G1ion
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It physically pains me this is the only Butthole Surfers song 99.9% of people who know about the Butthole Surfers have listened to.
I remember as a little kid listening to "Pepper" by the Butthole Surfers and thinking "I don't really understand what's going on in this song I bet it's messed up grown up stuff I'll understand later" and now I'm nearly 40 and still have no idea what the song is supposed to be about.
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It physically pains me this is the only Butthole Surfers song 99.9% of people who know about the Butthole Surfers have listened to.
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Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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"we should have screwed over all the locals we recruited to help us" should work out great next time we're in a conflict.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"we should have screwed over all the locals we recruited to help us" should work out great next time we're in a conflict.
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The Responsible Statecraft folks really like Trump's surrender plan for Ukraine and are really scared Europe might undermine it.
LIke this is blatantly dishonest:
"European leaders are offering public lip service to Trump’s efforts to end the war while maneuvering to sabotage any initiative that/
LIke this is blatantly dishonest:
"European leaders are offering public lip service to Trump’s efforts to end the war while maneuvering to sabotage any initiative that/
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Responsible Statecraft folks really like Trump's surrender plan for Ukraine and are really scared Europe might undermine it.
LIke this is blatantly dishonest:
"European leaders are offering public lip service to Trump’s efforts to end the war while maneuvering to sabotage any initiative that/
LIke this is blatantly dishonest:
"European leaders are offering public lip service to Trump’s efforts to end the war while maneuvering to sabotage any initiative that/
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Many people in Europe are skeptical about Russia's intentions to attack Europe. They believe that Putin (Russia) will be satisfied with just Ukraine. That is why even some politicians and intellectuals voice the call to "give Ukraine to Putin" and thus "save Europe."
This outlook is wrong.
This outlook is wrong.
September 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Many people in Europe are skeptical about Russia's intentions to attack Europe. They believe that Putin (Russia) will be satisfied with just Ukraine. That is why even some politicians and intellectuals voice the call to "give Ukraine to Putin" and thus "save Europe."
This outlook is wrong.
This outlook is wrong.
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It's pretty widely known that Russia uses outlawed chemical weapons in Ukraine: why wouldn't they, as they commit so many other war crimes?
But proving it was difficult.
Now a report which does that
Russia signed the treaty prohibiting chemical weapons
www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-skhem...
But proving it was difficult.
Now a report which does that
Russia signed the treaty prohibiting chemical weapons
www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-skhem...
«Схеми» встановили підрозділи РФ, які застосовують заборонену хімзброю проти українських військових
Зокрема, вони застосовують проти українських військових новітні газові гранати РГ-Во
www.radiosvoboda.org
September 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It's pretty widely known that Russia uses outlawed chemical weapons in Ukraine: why wouldn't they, as they commit so many other war crimes?
But proving it was difficult.
Now a report which does that
Russia signed the treaty prohibiting chemical weapons
www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-skhem...
But proving it was difficult.
Now a report which does that
Russia signed the treaty prohibiting chemical weapons
www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-skhem...
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Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
September 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
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The core problem is this, he doesn’t practice principled anti-imperialism. He practices inversionism: if the U.S. supports something, he reflexively takes the opposite side, no matter how brutal that side is, no matter the evidence.
What's wrong with Max Blumenthal?!
August 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The core problem is this, he doesn’t practice principled anti-imperialism. He practices inversionism: if the U.S. supports something, he reflexively takes the opposite side, no matter how brutal that side is, no matter the evidence.
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Ecologically illiterate, cruel and self-serving industry propaganda, channelled uncritically by the BBC. So much for informed reporting. So much for impartiality. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Big octopus catch by Newlyn boat 'does fishing industry a favour'
Crew members of a Cornwall beam trawler celebrate after the huge catch adds to a haul worth £158k.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ecologically illiterate, cruel and self-serving industry propaganda, channelled uncritically by the BBC. So much for informed reporting. So much for impartiality. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The EU just hit TikTok over transparency failures but still hasn't acted on X.
If Brussels wants the DSA to have teeth, it can't keep stalling.
My latest in The Strategist: www.aspistrategist.o...
