Phil
@piplodocus.bsky.social
The most cultured person Jon Madsen knows.
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There’s no going back now because the lying and fearmongering has been so total, so pervasive, repeated by everyone who matters, that nobody can ever admit any of it was wrong or misleading. Because that would be tantamount to admitting almost all of it was malicious bullshit.
December 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
There’s no going back now because the lying and fearmongering has been so total, so pervasive, repeated by everyone who matters, that nobody can ever admit any of it was wrong or misleading. Because that would be tantamount to admitting almost all of it was malicious bullshit.
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What changed? Well, a shit ton of money was ploughed into propaganda and in the mid-2010s, British wingnuts realised that all-channels terrified screeching about Palestinian solidarity would protect their horrible political projects from the left. And cranks all over the world were watching closely.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
What changed? Well, a shit ton of money was ploughed into propaganda and in the mid-2010s, British wingnuts realised that all-channels terrified screeching about Palestinian solidarity would protect their horrible political projects from the left. And cranks all over the world were watching closely.
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Prestige British TV drama in 2011. Try to imagine what would happen to anyone who tried to put a drama about the creation of Israel on TV now, with scenes showing soldiers committing atrocities. The US President would sanction Channel Four www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
TV review: The Promise, You Don't Know Jack and Storyville: American Idol – Reagan
Straight to the messy heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict – without shouty agitprop, writes John Crace
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Prestige British TV drama in 2011. Try to imagine what would happen to anyone who tried to put a drama about the creation of Israel on TV now, with scenes showing soldiers committing atrocities. The US President would sanction Channel Four www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Front page of the Independent in July 2006 here, and this was by no means unusual: standard normie opinion then was that Tony was a dangerously crazy true believer who was embroiling Britain in more war crimes.
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Front page of the Independent in July 2006 here, and this was by no means unusual: standard normie opinion then was that Tony was a dangerously crazy true believer who was embroiling Britain in more war crimes.
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Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas.
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’
Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at risk
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas.
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The FT notes that delusional claims about London from Trump, Musk and others are having a reputational impact.
The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC
The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The FT notes that delusional claims about London from Trump, Musk and others are having a reputational impact.
The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC
The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC
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December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
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my “yes, even the empty margins of our files are redacted” t-shirt answers a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
my “yes, even the empty margins of our files are redacted” t-shirt answers a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
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In Nov, I visited E #DRC to investigate acts by Islamic State-linked #ADF. 40+ victims (men, women, children) spoke of abductions, killings, sexual violence, forced labor.
My @amnesty.org OpEd on ADF’s #warcrimes, need for UNSC/others to do more to protect civilians.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
My @amnesty.org OpEd on ADF’s #warcrimes, need for UNSC/others to do more to protect civilians.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
“Tell everyone we are being massacred”: overlooked war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), across a vast swathe of mountainous terrain, a conflict is raging that the world has forgotten. The Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State-linked...
www.amnesty.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In Nov, I visited E #DRC to investigate acts by Islamic State-linked #ADF. 40+ victims (men, women, children) spoke of abductions, killings, sexual violence, forced labor.
My @amnesty.org OpEd on ADF’s #warcrimes, need for UNSC/others to do more to protect civilians.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
My @amnesty.org OpEd on ADF’s #warcrimes, need for UNSC/others to do more to protect civilians.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Just let people go for a piss, for Christ’s sake. Do you have any idea how insane it looks to have a cadre of mean-as-fuck official toilet monitors as your national equalities regulator.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Doubling down on effectively excluding trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Doubling down on effectively excluding trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said "things could be sorted out if there is goodwill and recognition that everybody has rights".
www.bbc.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just let people go for a piss, for Christ’s sake. Do you have any idea how insane it looks to have a cadre of mean-as-fuck official toilet monitors as your national equalities regulator.
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There won’t be any Netflix dramas about the British politics press collectively shitehousing the Labour Party into a weird and very nasty Norsefire flagsex criminal enterprise, with catastrophic consequences, but maybe there should be.
December 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
There won’t be any Netflix dramas about the British politics press collectively shitehousing the Labour Party into a weird and very nasty Norsefire flagsex criminal enterprise, with catastrophic consequences, but maybe there should be.
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With this latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the guns!!! :(
It's the guns!!! :(
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
With this latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the guns!!! :(
It's the guns!!! :(
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
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Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
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Very sustainable model!
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Very sustainable model!
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POTUS gave a convicted child sex abuser favorable treatment, and dangled the prospect of a pardon, so she would tell lies about if he was implicated in her crimes. That's not speculative or circumstantial, it's a cold hard proven fact, in and of itself more than enough to demand removal from office.
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
POTUS gave a convicted child sex abuser favorable treatment, and dangled the prospect of a pardon, so she would tell lies about if he was implicated in her crimes. That's not speculative or circumstantial, it's a cold hard proven fact, in and of itself more than enough to demand removal from office.
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Analysis of Fox News coverage preceding the Portland troop deployment reveals a misleading narrative.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Analysis of Fox News coverage preceding the Portland troop deployment reveals a misleading narrative.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
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like, why would any democrat compromise with the GOP right now? you have a once in a millennium upper hand. every member of trump’s admin who opened that file is complicit. go after them. open investigations. have hearings. say it on the news every night. do something other than roll over for once.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
like, why would any democrat compromise with the GOP right now? you have a once in a millennium upper hand. every member of trump’s admin who opened that file is complicit. go after them. open investigations. have hearings. say it on the news every night. do something other than roll over for once.
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every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
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Is social media to blame for teens’ mental health decline?
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Is social media to blame for teens’ mental health decline?
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
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1/ For the benefit of Lisa Nandy - I have transcribed this interview with Chief Superintendent Tom Joyce from West Midland's police, and SkyNews. Contrary to Lisa Nandy' spin, he is clear, the threat TO THE MACCABI TV FANS was not the primary driver for the ban
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
1/ For the benefit of Lisa Nandy - I have transcribed this interview with Chief Superintendent Tom Joyce from West Midland's police, and SkyNews. Contrary to Lisa Nandy' spin, he is clear, the threat TO THE MACCABI TV FANS was not the primary driver for the ban
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Sun Tzu once said, "when the enemy carves a path through your center and rolls up your flanks, this is expected and you should not read too much into it."
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Sun Tzu once said, "when the enemy carves a path through your center and rolls up your flanks, this is expected and you should not read too much into it."