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Hi my name is Sal and my enthusiasms are heterodox Christianity, the Frankfurt school, anarchist Marxism, Michel Foucault, Herge’s adventures of Tintin, Cockapoo spaniels, and music that makes you boogie.
Is this the My Little Pony fan fic guy?
February 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Is this the My Little Pony fan fic guy?
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This is cringe psychodrama shit lmao
@whstancil.bsky.social when was the last time, and to whom, you have said any of the following:
“oh, i was wrong”
“my bad, i’m sorry”
“please, teach me”
“thank you for teaching me”
“i am grateful for having this difficult conversation”
“understood i’ll do my best”
“forgive me for my mistakes”
“oh, i was wrong”
“my bad, i’m sorry”
“please, teach me”
“thank you for teaching me”
“i am grateful for having this difficult conversation”
“understood i’ll do my best”
“forgive me for my mistakes”
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
This is cringe psychodrama shit lmao
Those emails between Epstein and Summers, or whoever else, suggest overgrown frat boy versions of Eliot’s hollow men, a world ending in not a bang but a snigger. Not even Beavis & Butthead, for Beavis & Butthead are innocuous innocents, and funny. This is ‘Dude, Where’s My Soul?’
February 10, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Those emails between Epstein and Summers, or whoever else, suggest overgrown frat boy versions of Eliot’s hollow men, a world ending in not a bang but a snigger. Not even Beavis & Butthead, for Beavis & Butthead are innocuous innocents, and funny. This is ‘Dude, Where’s My Soul?’
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The oldest known image of an owl:
More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...
More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...
February 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The oldest known image of an owl:
More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...
More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...
Badenoch is in my opinion not evil, like Farage; she’s really, really thick. And occasionally in her dumb face you can see the vaguest hint of a realisation that many of the the people she’s representing with her nativist dreck would like to see her deported to Nigeria.
Badenoch trills that Starmer has lost control of his party. That's possibly true.
What's also true is that Badenoch hasn't lost control of the Tories. You can't lose what you've never had.
What's also true is that Badenoch hasn't lost control of the Tories. You can't lose what you've never had.
February 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Badenoch is in my opinion not evil, like Farage; she’s really, really thick. And occasionally in her dumb face you can see the vaguest hint of a realisation that many of the the people she’s representing with her nativist dreck would like to see her deported to Nigeria.
‘Twas of course an attempt at humour.😀
February 10, 2026 at 8:04 PM
‘Twas of course an attempt at humour.😀
February 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Peter Mandelson's official role in Gordon Brown's government was actually not that far away from his unauthorised dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. This week's column digs up some inconvenient truths and suggests the problem is much deeper than we're told.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is a lot of convenient amnesia about Peter Mandelson’s New Labour days. Let’s jog some memories | George Monbiot
Yes, he betrayed the national interest in his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein – but also in his sanctioned role as enabler of corporate power, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Peter Mandelson's official role in Gordon Brown's government was actually not that far away from his unauthorised dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. This week's column digs up some inconvenient truths and suggests the problem is much deeper than we're told.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
There isn’t a singular ‘public mood’ Robert. And this is a turgid, borderline unreadable word dump of hackneyed assumptions, as is always the case from this goober.
You may not like it, but strip out the hyperbole and abuse and it's quite hard to argue with this Cummings asssessment of the public mood
February 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM
There isn’t a singular ‘public mood’ Robert. And this is a turgid, borderline unreadable word dump of hackneyed assumptions, as is always the case from this goober.
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Cummings' assertion that "voters greatly UNDER-estimate the scale of immigration by ~5-30X, contrary to the conventional wisdom", despite it not being clear what measure he is talking about, would be contrary not just to the "CW" but to every study of public perceptions of imm volume I'm aware of.
You may not like it, but strip out the hyperbole and abuse and it's quite hard to argue with this Cummings asssessment of the public mood
February 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Cummings' assertion that "voters greatly UNDER-estimate the scale of immigration by ~5-30X, contrary to the conventional wisdom", despite it not being clear what measure he is talking about, would be contrary not just to the "CW" but to every study of public perceptions of imm volume I'm aware of.
