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Matthew Bailey
@dabbermatt.bsky.social
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Covid was a Russian psyop to isolate us, get us all permanently online and then drive us insane with social media bullshit and right-wing podcasts. It has been a complete success. Change my mind.
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Ceaușescu vibes
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it
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After Boris Spassky became World Chess Champion, Mrs Spassky was heard to remark “Hrmph. He becomes world champion and thinks he knows the best place to keep the towels.”
I only now found the time to actually listen to @bartongellman.bsky.social's portray of Pieter Thiel and wonder whether the problem society has in dealing with "the tech bros" as we now call them is that we have portrayed "genius" very wrongly. /1
Speaking from the UK, I'd suggest "And no princes, either."
Not true! You forgot the petulant threats, empty boasts and lies.
The most underrated literary form is the German-language Novelle, and the best of them is Gottfried Keller's "Kleider machen Leute".
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
A fellow grad student once claimed he couldn’t deliver a paper to the university philosophy society as promised because the print area on the college printer was set wrongly, and until now that was the worst excuse I had ever heard for chickening out of something.
Agent Orange himself explains that the USA was humiliated in Vietnam because My Lai was woke or something.
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
Almost not allowed.
Trump: "We got sued by the Associated Press, and they lost. In fact, the judge was so good he said, 'He's calling it the Gulf of America. He's got all the approvals' ... they got thrown out of court. In fact, they're almost not allowed to cover me anymore because of that. It was a big hit."
BUT THE MILKSHAKES
Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform

Reform UK leader will claim in a speech today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists ⬇️
Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform
Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform
www.thetimes.com
Corporal Bonespurs thinks “strength” means using the world’s biggest military to murder innocent fishermen.
Trump brags to military leaders about his strikes on boats: "They don't want go fishing. I don't blame them. There will be no fishing today. It's amazing what strength will do."
The real story in this spectacular fraud is not the role of Bitcoin but the attempt to use the London property market to launder the proceeds. It was only thwarted by a tip-off.

Chinese woman convicted after 'world's biggest' bitcoin seizure www.bbc.com/news/article...
Chinese woman convicted in UK after 'world's biggest' bitcoin seizure
UK police seized crypto worth over £5bn from Zhimin Qian, who was known as 'the goddess of wealth'.
www.bbc.com
I expect the Nobel Committee are very impressed.
President Trump said the U.S. government had “knocked off” what he said was a total of three alleged drug smuggling boats, all apparently from Venezuela.

“We knocked off actually three boats, not two, but you saw two,” Trump told reporters.
Trump discloses U.S. targeted a third alleged drug boat from Venezuela
The president acknowledged the incident while delivering a warning to Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro.
www.washingtonpost.com
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FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting.

13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
'We're shutting this thing down': 8 shot at Minneapolis homeless encampment hosted by landlord, Frey pledges action
That shooting came less than 12 hours after another shooting just two miles away that left five others injured.
kstp.com
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no shooter has been caught and there is no mention of any help offered to other people on the street, even though it seems clear that they could be in grave danger
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There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"

= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment

Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
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Almost every extremist attempt to socialise violence - from Hitler to Rwanda, from Northern Ireland to Musk yesterday - sees extremists present as counter-extremists, to posit an existential threat & to propose political violence as necessary for community self-defence.

Musk offers a paradigm case
Oh great, my new washing machine is here, let me turn it on and see what AAAAARGH AAAAARGH AAAAAARGH