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Hannah Shaw-Williams
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Weekend editor at /Film and CAT ENTHUSIAST 👍
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I’m guessing this drove the decision:
Girlguiding faces legal action from parent over trans policy Charity is accused of failing to follow Supreme Court ruling on gender; leaving girls 'exposed to harassment' • NEWI 6r0 A Brownie uniform and badges. Girlguiding's policy permits boys who identify as girls to join the organisation ALAMY Girlguiding is facing legal action from a parent over its transgender policy which she claims discriminates against her seven-year-old daughter. The claimant, who has asked to remain anonymous to protect her daughter's identity, has alleged in a pre-action letter to Girlguiding that the organisation's policy "exposes girls to harassment".
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Marx loved the bourgeoisie, here he is writing about how the bourgeoisie improve everything and bring the whole world together in peace and harmony.
The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate.
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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…Marx was very, very famously opposed to child labour. He compared child labour to making child sacrifices to Moloch. That passage is specifically criticising the Gotha Program for advocating child labour.
measure. Through their most notorious organs of science, such as Dr. Ure, Professor Senior, and other sages of that stamp, the middle class had predicted, and to their heart's content proved, that any legal restriction of the hours of labor must sound the death knell of British industry, which, vampirelike, could but live by sucking blood, and children's blood, too. In olden times, child murder was a mysterious rite of the religion of Moloch, but it was practiced on some very solemn occassions only, once a year perhaps, and then Moloch had no exclusive bias for the children of the poor.
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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…did you read this before linking to it?
Whence arose the illusions of the monetary system? To it gold and silver, when serving as money, did not represent a social relation between producers, but were natural objects with strange social properties. And modern economy, which looks down with such disdain on the monetary system, does not its superstition come out as clear as noon-day, whenever it treats of capital? How long is it since economy discarded the physiocratic illusion, that rents grow out of the soil and not out of society?
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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erm

have *you* read marx?
Excerpt from the Communist Manifesto: Finally, when all capital, all production, all exchange have been brought together in the hands of the nation, private property will disappear of its own accord, money will become superfluous, and production will so expand and man so change that society will be able to slough off whatever of its old economic habits may remain.
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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If you make all the doors in this hallway open outwards you've got yourself a Saw trap.
A tiny hallway with five doors so that there's more door than wall
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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oh that's what happened to my toiletries bag
A woman wearing a floral dress that consumes the upper half of her body
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It's Bluesky's AI automod. Any photo with a bra in it gets flagged as sexually suggestive. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A topless man with his hands behind his back and a score of 19% next to him A man wearing a bra with a score of 97% next to him.
December 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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My muse ❤️
Brush pen drawing of Tim Robinson reacting to a quirky clock chime in The Chair Company
November 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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👀
A sketchy figure with a large protrusion
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Discovered a new animal. Had a breakdown. Bon appetit.
Pen sketches of bush dogs wearing ties with the title Reservoir Bush Dogs
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Sam Richardson shrugging in a beautiful park in I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Sam Richardson shrugging in a beautiful park in I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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This hand is very relatable
An arm ending in an angry scribble
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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One of my personal favourites is “Michelangelo vs. Hands”
A sketch page with drawings by Michelangelo of clasped hands, the absolute worst thing you could ever possibly have to draw. He’s doing his best but there are some weird fingers in there.
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Bonus perk: if you emigrate you don’t have to repay your student loan.
Article excerpt: Between the 2018-19 and 2023-24 financial years, the SLC took no legal action against any overseas borrowers, according to an FOI request submitted earlier this year. Between 2005 and 2017, the SLC raised legal proceedings against debtors living overseas just 12 times, a separate FOI request indicated. Countries where action was taken include Australia, Spain and Poland. In response to a FOI request, a spokesman for the SLC said: "Legal proceedings against overseas borrowers are costly and need to be considered in the context of value for money for the UK taxpayer, ensuring the costs of action do not exceed the likely recovery value, which for overseas borrowers is a key consideration." Source: https://archive.is/lUvlf
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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In the UK schoolkids are taught about World War II/The Holocaust over and over and over again (it's the one war where we were the good guys so they really milk it).

Here's a little history factoid that they always forgot to mention:
1277 English caricature titled 'Aaron the son of the Devil' with the contextual information: "This image includes one of the earliest English depictions of the Jewish badge – the piece of yellow taffeta, six fingers long and three broad, cut to represent the shape of the tabula (stone) that recorded the Ten Commandments. The badge was first introduced in England by Pope Honorius III’s orders following the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, but it was only after the Statute of Jewry c. 1275 that it had to be worn in England by every Jew aged over the age of seven."
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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"I hope this email finds you well."

How the email finds me:
Charlie in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia spewing blood from his mouth and saying "I think I've been poisoned by my constituents."
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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I'm guessing the fifth agent recognized her from TV. Otherwise it could have been a different story.
When the men did not believe Miles’ tribal ID, she pointed to a phone number for the Umatilla Tribal enrollment office on the back of the card. “Call it,” she said. When they didn’t, she took out her phone to call the office herself, but the agents tried unsuccessfully to take her phone, she said. That’s when a fifth agent in the SUV whistled over, and the agents went back to their vehicles and left.
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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An article from 2011 (still before the first movie came out) mentions the books being "savaged on the blogosphere" for the similarities.
Even more pronounced are the similarities between “The Hunger Games” and “Battle Royale,” a Japanese novel published in 1999. Each book involves young people selected at random and pitted against one another in a game of survival staged by tyrannical authorities. The parallels are striking enough that Collins’s work has been savaged on the blogosphere as a baldfaced ripoff. The authors share an interest in the mechanisms of state control, but their agendas clearly diverge. “Battle Royale” is a more deliberate study of adolescence, its coming-of-age savageries and posturings. “You’ve become quite a stud,” a dying girl tells the classmate who cradles her in his arms. When it was published, “Battle Royale” played into Japan’s fears about a rise in youth violence; Collins’s heroes are, if anything, models of responsibility. When I asked Collins if she had drawn from “Battle Royale,” she was unperturbed. “I had never heard of that book or that author until my book was turned in. At that point, it was mentioned to me, and I asked my editor if I should read it. He said: ‘No, I don’t want that world in your head. Just continue with what you’re doing.’ ” She has yet to read the book or to see the movie. Source: https://archive.is/AU1RH#selection-4667.171-4667.1384
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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His "book critics never noticed this!" claim is obviously not based on actually reading any of the book reviews. Literally the first review I found of the first Hunger Games book, published back in 2008:
The concept of the book isn’t particu­larly original — a nearly identical premise is explored in “Battle Royale,” a won­drously gruesome Japanese novel that has been spun off into a popular manga series. Source: https://archive.is/gimoe#selection-649.0-649.203
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Forſooth!
A painting of some jolly chaps having a medieval melée
November 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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AP ❌
Chicago ❌
Ferengi ✅
Quark, a Ferengi from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, with the caption "Females..."
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Ah, the classic closed loop system
Tom in Succession says “Yeah, it was... Yeah. It was pretty wild. It's cool though, 'cause it's like I didn't cheat, cause all the sperm stayed in my own body. Like a closed loop system. So...”
November 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM