Electric Pentacle ⚡️⭐️⚧️♾️
@electricpentacle.bsky.social
Data scientist and eco-socialist policy wonk by day, cat-obsessed weirdo occultist by night. Grumpy old NB. They/them.
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Of course everyone’s rolling out the salad puns (they’re all in the replies to the post below, kindly spare us any more), but I just want to say: every time she declares it’s not funny to compare her to a lettuce, it becomes funnier
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Of course everyone’s rolling out the salad puns (they’re all in the replies to the post below, kindly spare us any more), but I just want to say: every time she declares it’s not funny to compare her to a lettuce, it becomes funnier
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Bluesky is alive with the sound of Carnyx this morning, and this is a splendid thing
January 7, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Bluesky is alive with the sound of Carnyx this morning, and this is a splendid thing
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"The report concluded that it remained unclear whether or not US intelligence would be able to access the data, despite Palantir’s official reassurances otherwise. The 🇨🇭army also found other issues, in terms of its cost & the fact that it might require Palantir specialists to be permanently onsite"
MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns
Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive data
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:31 AM
"The report concluded that it remained unclear whether or not US intelligence would be able to access the data, despite Palantir’s official reassurances otherwise. The 🇨🇭army also found other issues, in terms of its cost & the fact that it might require Palantir specialists to be permanently onsite"
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If you're reporting on the deepfake porn site because of Grok, please make clear in the headline that governments not acting are allowing the scaled abuse of women and children online.
Don't say Grok is doing that harm. Grok isn't doing anything. It's human men who are doing these things.
Don't say Grok is doing that harm. Grok isn't doing anything. It's human men who are doing these things.
January 7, 2026 at 9:12 AM
If you're reporting on the deepfake porn site because of Grok, please make clear in the headline that governments not acting are allowing the scaled abuse of women and children online.
Don't say Grok is doing that harm. Grok isn't doing anything. It's human men who are doing these things.
Don't say Grok is doing that harm. Grok isn't doing anything. It's human men who are doing these things.
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Call me a luddite but I kind of prefer the old version of the Devil who used to put a murrain on crops and command his demon dogs to terrorise church congregations to the new one who insists on having an app for everything and gets rich by designing clever ways of capitalising on people's fatigue.
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Call me a luddite but I kind of prefer the old version of the Devil who used to put a murrain on crops and command his demon dogs to terrorise church congregations to the new one who insists on having an app for everything and gets rich by designing clever ways of capitalising on people's fatigue.
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“People assume I’m lonely because I’m a hermit, when in fact it’s all beep beep beep around here.”
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January 7, 2026 at 11:22 AM
“People assume I’m lonely because I’m a hermit, when in fact it’s all beep beep beep around here.”
Make happy beeps on our phones by supporting us on Patreon to read the full article: www.patreon.com/posts/146839...
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File under the ever-growing subgenre of my work which I’m calling ‘Inanimate Object Has A Massive Go At A Person For No Reason’
![Comic strip script:
Scene is a SUPERMARKET, a MAN is walking past a display of CREME EGGS with his trolley.
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MAN:
Tut
2
CREME EGG [talking to him from the shelf]:
Excuse me - did you just tut at us?
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MAN:
W-what?
CREME EGG:
Tutting because you’ve seen ‘Easter eggs’ on January 11th, is it?
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MAN:
What? Well, y-yes, I -
CREME EGG:
Listen, Tut boy
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CREME EGG:
We are not Easter eggs. We are Creme Eggs.
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CREME EGG:
We are the shock troops of seasonal capitalism. Eldritch simulacra of rebirth. Fondant mockery of life.
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CREME EGG:
Not for us the grand safety of a cardboard box. Oh no.
They put us out here first, in our little foil uniforms, every January, to face the wrath of the nation.
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CREME EGG:
And what you gonna do about it? Tut? Snark about us on social media?
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CREME EGG:
Maybe you’ll write a little column in the Telegraph titled “It Is Sad That The Easter Eggs Are Out Already”.
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CREME EGG:
You tut because you know that unlike you, we will return, every January…
…forever.
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CREME EGG:
The eternal rebirth of mammon! The endless -
MAN:
Oh go on then
[He puts one of the Creme Eggs in his trolley]
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CREME EGG:
HA HA YOU WORM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreigf4nleeln6m3pznu3n33mmk4m2f7uwxg7qh6khg4e5l65yycrdjy@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 11:23 AM
File under the ever-growing subgenre of my work which I’m calling ‘Inanimate Object Has A Massive Go At A Person For No Reason’
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Please share, if you're able! Literally any little bit of support will mean the world to me 💚
www.gofundme.com/f/help-robin...
