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Recovering showbiz hack. Now in pictures/video. Up for LaserQuest with Andy C.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · Feb 15

After JD Vance disgraced himself, and the British Trumpists did the same. Feels like a good moment to reshare this Substack on how MAGA can create a new progressive British patriotism.
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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 15m

It is not. Is a very funny episode in the way only some SP's are.

Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 20m

Sexual Harassment Panda doesn't harass. He advises people how to sue over it. Because sexual harassment makes him a sad panda.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 26m

Someone needs to go to one of these things as Sexual Harassment Panda.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

Portland 🔥

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 28m

Or South Park. It's always generally got as much mileage out of mocking what its creators see as stupidity and censoriousness on left and right. The recent series is enjoying record recent ratings as it is just full on "fuck these guys".

Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 32m

For example. One Battle After Another is a great film regardless. Not least because has plenty to say about revolutionary uselessness and is funny and thrilling. But it's even braver and more interesting when Trump goons are acting like thugs and total fannies.

Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 36m

An interesting point about this is that they have had a fairly organic backlash against progressives having an apparent cultural dominance that has been bottom up, that they now of course risk by trying to exercise institutional control and making attitudes that had become passé more important.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 52m

You don't get people wearing knotted hankies on their heads at the beach anymore do ya.

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 1h

hallelujah

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 1h

Can't wait for his excuse that he snd Epstein simply had a shared love of Simply Red's Euro 96 anthem.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010 Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein in an email “we are in this together” after a picture of the British royal with his arm around a teenage Virginia Giuffre was first published in 2011. The email will pile further pressure on Duke of York and the royal family as he previously told the BBC he had ceased contact with the paedophile financier by that point. Continue reading...

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Hannah Cooper @hannahcooper.bsky.social · 1h

Unexpected rabbit hole today is discovering that "Phwoar!" was first recorded by the dictionary in 1976, and 1972's Carry On Matron may be its first film appearance.

I thought I'd found an earlier 60s TV use, but it seems "Phwoar!" is firmly a 70s phenomenon.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 1h

The Tower of London is right there.

What can the King do about Prince Andrew scandals.

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 1h

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz349bs

IT SEEMS to me that the
major advantage of print
media over web content is that with
print, the reader is not deluged with
aggressive advertising. This is why I
always enjoy reading my print copy
of Viz with a nice cup of tea and a
shortbread biscuit, unencumbered
by unwanted adverts. But not just
any shortbread biscuit. A Barbara's
Orkney Shortbread, with its sweet,
oaty taste and delicious crumbly
texture is the only one for me. Yes,
Barbara's Shortbread. Much nicer
than Mora's Shetland Shortbread,
which is fucking horrible.
Barbara Q. Sauce, Hoy

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2h

www.worldofmoose.com/products/ape...

Cartoon of a social gathering. A man is talking to a vampire. The man says "Welcome, Count Dracula. Would you like a small aperitif?". The vampire replies "No, I think mine are just the right size".

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3h

It’s a bit on-the-nose that the far right’s public intellectual says those things because his brain is full of mould.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17h

Jordan Peterson, explained

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She explained how her 62-year-old dad had been dealing with a “host of neurological issues this summer that we believe stem from CIRS, which is chronic inflammatory response syndrome, due to decades of mould exposure.”

Fuller added that he had been suffering from symptoms of neuropathy and weakness for the last few years and his condition worsened after Peterson cleaned out his late father’s basement earlier this year.

“We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks,” she said.

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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 3h

Media polls in Sweden. Basically *no one* except journalists and politicians is using X

Fredrik @fredrikwass.bsky.social · 3h

Det här kändes uppenbart redan innan den senaste Maktbarometern presenterades. En av mina tankar efter Svenskarna och internet veckan innan dess.
open.substack.com/pub/fredrikw...

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 3h

Should've done a Line Dance of Duty.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 6h

A manager at Historic Environment Scotland was sanctioned after allegedly 'twerking' in front of Hollywood actor Martin Compston, according to reports

Scottish heritage boss sanctioned for 'twerking' in front of Martin Compston

www.thenational.scot

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 5h

Woody Allen, I suppose.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 5h

"Oh after you Claude."

"Oh no you must *thrust* arrive first Jemima."

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 5h

Well I suppose it's hardly unheard of for people to feign having more interest in stuff someone they fancy likes once you know what they like. Think what makes it creepy is using a machine to do that to lots with deception as the initial goal rather than the natural inclination to want to be liked.

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Hannah @teaforpterosaur.bsky.social · 6h

Well I don't think we should allow people to be killed in prison and I think the prison service should be taking action to prevent it, but this particular guy who is already dead I dont give a single fuck about

legalclaret @legalclaret.bsky.social · 8h

Watkins was one of the most vile criminals I have ever read about, an offender whose depravity fell to lows even this hardened ex-prosecutor had not seen before. I am however uncomfortable with the celebrations of his murder. /1

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after being attacked in prison

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6h

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 6h

Do hope it was H from Steps who commissioned a hit and the last words the cunt heard were "one for sorrow motherfucker ain't it too, too bad?".

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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