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chiller
@thechiller.bsky.social
· Jan 30
You have to be ready for the unthinkable. The stuff that "surely nobody would -?"
Because they will.
Because they will.
Isn't bed great? Whoever invented bed: thank you.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Isn't bed great? Whoever invented bed: thank you.
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As Twitter's new geolocation tool started to reveal accounts’ information, the effect was like watching the Scooby Doo kids pull one disguise after another from the villain of the week.
Hilarious and alarming though it all was, it's just the latest indication of one of the site’s oldest problems.
Hilarious and alarming though it all was, it's just the latest indication of one of the site’s oldest problems.
Twitter's foreign influence problem is nothing new
The platform's just-debuted geolocation tool illuminates a disturbing and persistent issue.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
As Twitter's new geolocation tool started to reveal accounts’ information, the effect was like watching the Scooby Doo kids pull one disguise after another from the villain of the week.
Hilarious and alarming though it all was, it's just the latest indication of one of the site’s oldest problems.
Hilarious and alarming though it all was, it's just the latest indication of one of the site’s oldest problems.
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50 ARRESTS
The Met arrested ~50 peaceful sign-holders today outside the Home Office at the third of four actions in London in the lead up to the Judicial Review over Labour’s ban on Palestine Action
We will be back at the Royal Courts on Wednesday.
info: wedonotcomply.org
The Met arrested ~50 peaceful sign-holders today outside the Home Office at the third of four actions in London in the lead up to the Judicial Review over Labour’s ban on Palestine Action
We will be back at the Royal Courts on Wednesday.
info: wedonotcomply.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
50 ARRESTS
The Met arrested ~50 peaceful sign-holders today outside the Home Office at the third of four actions in London in the lead up to the Judicial Review over Labour’s ban on Palestine Action
We will be back at the Royal Courts on Wednesday.
info: wedonotcomply.org
The Met arrested ~50 peaceful sign-holders today outside the Home Office at the third of four actions in London in the lead up to the Judicial Review over Labour’s ban on Palestine Action
We will be back at the Royal Courts on Wednesday.
info: wedonotcomply.org
“Wealth inequality is the most common and crucial element in societal collapse,” says Luke Kemp of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. “It corrodes the social fabric … hollows out societies, leaving them to be a brittle shell which can be cracked asunder by numerous different shocks.”
Civilisations: Rise and Fall review – TV that will make you despair for our own plummeting society
Civilisations: Rise and Fall review – TV that will make you despair for our own plummeting society
The mightily stressful and incredibly close-to-the-bone BBC show traces the demise of four ancient worlds – and it’s wildly prescient stuff. Will we never learn?
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“Wealth inequality is the most common and crucial element in societal collapse,” says Luke Kemp of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. “It corrodes the social fabric … hollows out societies, leaving them to be a brittle shell which can be cracked asunder by numerous different shocks.”
New Labour health strategy "just let people die, it's even cheaper than helping them commit suicide!"
I suppose if we want to go one better, we could always make hospitals smaller and only allow the wealthy to access treatment? 🙄
apple.news/Aa2tphN-6TcO...
apple.news/Aa2tphN-6TcO...
Hospitals must get smaller to stop NHS ‘permacrisis’, thinktank urges — The Guardian
Re:State report says role hospitals play needs ‘fundamental reinvention’ to deliver better care for patients
apple.news
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
New Labour health strategy "just let people die, it's even cheaper than helping them commit suicide!"
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Care in the community gets rebranded every couple of years. Kick patients out of hospitals to be cared for "closer to home" in as yet non existent places. Probably a weekly visit from over stretched district nurses.
We could start addressing the major contributors to ill health like poverty but...
We could start addressing the major contributors to ill health like poverty but...
I suppose if we want to go one better, we could always make hospitals smaller and only allow the wealthy to access treatment? 🙄
apple.news/Aa2tphN-6TcO...
apple.news/Aa2tphN-6TcO...
Hospitals must get smaller to stop NHS ‘permacrisis’, thinktank urges — The Guardian
Re:State report says role hospitals play needs ‘fundamental reinvention’ to deliver better care for patients
apple.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Care in the community gets rebranded every couple of years. Kick patients out of hospitals to be cared for "closer to home" in as yet non existent places. Probably a weekly visit from over stretched district nurses.
We could start addressing the major contributors to ill health like poverty but...
We could start addressing the major contributors to ill health like poverty but...
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Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
Everything beyond 3 is
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Everything beyond 3 is
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It hadn't occurred to me until I listened to @quietriotpod.bsky.social that there could be an element of Trump nobbling Vance in putting this plan forward.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It hadn't occurred to me until I listened to @quietriotpod.bsky.social that there could be an element of Trump nobbling Vance in putting this plan forward.
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This is how the JD Vance (seemigly Kremlin-drafted) Ukraine "Peace Plan" went down with *Republican* lawmakers. No wonder Trump is distancing himself from it, at a rate of knots.
NB McCaul was Trump's national security adviser during his first campaign. ~AA
NB McCaul was Trump's national security adviser during his first campaign. ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is how the JD Vance (seemigly Kremlin-drafted) Ukraine "Peace Plan" went down with *Republican* lawmakers. No wonder Trump is distancing himself from it, at a rate of knots.
