The Cranky Gremlin
@crankygremlin.bsky.social
This is not my professional account. This is where I get cranky about things. There are likely to be swear words. Views very much my own.
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"So much of the potency of the Epstein conspiracy is that it speaks to a core feeling for many that the alienation, stagnation, and fear they experience is all the result of a genuinely evil class of elites."
At what point does the penny drop that evil arrives on private jets, not small boats?
At what point does the penny drop that evil arrives on private jets, not small boats?
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
"So much of the potency of the Epstein conspiracy is that it speaks to a core feeling for many that the alienation, stagnation, and fear they experience is all the result of a genuinely evil class of elites."
At what point does the penny drop that evil arrives on private jets, not small boats?
At what point does the penny drop that evil arrives on private jets, not small boats?
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They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.
September 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.
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3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).
September 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).
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The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away
NEW: At least 2 people were being transported to a Denver-area hospital after a shooting involving an “active assailant” at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County, officials said Wednesday afternoon // Story by @katielang.bsky.social
Shooting, ‘active assailant’ reported at Evergreen High School
Jefferson County law enforcement are responding to an “active assailant” and shooting at Evergreen High School, officials said Wednesday afternoon.
www.denverpost.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."-Charlie Kirk in 2023, after 6 ppl (inc. 3 children) were shot & killed in a Nashville school
September 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."-Charlie Kirk in 2023, after 6 ppl (inc. 3 children) were shot & killed in a Nashville school
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Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
September 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
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The Guardian, in their write up of the reshuffle, completely omit mentioning that Tim Allen, new director of comms, was a Trustee for anti-trans hate group Sex Matters.
Instead he gets "Allan’s past colleagues describe him as charming and collegiate". Yikes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Instead he gets "Allan’s past colleagues describe him as charming and collegiate". Yikes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Downing Street shake-up: who’s in and who’s out at No 10
Departures and new hires expected to give PM more direct oversight of delivery of key government priorities
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Guardian, in their write up of the reshuffle, completely omit mentioning that Tim Allen, new director of comms, was a Trustee for anti-trans hate group Sex Matters.
Instead he gets "Allan’s past colleagues describe him as charming and collegiate". Yikes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Instead he gets "Allan’s past colleagues describe him as charming and collegiate". Yikes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This is how the Hostile Environment works btw. We've had it in the UK for 13 years. It loves exploitative employers and exploitative employers alone.
Another infuriating aspect of ICE roaming around D.C. that I hadn't thought about.
I just talked to a D.C. woman whose husband is undocumented and whose employer is refusing to pay him for work he's already done -- and threatening to call ICE if he keeps asking for the money he's owed.
I just talked to a D.C. woman whose husband is undocumented and whose employer is refusing to pay him for work he's already done -- and threatening to call ICE if he keeps asking for the money he's owed.
August 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is how the Hostile Environment works btw. We've had it in the UK for 13 years. It loves exploitative employers and exploitative employers alone.
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Actual Conservative front bench politicians are calling for the government to overturn a not guilty verdict returned by an independent jury in respect of a political rival.
Trump levels of partisan, anti-rule of law authoritarianism.
Trump levels of partisan, anti-rule of law authoritarianism.
August 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Actual Conservative front bench politicians are calling for the government to overturn a not guilty verdict returned by an independent jury in respect of a political rival.
Trump levels of partisan, anti-rule of law authoritarianism.
Trump levels of partisan, anti-rule of law authoritarianism.
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Totally agree with the point that the public should not be asked to confront shoplifters. But the thing we should be worried about are the forms of discrimination arising from legitimised vigilantism.
The real question we need to consider is who will be confronted if this were followed...
The real question we need to consider is who will be confronted if this were followed...
Our Tory police and crime commissioner should hang his head in shame.
No, the public should not be asked to confront criminals. It’s dangerous and irresponsible.
Please, if you’re witnessing a crime or the victim of one, call the police
No, the public should not be asked to confront criminals. It’s dangerous and irresponsible.
Please, if you’re witnessing a crime or the victim of one, call the police
August 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Totally agree with the point that the public should not be asked to confront shoplifters. But the thing we should be worried about are the forms of discrimination arising from legitimised vigilantism.
The real question we need to consider is who will be confronted if this were followed...
The real question we need to consider is who will be confronted if this were followed...
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BBC Radio 4 apologised for telling the truth
The BBC has apologised for Radio 4 broadcasting a critique of Robert Jenrick MP saying "I certainly don't want my daughters to live in a neighbourhood with men from a backward country" which said "these words echo a fear many people have - fear of a stranger .. the technical word is xenophobia"
August 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
BBC Radio 4 apologised for telling the truth
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With all respect, the Court will eventually overturn Obergefell. It may not be Kim Davis’s petition. But it will happen.
The conservatives will argue that there’s no history and tradition of same sex marriage. And they will rely on Glucksberg.
I have an article coming out tomorrow about this.
The conservatives will argue that there’s no history and tradition of same sex marriage. And they will rely on Glucksberg.
I have an article coming out tomorrow about this.
I urge everyone who is understandably disturbed by the petition news to consider how very unlikely it is for the Court to even take this up, much less reverse Obergefell. Unlike abortion, marriage opponents don’t have the same social movement that anti-abortion forces did, which was core to the GOP.
Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.
August 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
With all respect, the Court will eventually overturn Obergefell. It may not be Kim Davis’s petition. But it will happen.
