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ok the full clip is way better than the little one going around. her whole team try to get her to bail on the event and she's like no, I came to speak. incredible example.

The AI evangelists want us all to conveniently forget that they were all telling us we had to buy bored apes or we would be left out of the Economy Of The Future four years ago.

This is what decades of neoliberal hegemony made everyone think - that people are "utility maximizers" who make rational choices to get what they want. Like libs today can't understand why the ruling class are burning money to destroy uppity human capital

The dildo boat captain here is suffering the same shock that many liberals and Leftists did a few years ago, when they realised that MAGA types *really were* hateful racists, that they weren't just pretending to get better healthcare

Being a violence researcher means that basically everything I post here is some variant on: “The thing they said would make you safe is actually ineffective and/or dangerous.” “The thing they said is dangerous is actually a sign of the kind of big changes we need for a safer society for everyone.”

"Batman beats up the mentally ill" the real mentally ill don't put people in riddle-themed death traps

Remember when left-wing "authoritarians" were "lynching" conservatives on campus? I hope everyone who wrote articles about that is feeling great. But they might want to reflect on the way the metaphorical language of violence allows us to treat actual violence as a reaction to figurative violence.

If they‘d succeeded, it would be an incident of disastrous scope. The inviolability of embassies is not just a matter of international treaties but global consensus - without it, the whole system of diplomacy falls apart.

Me when people are saying nice things about my book but then suddenly "Ancient myth" "Celtic folktale" "Arthurian legend"

These articles have a place if they’re “wow was I wrong, here’s the ways I was wrong and the failure modes I engaged in, and I’m sorry”. They don’t work if they are “everyone was hysterical for now reason, but now I deem it fascism, it’s time to get worried, you’re welcome”.

4: “Vectoring assets! OPSEC hygiene!” Literally no COIN SME talks like this. I taught this shit to field agents and I never once used goofy phrases like this. But ChatGPT absolutely does.

fine Gobbo, I'll teach you Fireball

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” (Published Nov. 2025)

Won't anyone think of us entryists?! We bangwagon hoppers?! Us, the fairweather fans of social movements who have finally done the mental calculus and realised our current course doesn't benefit us personally in the long term?! Why are you being so mean?!

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

It's just "liberals are goodies", "I am obviously a good person ergo I must be a liberal". But as they express what are actually horribly conservative views, they get pushback, and that cognitive dissonance breaks their brains.

Terfs are an interesting sub-type of fascist, in that they are the sub-type most keen to think of themselves as liberals because they have adopted the worldview that "liberal = good" with no further detail beyond that. Not "liberal = good because democracy" or "because human rights"...

i'm still fond of this one #ffxiv

Happy two year anniversary to the ultimate videogame launch announcement, the likes of which hasn’t been topped just yet

They haven't all run yet, but they're running. They haven't all lost yet, but they're losing. bsky.app/profile/bret...

there been a bunch of fascism articles recently whose argument goes: 1. the annoying alarmist dipshits said a bunch of stupid stuff 2. yet somehow, what they predicted ended up happening 3. waffle around vaguely for a bit, without ever reconciling 1 & 2

Good grief. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

They never worried about what a truly dire fuckup killing an Alex Pretti would be because it never occurred to them that an Alex Pretti could ever exist So now they have no idea what the fuck to do. Because they don’t even fully understand what’s just happened

Fascists don’t comprehend the simple mundane courageous altruism of ordinary everyday people, because in order for them to believe the things fascism requires they believe, that kind of altruism cannot exist. If it appears, it’s only a cynical lie

I feel like if I had been consistently wrong about something for a decade and called the people who were right about it hysterical idiots then in my article admitting these people were right I wouldn't say "but obviously they were still hysterical idiots"

I find the willful refusal to see that “selling out” has nothing to do with popularity or money and everything to do with changing who you are to get those things is one of the most alienating things to me about many younger people. Not selling out is a good thing. The ones my age who suck? SOLD OUT

This is how it’s done. Get away from US software companies, get away from US cloud providers. Support local or ally software businesses only. Go back to on-premises. Know where your data is going. We’ve slept walk into this, we just need to wake up now. Alternatives have always existed. Use them.

