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Holly Hundreds @hollyhundreds.bsky.social · 48m

Ive sat in on DV response training courses 4 cops & they spent the whole time shooting spitballs at the ceiling, making jokes about abusing their own spouses, arguing w the presenter in a "less a question more a comment" way, & the women bragging they were even harder on hysterical victims than men

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 18h

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18h

This is maybe my least pro-market position: the good thing about drinking in a pub is there is an adult who can cut you off, something which cannot happen when you are drinking alone with the booze you bought at Tesco.

Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 18h

Should go further and tax supermarket beer at a higher rate than at the moment- raises revenue, targets the biggest source of binge drinking and might help get people back into pubs.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 19h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 23h

i'm telling you, they want to make him New Jesus, and that's going to include 'jews killed him'

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23h

The fact that Charlie Kirk was apparently complaining about facing pressure from Jewish donors in the days leading up to his murder is really not going to be good for the Jews.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h

A Turning Point spokesman confirmed that Charlie Kirk's texts about Jewish donors are real.

"I'm not even gonna get into what the stereotypes are."

@willsommer.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social talk Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, and Israel:

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

It's finally happened, in the latest story (archiveofourown.org/works/72116466 - kudos comment subscribe etc) I have finally Jumped the Shark, I have made the Sanguinary Utnapishtim. This story inspired by recent events in the US military circles.

The Logistician's War

Header: logisticians at work, by Ciaraíoch.

When death came for Abnu Šimé Katoguar, it found him curled in a ball, deliriously repeating his cult’s mantra with his final breath—“hut… hut… hut...” History would record this as the Battle of Gírzu, a tale of heroic Pactsmen defeating heretical fanatics in the Cult of the Operator. In places with a large Loxatl population, Gírzutide would even become a children’s holiday, its plays portraying Šimé as a buffoonish villain, gleefully vowing absurd over-the-top evils: “MWHAHAHA! Now I can bring peace and love to the entire galaxy!”, and the like.

But in truth, his end was pathetic—a broken man barely able to lift his gun, his final breath dissolving into the freezing air just as his soul vanished into the warp. How had it gone so wrong?

Having achieved the rank of Katoguar, Abnu Šimé had been reassigned from the front lines to a desk job on Atrahasis Prime. There he'd found religion and narcotics. With synthetic clarity, he became certain that Khorne was speaking to him directly — and that the Blood God had chosen him to revive the Empire.

Like many born on recently conquered worlds, Šimé despised the Sanguinary Utnapishtim being a multi-species empire. His bitterness deepened when a Loxatl rival won the promotion to Sirdar rank Šimé coveted. When he complained, colleagues replied with data proving that integration raised the integrated Empire’s Murder-Per-Moment ratio—evidence, they said, that Khorne cared not whence the blood flowed. Šimé simply took this as proof that logistical reasoning itself was the problem.

He founded the Cult of the Operator under the guise of a fight club—an innocent-looking after-work brawl circle. But in secret, Šimé preached his gospel: that the Empire’s logisticians and xenos-sympathisers were conspiring to weaken humanity, denying each warrior’s divine right to embody perfect violence. Only by purging the Loxatl could mankind reclaim Khorne’s special favour. The cult’s ultimate plan—the “Operation”—was simple: detonate a stolen thermonuclear device in Ālumušṭuru, the largest Loxatl population centre in the system.

At first, everything went smoothly. The Operators hijacked a transport ship carrying a decommissioned warhead and landed at Gírzu, the nearest void-port outside Ālumušṭuru’s defences. They simply needed to drive the bomb a few miles into the city.

Then their fuel didn’t work. The local grade was incompatible with their stolen vehicle, and, lacking appropriate boots to traverse the terrain, they could not carry the warhead by hand. Trapped in Gírzu, they searched for alternatives as an ice storm swept in. Lacking winter-wear or appropriate accommodation, Operators began dying of the cold.

Three days later, marines from the S.U.N. vessel Lamented Dawn tracked the cult to Gírzu—by tracing the serial numbers of the aviator sunglasses the Operators wore religiously. The squad stormed the “compound” and made short work of the frostbitten survivors.

