Red Dog
@red-dog.xyz
Professional curmudgeon, lover of film, music, comics, politics, books, RPGs and just about everything else.
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A website, of sorts: https://www.red-dog.xyz/
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A website, of sorts: https://www.red-dog.xyz/
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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Tackling waste is good, but without also addressing transport issues for anyone wanting to access NHS services, refugee or otherwise, this is nothing more than performative cruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis - BBC News
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Tackling waste is good, but without also addressing transport issues for anyone wanting to access NHS services, refugee or otherwise, this is nothing more than performative cruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
Tackling waste is good, but without also addressing transport issues for anyone wanting to access NHS services, refugee or otherwise, this is nothing more than performative cruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis - BBC News
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Tackling waste is good, but without also addressing transport issues for anyone wanting to access NHS services, refugee or otherwise, this is nothing more than performative cruelty
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They really are just waiting for their Reichstag fire moment, aren't they?
BBC News - US halts all asylum claim decisions in wake of National Guard shooting
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - US halts all asylum claim decisions in wake of National Guard shooting
www.bbc.com/news/article...
US halts all asylum claim decisions in wake of National Guard shooting
The directive comes hours after President Trump said the US will pause migration from "third-world countries".
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
They really are just waiting for their Reichstag fire moment, aren't they?
BBC News - US halts all asylum claim decisions in wake of National Guard shooting
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - US halts all asylum claim decisions in wake of National Guard shooting
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming. I focus on my dreamwatcher machine, making minute adjustments in all five dimensions.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming. I focus on my dreamwatcher machine, making minute adjustments in all five dimensions.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
Bazball is all well and good, but what is the point of liking Test cricket when the team you support steadfastly refuse to play it?
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Bazball is all well and good, but what is the point of liking Test cricket when the team you support steadfastly refuse to play it?
Not sure I'm a big fan of the new Bluesky logo (or favicon or whatever it is) going all 2015 with its dinky little drop shadow
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Not sure I'm a big fan of the new Bluesky logo (or favicon or whatever it is) going all 2015 with its dinky little drop shadow
Just watched Playdate, an Amazon film. Dumb, but fun, although I'm left with two thoughts:
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just watched Playdate, an Amazon film. Dumb, but fun, although I'm left with two thoughts:
Just watched Playdate, an Amazon film. Dumb, but fun, although I'm left with two thoughts:
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just watched Playdate, an Amazon film. Dumb, but fun, although I'm left with two thoughts:
Just watched Playdate, an Amazon film. Dumb, but fun, although I'm left with two thoughts:
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Just watched Playdate, an Amazon film. Dumb, but fun, although I'm left with two thoughts:
Finally Nathan Gill makes it to the top of the news feed. Who wants to bet that "attack by an Afghan migrant in Nuneaton" will be the main front page story for the Right wing press tomorrow though..?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes - BBC News
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a "grave betrayal" of the electorate's trust and inflicted "profound harm".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Finally Nathan Gill makes it to the top of the news feed. Who wants to bet that "attack by an Afghan migrant in Nuneaton" will be the main front page story for the Right wing press tomorrow though..?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years
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NEW | The Daily Telegraph, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and some very weird Winnie the Pooh fan fiction...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...
The Daily Telegraph, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and some very weird Winnie the Pooh fan fiction...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
NEW | The Daily Telegraph, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and some very weird Winnie the Pooh fan fiction...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...
Look, I think people are being unfair here to Sam Altman - Tyler Cowen clearly said he was asking the "stupidest question", so what else was he supposed to do but give the stupidest answer...?
It's not the feet of clay need to look out for, but the brains of clay...
It's not the feet of clay need to look out for, but the brains of clay...
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Look, I think people are being unfair here to Sam Altman - Tyler Cowen clearly said he was asking the "stupidest question", so what else was he supposed to do but give the stupidest answer...?
It's not the feet of clay need to look out for, but the brains of clay...
It's not the feet of clay need to look out for, but the brains of clay...
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One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
"He said Mr Burke was entitled to his religious beliefs but not to his own reality" 👏
"The judge described this as the "grotesque behaviour" of a teacher putting his own "ridiculous sense of himself" above the needs of pupils. He said Mr Burke was willing to sacrifice the pupils of the school on the altar of his fanatical campaign against transgenderism." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
High Court orders Enoch Burke be imprisoned immediately
The High Court has said that Enoch Burke and his family have engaged in the most deliberate, sustained and concerted attack on the civil courts and the rule of law in this country in recent times and ...
www.rte.ie
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"He said Mr Burke was entitled to his religious beliefs but not to his own reality" 👏
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GM Submissions now open for GROGMEET 26 thegrognardfiles.com/grogmeet-2026/
GROGMEET January 2026 - The GROGNARD Files
9th - 10th January, 2026 Face-to-face GROGMEET in Manchester Patreon Tickets go on sale 21st November. General Admission 28th November. GM submissions are open. Including - THUNDERPHASE! Live and unle...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Anybody able to tell me who this person is and how they've managed to block me twice in two days?
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Anybody able to tell me who this person is and how they've managed to block me twice in two days?
John's not wrong
Still the coolest.
Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/nflmjN6
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
John's not wrong
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New poster I designed for a Brandalism campaign in support of MakeAmazonPay.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
New poster I designed for a Brandalism campaign in support of MakeAmazonPay.com
Ro has a point
At the end of the day, the vast majority Labour MPs have been absolutely fine with people being burned alive in tents, shot whilst queuing for meagre food aid, being denied energy and clean water, kids being shot in the genitals as sport and wounded children in ambulances being hit by 335 rounds.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Ro has a point
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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The Labour leadership must be so proud they've got the Daily Fail onside against their own party
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The Labour leadership must be so proud they've got the Daily Fail onside against their own party
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There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
From 2022:
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.