If Brussels wants the DSA to have teeth, it can't keep stalling.
My latest in The Strategist: www.aspistrategist.o...
Regulating X isn’t censorship. It’s self-defence | The Strategist
In 2024, during the fiercely fought US presidential election campaign, current US Vice President JD Vance made an extraordinary ultimatum: if Europe wanted the United States to remain committed to NATO, it should stop regulating ...
www.aspistrategist.org.au
May 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The EU just hit TikTok over transparency failures but still hasn't acted on X.
If Brussels wants the DSA to have teeth, it can't keep stalling.
My latest in The Strategist: www.aspistrategist.o...
If Brussels wants the DSA to have teeth, it can't keep stalling.
My latest in The Strategist: www.aspistrategist.o...
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✊🇺🇦 390 Ukrainians have returned from Russian captivity — 270 military and 120 civilians.
This exchange is part of a larger exchange of 1,000 for 1,000.
This exchange is part of a larger exchange of 1,000 for 1,000.
May 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
✊🇺🇦 390 Ukrainians have returned from Russian captivity — 270 military and 120 civilians.
This exchange is part of a larger exchange of 1,000 for 1,000.
This exchange is part of a larger exchange of 1,000 for 1,000.
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DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened.
So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.
Thread
So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.
Thread
May 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened.
So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.
Thread
So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.
Thread
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A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”
March 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”
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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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I hear the lead author @fleroy1974.bsky.social likes to dunk on vegans over on "the other place" so please feel free to send this to him 😊
March 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I hear the lead author @fleroy1974.bsky.social likes to dunk on vegans over on "the other place" so please feel free to send this to him 😊
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Very much so.
BOAN scratches a lot of itches.
It means they can credit everything to a single film rather than go into the weeds of early cinema.
It re-centers the USA as the film innovation capital.
It makes them feel smart that they can "see past" the racism (assuming they are dupes)
BOAN scratches a lot of itches.
It means they can credit everything to a single film rather than go into the weeds of early cinema.
It re-centers the USA as the film innovation capital.
It makes them feel smart that they can "see past" the racism (assuming they are dupes)
February 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Very much so.
BOAN scratches a lot of itches.
It means they can credit everything to a single film rather than go into the weeds of early cinema.
It re-centers the USA as the film innovation capital.
It makes them feel smart that they can "see past" the racism (assuming they are dupes)
BOAN scratches a lot of itches.
It means they can credit everything to a single film rather than go into the weeds of early cinema.
It re-centers the USA as the film innovation capital.
It makes them feel smart that they can "see past" the racism (assuming they are dupes)
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And that's assuming the best, that they were mere dupes and not that they quietly agreed with the film's message.
I am begging people: watch other movies made before and after BOAN. It's a lot less impressive in context (and if you find its message repulsive)
I am begging people: watch other movies made before and after BOAN. It's a lot less impressive in context (and if you find its message repulsive)
February 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
And that's assuming the best, that they were mere dupes and not that they quietly agreed with the film's message.
I am begging people: watch other movies made before and after BOAN. It's a lot less impressive in context (and if you find its message repulsive)
I am begging people: watch other movies made before and after BOAN. It's a lot less impressive in context (and if you find its message repulsive)
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So my radical proposal, based on period protests against BOAN, is that we condemn harm to elephants AND humans.
(And there was very real harm. Racist violence followed in the wake of screenings. Klaverns popped up like mushrooms.)
www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...
(And there was very real harm. Racist violence followed in the wake of screenings. Klaverns popped up like mushrooms.)
www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...
The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915’s The Birth of a Nation, a fictional portrayal of the KKK’s founding rife with racist ...
www.hks.harvard.edu
February 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So my radical proposal, based on period protests against BOAN, is that we condemn harm to elephants AND humans.
(And there was very real harm. Racist violence followed in the wake of screenings. Klaverns popped up like mushrooms.)
www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...
(And there was very real harm. Racist violence followed in the wake of screenings. Klaverns popped up like mushrooms.)
www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...
