t</link><description>To visit a genocide on a population then cry “election interference” if those left alive turn up to punish you at the ballot box is a level of deplorable utterly in keeping with Netanyahu’s prior tactics.</description><pubDate>29 Oct 2026 13:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzfhcxtlc2t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3myyqh5zjhs26</link><description>AI as it’s currently conceived is incompatible with prolonged human life, indeed its founding principle seems to have shifted from “enhance humanity “ to “replace humanity”- people who haven’t realised this already need to wake up to it.</description><pubDate>29 Oct 2026 07:26 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3myyqh5zjhs26</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3myrji252xk2e</link><description>Is there any chance we get to see Musk in UK cinemas? Or failing that anywhere on streaming? Haven’t seen anything about a confirmed UK release yet</description><pubDate>26 Oct 2026 10:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3myrji252xk2e</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3myrcy5hruc2y</link><description>Two fantastic election results overnight! Wasn’t expecting either. Let’s hope the midterms next week are similarly seismic</description><pubDate>26 Oct 2026 08:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3myrcy5hruc2y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mynsg5zwy22f</link><description>Any government espousing the power of AI either doesn’t properly understand the economics of AI or has already paid too much in contracts to the lies of Palantir. That the UK government has so clearly drunk the Kool Aid on this should worry us all</description><pubDate>24 Oct 2026 23:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mynsg5zwy22f</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mynqtsjubc2f</link><description>There should be no billionaires. Or people who think the people who think there should be no billionaires exhibit “the politics of envy”</description><pubDate>24 Oct 2026 22:34 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mynqtsjubc2f</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mynk2qm6f22f</link><description>Moyes’ attitude to subs is they are an afterthought (almost an admission that he was wrong)  to his original team selection rather than an essential weapon to change games</description><pubDate>24 Oct 2026 20:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mynk2qm6f22f</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3myjw24b3yk2a</link><description>Happy new Olivia Tremor Control album day everyone! That it exists at all is amazing enough. But it’s an excellent record. As befitting as it is poignant</description><pubDate>23 Oct 2026 09:56 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3myjw24b3yk2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3myg3c5y6lk2y</link><pubDate>21 Oct 2026 21:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3myg3c5y6lk2y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3myeshjbfs22i</link><description>North Sea oil go ahead won’t make our bills cheaper, so it’s simply a sop to lobbying. No benefit at all aside from a tiny number of jobs &amp; to Shell’s bottom line. Yet again government takes the option that shows other countries we are not serious about net zero. It’s another test Burnham has failed</description><pubDate>21 Oct 2026 09:09 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3myeshjbfs22i</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mydhrfc3ok2i</link><description>The far right are by definition “anti human” because they embrace the idea that empathy is weakness as opposed to a common trait we can recognise each others humanity by. A world free of empathy would not be human!</description><pubDate>20 Oct 2026 20:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mydhrfc3ok2i</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3my3sllukjc2y</link><description>President Traitor is a name that should stick</description><pubDate>17 Oct 2026 19:17 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3sllukjc2y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mxtlicrnwk2s</link><description>Pope Leo has lung cancer yet Trump Putin and Netanyahu still walk amongst us. Make it make sense</description><pubDate>14 Oct 2026 12:49 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtlicrnwk2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/valentinabass.bsky.social/post/3mxtlfqp63c2s</link><description>A timely re run and a thorough dissection of (alleged) serial sex offender,  former junkie cum revolutionary dandy, husband of Katy Perry cum born again Christian grifter goblin-sprite  Russell Brand on @originstorypodcast.bsky.social with @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social Listen!</description><pubDate>14 Oct 2026 12:48 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:6xdfdnpho2mests46fcqzdj3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtlfqp63c2s</guid></item></channel></rss>