NB McCaul was Trump's national security adviser during his first campaign. ~AA
NB McCaul was Trump's national security adviser during his first campaign. ~AA
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me, flirting
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
me, flirting
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
My stomach: I don't know what that is but it's giving crispy baguette maybe with some kind of ... dips?
My brain: that baguette
My brain: it's got an ear
My stomach: oh ... ok yeah
My stomach: but the ear looks nice and crispy
My brain: it's a cat IT'S A CAT
My brain: re-hinge your jaw
My brain: that baguette
My brain: it's got an ear
My stomach: oh ... ok yeah
My stomach: but the ear looks nice and crispy
My brain: it's a cat IT'S A CAT
My brain: re-hinge your jaw
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
My stomach: I don't know what that is but it's giving crispy baguette maybe with some kind of ... dips?
My brain: that baguette
My brain: it's got an ear
My stomach: oh ... ok yeah
My stomach: but the ear looks nice and crispy
My brain: it's a cat IT'S A CAT
My brain: re-hinge your jaw
My brain: that baguette
My brain: it's got an ear
My stomach: oh ... ok yeah
My stomach: but the ear looks nice and crispy
My brain: it's a cat IT'S A CAT
My brain: re-hinge your jaw
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Big agree. It's the best star wars thing I've seen since I was 7.
My Star Wars hot take is that Andor was worth the money spent for saving the franchise's reputation. www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
Disney Spent More On ‘Andor’ Than Any Of Its ‘Star Wars’ Movies
Disney has revealed it spent $60.5 million on Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024, giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million - far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the saga.
www.forbes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Big agree. It's the best star wars thing I've seen since I was 7.
If you'd asked the same question with Sooty, Sweep and Sue, you'd have got the same answer.
Keir Starmer would lose a head-to-head contest against Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband, exclusive polling for LabourList by Survation reveals
Starmer would lose leadership contest to Streeting, Rayner, Burnham and Miliband – LabourList
Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting would all win a head-to-head leadership contest against Keir Starmer, exclusive polling of Labour members reveals.…
labourlist.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If you'd asked the same question with Sooty, Sweep and Sue, you'd have got the same answer.
Centrists.
This need for a legible social order expresses itself in what social psychologists call "system justification." We have a propensity to justify & defend the social order we are born into-- *even if we are at the bottom of that order* --because a system that makes sense is preferable to uncertainty.
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Centrists.
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I interviewed psychologist John Jost about this. He was curious why history contains so many long periods in which massive groups of people are oppressed by relatively tiny groups -- when, on a purely physical basis, the oppressed could overwhelm oppressors at any time. They just tend not to. Why?
Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult
When we look across the broad sweep of human history, what needs explaining is not times of rebellion and upheaval, but the much more common periods of unjust rule facing little resistance. Why do peo...
www.volts.wtf
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I interviewed psychologist John Jost about this. He was curious why history contains so many long periods in which massive groups of people are oppressed by relatively tiny groups -- when, on a purely physical basis, the oppressed could overwhelm oppressors at any time. They just tend not to. Why?
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This need for a legible social order expresses itself in what social psychologists call "system justification." We have a propensity to justify & defend the social order we are born into-- *even if we are at the bottom of that order* --because a system that makes sense is preferable to uncertainty.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This need for a legible social order expresses itself in what social psychologists call "system justification." We have a propensity to justify & defend the social order we are born into-- *even if we are at the bottom of that order* --because a system that makes sense is preferable to uncertainty.
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We don't have to accept this slop.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We don't have to accept this slop.
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📊 Estimated seats on latest Lord Ashcroft poll:
➡️ REF – 289 (+284)
🟢 GRN – 77 (+73)
🟠 LD – 77 (+5)
🔵 CON – 76 (-45)
🟡 SNP – 45 (+36)
🔴 LAB – 41 (-370)
Based on @LordAPolls poll, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs GE24)
➡️ REF – 289 (+284)
🟢 GRN – 77 (+73)
🟠 LD – 77 (+5)
🔵 CON – 76 (-45)
🟡 SNP – 45 (+36)
🔴 LAB – 41 (-370)
Based on @LordAPolls poll, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs GE24)
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
📊 Estimated seats on latest Lord Ashcroft poll:
➡️ REF – 289 (+284)
🟢 GRN – 77 (+73)
🟠 LD – 77 (+5)
🔵 CON – 76 (-45)
🟡 SNP – 45 (+36)
🔴 LAB – 41 (-370)
Based on @LordAPolls poll, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs GE24)
➡️ REF – 289 (+284)
🟢 GRN – 77 (+73)
🟠 LD – 77 (+5)
🔵 CON – 76 (-45)
🟡 SNP – 45 (+36)
🔴 LAB – 41 (-370)
Based on @LordAPolls poll, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs GE24)
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graham linehan verdict is tomorrow. brace yourselves for state-sponsered fuckery.
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
graham linehan verdict is tomorrow. brace yourselves for state-sponsered fuckery.