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Donate to Help Robin Get Gender-affirming Surgery, organized by Robin Olsson
Hello! My name is Robin and you might know me as a writer, podcaster, streamer, a… Robin Olsson needs your support for Help Robin Get Gender-affirming Surgery
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Please share, if you're able! Literally any little bit of support will mean the world to me 💚
www.gofundme.com/f/help-robin...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-robin...
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In the UK add that possession of CSAM is a strict liability criminal offence, prison sentence 2-3 years. No proof that you sought the material is required. People can be and have been convicted after receiving unsolicited images. This is a serious risk, using X in the UK now.
Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.
January 7, 2026 at 8:03 AM
In the UK add that possession of CSAM is a strict liability criminal offence, prison sentence 2-3 years. No proof that you sought the material is required. People can be and have been convicted after receiving unsolicited images. This is a serious risk, using X in the UK now.
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You’re pushed on by numbers and punitive measures: pain, rejection, and unpaid bills. You can either play or you can crawl under a boat and waste away -- turn into salt or a flock of seagulls. Your enemies would love that. Or you can fight. The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.
January 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
You’re pushed on by numbers and punitive measures: pain, rejection, and unpaid bills. You can either play or you can crawl under a boat and waste away -- turn into salt or a flock of seagulls. Your enemies would love that. Or you can fight. The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.
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Absolutely amazing find!
‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Absolutely amazing find!
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Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women's spaces, study finds - LGBTQ Nation
“This is a manufactured controversy, not a documented crisis.”
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
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We have learned that Sex Matters - the anti trans group whose activities you are obliged to fund through your taxes - is being investigated by the Charity Commission. goodlaw.social/j4r1
Charity Commission launches investigation into Sex Matters | Good Law Project
Charity regulator confirms the existence of an “ongoing” investigation into the transphobic pressure group Sex Matters.
goodlaw.social
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
We have learned that Sex Matters - the anti trans group whose activities you are obliged to fund through your taxes - is being investigated by the Charity Commission. goodlaw.social/j4r1
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Wodehouse does gothic
January 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Wodehouse does gothic
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We leave the house for two hours and there he is, completely baked, upside down on the sofa, listening to psychedelic rock music.
January 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM
We leave the house for two hours and there he is, completely baked, upside down on the sofa, listening to psychedelic rock music.
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Silly beasts 😹
*Mrs Kitty back in action x
*Mrs Kitty back in action x
January 5, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Silly beasts 😹
*Mrs Kitty back in action x
*Mrs Kitty back in action x
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Wise old horticultural woman I met: “If you find a rabbit’s foot and tickle the leaves of your tomato plant with it your tomatoes will grow faster.”
Me: “Interesting. I might try that.”
Next-door’s rabbit, the following day: “Stop that, and put me the fuck down. I did not consent to this.”
Me: “Interesting. I might try that.”
Next-door’s rabbit, the following day: “Stop that, and put me the fuck down. I did not consent to this.”
January 6, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Wise old horticultural woman I met: “If you find a rabbit’s foot and tickle the leaves of your tomato plant with it your tomatoes will grow faster.”
Me: “Interesting. I might try that.”
Next-door’s rabbit, the following day: “Stop that, and put me the fuck down. I did not consent to this.”
Me: “Interesting. I might try that.”
Next-door’s rabbit, the following day: “Stop that, and put me the fuck down. I did not consent to this.”
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I've now taken the paywall off the controversial blog post that started everything off and first got everyone talking about Philippa: www.tom-cox.com/at-home-with...
January 5, 2026 at 6:25 PM
I've now taken the paywall off the controversial blog post that started everything off and first got everyone talking about Philippa: www.tom-cox.com/at-home-with...
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Someone in the comments took the time to write a fan fiction version of this, and I love it.
January 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Someone in the comments took the time to write a fan fiction version of this, and I love it.
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I note in passing the discovery of dwarf planet Eris, on this day, in 2005, which created more bureaucracy (the need for an official IAU definition of "planet"). Also, the anniversary of the Greater Feasts of Charles Mingus, in 1979, Thomas Bopp, eponym of the Hale-Bopp castrating spaceship, in 2018
January 5, 2026 at 3:19 PM
I note in passing the discovery of dwarf planet Eris, on this day, in 2005, which created more bureaucracy (the need for an official IAU definition of "planet"). Also, the anniversary of the Greater Feasts of Charles Mingus, in 1979, Thomas Bopp, eponym of the Hale-Bopp castrating spaceship, in 2018
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I agree with you, Steve. For once...
January 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I agree with you, Steve. For once...
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BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
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Wow. Thin Lizzy playing the Doctor Who theme music is not something I had come across before youtu.be/nbsoEcXAaiY
Thin Lizzy - Dr. Who Theme / '69 Rock (Live at the Waldbuhne '73)
YouTube video by ThinLizzyFanpage
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January 4, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Wow. Thin Lizzy playing the Doctor Who theme music is not something I had come across before youtu.be/nbsoEcXAaiY
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 8:25 PM