Red Durkin
@daedsider.bsky.social
bookseller, book buyer, book scout, bookstore owner, horror & rare book collector. I don't read; it's my terrible secret, please don't tell anybody
Psalms 109:8
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Red Durkin
@daedsider.bsky.social
· Jan 12
The purpose of art is to show the world what it's not ready to see
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currently imagining the year is 2005 and people who loathe george w bush are announcing they'd set aside all their core moral beliefs to vote for joe lieberman. like why lol
February 15, 2026 at 9:55 PM
currently imagining the year is 2005 and people who loathe george w bush are announcing they'd set aside all their core moral beliefs to vote for joe lieberman. like why lol
If your profile picture is your dog and you come into my replies to rumble, you can't imagine how fast and how hard I will block you. Your children's children will disappear from my timeline.
February 15, 2026 at 9:56 PM
If your profile picture is your dog and you come into my replies to rumble, you can't imagine how fast and how hard I will block you. Your children's children will disappear from my timeline.
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Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.
Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
I simply can't make myself focus on work today and I'm making everyone else's problem
February 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I simply can't make myself focus on work today and I'm making everyone else's problem
"Age Verification by Peter Thiel" has such powerful "it's a cookbook!" energy
Discord distances itself from age verification firm after ties to Palantir's Peter Thiel surface https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-verification-2000668951
Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
The third party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors
kotaku.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
"Age Verification by Peter Thiel" has such powerful "it's a cookbook!" energy
I've wished for world peace. Everyone is fed and housed. Art and music are free while artists and musicians have their feet washed by venture capitalists. The genie is receding into the lamp.
"...and, ya know, some Sekiro DLC wouldn't kill ya," I mutter under my breath.
"...and, ya know, some Sekiro DLC wouldn't kill ya," I mutter under my breath.
February 15, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I've wished for world peace. Everyone is fed and housed. Art and music are free while artists and musicians have their feet washed by venture capitalists. The genie is receding into the lamp.
"...and, ya know, some Sekiro DLC wouldn't kill ya," I mutter under my breath.
"...and, ya know, some Sekiro DLC wouldn't kill ya," I mutter under my breath.
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This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM
This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
I love running the kind of bookstore that sometimes causes people to make a big production of leaving in disgust. Like, bye Sheryl.
February 14, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I love running the kind of bookstore that sometimes causes people to make a big production of leaving in disgust. Like, bye Sheryl.
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Her: Draw me like one of your French girls
Me: [holding a crayon as thick as a birch branch in my fist] you got it
Me: [holding a crayon as thick as a birch branch in my fist] you got it
February 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Her: Draw me like one of your French girls
Me: [holding a crayon as thick as a birch branch in my fist] you got it
Me: [holding a crayon as thick as a birch branch in my fist] you got it
![Still from the Simpsons of Homer talking to Lisa. He's holding a tri-corner hat and saying "I've been called a [spine covered Heart urchin] too and it never stops hurting"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i2yqejjcgxqraht7utv3cn5q/bafkreibqxd4js2rwb7bt4nv6363hkdcwdfazs2mits25ds54bwpww5wt34@jpeg)
This is what trash turret placement gets you
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
This is what trash turret placement gets you
this has worked for me six or seven times.
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM
this has worked for me six or seven times.
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it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
www.pcgamer.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan
Between bionics and AI, I can't wait to become a shattered, mindless skin-skeleton piloted around by a mech suit that keeps running into walls and suggesting rote endings to basic emails.
Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.
'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility
Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Between bionics and AI, I can't wait to become a shattered, mindless skin-skeleton piloted around by a mech suit that keeps running into walls and suggesting rote endings to basic emails.
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it's not FOR us
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
it's not FOR us
I can't stress enough that Obergefell was decided in 2015 and, while clawing that back is 100% a goal of the reactionary movement, the shift to full-time trans panic was a DIRECT result of "losing" the gay marriage war. The anti-trans movement is just a bunch of rats that found a new ship.
This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
I can't stress enough that Obergefell was decided in 2015 and, while clawing that back is 100% a goal of the reactionary movement, the shift to full-time trans panic was a DIRECT result of "losing" the gay marriage war. The anti-trans movement is just a bunch of rats that found a new ship.
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If you think about it, monetizing the spread of Nazi ideas is the ONLY way to stop them
NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them.
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
February 12, 2026 at 4:37 AM
If you think about it, monetizing the spread of Nazi ideas is the ONLY way to stop them
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They're calling HRT a "sex-rejecting procedure" now. I guess that means my wife gives me HRT every night!
February 10, 2026 at 5:06 PM
They're calling HRT a "sex-rejecting procedure" now. I guess that means my wife gives me HRT every night!
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10/10 response no notes
February 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
10/10 response no notes
Still thinking about this
An unattended child (maybe 10??) just came into my store, wandered around for a while, then came up to the counter, slapped down a copy of "a Self-Defence Study Guide for Trans Women," said, "excuse me. I don't get it," and went off about how trans women don't need self defense. WTactualF??
February 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Still thinking about this
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.