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"The people search everywhere for a saviour, but only charlatans are to be found."
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Now they made me sign up over here too
"The people search everywhere for a saviour, but only charlatans are to be found."
Block early, block often
He/him
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Are millennials too snooty to drink puddle water? Here’s why “tap guzzlers” aren’t just selfish, they’re our next economic crisis
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Are millennials too snooty to drink puddle water? Here’s why “tap guzzlers” aren’t just selfish, they’re our next economic crisis
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Iron Council, China Miéville (2004)
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Iron Council, China Miéville (2004)
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The BBC cannot both institutionally captured by pro-Palestine leftists and trans people and also institutionally captured by swivel-eyed right-wing cranks, I suppose we should look at its leadership, the BBC’s actions, and other endemic swivel-eyed crankery from top to bottom within the BBC
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The BBC cannot both institutionally captured by pro-Palestine leftists and trans people and also institutionally captured by swivel-eyed right-wing cranks, I suppose we should look at its leadership, the BBC’s actions, and other endemic swivel-eyed crankery from top to bottom within the BBC
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Building my Corvid army
(It gets wild towards the end)
(It gets wild towards the end)
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Building my Corvid army
(It gets wild towards the end)
(It gets wild towards the end)
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My absolute fav. The caption, the pose. The setting.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My absolute fav. The caption, the pose. The setting.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
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The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
October 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
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Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Right but the problem is that the finance bros *still* demand not just post-WW2 returns, but bubble returns, ongoing, forever. You can run an economy just fine on a couple of percent growth a year, but not if the ruling class extracts a bigger and bigger share of it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Right but the problem is that the finance bros *still* demand not just post-WW2 returns, but bubble returns, ongoing, forever. You can run an economy just fine on a couple of percent growth a year, but not if the ruling class extracts a bigger and bigger share of it.
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This is super important but a huge parallel issue is that most industries that had space to experience large amounts of productivity growth have seen that growth already. The world is never going to see the 100% growth in food production productivity that we saw after ww2 ever again, for instance
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This is super important but a huge parallel issue is that most industries that had space to experience large amounts of productivity growth have seen that growth already. The world is never going to see the 100% growth in food production productivity that we saw after ww2 ever again, for instance
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'He believed the adverts had the backing of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Piers Morgan and Martin Lewis. Their faces had been used in the fraudulent AI-generated online advertisements'
Looking forward to another round of Starmer telling us we should blow half the country's budget on AI.
Looking forward to another round of Starmer telling us we should blow half the country's budget on AI.
If you take away people’s stress, you protect them from scams. You won’t fall for a ‘get rich quick’ scheme if there isn’t the need to be rich. It’s why a social safety net is so vital.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Elderly man scammed out of £35k left feeling 'broken' - BBC News
Eddie Rushe, aged 82 from Lurgan, fell victim to three separate scams over 18 months.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
'He believed the adverts had the backing of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Piers Morgan and Martin Lewis. Their faces had been used in the fraudulent AI-generated online advertisements'
Looking forward to another round of Starmer telling us we should blow half the country's budget on AI.
Looking forward to another round of Starmer telling us we should blow half the country's budget on AI.
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![[Scene is a MEDIEVAL PLAGUE PIT with all the bodies inside it. On the edge of it is a young peasant woman, in a sack cloth dress, covered in boils. She is lounging glamorously next to the pit. Her boyfriend is standing a few feet away, photographing her with an anachronistic mobile phone]
GIRL:
OK so I'll sit here...
With my hair like this…
Rubbing my cyst with the corpse's hand.
[She produces a whithered severed hand and starts rubbing it on her face.]
[We are treated to a revolting close up of her rubbing the severed hand on her disgusting massive cyst.]
[Her boyfriend takes a photo of her.]
SNAP
GIRL:
OK, now write this:
"Hanging out at the burial pit, rubbing my sebaceous cyst with a severed corpse hand from
#BurtsGraverobbers…”
And then: #selfcare, #metime, #BurtsGraverobbers…
... nails emoji, heart emoji, cyst emoji.
BOYFRIEND:
Um...
Should we really be promoting this?
I mean… does rubbing a corpse's hand on a cyst actually work?
GIRL:
Look, Burt's done research, OK?
And he's paying us four groats.
BOYFRIEND:
Hmm.
[Boyfriend dutifully taps out the post on his phone]
TAP TAP TAP
BOYFRIEND:
Cyst emoji?
GIRL:
Just use a fried egg.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreifyvq2vzehtutrj7ild2dd7kkljmkbcby7yompicekbbpa2bqpluq@jpeg)
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The Telegraph Telegraphing so hard it confuses The Onion
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The Telegraph Telegraphing so hard it confuses The Onion
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“I can no longer post content on this internet platform, filled as it is with malicious far right cranks spreading lunatic misinformation and relentlessly inciting hate and fear” - Me, at the Times website
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
“I can no longer post content on this internet platform, filled as it is with malicious far right cranks spreading lunatic misinformation and relentlessly inciting hate and fear” - Me, at the Times website
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The strategy makes perfect sense if he's spent the last 15 years having his obviously hateful, racist self soft soaped, ingratiated and welcomed by every facet of the media instead of having his feet held to the fire. He expects it to blow over if he just keeps his head down, and he's probably right
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The strategy makes perfect sense if he's spent the last 15 years having his obviously hateful, racist self soft soaped, ingratiated and welcomed by every facet of the media instead of having his feet held to the fire. He expects it to blow over if he just keeps his head down, and he's probably right
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Hot take: since Thanksgiving food is *all* food that is far better as leftovers you mcguyver get into strange sandwiches at 3am the next day, that is what Thanksgiving should be.
All the food made the day before, everyone gathers in the kitchen in their pajamas at 3am to go goblin mode on leftovers
All the food made the day before, everyone gathers in the kitchen in their pajamas at 3am to go goblin mode on leftovers
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Hot take: since Thanksgiving food is *all* food that is far better as leftovers you mcguyver get into strange sandwiches at 3am the next day, that is what Thanksgiving should be.
All the food made the day before, everyone gathers in the kitchen in their pajamas at 3am to go goblin mode on leftovers
All the food made the day before, everyone gathers in the kitchen in their pajamas at 3am to go goblin mode on leftovers
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![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
(L-R) Claude, Dorothy and Hargund Burgundy
brown's, charles & lillian brown & grandson bruce turiansky, fallsburg, new york, 1977
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
(L-R) Claude, Dorothy and Hargund Burgundy
A range of fancy paint designed for trucks called Lorryal
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A range of fancy paint designed for trucks called Lorryal
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is this good
it's happening dot gif
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
is this good
Would you like the Rectum Suite as usual, Mr. Bond?
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Would you like the Rectum Suite as usual, Mr. Bond?
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People need to understand that RFK isn’t just going to kill people, he’s actively destroying people’s quality of life too. As somebody with chronic illness managed through medical establishment and alternative medicine like herbs and acupuncture, this is important to pay attn to. There is simply-
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
People need to understand that RFK isn’t just going to kill people, he’s actively destroying people’s quality of life too. As somebody with chronic illness managed through medical establishment and alternative medicine like herbs and acupuncture, this is important to pay attn to. There is simply-