The conservatives will argue that there’s no history and tradition of same sex marriage. And they will rely on Glucksberg.
I have an article coming out tomorrow about this.
The conservatives will argue that there’s no history and tradition of same sex marriage. And they will rely on Glucksberg.
I have an article coming out tomorrow about this.
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One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
August 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
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"This proposed guidance goes far beyond what the For Women Scotland judgment requires.
It amounts to a bathroom ban for trans people, violating people’s right to privacy in their everyday lives"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
It amounts to a bathroom ban for trans people, violating people’s right to privacy in their everyday lives"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Trans women to be banned from single-sex spaces under EHRC guidance
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has been criticised by trans rights campaigners for its response to the Supreme Court’s ruling
www.independent.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"This proposed guidance goes far beyond what the For Women Scotland judgment requires.
It amounts to a bathroom ban for trans people, violating people’s right to privacy in their everyday lives"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
It amounts to a bathroom ban for trans people, violating people’s right to privacy in their everyday lives"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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UK Govt rules:
- a women’s book club or exercise class welcoming trans women is illegal
- trans men can’t be anywhere. They can’t be in men’s spaces cause they’re not men. But they also can’t be in women’s spaces cause they might look like men
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
- a women’s book club or exercise class welcoming trans women is illegal
- trans men can’t be anywhere. They can’t be in men’s spaces cause they’re not men. But they also can’t be in women’s spaces cause they might look like men
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Trans women to be banned from single-sex spaces under EHRC guidance
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has been criticised by trans rights campaigners for its response to the Supreme Court’s ruling
www.independent.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
UK Govt rules:
- a women’s book club or exercise class welcoming trans women is illegal
- trans men can’t be anywhere. They can’t be in men’s spaces cause they’re not men. But they also can’t be in women’s spaces cause they might look like men
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
- a women’s book club or exercise class welcoming trans women is illegal
- trans men can’t be anywhere. They can’t be in men’s spaces cause they’re not men. But they also can’t be in women’s spaces cause they might look like men
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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A secret DWP report on disabled claimant suicides has finally been released
Thank God for Disability News Service and its perseverance in uncovering this suppressed DWP report - otherwise the public would be none the wiser.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Thank God for Disability News Service and its perseverance in uncovering this suppressed DWP report - otherwise the public would be none the wiser.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
A secret DWP report on disabled claimant suicides has finally been released
Thank God for Disability News Service and its perseverance in uncovering this suppressed DWP report. It exemplifies rigorous journalism.
www.thecanary.co
August 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A secret DWP report on disabled claimant suicides has finally been released
Thank God for Disability News Service and its perseverance in uncovering this suppressed DWP report - otherwise the public would be none the wiser.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Thank God for Disability News Service and its perseverance in uncovering this suppressed DWP report - otherwise the public would be none the wiser.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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Not one Al Jazeera journalist left…
All systematically murdered by a regime desperate to conceal the truth
And while many of their western counterparts and media figures (who are safe and salaried) choose silence and complicity.
All systematically murdered by a regime desperate to conceal the truth
And while many of their western counterparts and media figures (who are safe and salaried) choose silence and complicity.
August 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Not one Al Jazeera journalist left…
All systematically murdered by a regime desperate to conceal the truth
And while many of their western counterparts and media figures (who are safe and salaried) choose silence and complicity.
All systematically murdered by a regime desperate to conceal the truth
And while many of their western counterparts and media figures (who are safe and salaried) choose silence and complicity.
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Just two weeks ago, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for Anas Al-Sharif’s protection.
He was subject to repeated Israeli smears that were believed to be the precursor to his assassination.
The IDF have admitted they targeted him tonight. Because they know there will be no repercussions.
He was subject to repeated Israeli smears that were believed to be the precursor to his assassination.
The IDF have admitted they targeted him tonight. Because they know there will be no repercussions.
CPJ calls for Anas Al-Sharif’s protection in face of Israeli smears - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military ...
cpj.org
August 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Just two weeks ago, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for Anas Al-Sharif’s protection.
He was subject to repeated Israeli smears that were believed to be the precursor to his assassination.
The IDF have admitted they targeted him tonight. Because they know there will be no repercussions.
He was subject to repeated Israeli smears that were believed to be the precursor to his assassination.
The IDF have admitted they targeted him tonight. Because they know there will be no repercussions.
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Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him.
Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:
RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:
RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
August 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him.
Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:
RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:
RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
This gives me very simple joy
August 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This gives me very simple joy
Miliband is right *and* apparently the only major figure in the current government to have looked across the pond, decided that was bad, and determined that *not* doing what the Democrats did might in fact be a good shout.
Miliband is right and the sooner Labour dispenses with McSweeney the better. Attacking Farage by Starmer posturing like a Reform wannabe is an "interesting" strategy.
August 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Miliband is right *and* apparently the only major figure in the current government to have looked across the pond, decided that was bad, and determined that *not* doing what the Democrats did might in fact be a good shout.
I aspire to have such a fabulous gravestone.
A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.
Note the border inscription.
Note the border inscription.
August 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I aspire to have such a fabulous gravestone.
I will never not get a kick at how often modern evangelicals end up espousing heresies that would have gotten them burned the last time the religion they're trying to build a theocracy around had hard political power when they lecture people online.
August 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I will never not get a kick at how often modern evangelicals end up espousing heresies that would have gotten them burned the last time the religion they're trying to build a theocracy around had hard political power when they lecture people online.
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Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.
August 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.