Manic
@maniacmkd.bsky.social
Emotional honesty from me is banned by the ToS
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Heads up to my mutuals who still have a twitter account because HOLY SHIT
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Delete your Twitter. Now.
Delete your Twitter. Now.
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Heads up to my mutuals who still have a twitter account because HOLY SHIT
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I wrote about the word of the year
The Slopification of Everything
In 2025, anything could be, and was, slop. Here are six foundational laws to identify slop going forward.
www.theringer.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I wrote about the word of the year
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Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.
December 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.
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I truly believe you could post a simple statement about the current temperature in your neighborhood and within 10 minutes someone will be accusing you of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby
December 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Another year of Marisa being bottom 5 and Ryu gets away with murder.
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Another year of Marisa being bottom 5 and Ryu gets away with murder.
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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
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"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
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Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
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If you don't know any trans people you may be completely unaware of how the rising tide of transphobia has led to the BBC actually editing pieces, not to update the story but to insert slurs to make a story more transphobic
There are more cis people aware of the BBCs transphobia today thanks to @robinince.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If you don't know any trans people you may be completely unaware of how the rising tide of transphobia has led to the BBC actually editing pieces, not to update the story but to insert slurs to make a story more transphobic
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Nothing good can come from a society being forced to stare into the abyss that is the mind of any random billionaire
December 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Nothing good can come from a society being forced to stare into the abyss that is the mind of any random billionaire
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GenAI allows these guys to do what they do when drunk and ganked up at office Christmas parties, at a mass scale.
We're *all* there cringing while they lean in and excitedly slur their messed up shit at us while we're uncomfortably unable to disengage.
We're *all* there cringing while they lean in and excitedly slur their messed up shit at us while we're uncomfortably unable to disengage.
December 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
GenAI allows these guys to do what they do when drunk and ganked up at office Christmas parties, at a mass scale.
We're *all* there cringing while they lean in and excitedly slur their messed up shit at us while we're uncomfortably unable to disengage.
We're *all* there cringing while they lean in and excitedly slur their messed up shit at us while we're uncomfortably unable to disengage.
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PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
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The lads realised in 2018/19 they can get whatever they want by all roaring the same key lines into microphones over and over, regardless of what’s happening. It’s what gave us Johnson *and* got rid of him; it gave us Sir Keir and - having discovered this superpower - they will not give it up.
Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The lads realised in 2018/19 they can get whatever they want by all roaring the same key lines into microphones over and over, regardless of what’s happening. It’s what gave us Johnson *and* got rid of him; it gave us Sir Keir and - having discovered this superpower - they will not give it up.
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This is a real disaster for those - pretty much the entirety of the British media - advancing a maximalist reading of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is a real disaster for those - pretty much the entirety of the British media - advancing a maximalist reading of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.
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I was concerned on many levels while the Peggie case was ongoing.
I thought the court allowing constant misgendering was an appalling decision.
The conduct of both the claimant and her counsel was also, at times, pretty jaw-dropping.
Despite all this, the ruling was bad for GCs.
I thought the court allowing constant misgendering was an appalling decision.
The conduct of both the claimant and her counsel was also, at times, pretty jaw-dropping.
Despite all this, the ruling was bad for GCs.
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I was concerned on many levels while the Peggie case was ongoing.
I thought the court allowing constant misgendering was an appalling decision.
The conduct of both the claimant and her counsel was also, at times, pretty jaw-dropping.
Despite all this, the ruling was bad for GCs.
I thought the court allowing constant misgendering was an appalling decision.
The conduct of both the claimant and her counsel was also, at times, pretty jaw-dropping.
Despite all this, the ruling was bad for GCs.
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I don't feel welcome when I go past rows of flags put up by fascists, that nobody has dared take down. And I was born not fifty miles from where I sit.
The chief horror is the rewriting of the human rights gains we've made since WWII to frame only 'contributing' migrants (whether asylum seekers or not) as worthy of life & safety.
But I'm also here to call BS on the 'Britain welcomes high-skilled migrants' thing. I do not feel welcome here.
But I'm also here to call BS on the 'Britain welcomes high-skilled migrants' thing. I do not feel welcome here.
This is so disgusting.
December 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I don't feel welcome when I go past rows of flags put up by fascists, that nobody has dared take down. And I was born not fifty miles from where I sit.
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kinda just feels like a good time to remind everyone that Kiwifarms is one of the most deeply sociopathic horrors the internet has ever spawned that mercilessly stalks and harrasses people (always in the worst faith you can imagine)
you should never take a single piece of their "info" at their word
you should never take a single piece of their "info" at their word
December 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
kinda just feels like a good time to remind everyone that Kiwifarms is one of the most deeply sociopathic horrors the internet has ever spawned that mercilessly stalks and harrasses people (always in the worst faith you can imagine)
you should never take a single piece of their "info" at their word
you should never take a single piece of their "info" at their word
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BBC recap fella losing his mind here
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
BBC recap fella losing his mind here
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There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
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I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences