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Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
"You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"
"You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
"Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient."
"Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient."
Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies
December 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
"You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"
"You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever catch them, who believe that they act out of a right that the rest of us do not have. The job of the officer of the law is to let them know that they are wrong!"
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
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shut the fuck up. they've had 50 years to catch up and won't pay workers the compensation we're worth. don't piss me off.
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
shut the fuck up. they've had 50 years to catch up and won't pay workers the compensation we're worth. don't piss me off.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions
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My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions | Andrea Egan
I have been appalled by Wes Streeting’s attacks on resident doctors. The destructive right wing of the Labour party should know that this is a new era, says the general secretary-elect of Unison, Andrea...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions
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BREAKING: Israel’s Cabinet approves proposal for 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank.
This is Israel breaking the ceasefire, violating international law, & forcibly & violently stealing land—all while having killed more than 1000 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank over last 2 years.
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This is Israel breaking the ceasefire, violating international law, & forcibly & violently stealing land—all while having killed more than 1000 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank over last 2 years.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
BREAKING: Israel’s Cabinet approves proposal for 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank.
This is Israel breaking the ceasefire, violating international law, & forcibly & violently stealing land—all while having killed more than 1000 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank over last 2 years.
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This is Israel breaking the ceasefire, violating international law, & forcibly & violently stealing land—all while having killed more than 1000 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank over last 2 years.
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The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
Government of pedophiles. They're all tainted with this for the rest of their lives.
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
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They don't care that the cover-ups are clumsy. Their goal isn't to take over the news, it's to destroy it. To destroy our sense-making capacity. To destroy truth.
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
They don't care that the cover-ups are clumsy. Their goal isn't to take over the news, it's to destroy it. To destroy our sense-making capacity. To destroy truth.
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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Why would you use a horrific atrocity to tone police an unrelated protest movement? Whats the positive thing that can come out of this discourse? Are we saying anti genocide protestors are, in fact, Islamic state? That Palestinian rhetoric is illegitimate? If so let’s say it with our whole chest
I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology.
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
December 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Why would you use a horrific atrocity to tone police an unrelated protest movement? Whats the positive thing that can come out of this discourse? Are we saying anti genocide protestors are, in fact, Islamic state? That Palestinian rhetoric is illegitimate? If so let’s say it with our whole chest
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Is it odd that the police are vowing to arrest people for something they have been explicitly told is not a criminal offence? Well, even the political editor at the Times thinks it’s an eyebrow-raiser, which should indicate something weird is happening.
Amazing scenes, nothing at all dubious is happening here, as you can clearly see.
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Is it odd that the police are vowing to arrest people for something they have been explicitly told is not a criminal offence? Well, even the political editor at the Times thinks it’s an eyebrow-raiser, which should indicate something weird is happening.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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we need to conduct a clinical trial with hundreds of house fires to determine if house fires are actually bad for people before we can say for sure whether or not that's what killed him
1. In Alaska, the right wing govt handpicked doctors to the Medical Board to ban trans youth care.
A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn.
The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased.
Our latest wild story.
A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn.
The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased.
Our latest wild story.
Anti-Trans Alaskan State Medical Board Doctor Charged With CSAM, Home Goes Up In Flames
Last week Dr. Ryan McDonough was arrested on ten counts of possession of child sexual abuse material. Over the weekend, his family home went up in flames.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
we need to conduct a clinical trial with hundreds of house fires to determine if house fires are actually bad for people before we can say for sure whether or not that's what killed him
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Have you noticed the blanket coverage in mainstream media of those eight peaceful protesters currently starving to death in British jails having been incarcerated without trial for more than a year?
December 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Have you noticed the blanket coverage in mainstream media of those eight peaceful protesters currently starving to death in British jails having been incarcerated without trial for more than a year?
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
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“All political commentary this decade” has been about ignoring this, pretending that the system is delivering and this isn’t happening while creating a whole series of terrifying hobgoblins and bugbears for the public to fear and hate.
December 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“All political commentary this decade” has been about ignoring this, pretending that the system is delivering and this isn’t happening while creating a whole series of terrifying hobgoblins and bugbears for the public to fear and hate.
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The lads have bullshat themselves into a position where they have to stick to the story, no matter what, forever. Not one step backwards about any of this, not one admission of error or guilt, until everyone who was involved is retired or dead.
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The lads have bullshat themselves into a position where they have to stick to the story, no matter what, forever. Not one step backwards about any of this, not one admission of error or guilt, until everyone who was involved is retired or dead.
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All this and: what does it say about the upper class, our politics and media, if it was common knowledge this man was a Nazi for most of his life, and yet that was no impediment at all to his personal advancement and national promotion? Has, if anything. greatly enhanced his appeal within the system
It’s not him being a teenage Nazi that’s the issue here: it’s that he’s still one now, he has been throughout and his politics are those of the racist, fascist far right. The difference between him and e.g. Griffin is that Farage knows where the line is and that he should push at it, not cross it.
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
All this and: what does it say about the upper class, our politics and media, if it was common knowledge this man was a Nazi for most of his life, and yet that was no impediment at all to his personal advancement and national promotion? Has, if anything. greatly enhanced his appeal within the system
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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Jeremy Corbyn and Sian Berry SLAM Digital ID plans in commons debate
YouTube video by No Justice
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December 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM