Travelling Skull
@a-random-skull.bsky.social
Find myself in various interesting places with interesting people. Trumpers and Tories will be blocked.
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“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”
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The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
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The annoying leftie posters were right, 'Dubai is just a normal fun holiday destination' really was a warning sign of fascism all along
notable that if you tune to the right frequency, you can hear more and more "the UAE does it! (complimentary)" background music
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The annoying leftie posters were right, 'Dubai is just a normal fun holiday destination' really was a warning sign of fascism all along
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I'm not trying to tell you it's not going to suck but this is more or less what the path to most of the good endings looks like:
1) isolated, unpopular president with few allies
2) entirely transactional and lightly committed collaborators
3) deeply committed domestic and international opposition
1) isolated, unpopular president with few allies
2) entirely transactional and lightly committed collaborators
3) deeply committed domestic and international opposition
September 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'm not trying to tell you it's not going to suck but this is more or less what the path to most of the good endings looks like:
1) isolated, unpopular president with few allies
2) entirely transactional and lightly committed collaborators
3) deeply committed domestic and international opposition
1) isolated, unpopular president with few allies
2) entirely transactional and lightly committed collaborators
3) deeply committed domestic and international opposition
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I can’t believe I have to care about Jimmy Kimmel. This is the worst thing Trump has ever inflicted on the American people.
September 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I can’t believe I have to care about Jimmy Kimmel. This is the worst thing Trump has ever inflicted on the American people.
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Nancy Mace’s extremist attempt to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar failed by just one vote on Wednesday, after Democrats maneuvered against it. Mace claimed her censure effort was about Omar’s criticism of Charlie Kirk.
GOP Censure of Ilhan Omar Fails by One Vote After Democrats Maneuver Against It
The resolution was introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace, who has repeatedly attacked Omar for her faith and Somalian origin.
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Nancy Mace’s extremist attempt to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar failed by just one vote on Wednesday, after Democrats maneuvered against it. Mace claimed her censure effort was about Omar’s criticism of Charlie Kirk.
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reaching new levels of "no intellectual juice" among the anti-anti-Trump left
September 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
reaching new levels of "no intellectual juice" among the anti-anti-Trump left
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My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
July 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
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There is a fundamental right to bodily autonomy that is so ingrained in humanity that even the dead retain rights to their organs after death. Liz Bruenig can't understand this choice, believing the state is entitled to use women as incubators. It's not a moral debate. It's actually very simple.
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
June 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
There is a fundamental right to bodily autonomy that is so ingrained in humanity that even the dead retain rights to their organs after death. Liz Bruenig can't understand this choice, believing the state is entitled to use women as incubators. It's not a moral debate. It's actually very simple.
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hello! She's making a very stupid point and REALLY misusing history to make a lazy, contemporary moral argument.
me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about it just a couple days ago!
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about it just a couple days ago!
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
June 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
hello! She's making a very stupid point and REALLY misusing history to make a lazy, contemporary moral argument.
me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about it just a couple days ago!
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote about it just a couple days ago!
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
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I guess the oddest thing about the concept of "gender-critical" is that gender literally is "society & culture telling people how to exist in their bodies in acceptable ways".
And that's what "gender-critical" people want more of, not less.
And that's what "gender-critical" people want more of, not less.
May 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I guess the oddest thing about the concept of "gender-critical" is that gender literally is "society & culture telling people how to exist in their bodies in acceptable ways".
And that's what "gender-critical" people want more of, not less.
And that's what "gender-critical" people want more of, not less.
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after this last few months I think I am now in critical support of all weird ultrarich people hobbies. take that horse dancing class. I love that yoga retreat for you. tighten up that golf swing. search the ocean floor for ancient shipwrecks. anything that keeps you in your business and out of ours
May 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
after this last few months I think I am now in critical support of all weird ultrarich people hobbies. take that horse dancing class. I love that yoga retreat for you. tighten up that golf swing. search the ocean floor for ancient shipwrecks. anything that keeps you in your business and out of ours
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Every day, I think, “okay, there can’t be a better case study for how incoherent the government is”, and then they give us a doozy like “reverse or soften the winter fuel decision AND go harder on welfare cuts”.
“We didn’t go big enough the first time round. The costs are unsustainable,” one No 10 source said. “It’s a fairness issue but also a fiscal one – how can we spend money on the public’s priorities, like schools and hospitals, if all the money is going on welfare?”
Hard to see MPs agreeing…
Hard to see MPs agreeing…
May 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Every day, I think, “okay, there can’t be a better case study for how incoherent the government is”, and then they give us a doozy like “reverse or soften the winter fuel decision AND go harder on welfare cuts”.
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We need bold leadership. Now.
That's why I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party.
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May 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
We need bold leadership. Now.
That's why I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party.
Join our campaign: backzack.com
#BackZack
That's why I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party.
Join our campaign: backzack.com
#BackZack
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This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?
April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?
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you don't need to be jacques lacan to see how desperately transmuting material loss into symbolic gain is really just slapping a fancy new signifier atop a yawning black hole but hey it doesn't hurt
April 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
you don't need to be jacques lacan to see how desperately transmuting material loss into symbolic gain is really just slapping a fancy new signifier atop a yawning black hole but hey it doesn't hurt
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Hate speech breeds hate and violence.
Thank God she survived, but surely the normalisation of transphobia played a part in this.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Thank God she survived, but surely the normalisation of transphobia played a part in this.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
January 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Hate speech breeds hate and violence.
Thank God she survived, but surely the normalisation of transphobia played a part in this.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Thank God she survived, but surely the normalisation of transphobia played a part in this.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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this fatuous notion need not detain us, but it’s maybe illuminating to ask what constraints the purported ‘deal’ put on the founders. In return for their wealth, would they say foreswear layoffs, commit to always growing their head count, or refuse to engage in offshore tax avoidance strategies?
By “free speech” they meant “make it illegal to dislike me”
January 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
this fatuous notion need not detain us, but it’s maybe illuminating to ask what constraints the purported ‘deal’ put on the founders. In return for their wealth, would they say foreswear layoffs, commit to always growing their head count, or refuse to engage in offshore tax avoidance strategies?
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A thing of real beauty
Cartoon from 2004, done mostly to give the office thesaurus an airing. Hearing later that he'd had a rough time, I was slightly worried that accusing him of owning a cattery which was merely a hollow facade might have been a bit unkind, but it turned out that he liked it, so I sent him the artwork.
January 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A thing of real beauty
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Arguably the thing that people treat the most dismissively that would absolutely floor pre-modern people is clothing. I don't think non-historians understand how much human labor went into pre-modern creation of clothes and fibers. A single dress is the culmination of many many hours of work
January 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Arguably the thing that people treat the most dismissively that would absolutely floor pre-modern people is clothing. I don't think non-historians understand how much human labor went into pre-modern creation of clothes and fibers. A single dress is the culmination of many many hours of work