Thanks for that one, you soft antivaxx tinfoil hat 5G shitheads. thanks a bunch. and a particular thank you to Andrew fucking Wakefield.

They literally tried a violent coup in his name, my good man.

No, they had every opportunity to know what was going on. If they weren’t intentionally voting for this, they were exhibiting criminal negligence.

I need people who were wrong about everything to actually look back and recognize that there was a reason they were wrong and maybe they need to update their understanding of the world. Otherwise they don't really think they were wrong.

I once read a thread on sexism in international relations/spying where women were instructed to make wrong claims about X whenever they wanted to get secret information on X; a man would just disclose the key info by means of mansplaining

Let’s take Ian Dunt as a prime example. He was both sidesing transphobia, until he felt that was becoming unpopular. Then he was making sudden loud noises of allyship. Then boom - starts making “Streeting would be a fine prime minister” noises. Turns out the “why now” was another grift.

It’s not about being smug, or right, or a hipster. For me as someone who’s been badly burned it’s a deep mistrust. It’s the “why now?” of it all. Like, people who suddenly realised Trump is a fascist yesterday - why now? Why weren’t the million other things your tipping point?

I mean, my parents are in their 80s and still not fully retired. Clinging to self-employment to keep on going. "The bank of mum and dad"? Fuck right off, sunshine.

Like, never mind that my dad has dementia and Alzheimer's and needs care, the fucking careless "oh of COURSE your parents will have a pile of cash to give you to buy a house" assumption. Jesus fucking wept. Different world.

My brother's landlord is selling the place he's living in. They offered to sell it to him, but he, obviously, couldn't afford it, in spite of being in work since 19. The landlord said "Oh, that's a shame, we wanted to sell it to you. We thought the bank of mum and dad might step up" Fucking HELL.

People are getting all "awww isn't that sweet what a good man" about motherfuckers who systemically eroded our country for the sake of power and money just because they claim they're suddenly sorry. Like have you not seen these assholes change grifts? Glenn Beck? Ring any bells?

No. He does it silently, away from cameras, away from public image rehabilitation, away from anything that lets him put his name on it. He serves, and he shuts the fuck up, and that's all he gets. Anything else is between him and his god.

You wanna show up this late in the game? Fine. But you need to a) demonstrate some sort of understanding, self-reflection and awareness b) apologise and c) figure out what making amends looks like and how you can earn trust through your actions. You can’t just rock up and complain people are pissed.

this isn't as fun as some others BUT if you're sharing your comic for free, someone's gonna complain about something unimportant at some point, the schedule, the style, a color choice etc. and I NEED you to know that you can tell them to give you a million dollars to do it to their specifications

"My ancestors came here legally!" So fun fact the laws saying you had to follow the current legal process to immigrate to the United States didn't exist until 1952, passed by a racist Jim Crow Congress over Harry Truman's veto.

“Do violent video games make you violent” as a moral panic was such a shame because it elided the position of violence in the narrative, which DOES have real implications. Playing DOOM does not make you violent, but playing COD does propagandize you into supporting the American imperial project

These are the same people who spend all day posting about Roman soldiers or the Knights Templar, by the way.

Charlie Kirk was not an activist. He didn't make memes & travel the country on his own dime to change hearts & minds. He was bankrolled by a GOP billionaire. Made millions a year doing it. The only homegrown movements the right are hate groups & militias. They don't understand grass roots activism.

I remember Terry Pratchett talking about how he once tried getting stoned to see if it made him a more imaginative writer and he just sat there staring at the "A" key on his typewriter for hours going "wow... that's a *great* letter! Wow!"