They're both awful.

They're just straight up calling autism a social contagion now. Exactly the same thing they did to trans people.

Just watched The Terror Season 3, and it made me remember American Horror Story: Asylum, where one of the characters is an adult Anne Frank who faked her death to become a Nazi hunter. It's cool to always make the creative choice that you absolutely shouldn't make.

thinking about noise misato again 😢

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I'm going to collect veterans benefits and if anyone asks why I'll tell them that THEY WEREN'T THERE ON REACH WHEN THE SHIT WENT DOWN. #ODSTPOWMIA

A moderation system that affects whether your account gets banned was implemented *last year* and the eternally professional Blue Sky the everything app devs are just talking about that now. Why? Well it has to do with one of them liking barely legal porn on main.

Oh good. After all these years we are finally getting a version of Ken Russell's The Devils the way it was intended. aftermath.site/ken-russell-th...

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Can't recommend QQ enough, even if you're not into tabletop RPGs - I think writers can learn a lot from how something like Stonetop presents information and makes space for players to create their own story.

I was listening to a podcast where the hosts talk about how men need to be writing books about how to be a non-toxic man, and I instinctively thought 'hey, maybe I could do that- no, wait, I'd have to get really buff for anyone to take me seriously' and like... isn't that the problem?

Hearing Labour have almost completely been wiped out in *Manchester* by Greens on one side and (ugh) a few Reform on the other. One can hope it's a wake-up call, but I suspect they'll keep pandering to fascists.

British politics procedures knowers: if he's absolutely determined to hang in there is there anything that can be done to forcibly remove him?

If you live in Manchester and you're not going to HOME at least once a week you're ngmi, but this is absolutely essential:

It feels very copey to say "ha, now that people have a Reform Council they will certainly find out what it's like to have vital services neglected because there is no money for anything other than statutory responsibilities, to the presumed electoral benefit of us"

'Credible' here means throwing red meat to the worst people in our society, who will absolutely never be satisfied. My wife and son are the red meat btw.

We're about to see the @trashfuture.bsky.social bit about 19 year old Reform councillors pulling out wires in a vain effort to find The Cathederal play out in real time.

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Check this out - did you guys know that Exeter is in Pennsylvania? Think about that- that's crazy: two cities in one state. How's that even possible?

There's part of me that thinks that Starmer will still be here come the next election because of the simple fact that he's a fanatic - a fanatic of something incredibly boring and trivial (infra-Labour WhatsApp clique wars) but as committed to that as some swivel-eyed ISIS guy in a beheading video.

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there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it

Surprising amount of decolonial scholarship out there that goes "unlike the regressive binarist West, this non-Western culture celebrates women <3 (as mothers. moms. life givers a.k.a babymakers. exclusively. don't ask what happens to women who don't want kids. those don't exist. not a thing.)"

"Sweetheart, how many times have I told you don't say 'and stuff'. Just say that The Nice Guys is one of the best movies of all time." apnews.com/article/nice...

People will often say they think I am overreacting or exaggerating about the views of drivers, but no, people pretty regularly talk about wanting to run down kids with their cars. I have a whole collection of Facebook screenshots from just my town.

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"Misogyny is not a secondary issue. It is foundational to the entire right-wing project."

Lads, I'm buying the juvenile shrimp food that looks like a type of lube made specifically for fisting that's only available in Germany.

Alex Karp is the Aleksandr Dugin of America, Dugin is the Karp of Russia, so logically there's a really fucking weird guy in China somewhere (before anyone says it, weirder than Professor Jiang).

And this idea is 100% acceptable in the mainstream UK press.

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I will say, one of the signs that things Aren't Going Well is probably that I immediately feel a massive weight is off my shoulders by just not physically being in the UK. Could be for any reason, but as soon as I'm out I feel like I can fucking breathe again.

Sociology regularly reveals this paradox: that people will vote for rightwing disruptors not because they share their politics but because they are fed up with the system. It's almost as if the system generates its own opposition in a guise that ensures no actual disruption.

The note reads: "My life is very bad - very bad life folks. Some would say the worst. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER - DJT" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the completely normal and professional mods of Blue Sky the everything app when you say AI isn't good.

Sorry babe, the Lil Peep inspiration wall banner stays up while you're watching me play Ratchet and Clank.

Have a lovely day everybody

And it's not for any reason more complex than it being RFJ Jnr's thing. Supplements and alternative therapies are what he's into. If it was me I'd be replacing all sports coverage with Elden Ring lore videos.

Oh cool, we're past the anthropocene -which was already really, really bad as epochs go- and into the digicene.

I see no lies here

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Coming up on the next episode of @deathsentencepod.bsky.social:

have it yuri way

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

This doesn't seem to be the case, so everyone can stop posting about it. The guy's a genocidaire who will have a bigger body count than Hitler in a few years, so maybe concentrate on that idk?

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So a big part of my day job is conducting surveys of people around the world, usually relating to technology and finance. One constant is that British people are more cynical, less likely to adopt new technology, more likely to believe that new technologies are scams...

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