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Arkenor

@arkenor.bsky.social

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Wizard. Conjurer of Cheap Tricks. Meddler. Cat-snuggler. Kidney patient with an immune system trying to eat me and limited mobility. Exhausted. Usually asleep. Anti-fascist. Intersex. He/Him. Expect cats, food, ecology, socialism, and general Welshness

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Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 3m

Pretending Intersex people don't exist is necessary to prevent the collapse of their whole anti-trans argument.

Which means that educating the public about our existence should be key to Green party communication on this matter.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 8m

Pretending we don't exist is necessary to prevent the collapse of their whole argument.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 15m

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Trump launched the TrumpRX website today.

It has a photo of Trump and an AI-generated family with too many fingers and mangled toes.

TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

AI art really has become the aesthetic of grifters and fascists.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 1h

A different company, but you really need some Frazzles.

They're a rectangular uneven corn chip that magically tastes of bacon even though they're vegan. There are red lines along them to make them look like bacon. It's beetroot juice.

And they are soooo good.

A bag of Smith's Frazzles.

They're a rectangular uneven corn chip that magically tastes of bacon even though they're vegan. There are red lines along them to make them look like bacon. It's beetroot juice.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 1h

One interesting thing as that they always say they can taste the prawns in prawn cocktail flavour, even though there's no prawns because it's just supposed to taste of the sauce we use. Psychology is a powerful flavour.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 1h

It does make sense, if they're switching to natural colours and flavours that they'd have a rummage through Walkers library of flavours to see if there's something Americans would like that they don't already have. Chicken, bacon, and prawn cocktail are ones that often surprise US Youtubers.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 1h

While they're at it they should bring in the Thai sweet chilli flavour. God level crisps.

A bag of Walker's crisps. Sensations: Thai Sweet Chilli.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 1h

Oho! Looks like Lay's is finally using all the foodtech they gained by buying UK's Walker's Crisps.

"Lay’s promises that the baked, kettle-cooked, and original chips won’t taste different, they just won’t have any synthetic colors or flavors"

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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RandomWhiteGuy @thereelrandom.bsky.social · 3h

PragerU saying the quiet part out loud… but sure, let’s use their racist Christian Nationalist curriculum in our schools…

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2h

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 4h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 10h

Plenty of comments telling them this is a fake. But I guess the 523 reposts make it all worthwhile.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 12h

Such people are more comfortable than they ought to be with the status quo.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18h

being online is amazing you can say "our democratically elected officials should be doing something and/or should have done something previously to prevent the current political climate from developing to this point" and someone will argue with you

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 12h

Would you not like salad with your fires though? Salad and fries is pretty good!

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 12h

The people who go around complaining about others being too negative are way too comfortable with the status quo.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 19h

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 18h

Kind of looks like the inside of a Chiquito, but I don't know if you have those in the US. Though no idea where the guy that's being picked on is.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 18h

Another great day for Airbus.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 18h

It would be awkward for them if their donors ended up in jail or getting fired from their cushy CEO jobs.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 18h

The most remarkable thing is that he appears to think $2 oil would be a good thing.

Just as well he's delusional or lying.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23h

There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.

“Why don’t we tattoo a Star of David on the forehead of every terrorist we have to release?” - My daughter

Proud father.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 18h

I suspect it is all about the billionaire donors in there.

Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 19h

Just in time for Christmas