Armin Tamzarian
@kinell23.bsky.social
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ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.
Two Americas.
Two Americas.
January 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.
Two Americas.
Two Americas.
I had to look up 2003 releases as I'm old, but GTA Vice City is head and shoulders above everything else
Quote this with your favourite game NOW that was released in 2003, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations*/early access count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
*('03 was the NA release of Wind Waker)
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations*/early access count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
*('03 was the NA release of Wind Waker)
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
December 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I had to look up 2003 releases as I'm old, but GTA Vice City is head and shoulders above everything else
Great thread, thanks for starting it. Especially on a day when so many will be wound up by petty gripes IRL
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Great thread, thanks for starting it. Especially on a day when so many will be wound up by petty gripes IRL
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They don’t even look like this any more but I don’t care I’m reposting it again 9 years on
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
They don’t even look like this any more but I don’t care I’m reposting it again 9 years on
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I think this is my favourite. It's certainly the one that pops into my head the most
This was a beloved friend's favorite Larson cartoon. I remember him whenever I see it.
I have cat-loving friends who always write CAT FUD for cat food.
I have cat-loving friends who always write CAT FUD for cat food.
December 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I think this is my favourite. It's certainly the one that pops into my head the most
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Quote post a Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF.
Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LoTR or Marvel
Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LoTR or Marvel
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Quote post a Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF.
Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LoTR or Marvel
Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LoTR or Marvel
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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A chart from "The British General Election of 2024" (out soon!) which is relevant to this debate - here's what voters wanted (black line) and what they though Labour (red) and Cons (blue) would do on tax and spend during the campaign. Higher figures = "put them up". Some important lessons here 1/?
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A chart from "The British General Election of 2024" (out soon!) which is relevant to this debate - here's what voters wanted (black line) and what they though Labour (red) and Cons (blue) would do on tax and spend during the campaign. Higher figures = "put them up". Some important lessons here 1/?
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I think Michael Rosen nailed it
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I think Michael Rosen nailed it
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"While public concern often focuses on youth violence, today, a man aged 31 to 50 is more likely to be admitted to hospital with a violence-related injury than a boy aged 11 to 17."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
London: safer than ever. Because we all need reminding of good news!
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
London: safer than ever. Because we all need reminding of good news!
‘Lawless London’ is safer than it’s been in decades
Official data suggests the capital may be safer than at any time in the past half century, comfortably beating other major cities
observer.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"While public concern often focuses on youth violence, today, a man aged 31 to 50 is more likely to be admitted to hospital with a violence-related injury than a boy aged 11 to 17."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
London: safer than ever. Because we all need reminding of good news!
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
London: safer than ever. Because we all need reminding of good news!
Sounds like a Fall album to me!
“Kardashian Synthetic Pubic Hair Thong” sounds like the words to a Disney song sung by an witch casting a magic spell
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Sounds like a Fall album to me!
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Fabulous cover of Kate Bush’s Army Dreamers that crossed my timeline today (and really made me think about the lyrics). I particularly like the way the chorus is handled by two ‘arguing’ voices
youtu.be/VxbMKIttjTQ?...
youtu.be/VxbMKIttjTQ?...
SYSTIR - Army Dreamers (Kate Bush)
YouTube video by The Anúna Collective
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Fabulous cover of Kate Bush’s Army Dreamers that crossed my timeline today (and really made me think about the lyrics). I particularly like the way the chorus is handled by two ‘arguing’ voices
youtu.be/VxbMKIttjTQ?...
youtu.be/VxbMKIttjTQ?...
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The obvious point here, which doesn't seem to have occurred to Jenrick, is that there has been a long history of white people moving out of ethnically mixed neighbourhoods. Refusing to integrate, if you will.
Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The obvious point here, which doesn't seem to have occurred to Jenrick, is that there has been a long history of white people moving out of ethnically mixed neighbourhoods. Refusing to integrate, if you will.
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looking forward to subjecting @hugorifkind.bsky.social on Times Radio at 12.15 to my spiel about how to protect your phone if some thieving shit snatches it. Basically: lock your sim card, require unlock for sensitive apps including email, require unlock to read notifications, turn on anti-theft.
October 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
looking forward to subjecting @hugorifkind.bsky.social on Times Radio at 12.15 to my spiel about how to protect your phone if some thieving shit snatches it. Basically: lock your sim card, require unlock for sensitive apps including email, require unlock to read notifications, turn on anti-theft.
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People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
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Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
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I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.
September 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.
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It’s the politicisation of the midlife crisis and I’m only half joking. Loneliness, divorce, redundancy/not getting the deference they feel is due at work, loss of power + seeing that decline reflected in your town. What’s more startling in a way is the over-50 female reform shift
September 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It’s the politicisation of the midlife crisis and I’m only half joking. Loneliness, divorce, redundancy/not getting the deference they feel is due at work, loss of power + seeing that decline reflected in your town. What’s more startling in a way is the over-50 female reform shift
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The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.
Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
September 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.