Marie
@verynormalhuman666.bsky.social
Totally normal human enjoying totally normal human things - reading, watching movies, gardening, quietly panicking, watching cute animal videos, contemplating the collapse of civilization
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I consider myself a pretty reasonable person but whoever invented the feature that opens Outlook when you click on an email address in your web browser needs to be sent to mow lawns on the Sun
December 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I consider myself a pretty reasonable person but whoever invented the feature that opens Outlook when you click on an email address in your web browser needs to be sent to mow lawns on the Sun
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[fascists rise to power]
My family: At least this must be great for you comedy writers
[locusts decimate our crops]
Family: You must have so much material to work with
[blood rains from the sky]
Family: I bet it's like the jokes just write themselves
My family: At least this must be great for you comedy writers
[locusts decimate our crops]
Family: You must have so much material to work with
[blood rains from the sky]
Family: I bet it's like the jokes just write themselves
January 3, 2026 at 10:09 PM
[fascists rise to power]
My family: At least this must be great for you comedy writers
[locusts decimate our crops]
Family: You must have so much material to work with
[blood rains from the sky]
Family: I bet it's like the jokes just write themselves
My family: At least this must be great for you comedy writers
[locusts decimate our crops]
Family: You must have so much material to work with
[blood rains from the sky]
Family: I bet it's like the jokes just write themselves
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thanks, I would rather send envelopes filled with individual dimes back and forth in the mail than trust AI with my money
Microsoft launches Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and others; Shopify merchants are automatically enrolled (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
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January 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
thanks, I would rather send envelopes filled with individual dimes back and forth in the mail than trust AI with my money
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what an incredible use of our planet’s finite resources
January 9, 2026 at 9:07 PM
what an incredible use of our planet’s finite resources
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deep down, the average MAGA male yearns to be a subservient butler following a rich guy around all day going "excellent choice, sir" every time he demands another golf club or fresh goblet of goat blood
January 19, 2026 at 6:25 AM
deep down, the average MAGA male yearns to be a subservient butler following a rich guy around all day going "excellent choice, sir" every time he demands another golf club or fresh goblet of goat blood
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It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It is 2026. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
It is 1917. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
It is 1347. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
It is 1917. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
It is 1347. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
January 15, 2026 at 1:26 AM
It is 2026. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
It is 1917. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
It is 1347. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
It is 1917. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
It is 1347. My life has been upended by a pandemic and the looming threat of war in Europe.
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"C'est de pire en pire aux USA".
On rappelle quand même qu'il y a quelques mois, un enfant de 11 ans est mort à Bruxelles renversé en trottinette par un SUV de la police qui le poursuivait au beau milieu d'un parc.
Et les bonnes gens de pointer qu'il n'avait pas l'âge légal pour une trot électrique
On rappelle quand même qu'il y a quelques mois, un enfant de 11 ans est mort à Bruxelles renversé en trottinette par un SUV de la police qui le poursuivait au beau milieu d'un parc.
Et les bonnes gens de pointer qu'il n'avait pas l'âge légal pour une trot électrique
January 8, 2026 at 9:06 AM
"C'est de pire en pire aux USA".
On rappelle quand même qu'il y a quelques mois, un enfant de 11 ans est mort à Bruxelles renversé en trottinette par un SUV de la police qui le poursuivait au beau milieu d'un parc.
Et les bonnes gens de pointer qu'il n'avait pas l'âge légal pour une trot électrique
On rappelle quand même qu'il y a quelques mois, un enfant de 11 ans est mort à Bruxelles renversé en trottinette par un SUV de la police qui le poursuivait au beau milieu d'un parc.
Et les bonnes gens de pointer qu'il n'avait pas l'âge légal pour une trot électrique
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We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Well we have corollary:
Well we have corollary:
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Well we have corollary:
Well we have corollary:
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There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bl...
skywriter.blue
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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«Les grands patrons et les journalistes qui les protègent, ils sont terrifiés à l'idée d'un second tour avec Mélenchon alors ils font tout ce qu'ils peuvent pour nous faire adopter Glucksmann.
Ils sont là :
— Regardez, regardez qu'est ce qu'on a trouvé…»
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9l...
Ils sont là :
— Regardez, regardez qu'est ce qu'on a trouvé…»
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9l...
Glucksmann le loser - La chronique de Pierre-Emmanuel Barré
YouTube video by Radio Nova
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
«Les grands patrons et les journalistes qui les protègent, ils sont terrifiés à l'idée d'un second tour avec Mélenchon alors ils font tout ce qu'ils peuvent pour nous faire adopter Glucksmann.
Ils sont là :
— Regardez, regardez qu'est ce qu'on a trouvé…»
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9l...
Ils sont là :
— Regardez, regardez qu'est ce qu'on a trouvé…»
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9l...
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
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The thread on one page. As always, please feel free to add to/subtract from the argument. Constructive criticism and other perspectives welcome, as ever. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime ...
skywriter.blue
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The thread on one page. As always, please feel free to add to/subtract from the argument. Constructive criticism and other perspectives welcome, as ever. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppress...
skywriter.blue
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble benea...
skywriter.blue
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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and it's a bummer and unfair that the police can just decide to refuse to follow the law, and that business associations etc will flood the zone with propaganda declaring any attempt at a better world a miserable failure
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
and it's a bummer and unfair that the police can just decide to refuse to follow the law, and that business associations etc will flood the zone with propaganda declaring any attempt at a better world a miserable failure
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.
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Absolutely insane.
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Absolutely insane.
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.
Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.
The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
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The socialist left has won power in New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The socialist left has won power in New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
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This is a landslide. The last NYC mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes was John Lindsay—over 50 years ago. It will be dismissed by pundits saying it can only happen in New York. That's garbage. Think pledging to freeze rent and offer childcare won't resonate in Nevada? Wisconsin? Texas?
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This is a landslide. The last NYC mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes was John Lindsay—over 50 years ago. It will be dismissed by pundits saying it can only happen in New York. That's garbage. Think pledging to freeze rent and offer childcare won't resonate in Nevada? Wisconsin? Texas?
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This is an incredible level of enthusiasm for a candidate that was not endorsed by national Democratic party leadership, with policies and a message tailored to working people. It's also a stark referendum on the centrist party wing that's beholden to third-way consultants and corporate donors.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This is an incredible level of enthusiasm for a candidate that was not endorsed by national Democratic party leadership, with policies and a message tailored to working people. It's also a stark referendum on the centrist party wing that's beholden to third-way consultants and corporate donors.
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There's no reason that similarly aspirational politics can't work in places with less progressive politics: Affordable groceries and transit. Childcare. I'm sold that if you articulate a politics that fights for the working class you'll find supporters well across our late capitalist hellscape
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
There's no reason that similarly aspirational politics can't work in places with less progressive politics: Affordable groceries and transit. Childcare. I'm sold that if you articulate a politics that fights for the working class you'll find supporters well across our late capitalist hellscape
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Anyway, thanks Mamdani, and the movement that elected him. This is the way
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway, thanks Mamdani, and the movement that elected him. This is the way