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Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · Feb 19

The experience of modernity is basically seeing the world get constantly worse and being told by people in power they can't do anything about it and that you're a bitch for wanting them to try.

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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 23h

When filling out the background of Phantasm Arm a thing I really enjoy is making up fake ads. The loose theme of the thread is 'reading through a magazine you might find in the setting.' This was the first introduction for most people:

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 2d

Not helped by the fact a centrist government is undoing our freedoms by attacking the right to protest and banning organisations it finds politically inconvenient.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

The UK is in collective denial about the damage a populist nationalist government could do given thd absence of checks and balances in our system. Not sure why, since we had a pretty close run a few years ago.

Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 2d

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

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Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 1d

Very clear on the university thing today, imho. Just a total non statement because they somehow have no clear proposal despite this being a crisis that's been ongoing since at least May.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 2d

Found out I was a woman

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 2d

Found out I was a woman

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 2d

Union troops marched through the south singing John Brown's Body.

The process of mass organised violence denies obfuscation.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 2d

the big flaw much contempary media it can't really speak to what it's trying to speak to. I'm thinking a lot about A24's civil war's sniper scene, which is very powerful but lacks truth.

Like, if you asked people in a civil war about why they were trying to kill one another they'd know precisely.

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Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 2d

Do they actually, though? Cause in my experience, unless you can code, employers don't agree

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 3d

Labour is just running under the theory that hero voters hate newts, so no enviromental stuff, even if it leads to the UK burning up and sinking.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 3d

Labour's theory is that hero voters hate newts and bats basically.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 3d

Also you can get most jobs with a humanities degree. a STEM degree fits you only for a small number of specific jobs.

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Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 3d

It's absolutely ridiculous how they constantly take shots at stuff like English which actually fits you for a very wide range of jobs.

Unlike STEM, which fits you only for a job in your own field which may not appear.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 3d

an English degree or whatever will very often fit you for a lot of graduate jobs.

Another friend of mine has a degree in creative writing and Chinese history and works as an officer in a data centre.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 3d

Such degrees often do also pay off , especially compared to STEM, which can be incredibly hit and miss, especially if you're not able to move around the country.

A friend of mine got a microbiology degree, the lab he was hoping to work at went on a hiring freeze and he had nothing else.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 3d

twitter poisoning IMHO. It's too unpopular on her facebook feed.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch’s weird inability to remember the war in Ukraine, the biggest issue on which a) she has a wedge with Farage and b) the country thinks the Tories did a good job is, well, weird.

Kemi Badenoch repeatedly refuses to say whether she admires Nigel Farage

The Tory leader says she believes her party's fortunes "always would get worse before they got better" as she rejects suggestions of a Reform pact.

news.sky.com

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Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 4d

That's what we in the trade call a Ponzy Scheme.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 4d

Both Labour and the Tories are just attempting to be different flavours of reform, which is one reason that they're both doing so badly.

Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 4d

Fundamentally, this is not a party that understands what they need to do to win again.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 4d

It's funny how every party just feels like it's attempting to be one or other kind of reform. Like, everyone but the Greens and Lib Dems is letting Farange set the tune, and just trying to do a different dance.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 4d

All parties could do with doing this. Frankly, only the Greens seem to have really thought about it at all.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 4d

Journalists love nothing more than the myth of the Conservative Party they've built up in their head and relentlessly insisting against all evidence that we should mourn the loss of this fictional construct.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

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Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, it's an extention of his policy of being nothing to nobody. If he was to define why he didn't like something it would open him up to counter argument which he would lose.

So instead we just get this vague hysteria.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 5d

I personally think I'd like the PM not to tell vulnerable communities that protests against genocide and arms sales are protests against them.

Cassandra Pronouns @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 5d

The Epstein defender speaks up on western degeneration