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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 12h

On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

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Russel D McLean/R.D. McLean @russeldmclean.bsky.social · 13h

Come on, folks -- you need to get clicking and send this one soaring up the charts! Do it! Do it now! Its a bloody brilliant read and a story that needs to be known not just in Scotland, but everywhere! Sex, scandal, murder, poison, social climbing and a very naughty Frenchman!

Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 2d

My story of a shocking real-life Victorian woman accused of murder is on special offer on Kindle for the whole of October! 'Enthralling' The Scotsman 'Gripping...memorably disturbing' The Herald

Green and black book cover with title Love and Other Poisons

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 13h

Long hours at the salon to achieve that.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 17h

Unsolicited lick pic

Ginger Highland cow calf shoves his tongue up one nostril, because he can.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 18h

In other news, UK government goes all in on AI...

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 20h

Same

Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 20h

Morning Bluesky.

For the sake of clarity, please be aware I will never listen to your podcast or read your Substack.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Love this

bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · 1d

Keep doing a little something every day to #DismantleApartheidIsrael.

You never know the impact of your protesting, boycotting, social media involvement, etc.

youtube.com/shorts/O5yK7...

Fruit for thought. Never judge a book by its cover. #comedy #histoty #storytelling #standup

YouTube video by David Nihill

youtube.com

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

Probably the best thing about that film, tbh.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve not actively hated Rishi Sunak in a while, so the news he’s taken a job with Anthropic AI (aka the company I’m part of a mass lawsuit against for stealing our work to train their LLM) is actually kind of comforting.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with being even vaguely aware of *waves hands at everything* is that the slightest knock back can send me over the edge for hours. Fuming at an incorrect invoice for some animal feed that came in at lunchtime and now I've lost a whole afternoon's work.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

Normalise admitting you don't know enough about a subject to form an opinion of it.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

This a thousand times. Whenever anyone says anything you should always ask why they are saying it, even if only in your own head. That used to be the job of journalists, but apparently not so much anymore.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

To me, the whole “transition from…to…” narrative has always felt rooted in cisgender cope and ignorance

Trans+ people access Trans Healthcare to be themselves - that’s it - it's that simple

For true gender liberation, the “transition” framing needs to go

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

I don't follow polls much, but it was noticeable yesterday that the Greens seemed to be having something of a moment. Asked myself what could possibly have caused that, and of course it's that they've had a half decent run of media coverage lately.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 2d

I wanna start a PeepGPT where we charge subscribers the same amount to access actual human experts willing to write that email / make that image / generally tell you you are okay

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 2d

Have to say, I'm tempted...

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favourite albums, and not just of theirs. It all went downhill a bit after New Gold Dream.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for spreading the word!

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 2d

I did wonder why he’d gone. That would explain it.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 2d

Buying books and reading books are two very different pastimes.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 2d

once again i cannot emphasize enough that transphobia is almost entirely an elite panic. the overwhelming majority of people simply do not care—it is media and political elites who are obsessed with us and keep bending over backwards to justify and spread transphobia.

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 2d

the idea that trans rights have swung elections to republicans is a fiction made up by media and political elites (both conservative and liberal) who are personally transphobic and want transphobia to be politically popular so they no longer have to hide how disgusting they think trans people are

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 2d

True!