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Jack O'Lantern Graham

@timescarcass.bsky.social

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Writer, IDSGpod co-host, antifascist, Gothic Marxist. He/Him. patreon.com/cw/jackgraham idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/author/jack

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · Nov 10

I am the co-host - with my friend and comrade @danielharper.bsky.social - of a podcast called (rather eccentrically) 'I Don't Speak German'. It's about the far-right... which, sadly, is a much less niche category than when we started in 2019. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com

I Don't Speak German

Daniel Harper is a researcher who goes where few others can bear to go: he listens to what the reactionaries - from the IDW to the modern day Nazis - say to each other in *their* safe spaces! In this...

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 14h

"Right has its wrath… and the wrath of right is an element of progress." - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 16h

Astonished to see Katie Daviscourt claiming she was assaulted by Antifa in Portland. I mean, it's not like she's been trying to make a career as a fascist influencer happen by repeatedly claiming to have been assaulted and robbed by protestors and/or migrants for literally years now.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 17h

Oh really? Y'don't say. Well I never. Gee golly gosh. And other sarcastic expressions of surprise.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 17h

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly like how creationists are almost never biologists.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 20h

Despite @waterstones.bsky.social offensive and ridiculous framing, neither Kathleen Stock, Helen Joyce or Victoria Smith are scholars of 'gender studies' or feminism.

They are a philosopher, mathematician and provocateur respectively.

#genderstudies #backtouni

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 19h

Autogynephilia is real but it's nothing to do with trans people. It is a fetish indulged by cis straight males as pure misogynistic projection. Autogynephiles don't become trans; they become transphobes.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 19h

Ironically this is probably not true of Tylenol.

Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 19h

I allow myself to believe one conspiracy theory because I think it's good for you to knowingly let yourself believe one thing that you know isn't true.

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Holly Boson @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 20h

Codeine is actually really good and useful if you use it in a normal amount as actual medicine

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 19h

It's probably just because I've been watching a lot of her videos recently but I heard the voice of the narrator as Angela Collier. It works oddly well.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 20h

The movie vs TV Hitchhikers, the various Star Wars trilogies, and the The Thing prequel, are related test case texts.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 20h

TRON is a fascinating test case for the cultural difference between the analogue and the digital (rather like the animations in the TV HHG2G). It is an entirely analogue attempt to represent the digital. The sequels are digital attempts to recreate an analogue attempt to represent the digital.

DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 2d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 20h

Finally getting around to some @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social. Annihilation is instantly engrossing. I just finished part 1 and went straight to @bookshop.org to order the other parts of the trilogy.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 2d

Fascist boomer failson nepobaby conspiratoid mansplainer in failing to know anything about womens' bodies shocker

Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 2d

If the baby is in her placenta, tylenol is the least of her problems.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 2d

Head of massively wealthy institution issues condemnation of inequality from his golden throne in his palace full of priceless art while wearing huge hat studded with jewels while sitting literally streets away from children with no shoes.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 2d

Superb and essential new ep of BtB from @iwriteok.bsky.social & @codyjohnston.bsky.social on the hypocrisy, projection, and envy riddling Ben Shapiro (and, by extension, the entire modern Right). www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Robert and Cody Read Ben Shapiro's New Book Behind the Bastards | iHeart

<p>Robert and Cody Johnston sit down to read Ben Shapiro's latest non-fiction book, which seems to be based entirely on him not understanding how lions...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 3d

Would you buy a used presidency from this man?

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 4d

Shocked I am to start seeing reports that ICE was more or less doing eviction and anti-tenant union enforcement for slumlords in Chicago under pretense of actually having a purpose that isn’t being the racist exploitation enforcement arm of capital.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8d

Corporate outlets aren’t resisting fascism. They’re enabling it. All the president’s men aren’t breaking into the Watergate; they’re buying up the media and firing anyone who won’t toe the line.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/03/b...

Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to Read This

Bari Weiss’s reported hiring at CBS News is the latest example of corporate media capitulating to Trump.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 4d

AI functions identically to fascism.

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 4d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 5d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 4d

In 'Alien' (1979), the alien is defeated via the destruction of an entire shipment of cargo destined to become profitable corporate commodity. In 'Aliens' (1986) the aliens are defeated by a woman learning to be a good mother and punishing a bad mother.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 4d

In 'Alien' (1979), the alien is an expression of capital. It is an aggressive, hostile, amoral, predatory, assimilating, accumulating, consuming, inhuman *structure* or *pattern* that is made out of its victims. In 'Aliens' (1986) it becomes an evil insect representing Vietnamese people.

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