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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so conflicted about Gillian Anderson Thatcher

Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 3d

That whole casting of the British political establishment of the 70s to the 90s was bullshit

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 3d

A Man of Tomorrow, or of The World That's Coming?

Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yeah I forgot Jenna has canonically sung the Yemeni national anthem

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah Josh is definitely the Riyadh guy. I'd like to think Grizz and Dot Com would keep Tracy away from that, and Jenna would either not be asked or would have been kidnapped by a prince prior to appearing

a peacock advertisement shows a man pointing at a woman and says you lying white devil

Alt: Tracy Jordan yells "You lying white devil" at a historical re-enactor in Boston

media.tenor.com

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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 3d

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Goodbye to the slender-billed curlew, officially declared extinct today.

This is the first extinction from mainland Europe in centuries.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

This is now the blueprint for men to control trans women. Have sex with them and then threaten to go to police unless they do what he wants. It's ripe for abuse from men who will weaponize their shame. It also builds their narrative of trans women being sexual predators even when the victim.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe?

A distinct red computer power light, much like the HAL 9000, but with bits around the edge that make it look more like an eye. This is related to Brother Eye, the satellite that controls OMAC

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 3d

Sickos dot jpeg

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 3d

Huh

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't she the one who follows the Heritage Foundation?

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 4d

Uphill struggle for him in Twilight though

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 4d

Bait used to be believable, what the fuck is this nonsense

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 4d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 4d

I think the last truly brilliant bits of visual storytelling in it are in Going Home or Void but jeez it's something I started with the High Society monthly reprints that came out during Church & State and stuck with much longer than I should have

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 4d

The encroachment of the (steadily worsening, more deranged, convinced of its own greatness despite evidence to the contrary) prose on the fantastic art of Sim and Gerhard becomes emblematic of the state of the comic in general

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 5d

21.00 FILM: CASINO ROYALE WITH CHEESE
What they call that James Bond film in Paris.

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 5d

"I think I might be the best at being a gigantic arsehole and wasting taxpayer money! Maybe better even than the Gods!"

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 5d

Her hubris is the ugliest part of her diseased mind.

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 5d

The line "and live at peace with our hearts" showing them moving into an English brick house called "Peace With Our Hearts" is amazing

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 5d

And because he's mooching off of Rob Schneider in Arizona or something

Also, I saw the pic and assumed the cancellation was because Optimus Prime has a mouth (disgusting) rather than a faceplate (normal for a robot truck man)

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 5d

*Also they definitely fucking celebrate and gloat and joke

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 5d

I dunno, square-on facing the camera will accentuate how asymmetrical his head is