Kate
@darksquid.co.uk
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Kate
@darksquid.co.uk
· May 7
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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the world is scary rn so always remember mental is hocus, health not pocus
July 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the world is scary rn so always remember mental is hocus, health not pocus
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"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." - Aaron Bushnell
June 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." - Aaron Bushnell
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1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
June 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
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June 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
How do I make sure this happens to me when I go. Or, ya know, next week?
May 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
How do I make sure this happens to me when I go. Or, ya know, next week?
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On reflection, I realise my post might have come across as disrespectful. What I should have said is that *Sir* Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height. My apologies for any offence caused.
May 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
On reflection, I realise my post might have come across as disrespectful. What I should have said is that *Sir* Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height. My apologies for any offence caused.
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
May 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Channel 4 News:
Kathy Newman: Aren't you worried about losing the US as a trade partner?
Victor Gao: No lol we don't care. China has been around for 5,000 years before America, we'll be fine.
Ooft
Kathy Newman: Aren't you worried about losing the US as a trade partner?
Victor Gao: No lol we don't care. China has been around for 5,000 years before America, we'll be fine.
Ooft
April 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Channel 4 News:
Kathy Newman: Aren't you worried about losing the US as a trade partner?
Victor Gao: No lol we don't care. China has been around for 5,000 years before America, we'll be fine.
Ooft
Kathy Newman: Aren't you worried about losing the US as a trade partner?
Victor Gao: No lol we don't care. China has been around for 5,000 years before America, we'll be fine.
Ooft
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you tell 'em, kid
April 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
you tell 'em, kid
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Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.
April 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.
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April 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!
April 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!
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Keir Starmer needs to speak to the nation directly about the danger that is Donald Trump. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is the orange hurricane upending everything. Starmer must warn Britain of the danger | Jonathan Freedland
The PM has not been open with his citizens for fear of backlash from Washington. This crisis demands he speak directly to the country, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Keir Starmer needs to speak to the nation directly about the danger that is Donald Trump. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shut the fuck up JD Vance oh my godddddd
March 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Shut the fuck up JD Vance oh my godddddd
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Disappointed that a British groupchat scandal is like ‘a Tory MP you have never heard of was quite rude to another one you’ve never heard of on WhatsApp’ but the Yanks are just straight up ‘texted WW3 plans to random journo’. Do better, British security liabilities.
March 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Disappointed that a British groupchat scandal is like ‘a Tory MP you have never heard of was quite rude to another one you’ve never heard of on WhatsApp’ but the Yanks are just straight up ‘texted WW3 plans to random journo’. Do better, British security liabilities.
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OK but why blow up a Tesla when you can just wait for it to self-explode?
March 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
OK but why blow up a Tesla when you can just wait for it to self-explode?
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What a triumph! Thank you, archivists, for restoring the CDC website.
Science: 1
Fascism: 0
Science: 1
Fascism: 0
A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
www.404media.co
March 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What a triumph! Thank you, archivists, for restoring the CDC website.
Science: 1
Fascism: 0
Science: 1
Fascism: 0
Hello, did you know that Erasure did a cover of Gaudete? No, I didn't either. Here it is.
youtu.be/grVrDsqQdXc?...
youtu.be/grVrDsqQdXc?...
Erasure - Gaudete (Official Video)
YouTube video by ErasureVEVO
youtu.be
March 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello, did you know that Erasure did a cover of Gaudete? No, I didn't either. Here it is.
youtu.be/grVrDsqQdXc?...
youtu.be/grVrDsqQdXc?...
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Donald Trump has betrayed America.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
February 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Donald Trump has betrayed America.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
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That press conference was choreographed for an audience of one and he sits in Moscow.
Once, we fought tyrants. Today Trump and Vance are bending America’s knee. And that weakens us.
Once, we fought tyrants. Today Trump and Vance are bending America’s knee. And that weakens us.
February 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
That press conference was choreographed for an audience of one and he sits in Moscow.
Once, we fought tyrants. Today Trump and Vance are bending America’s knee. And that weakens us.
Once, we fought tyrants. Today Trump and Vance are bending America’s knee. And that weakens us.
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Beyond belief. Is this really the man we’re going to fawn over with a State Visit? It’s time for our PM to pick a side
Jesus, Trump and JD Vance playing bad cop-bad cop with Zelensky is stomach churning here.
February 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Beyond belief. Is this really the man we’re going to fawn over with a State Visit? It’s time for our PM to pick a side
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I think our democracy will continue to be downgraded by international observers
By 2028 we may be seen as having, like Hungary, a broadly broken democracy that has major cosmetic remnants of that system of government but also significant elements of oligarchy, kleptocracy, technocracy, kakistocracy
By 2028 we may be seen as having, like Hungary, a broadly broken democracy that has major cosmetic remnants of that system of government but also significant elements of oligarchy, kleptocracy, technocracy, kakistocracy
February 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I think our democracy will continue to be downgraded by international observers
By 2028 we may be seen as having, like Hungary, a broadly broken democracy that has major cosmetic remnants of that system of government but also significant elements of oligarchy, kleptocracy, technocracy, kakistocracy
By 2028 we may be seen as having, like Hungary, a broadly broken democracy that has major cosmetic remnants of that system of government but also significant elements of oligarchy, kleptocracy, technocracy, kakistocracy