THE AGE OF BOBOT IS UPON US (consensually)

it is very VERY important that you watch @martinaustwick.bsky.social's new video, containing an absolute electrobanger of a song about the word 'Daddy' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikiw...

The government can spend money on concentration camps but not on housing. It really is this obscene.

theallusionist.org/cosmic-hairb... if you need this in your day

This isn't new news, Substack has been known-shitty for years. But, worth shouting for the people at the back www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

But the launch of GB News and Talk TV coincided with Ofcom's leadership drastically watering down enforcement of its "broadcasting code", and giving these channels a free pass to spread climate falsehoods with impunity... /2 action.goodlawproject.org/tell-ofcom-s...

🙄 And all because of 1, just 1 debunked paper. A million deaths is not enough for Andrew Wakefield.

we had more people* in that time @martinaustwick.bsky.social and I performed @allusionistshow.bsky.social live in a non-Freemasons fraternal lodge's haunted bowling alley in Dallas TX. *Living people, not just the ghosts

I keep expecting the question mark in this title to shift into an exclamation mark at some point www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

in chicago, dibs is a real street law and you might end up in a scary situation disregarding it…

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

NEW: Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed, the Trump administration began rewriting the narrative, labelling the victim as a "lunatic" and a "terrorist" contradicting all available evidence www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Entries are absurdly unbalanced, to favour US govt false statements, in a scenario where "sharply contested" both sides reporting would be highly inadequate BBC are here being a real time conduit of the misinformation that they say their mission is to verify+counter www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...

they are "detaining witnesses"

there's a new episode in your podfeed! Featuring dino gobs, feminist cookbooks, and swear school, with @aketchum22.bsky.social, @martinaustwick.bsky.social, @suchmayer.bsky.social, #HannahMcGregor, #KellyElizabethWright and @mixedlinguist.bsky.social theallusionist.org/bonus2025

you'd think a man with that many children would be better at dad jokes

Video podcasts are a way to have a talk show and avoid union crews.

Today is @allusionistshow.bsky.social's eleventh birthday! Happy birthday, show! My voice has returned sufficiently so there'll be a new episode this week, and there are 200+ not-new ones at theallusionist.org to catch up on if this is your first time hearing that this podcast exists

Welp, laryngitis has compelled me to postpone the last episode of the year (and also AMT) to 2026. But now is a fine time to listen to some Festivelusionists, which are gathered in a playlist at theallusionist.org/festivelusionist

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It’s on til January 3 at the King’s Head in Islington and I couldn’t recommend it enough if you want to see something truly inspired and very very funny. Just amazing. By the duo who did Gwyneth Goes Skiing and Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story.

I saw The Fit Prince last night and am still bloody giggling. How two people can create a cast of hundreds out of thin air, three screens and an audience is beyond me. What a week to see this and Oh, Mary! Camp, sharp, brilliant theatre is on fire. kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/the...

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Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night

If you've not yet before experienced @helenzaltzman.bsky.social's festive offerings, you're in for a treat! She and @martinaustwick.bsky.social create such a wonderful, cosy mood with their readings. Plus, once you've experienced the book, you'll realise just how close the Muppet version is!

This is a very funny book

to the surprise of nobody, the BBC is pandering to the hate crimers www.erininthemorning.com/p/bbc-now-ca...

Did you know that Hark has your fave podcasters read @theatlantic.com articles? Listen in your car, at the gym, or while walking the dog. No AI voices, just humans like @trufelman.bsky.social, @helenzaltzman.bsky.social, & @ohitsbigron.bsky.social. Listen: share.harkaudio.com/ReC6DXvrToVd...

What would you do if you woke up with magical powers? I’m joined by @allusionistshow.bsky.social Host @helenzaltzman.bsky.social, as we discuss the 1989 film “Teen Witch.” #TeenWitch #Magic #Witch #Halloween #Witches 🔮✨ youtu.be/X3-9a2V18RI

Had a lot of fun talking about the differences between US and UK Christmas music with @helenzaltzman.bsky.social!

correlation or causation?

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oh what a night, when politics made us so happy for once

either the country is beset by hundreds and hundreds of terrorists massing in every major city -- little old lady terrorists, famous film writer terrorists, university student terrorists, disabled terrorists -- or the law is a sick fucking joke

I’m performing at Nerd Nite in Vancouver on Wednesday! I have read three different versions of Dracula in the past month and you should come along to learn why the hell I would do something like that www.eventbrite.com/e/nerd-nite-...

But also, I know I've hit my cap of independent media support that I can personally offer to the venues I value. Independent media that isn't taking a deep dive in the right wing cesspool is expensive to produce, maintain, and continue. It's exhausting to play wack a mole like this.

Shutting the fuck up is free, Ro Khanna www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-congre...

Alternative options (I suggest a combo): 1. steer people to be less fucking racist; 2. throw all this effort and more into stemming the main causes of migration: wars and climate catastrophe. But, as always, alas www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

This is all over Twitter as agitprop to eradicate trans people. If they should actual raw numbers, it would show the thousands of mass shootings committed by white men. But they purposefully distorted statistics in a purposefully skewed scale guaranteed to push trans people to the top.

This is the dumbest propaganda fake statistic I've ever seen. It presents in a rate of per million population when there's only 2.8 million trans people in the entire country. A single trans mass shooter would show up in this and that's exactly what it shows.

They were LITERALLY protesting against JK Rowling's best mate and partner in Lumos etc Baroness Nicholson. Literally. Truth doesn't matter any more. Today they're protesting against HER.