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Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · Jun 8

I'm posting things that fall between “mildly cursed wisdom” and “accidentally profound nonsense.”
Often up late. Frequently bemused. Occasionally useful.
Follow for:
✨ #weirdthoughts
🔥 #spicytakes
🧠 #brainworms
💬 #actuallyfunny

Just so you know.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 15h

"Be my friend or I'll punch you"

Good grief.!

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think fascist is about right.
#bbcqt

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 1d

Non-violent protest, however imaginative and amusing it may be, is easily ignored by a tyrant I fear.

Telling a joke to the boot on your neck isn't going to remove it.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 1d

Corporate cowardice disguised as prudence. When fighting virtual Klansmen becomes too controversial, you've surrendered culture to the mob.

Ubisoft's capitulation to racist backlash reveals an industry with profit margins where its spine should be.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 2d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 1d

Good grief..!

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 2d

Thick as a brick.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 2d

Sausage will henceforth be a 'herb tube'

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 2d

Canada planning for American civil war is like preparing an umbrella for a volcanic eruption.

When your neighbor's house is ablaze, your contingency plans become quaintly irrelevant.

The refugee crisis alone would overwhelm any response.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 2d

Arresting opposition legislators? You're well past the on-ramp.

What remains: show trials, purging the judiciary, suspending elections "temporarily," declaring emergencies permanent.

The blueprint is ancient. Only your willingness to resist is novel - or not.

Good luck sir. ... for all our sakes

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 2d

This is the administration that lectured the UK about people being, apparently, prevented from paying.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 2d

"Plenary authority" is dictator-speak for "I do what I want."

That Miller stopped mid-sentence suggests even he grasped how openly he'd embraced fascism.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 2d

The eyes say it all.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 2d

When statutes leave tyrants loopholes, democracy has drafted its own suicide note.

If "common sense" and "constitutional ideals" are your only defense against martial law, you're already lost. Law must explicitly forbid what despots predictably attempt.

Arguably your civil war has started.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 2d

I'm shocked they are even bothering to wear them.

I hope not but perhaps this incident will be what makes that last nugget of accountability cease.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 3d

Just saw this in Exeter, highly recommended... and it's on again tomorrow night.

Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 11d

Tour dates for Ordinary Decent Criminal are here:

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Ordinary Decent Criminal - Paines Plough

Meet recovering addict Frankie, played by renowned political comedian Mark Thomas. Frankie’s just been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for dealing drugs. When he gets there, none of his fe...

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Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 4d

Every time I think I've found a centrist (ish) UK political party that I can get behind they go and propose some mad policy that pushes me right out again...!

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 4d

Very bad news for people that need, or want, to rent in future.
#LBC @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 5d

My 2022 goes back in a week.
It's not being replaced.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 7d

State violence always attracts sadists - give someone a badge and immunity, and you'll find those who relish the cruelty. ICE recruitment is a psychological litmus test: only bullies and thugs need apply. Tyranny depends on such willing executioners.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 7d

Continuity checking drives me mad.
I found one character that actually changed gender during my book...!
That took multiple reads to spot.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 7d

Banning apps that help citizens evade state harassment is precisely what we'd condemn in China.

Drop Apple products if you can. The next stage is forced install of an app that tracks you.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 7d

Barking mad.
Totally barking mad.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 7d

Mentally ill? What makes you think that?

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 7d

A perfectly honest confession of our attention-deficit age!

Reading as triage rather than journey.

Still, if it gets her through books rather than scrolling TikTok, I'll allow it. Even degenerate literacy beats none at all.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 7d

I hope it goes well chap.

Marcus @marcusuk.bsky.social · 7d

"Former baby"

But, but, that could be anyone?