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Here, Badenoch associates democracy, free markets, tolerance, free trade, & banking (!) with 'Western Civilisation'. The threats she identifies to this are: the left, progressivism, self-doubt, climate activism, human rights, BLM, immigration, weakness, & higher education. She's a bit odd.
🚨 NEW: Badenoch praises Trump and ‘populism’ in speech warning of civilisational threats
In her ARC speech, Badenoch took aim at DEI, mass migration, “taking the knee” and claimed “some cultures are better than others”
Write-up for @politics-co-uk.bsky.social 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/02...
In her ARC speech, Badenoch took aim at DEI, mass migration, “taking the knee” and claimed “some cultures are better than others”
Write-up for @politics-co-uk.bsky.social 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/02...
Kemi Badenoch praises Trump and ‘populism’ in speech warning of civilisational threats - Politics.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch has warned that Western civilisation is in “crisis” as he praised US president Donald Trump and defended populism in a major speech. The Conservative Party leader addressed delegates at...
www.politics.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Here, Badenoch associates democracy, free markets, tolerance, free trade, & banking (!) with 'Western Civilisation'. The threats she identifies to this are: the left, progressivism, self-doubt, climate activism, human rights, BLM, immigration, weakness, & higher education. She's a bit odd.
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'LEAKED: Oil Execs and Trump Allies Attend Jordan Peterson’s ARC Conference
A list of attendees viewed by @desmog.bsky.social shows fossil fuel companies represented alongside major religious right groups at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship event.'
www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...
A list of attendees viewed by @desmog.bsky.social shows fossil fuel companies represented alongside major religious right groups at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship event.'
www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...
LEAKED: Oil Execs and Trump Allies Attend Jordan Peterson’s ARC Conference
Executives from some of the world’s biggest oil and gas firms are listed as attendees at a conservative conference in London whose keynote speakers include the leader of the Heritage Foundation – the ...
www.desmog.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
'LEAKED: Oil Execs and Trump Allies Attend Jordan Peterson’s ARC Conference
A list of attendees viewed by @desmog.bsky.social shows fossil fuel companies represented alongside major religious right groups at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship event.'
www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...
A list of attendees viewed by @desmog.bsky.social shows fossil fuel companies represented alongside major religious right groups at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship event.'
www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...
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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal and Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets at ARC Conference
The Trump appointee and fossil fuel executive called the transition to renewable energy “lunacy” at an event packed with climate deniers.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social 👇
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal and Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets at ARC Conference
The Trump appointee and fossil fuel executive called the transition to renewable energy “lunacy” at an event packed with climate deniers.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social 👇
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal and Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets at ARC Conference
Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people. Chris Wrigh...
www.desmog.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🔴 NEW 🔴
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal and Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets at ARC Conference
The Trump appointee and fossil fuel executive called the transition to renewable energy “lunacy” at an event packed with climate deniers.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social 👇
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal and Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets at ARC Conference
The Trump appointee and fossil fuel executive called the transition to renewable energy “lunacy” at an event packed with climate deniers.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social 👇
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Lisa Germano – Geek the Girl (30th Anniversary Special Edition)
Available on Crystal Clear 2xLP
Remastered and expanded includes ‘The Mirror Is Gone’ and ‘Inconsiderate Bitch’ EP 💽
Out April 12th on vinyl, CD & digital out 23 May
Available on Crystal Clear 2xLP
Remastered and expanded includes ‘The Mirror Is Gone’ and ‘Inconsiderate Bitch’ EP 💽
Out April 12th on vinyl, CD & digital out 23 May
February 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Lisa Germano – Geek the Girl (30th Anniversary Special Edition)
Available on Crystal Clear 2xLP
Remastered and expanded includes ‘The Mirror Is Gone’ and ‘Inconsiderate Bitch’ EP 💽
Out April 12th on vinyl, CD & digital out 23 May
Available on Crystal Clear 2xLP
Remastered and expanded includes ‘The Mirror Is Gone’ and ‘Inconsiderate Bitch’ EP 💽
Out April 12th on vinyl, CD & digital out 23 May
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This is Rupert Murdoch's Wallstreet Journal…
Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”
Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is Rupert Murdoch's Wallstreet Journal…
Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”
Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”