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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 8h

Lmao, 5 behind in your own internals is not particularly good, it means more like 10 behind in reality. Like, Zeldin actually managed to get a few internals showing him neck-and-neck or even a point ahead.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty wild that they managed to arrest Rosa Thälmann considering she's been dead since 1962.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 10h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 10h

I choose to interpret this as "Emperor free" 😜

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 13h

iirc yes

Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 13h

Simha Flapan suggested that some Arab leaders *accidentally* induced flight by loudly repeating and exaggerating Israeli atrocities with the intent of raising Arab determination to fight but actually prompting flight out of fear.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 13h

Completely aside from any other details, people fleeing from nearby violence is a pretty universal phenomenon. The motivation for this is pretty straightforward and obvious, and I find the efforts to try and paint Palestinians doing it as some kind of malicious act quite bizarre and desperate.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 14h

Oh for sure, I meant lazy more in the sense of not bothering to argue for this position.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 15h

At my school it was all painted grey, and I remember regularly using it in PE lessons when I was about 5 or 6

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 21h

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 15h

Lik dis if you cry evertim

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 15h

Any description of immigrants as being "imported" immediately gets an eye-roll and nope out from me. We don't force or demand them to move, they move of their own accord. It's just a lazy effort to imply migration is a button than can be switched on or off rather than just a reality of the world.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 16h

Happy International Lesbian Day! 🏳️‍🌈

Where Are My Lesbians? - Pride (2014) - Movie Clip

YouTube video by duckpoof

youtu.be

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

*derogatory

Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

I think part of that's in the nature of conservative thought. "Innovation" is seen as negative, as deviance from the ordained eternal natural order.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god yes, it's just incredible (demogatory) how "I don't like how homeless people look on this street, so they should be forcibly removed from being on it" is so widely accepted as a valid argument!

Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 1d

(this is also relevant for a lot of shitting on homeless people stuff)

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

It always comes down to crude aesthetic disgust at people looking "wrong". Same racism and misogyny that almost every prominent sportswoman who isn't White and/or who doesn't look like a model is subjected to, without fail.

Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 1d

Here's something I don't understand (I understand the racism of comparing an Arab woman to a man): what do you want, at this point? You've destroyed her career. The federation is applying your stupid rules and banning cis and trans women left and right. Less girls do sports. What more do you want?

Screen Twitter

Rebel Ada
@DearRebelAda
If Imane Khelif were a woman, he would never have been selected for this. Long face, solid eyebrow ridge, male jawline, insolent expression, and a background of cheating + beating women for money - all unattractive.
Men who do womanface are just members of a superior caste.

(Two photos of an ad campaign where Imane Khelif is carrying a bottle of tinted skin serum)

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

Also, there's a very real tendency among declining conservative castes to really underestimate how badly and how quickly their position can collapse.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

Because, ultimately, building a surface-level parallel that you can then complain about not being treated "fairly" compared to the original is much lower-risk than actually trying to do your own work.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, for sure. Lindsay makes this point in the video - they explicitly understand the point of these shows as being merely to occupy the child's attention rather than to help them learn and develop.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

Like, they're not really trying to craft a unique show of their own that little kids will like, they're just trying to copy what already exists - without putting in the work to understand *why* that stuff is good - but with their own preferred symbols substituted in instead.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

As @lindsayellis.bsky.social discusses in the early part of this video, the efforts to create a RW version of Mr Rogers/Ms Rachel are noticeably lower-quality despite having a huge budget.

The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

www.youtube.com

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

That works at politically keeping their voters in line and on message, but not at producing the social outcomes that they (at least claim to) want.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

Indirectly, yes! They're obsessed with everyone else liking them and thinking they're cool.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

A large part of why American right-wing efforts to create their own versions of all the social institutions they hate - not just media, but also academia, film and TV, etc - inevitably produce such noticeably low-quality output is simply that they just don't want to put the work in.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Reposted by Dr Alex Cruikshanks

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

IMO this is the way. Name it. Fight it.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

"I was in the Amazon with my students researching spiders right before they died"

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