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Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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The best description I ever heard of News Corp was from a Murdoch biographer who called it a kind of free-floating state television which various regimes could contract with to provide propaganda. The new CBS is actually lower than that, even.
A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview:

"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."
January 4, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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Season’s Greeting everyone.
December 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable.

Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate.

Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.
December 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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"The Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters" artbook (physical) is coming in 2026.
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I suspect this is true - the humanities will go back to being a status marker. Rich kids and the elect get to study Homer, but the middle class must settle for adjunct-taught mega-lectures before STEM classes.

A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It’s been a week since @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social ! I can’t believe it. What a fab show full of amazing people. Thank you all.
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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For the folk of the realm, that day was the beginning of the end.

For Conan, it was Thursday.
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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SpeedWitch
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.

The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Edinburgh bakery, Twelve Triangles
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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For Halloween this year, we asked animation historian @nonsenseisland.bsky.social to take a look at some of the most memorable vampires throughout animation history, so pour yourself a cup of blood and dive in!
www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-stud...
Cartoon Study: Great Cartoon Vampires In Animation History
For Halloween this year, we’re taking a look at some of the most memorable vampires throughout animation history, so pour yourself a cup of blood and dive in!
www.cartoonbrew.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Halloween Haunted House
October 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Nausicaä.
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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I’m not saying British fascists are the saddest fascists, but they get angry at sourdough and think sausages are a cultural battleground.
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM