the most woke thing about Linus is when his teenage daughter asked him to stop being a jerk to people *he listened* and stopped

is ejecting the core littering

Shabana Mahmood says she finds it offensive that people keep mentioning Tommy Robinson to her... stop impersonating him then.

How could an alternate web be possible? Taking over a satellite somehow?

Goodnight from the Dabfoot Distillery, where the new nightwatchman is getting his ghost orientation so he knows not to disturb spectres if they’re rotating barrels. Goodnight from Cathryn Oxby, inadvertently painting pylon prophecies in her sketchbook. Goodnight from Hookland.

So. Yeah. Hi. CP brain research, like most CP research is very rarely done on adults. All the research is done on kids, and many countries pretty much age us out of supports we had growing up once we hid adulthood. We're not *interesting* or inspiring to the grant machine & inspiration pornographers

First off, my suspension has ended. Got a little harsh with a post a few days ago but I didn’t have my feet on the ground and I’m sorry if I offended anyone. Will try to be more chipper. Knock on wood!

Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports. More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.

game awards 2016: we signed a sponsorship deal with schick, here is a bit razor mascot man. he's buff for some reason game awards 2025: we signed a sponsorship deal with a company that knowingly sells ad time to the government agency that kidnaps immigrants

45% of British voters are strongly opposed to Reform, and 33% favourable to Reform. 71% of 2025 Labour voters are strongly opposed to Reform. And immigration has fallen 50% in a year. What possible reason is there for this mess?

"It MUST be popular, look how many people accidentally swallow one when we force them to walk through a hallway that blows snacks directly at their face with hurricane-force winds!"

Steal. The verb for taking things from people without their consent is "to steal". Stop hiding government evil behind euphemisms.

Goodnight

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There’s a new wave of these coming, called Black/Dark/Cold Deep Water/Lake/Harbour/Tide. That’s sixteen different programmes right there.

So far today Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been showered with praise by - checks notes - Far Right agitator Tommy Robinson, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch, the Daily Express and GB News.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way. - #Rumi

When you realise that in addition to being a misogynist and terrible scholar, Jo-jo Campbell was a Nazi sympathiser*, the Hero's Journey and all that monomyth bullshit lands differently. [*I've never understood this distinction. A Nazi sympathiser is a Nazi in my book.]

It's almost impressive the way the Jo Cox Foundation managed to frame "political assassination by a fascist" as "people not being 'civil' enough to politicians on social media".

I don't know why immigrants don't just go on strike. See how long the racists can cope without GP surgeries, nursing, deliveries, food being picked, clothes being made, warehouses being staffed, software being maintained, houses being built...

I do think it's funny: Star Trek does an evil parallel universe and is like "oh it's savage and cut-throat with bared midriffs and agonizers" And Doctor Who does an evil parallel universe and is just like, "They're just Nazis. That's all." also when I was a kid I thought it was "caramel universe."

...yeah. Okay. Enough. This happens every year, it seems. The SFWA awards a writer the Grand Master Award, and if that writer is not a white male, a portion of the fanbase begins complaining vociferously about the award winner. These "fans" are, of course, white men, 45+ years old.

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where to start

the problem with this embarrassingly hollow Ken Liu quote is that it doesn't matter how you, I, or Ken would "rather" think about gen AI - right now it only matters how it's creators, it's owners, those that control it - and their shareholders - think of it source www.noemamag.com/from-cinema-...

Just them Skywalker boys Never meanin' no harm It's sad, he fought his dad and ended up with a half-missin' arm. Makin' their way, the only way they know how Star Wars, a little mores, in the force Than the Empire allows

"Epic fantasy is not merely what Tolkien made it. There are plenty of epics out there which feature people like me. Sundiata’s badass mother. Dihya, warrior queen of the Amazighs. The Rain Queens. The Mino Warriors. Hatshepsut’s reign. Everything Harriet Tubman ever did." N.K. Jemisin

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

What's Klingon for 'this slaps'? www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSwH...

AI models fail the Clock Test

Staying with friends over the weekend. Had to roomshare. Said their name was Mari. Seasonal worker.

when you don't promise fascist bullshit in your manifesto, and people vote for you NOT promising fascist bullshit over the parties explicitly promising fascist bullshit, that's not a mandate for you to do fascist bullshit, that's not how mandates work Herr Stärmer you two-faced lying fascist fuck

Do the Labour party understand that we had the choice to vote Tory or Reform last time but we actually chose them?

I'm thinking about the phrase "never take candy from strangers" and where people heard it, the reason given to not take the candy, and surrounding thoughts. I know that I heard the phrase when I was a kid, but I don't remember much else. Who told you not to take candy and why?

Still on that ambient Soviet numbers station tip. thenumber-station.bandcamp.com/album/no-1-c...

#LongCovid in The Independent today about the new #teamclots paper that shows clear biological abnormalities involving microclots + immune activation. Let's unpack the findings 👇 1/

"This is my story, your story; my shadow, your shadow; my life of drifting air, my book" On the left: the 1995 Ringpull hardback of Jeff Noon's Pollen. On the right: our 2025 30th anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Aliya Whiteley and a new afterword by Jeff. Coming out next month.

No notes. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 42: No one *needs* to work every day. But doing so - even for only a few minutes - ensures that you *think* about your work every day; solving problems away from your desk; keeping the plates spinning.

My book combines elements of this with O Brother Where Art Thou and British Seventies folk music. It's a Dapper Dan Steeleye Span Anti Romantasy

Top 5 Film Genres Fuckup Arrogant Male Saved By Smarter Woman, Again This Guy Isn't The Hero, It's That Guy Over There! It's All Meat Really, Why Aren't You Horny? Really Good At Our Jobs, Then Shit Goes Wrong Why Oh Why Did You Bring A Catholic Priest To Exorcise A Pre-Christian Entity?

Reminder that the Crime and Policing Bill will make it illegal to protest outside the homes of judges like this. Turning up in a flag-waving mob to hoot at traumatised refugees will still be okay though. www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

Fascists seen literally queueing up to do lines of coke off black public park bin during Bristol Nov 15 racist demo We're dealing with a petite bourgeois middle class, scaffolders, roofers of absolute deranged coke-head racist cunts. These cunts aren't representative of the british working classes

If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”

[taps the sign]

And here you have it: becaus <1k asylum seekers use ECHR provisions, Labour plan to qualify human rights for asylum seekers. The thing is: once you qualify them for one group, they’re compromised for everyone. Any future govt can choose to apply this in much broader ways.

I want a phrase for choosing to live life fully, fiercely, and happily in the face of violence. "Toxic positivity" is incorrect. I mean how Black people don't always talk oppression - yes, we know it's there. But there are cookouts and music and getting your nails done and laughter. There is JOY.

Labour's latest policy... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gold