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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 12m

Look for the helpers. If you see them, help them. If you don't see them, you're the helpers.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 16m

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 16m

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 45m

You're laughing. Catturd's Pontiac Sunfire just got repossessed and you're laughing.

👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 1h

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Dominic Michael Tripi &
@DMichaelTripi
X.com
NEW: X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended, saying that the system does
"more harm than good."
10:27 AM • 10/15/25

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 46m

it was amazing how close to the end of the game they got before there was a conflict that I thought "random chance would be a good way to resolve this". Everything until then was characters interacting with a world.

Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 54m

If I were planning a stealth ballwashing outfit to deliver hagiographies to improve the public standing of the world's most venal billionaires, I would like to think I would remember the "don't fucking tell the world you're a PR outfit" step.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 4h

the Don Johnson "Joylessly masturbating to pictures of dead deer" that precedes it is also tremendous.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 4h

The experience of finding out that people will judge them socially because of their stated opinions will absolutely puree the brains of a lot of right wingers, who until now thought they could get the benefits of progressive society while calling for its downfall.

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 6h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 4h

The fact that English lessons is on there shows quite how absurd this is. How DARE these people want to assimilate and integrate?

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 4h

I can't speak to young republicans as I'm not American, but I can't remember a time when Conservative student associations weren't hothousing operations for the holders of shock value right wing opinions

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 5h

It's not a book that's aged perfectly, but at the end of Stark by Ben Elton there's a part where all the billionaires have escaped the Earth to a space station while the planet below them dies... & then realise that they now have to spend the rest of their lives in the company of other billionaires

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 5h

The detective stroked the ranger's cheek "I know why you said no. Tell me the name of the lucky bastard who owns your heart."

Aragorn turned away, speaking a name that until now had only ever brough him joy, even as it shredded what remained of his heart. "Die Hardman."

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 5h

and not just that! Because AO3 is written by humans and humans are naturally creative, some of the people writing it will be genuinely great. Some of the Aragorn / Munch / Scat Cat erotica will be a heartrending story of betrayal and forgiveness consciously styled after Finnigan's Wake.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 5h

Want to read about Sonic The Hedgehog rocking Spike From Buffy's can? I guarantee it exists already. Aragorn in a threesome with Detective Munch and MC Scat Cat? If it's not out there, give it 30 minutes. All you need for character erotica is a freak, a keyboard, and time.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 5h

The problem for OpenAI with introducing AI generated erotica is that all of their usage cases are already filled by, basically, AO3.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 5h

Introducing: Contrails

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 6h

The EHRC at this point is just an extension of the trans-eliminationist ("gender critical") movement. Just another "GC" group. But the Council of Europe's intervention clearly has them panicked and now they're scrambling to get their Labour lackeys to implement this despicable Code of Practice.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 7h

The EHRC has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, demanding that she rushes through their dreadful draft Code of Practice.

This is a bizarre intervention from a supposedly impartial public body.

Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to ‘act with speed’ on trans guidance

EHRC writes to Bridget Phillipson over implementation of code on single-sex public spaces after supreme court ruling

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 5h

(or, you know, pay the creatives whose work you enjoy for the work you are enjoying)

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 5h

If you want porn centred on narrative, AO3 is right the fuck there, and full of Porn For Nerds (complimentary) whereas AI will only ever give you Porn For Nerds (derogatory).

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 9h

The person who said this to me has a new book coming out and their publisher is pushing so hard to get them on the podcast. Love the combo of "I don't respect YOU, but I do respect your capacity to promote ME."

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Aug 5

Fun morning being told to my face I’m a fine “public intellectual” but not a “real researcher.”

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 7h

When Ngo was in Glasgow, the left largely failed to oppose him while the queer community did show up - because he was attending a KJK anti trans rally. Some self-described socialists even rallied with him.

Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's risible claim to have arrested "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" opening an investigation that could potentially expose a nationwide terror network comes from Andy Ngo, a pro-Trump conservative media personality.

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

‘Absurd’: Noem claim to have arrested ‘antifa’ founder’s girlfriend stirs ridicule

A dramatic claim by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to have arrested “the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa,” therefore putting the Trump administration in position to “eliminate” th...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

The president freely admits he's using your tax money to repress you and interfere with your free choice of representatives. He's looking into the camera and telling you he's a tyrant bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h

Not kidding when I say it appears they were trying to brainstorm what the opposite of "no taxation without representation" would be and this clunky dogshit is the best they could come up with

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 9h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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