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Not a pollster so someone else will have to explain why ‘swing voters’ are all supporters of Nigel Farage
You may not like it, but strip out the hyperbole and abuse and it's quite hard to argue with this Cummings asssessment of the public mood
February 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Not a pollster so someone else will have to explain why ‘swing voters’ are all supporters of Nigel Farage
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1778
January 26, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1778
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That famously rapid thing that happened super quickly, the fall of Rome
February 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
That famously rapid thing that happened super quickly, the fall of Rome
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They are not and should not be allowed to do this and everyone responsible should be tried and face consequences, including and up to every mealy-mouthed congressperson who doesn't dare to say wrong is wrong.
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
They are not and should not be allowed to do this and everyone responsible should be tried and face consequences, including and up to every mealy-mouthed congressperson who doesn't dare to say wrong is wrong.
Finally, who else but Immanuel Kant, here doubtless setting some hearts aflutter with a saucy death mask look. Ladies, it’s ‘categorically imperative’ that your panties would need changing if you ever got a lecture on transcendental idealism from this sexpot!’
February 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Finally, who else but Immanuel Kant, here doubtless setting some hearts aflutter with a saucy death mask look. Ladies, it’s ‘categorically imperative’ that your panties would need changing if you ever got a lecture on transcendental idealism from this sexpot!’
The thing with centrism is that it doesn’t have any consistent ideological content. The clue’s in the name, suggesting a centre between two poles — which move. So while it came with a degree of sociocultural liberalism from 97-2016, it has now shifted with the polling data to reaction.
Problem with any anti-Starmer tweet that gets attention is I inevitably have to hear the thoughts of people who think Starmer is Blair 2.0, when a lot of the Starmer project's reactionary tendencies are an attempt to distance itself from the socially liberal aspects of Blairism
Starmer "led Labour to a thumping victory nobody thought possible" is one of those weird revisions of history, when 400+ seats was obviously in the realm of possibility from the moment the first post-minibudget polls dropped in September/October 2022
February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The thing with centrism is that it doesn’t have any consistent ideological content. The clue’s in the name, suggesting a centre between two poles — which move. So while it came with a degree of sociocultural liberalism from 97-2016, it has now shifted with the polling data to reaction.
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Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff
Exit of Mandelson protégé comes as Sir Keir Starmer seeks to stave off leadership speculation
www.ft.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.
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"NATO is over. The US empire is in a process of irreversible decay... A new set of alliances is going to be necessary. It would be necessary for a left-wing government representing working class interests. It's necessary probably for the bourgeoisie..." - @leninology.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
"NATO is over. The US empire is in a process of irreversible decay... A new set of alliances is going to be necessary. It would be necessary for a left-wing government representing working class interests. It's necessary probably for the bourgeoisie..." - @leninology.bsky.social
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I can’t get past how ashamed the dog looks.
Tfw when you are the Dark Lord of Spin, genius manipulator of the public mind, but also think wearing Woody Allen spectacles a good choice under the circumstances
February 8, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I can’t get past how ashamed the dog looks.
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My robot hoover recognises and avoids shoes. So rather than tidy other stuff off the floor, I build a defensive barrier of shoes.
February 10, 2026 at 4:20 PM
My robot hoover recognises and avoids shoes. So rather than tidy other stuff off the floor, I build a defensive barrier of shoes.
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Dana-nana-nana-nana-GLASMAN!
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social describes how Maurice Glasman, the driving force behind Blue Labour thinks of himself as a 'Dark Knight' character. A Labour Batman, if you will. @iandunt.bsky.social won't.
Listen to the episode on Blue Labour ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social describes how Maurice Glasman, the driving force behind Blue Labour thinks of himself as a 'Dark Knight' character. A Labour Batman, if you will. @iandunt.bsky.social won't.
Listen to the episode on Blue Labour ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
February 10, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Dana-nana-nana-nana-GLASMAN!
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social describes how Maurice Glasman, the driving force behind Blue Labour thinks of himself as a 'Dark Knight' character. A Labour Batman, if you will. @iandunt.bsky.social won't.
Listen to the episode on Blue Labour ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social describes how Maurice Glasman, the driving force behind Blue Labour thinks of himself as a 'Dark Knight' character. A Labour Batman, if you will. @iandunt.bsky.social won't.
Listen to the episode on Blue Labour ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
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