Valour
@valouriousknight.bsky.social
Writer, Anglican, Awesome Theological Mushroom, Crip, AuDHD, deafened 🧑🦼, parent, nerd, knitter, enthusiastic reptile keeper, Part Dragon, proud trans dude he/him. Queer AF.
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Valour
@valouriousknight.bsky.social
· Aug 12
Some twat has added me to a 'Progressives for Trump/MAGA' blocklist, so just in case it was in doubt:
Donald Trump is the worst of humanity, running unchecked through the halls of power and I loathe him - and all his collaborators- with every fibre of my being
Donald Trump is the worst of humanity, running unchecked through the halls of power and I loathe him - and all his collaborators- with every fibre of my being
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Like, the implicit social punishment and self policing was bad enough! This actually seems worse!
February 12, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Like, the implicit social punishment and self policing was bad enough! This actually seems worse!
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Just feeling all kinds of ways about younger me and how much I wish I'd had language for what I was feeling and how awful it must be to have that language and reach out to an adult and then be told explicitly 'actually, no, we know better and are going to do deliberate social punishment'
February 12, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Just feeling all kinds of ways about younger me and how much I wish I'd had language for what I was feeling and how awful it must be to have that language and reach out to an adult and then be told explicitly 'actually, no, we know better and are going to do deliberate social punishment'
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As an established writer, I'm not really worried by AI, because AI can't do what I do. It can only pretend. And I've cultivated the kind of audience that can spot the difference.
BUT... that word "established" is load bearing. The opportunity to LEARN to do what I do is what AI is taking away.
BUT... that word "established" is load bearing. The opportunity to LEARN to do what I do is what AI is taking away.
February 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM
As an established writer, I'm not really worried by AI, because AI can't do what I do. It can only pretend. And I've cultivated the kind of audience that can spot the difference.
BUT... that word "established" is load bearing. The opportunity to LEARN to do what I do is what AI is taking away.
BUT... that word "established" is load bearing. The opportunity to LEARN to do what I do is what AI is taking away.
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The more jobs I hear listed as "bullshit jobs", the more I realize that people just don't understand that coordination and organization are necessary tasks
Incidentally, this has reminded me of when I got blocked on here for arguing with the David Graeber Institute that "Logistics Manager" wasn't a "bullshit job". I hope every one of them is waiting on a vital package from Southern Texas.
All this speculation about the potential horrid things the airspace closure around El Paso could signifiy, and all I can think of is the logistics managers having the *worst* day and week of their lives.
February 11, 2026 at 5:49 PM
The more jobs I hear listed as "bullshit jobs", the more I realize that people just don't understand that coordination and organization are necessary tasks
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She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money
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“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury
If Wes Streeting would like some 'moral seriousness' as per his bleating inventive in today's Guardian, can I suggest he starts with not driving the eradication of trans people from public life, and, with not surreptitiously dismantling the NHS, while claiming ND folks are just all scroungers?
February 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
If Wes Streeting would like some 'moral seriousness' as per his bleating inventive in today's Guardian, can I suggest he starts with not driving the eradication of trans people from public life, and, with not surreptitiously dismantling the NHS, while claiming ND folks are just all scroungers?
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People who say they can't enjoy music when they don't understand the lyrics are so funny to me. My brother in Christ, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto blasts the skin off my entire body and it doesn't even have words.
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
People who say they can't enjoy music when they don't understand the lyrics are so funny to me. My brother in Christ, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto blasts the skin off my entire body and it doesn't even have words.
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I’ll be watching wearing a big foam finger that says “ONE MORE LABOUR RESET“
Big hype for Starmer speech today cant wait to see what masterful stroke my man pulls of today
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 AM
I’ll be watching wearing a big foam finger that says “ONE MORE LABOUR RESET“
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It's very funny to try the "you have to understand that back in 2025 people didn't know it was bad to give a senior diplomatic post to a close friend of a convincted child sex trafficker" defence. "We can't judge people back then with our modern sensibilities."
February 9, 2026 at 9:08 AM
It's very funny to try the "you have to understand that back in 2025 people didn't know it was bad to give a senior diplomatic post to a close friend of a convincted child sex trafficker" defence. "We can't judge people back then with our modern sensibilities."
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It does make me proud of our culture that we’ve all pretty universally agreed that a 97 yr old lady dying of a preexisting illness was Liz Truss’ personal fault
And Johnson and Sunak, I suppose, but nobody shat the bed quite like Liz. Killed the queen, fucked the pound, properly pissed off bloody everyone, including Tory voters, all in the space of like a fortnight. Outlasted by a lettuce. Let's not forget her achievements pls.
February 9, 2026 at 9:22 AM
It does make me proud of our culture that we’ve all pretty universally agreed that a 97 yr old lady dying of a preexisting illness was Liz Truss’ personal fault
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In the middle of a moral panic about sex trafficking so intense that I can't advertise a book about medieval history online and no one can access prom anymore, Labour's best and brightest are desperate to get on TV and let you know actually it is fine if rich people do it to poor girls.