Abnu Šimé Katoguar was shot by a warm, well-fed, marine of average skill, who later enjoyed a distinguished career in the Office for Ceremonial Calculations as Assistant Deputy Sub-Prefect for Skull-Stack Audits.

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EXEGESIS FREAK @cryptotheism.bsky.social · 18h

The great razor of now and coming leftist politics will be "What no coherent theory of race does to a mfer." Many YouTuber types suffering from severe Fanon malnourishment.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 20h

Instead of making silly AI stuff our spiritual-political battleground du jour, I propose instead that we bring back Sun-oriented civic religion in the Egyptian or Inca vein. Solar panel instillation is worship. It is abomination for a tyrant to deny the Sun's gifts; hubris to stare at the eclipse.

Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 2d

the fact that there's an energy source responsible for life on earth that will just keep stably emitting tons of energy for another five billion years and that the most powerful country in the world has an administration that wants to wholly reject harnessing it is crazy

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 20h

a young Luke, disillusioned with his father's domineering and brutal government, seeks out the man who lead the first organized resistance against it, hoping to fan the flames of rebellion

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 20h

Alternate trilogy where Dooku and Yoda both end up on Dagobah squabbling about ideology and philosophy like a pair of bitchy old people at the senior home and Luke shows up like wtf. Yoda says "Teach you in the ways of the Force, I will. Ignore my former Padawan roommate, you should. Suck, he does."

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Brad Ewing @bradleyewing.bsky.social · 21h

self described communist who is really a libertarian is a surprisingly common kind of person online

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Numbers Fuckstein’s Monster @drwalpurgisnacht.bsky.social · 20h

I wasn't aware until now that Carrot Top was a real person! I thought that was another name for Alfred E. Newman.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 20h

lol this rules this is like an adult swim show

"Big news in the world of show business," Metaxas began the first episode. "Harrison Ford will be returning for a fifth Indiana Jones movie. Yeah. In this one Harrison will find an ancient artifact ….. by looking in the mirror."
There were a few titters from the audience, and scattered applause. Metaxas, appearing nervous, continued with the one-liners:
"Barbie's longtime companion, Ken, just turned 61 years old. Yeah. And he said the perfect gift for his birthday would be to finally get a prostate."
This time there were some audible groans.
Metaxas stuck at it.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Nick Derington @nickderington.bsky.social · 28d

There came a time when the old gods died! The brave died with cunning! The noble perished, locked in battle with unleashed evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!

-Jack Kirby
"The New Gods - Epilogue"

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 1d

Basically it is not in many ways a fun time to be young. Stuff is expensive and there are limited opportunities. Most people (rightly!) blame the people who have been in government for the last 14 years for this.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. Ultimately what works for integration is a fair and dynamic labour market, faith schools under the national curriculum and proper inspection, and in the end people mostly make the right choices for themselves.

Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 1d

Anglo "live & let live" integration is demonstrably more successful than French style "aggressive assimilationism" at producing integrated societies, and has been proven to do so in multiple Anglo jurisdictions in (literally) multiple hemispheres! But these people want the thing with worse outcomes!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

The invective that Daisley hurls at Muslims he would have hurled at my great-grandparents when they came here and indeed much of it is still true of the ethnic group he slobbers over. 'Aggressive integration policies' do not work in France and would diminish Jewish life here in the UK.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 1d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 22h

Today in historical hot takes: a well-supported argument that the straight punch was invented in early-modern Venice and likely didn't exist before that. hemamisfits.com/2025/10/05/a...

A paucity of punches: why was punching so rare in pre-modern martial arts

by Maxime Chouinard To most people, punching seems like one of the most natural ways of fighting when unarmed. Most movies will show protagonists and villains alike dealing numerous punches, and kn…

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 23h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Wintzards of the Coast @drilmagic.bsky.social · 1d

Ravenous Baboons: having to spell the word "lunch" instead of saying it so the boys don't get too excited

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