Olly B
@ollybain.bsky.social
Lefty, Antiracist, Antifascist, NOT a fan of brexit. Occasionally sweary. Keen on walking up mountains and such. Known to play the odd video game.
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The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering?
"Fly you fuckers!"
"Fly you fuckers!"
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering?
Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the fucking earth!
Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the fucking earth!
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering?
"No, my friends, you do not fucking bow for anyone.
"No, my friends, you do not fucking bow for anyone.
December 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering?
"Fly you fuckers!"
"Fly you fuckers!"
Christmas night movie time.
December 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Christmas night movie time.
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Every capitalist is a mass murderer and should be treated as such
it's incredible to contemplate: these people don't have enough. they look at your rickety remaining safety nets -- maybe some employer provided health insurance, maybe even a 401k -- and they think: i need to get my greasy lips around those dregs and drink them dry too
December 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Every capitalist is a mass murderer and should be treated as such
December 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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This shit right here is what lead the BBC to it's current self-destruction.
'Field tests and experts say it works. Passing wanker says it doesn't. Guess we'll never know 🤷'
'Field tests and experts say it works. Passing wanker says it doesn't. Guess we'll never know 🤷'
December 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This shit right here is what lead the BBC to it's current self-destruction.
'Field tests and experts say it works. Passing wanker says it doesn't. Guess we'll never know 🤷'
'Field tests and experts say it works. Passing wanker says it doesn't. Guess we'll never know 🤷'
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SFWA is doing a survey on LLM use in the industry. You don't need to be a member to submit. Writers/artists/humans need all the advocates we can get, and I hope we can encourage SFWA to take a strong stance. www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...
SFWA Survey on LLM Use in Industry - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Thank you for participating in this survey. The data collected here is preliminary, not definitive, but it will help to […]
www.sfwa.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
SFWA is doing a survey on LLM use in the industry. You don't need to be a member to submit. Writers/artists/humans need all the advocates we can get, and I hope we can encourage SFWA to take a strong stance. www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...
If there’s one thing you can guarantee Labour will listen too, & alter their plans for, it’s the endless tantrums of the rich.
December 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If there’s one thing you can guarantee Labour will listen too, & alter their plans for, it’s the endless tantrums of the rich.
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The craven cowardice of butchering one of Labour‘s better policies in order to please wealthy landholders and right-wing outrage merchants who‘ll never vote for them anyway. Claiming this is to help the farming community is bullshit, it‘s to make the right-wing press shut up for five minutes.
Inheritance tax for farmers to kick in at £2.5m, not £1m as planned, in government U-turn to help farming community - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
December 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The craven cowardice of butchering one of Labour‘s better policies in order to please wealthy landholders and right-wing outrage merchants who‘ll never vote for them anyway. Claiming this is to help the farming community is bullshit, it‘s to make the right-wing press shut up for five minutes.
I haven’t pre-ordered a movie that quick since Godzilla Minus One came out..
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I haven’t pre-ordered a movie that quick since Godzilla Minus One came out..
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This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
Today House Republicans voted 216-211 to pass MTG’s bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors nationwide, marking the first time a national ban on care for trans youth has reached — and passed — the House floor.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Bill Punishing Doctors And Parents Clears House Floor
If passed, the bill would punish doctors and parents who provide or consent to a minor receiving gender-affirming care.
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
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The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
House passes bill to criminalize transition care for minors
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related medical care
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
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If you tell your voters over and over that you hate them and repeatedly emphasise that you oppose their politics and are working to destroy them, replacing them with the horrific politics of a different electoral bloc, then those people will stop voting for you. The end.
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
If you tell your voters over and over that you hate them and repeatedly emphasise that you oppose their politics and are working to destroy them, replacing them with the horrific politics of a different electoral bloc, then those people will stop voting for you. The end.
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When the electorate perceives both major parties as frauds who have far more in common with each other than with the public, is that… wrong
December 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
When the electorate perceives both major parties as frauds who have far more in common with each other than with the public, is that… wrong
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Don't steal pies this Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Don't steal pies this Christmas.
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No one who has ever used the term "cultural erasure" has ever meant anything more complicated or less racist than "get rid of the brown people".
December 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
No one who has ever used the term "cultural erasure" has ever meant anything more complicated or less racist than "get rid of the brown people".
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Our political class has for decades been repeatedly presented with a choice between calming down and being honest, or stamping on the accelerator and smashing through by whatever means are necessary. They have pretty much always chosen the latter. You can see what that would mean, in this case.
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Our political class has for decades been repeatedly presented with a choice between calming down and being honest, or stamping on the accelerator and smashing through by whatever means are necessary. They have pretty much always chosen the latter. You can see what that would mean, in this case.
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the problem for transphobes is that at this point nearly everyone has met or at least interacted with a trans person and figured out that they're just people trying to live their lives. this is why they want to ban trans people from existing in public at all costs
11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.
Hello. I’m a “same-sex attracted person” (loathe that description of my sexuality) & I support Trans rights, like the majority of female “same sex attracted people”.
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
December 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
the problem for transphobes is that at this point nearly everyone has met or at least interacted with a trans person and figured out that they're just people trying to live their lives. this is why they want to ban trans people from existing in public at all costs
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
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I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
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Wow! I'm beginning to feel like the law is an entirely pretextual excuse for mass deanonymization and censorship, governmental control over what ideas its citizenry is able to access, and the isolation of multiple vulnerable groups of teenagers from their sole supports!
December 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Wow! I'm beginning to feel like the law is an entirely pretextual excuse for mass deanonymization and censorship, governmental control over what ideas its citizenry is able to access, and the isolation of multiple vulnerable groups of teenagers from their sole supports!
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Oh wait, that's because it was conceived and written by adults who are very angry they can no longer treat their children as their property and laundered into popular support by a bunch of useful-idiot stooges who fell for the dumbest moral panic since the nonexistent tunnels under a daycare center
December 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Oh wait, that's because it was conceived and written by adults who are very angry they can no longer treat their children as their property and laundered into popular support by a bunch of useful-idiot stooges who fell for the dumbest moral panic since the nonexistent tunnels under a daycare center
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
ReCalibri
They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway
Dr.eamer.dev
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