"People like me, people like Pat that come onto programs like this are going to be supportive of people that we have worked closely with"
Asked about Pat McFadden defending Morgan McSweeney keeping his job yesterday, Baroness Jacqui Smith accidentally says the quiet bit out loud
Asked about Pat McFadden defending Morgan McSweeney keeping his job yesterday, Baroness Jacqui Smith accidentally says the quiet bit out loud
February 9, 2026 at 8:49 AM
In the middle of a moral panic about sex trafficking so intense that I can't advertise a book about medieval history online and no one can access prom anymore, Labour's best and brightest are desperate to get on TV and let you know actually it is fine if rich people do it to poor girls.
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Scene by scene thread. It’s like halfway done !
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Scene by scene thread. It’s like halfway done !
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Not for nothing, these are the things that white supremely., capitalism, and the venture-capitalist industrial complex want to take from us.
Don’t let them. Take a humanities course. Support the arts. And if you’re a STEM person? Fight for your colleagues.
Don’t let them. Take a humanities course. Support the arts. And if you’re a STEM person? Fight for your colleagues.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Not for nothing, these are the things that white supremely., capitalism, and the venture-capitalist industrial complex want to take from us.
Don’t let them. Take a humanities course. Support the arts. And if you’re a STEM person? Fight for your colleagues.
Don’t let them. Take a humanities course. Support the arts. And if you’re a STEM person? Fight for your colleagues.
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These are the conversations we have in the fun areas of the humanities. These are the skills that the humanities, at their best, cultivate into us. They allow us to deepen our appreciation for our culture and our experience of the world.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
These are the conversations we have in the fun areas of the humanities. These are the skills that the humanities, at their best, cultivate into us. They allow us to deepen our appreciation for our culture and our experience of the world.
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We all, collectively, pulled up a chair and did as deep a reading of these performances as I’ve seen in upper level humanities classes, and we not only talked about them with precision and clarity, we did so across distributed networks.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
We all, collectively, pulled up a chair and did as deep a reading of these performances as I’ve seen in upper level humanities classes, and we not only talked about them with precision and clarity, we did so across distributed networks.
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
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When I was a kid, the super bowl ads were all beer, cola, and Doritos. Then it was dot-coms. A couple years ago it was all crypto. This year is all AI slop, surveillance, and online betting. What a grim reflection of the world the tech oligarchs have wrought.
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 AM
When I was a kid, the super bowl ads were all beer, cola, and Doritos. Then it was dot-coms. A couple years ago it was all crypto. This year is all AI slop, surveillance, and online betting. What a grim reflection of the world the tech oligarchs have wrought.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
February 9, 2026 at 3:38 AM
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Said it before, but... "42% of consumers don't know potato chips come from potatoes" is something I file under, "statistics that aren't explicitly about electoral politics that nevertheless show why Trump won again."
Some context from that Lays ad.
People are very stupid and don’t realize that potato chips are literally made out of potatoes.
That’s why they were parading around a potato in that ad like it’s the fucking Rosetta Stone.
People are very stupid and don’t realize that potato chips are literally made out of potatoes.
That’s why they were parading around a potato in that ad like it’s the fucking Rosetta Stone.
Lay’s revamps to make clear that chips are made from potatoes | Capital Press
Lay's will revamp its brand after 42% of consumers didn't know their potato chips come from potatoes.
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February 9, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Said it before, but... "42% of consumers don't know potato chips come from potatoes" is something I file under, "statistics that aren't explicitly about electoral politics that nevertheless show why Trump won again."
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To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
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this is so funny because it's like, oh my god, what an awful question for a news show. and then wham the answer is so much worse somehow
Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?"
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 AM
this is so funny because it's like, oh my god, what an awful question for a news show. and then wham the answer is so much worse somehow
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Like Kendrick, political as hell precisely because it doesn't bother to acknowledge the haters. They're irrelevant, beneath attention. And nothing is more intolerable to fascists than the thought that their enemies are cool, enjoying themselves, and not thinking about them.
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Like Kendrick, political as hell precisely because it doesn't bother to acknowledge the haters. They're irrelevant, beneath attention. And nothing is more intolerable to fascists than the thought that their enemies are cool, enjoying themselves, and not thinking about them.
AHAHAHAAAAAA FUCK YOU KEVIN O'CONNELL
YOU FUCKED UP GOOD!
Well done Seahawks! Bout time people started really seeing Darnold
YOU FUCKED UP GOOD!
Well done Seahawks! Bout time people started really seeing Darnold
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
AHAHAHAAAAAA FUCK YOU KEVIN O'CONNELL
YOU FUCKED UP GOOD!
Well done Seahawks! Bout time people started really seeing Darnold
YOU FUCKED UP GOOD!
Well done Seahawks! Bout time people started really seeing Darnold