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I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
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If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
🧵
September 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
🧵
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
🧵
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
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See also: the immediate rise of hand-wringing about birth rates following the repeal of Roe v Wade.
May 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
See also: the immediate rise of hand-wringing about birth rates following the repeal of Roe v Wade.
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Fun fact: innovations (or “innovations“) in productivity and efficiency never actually cut down on working hours. They only massively boost the expectations put on workers with regards to what they are expected to be able to achieve during those hours.
See: when personal computers became common.
See: when personal computers became common.
There it is again… the same flying-car, robots-will-do-the-hard-stuff, technology’s-just-a-tool bullshit they’ve been feeding us since the 1950s
If you think companies will give us a 2 day work week instead of forcing us to more than double our output over 5 days, or pay us a lot less, then you don’t understand capitalism.
March 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Fun fact: innovations (or “innovations“) in productivity and efficiency never actually cut down on working hours. They only massively boost the expectations put on workers with regards to what they are expected to be able to achieve during those hours.
See: when personal computers became common.
See: when personal computers became common.
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It is actually so fucking annoying when people tell me “it’s too late to solve climate change” as if a) all 8 billion people on this planet are about to drop dead and b) if we oriented the economy around need instead of profit we wouldn’t be able to get things under a reasonable level of control
March 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It is actually so fucking annoying when people tell me “it’s too late to solve climate change” as if a) all 8 billion people on this planet are about to drop dead and b) if we oriented the economy around need instead of profit we wouldn’t be able to get things under a reasonable level of control
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
February 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
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I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.
January 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.
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I wanted a better-quality video with better subtitles, so I took the time to make one.
January 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I wanted a better-quality video with better subtitles, so I took the time to make one.
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I actually want a social revolution that will render the sex difference culturally irrelevant, but I will settle for fewer tradwives as a start.
January 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I actually want a social revolution that will render the sex difference culturally irrelevant, but I will settle for fewer tradwives as a start.
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Creating a whole scene isn’t really minor, especially when it was creating work an artist could’ve provided for them, probably at a not-astronomical cost. Indie filmmakers know that when you don’t have the money for something, you don’t put it in the movie.
January 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Creating a whole scene isn’t really minor, especially when it was creating work an artist could’ve provided for them, probably at a not-astronomical cost. Indie filmmakers know that when you don’t have the money for something, you don’t put it in the movie.
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Can we stop pretending that South Yorks Police shit the bed in Rotherham because of "political correctness", rather than because they're fucking incompetent, but decided to blame it on "political correctness"? When have the cops in the UK ever shown themselves to be scared of being seen as racist?
You can have far right politics in power with having nominally far right parties in power
Labour's actions and discourse are a very good reminder of this
And if you think this is how you defeat the far right, you haven't been paying attention for the past 40 years
Labour's actions and discourse are a very good reminder of this
And if you think this is how you defeat the far right, you haven't been paying attention for the past 40 years
January 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can we stop pretending that South Yorks Police shit the bed in Rotherham because of "political correctness", rather than because they're fucking incompetent, but decided to blame it on "political correctness"? When have the cops in the UK ever shown themselves to be scared of being seen as racist?
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"...certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have made and frequented such a temple."
H.P. Lovecraft, 'The Nameless City'
H.P. Lovecraft, 'The Nameless City'
November 16, 2024 at 5:34 PM
"...certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have made and frequented such a temple."
H.P. Lovecraft, 'The Nameless City'
H.P. Lovecraft, 'The Nameless City'
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The BBC is in civil war over Israel and Palestine.
BBC journalists are in revolt over what they call "systematic Israeli propaganda" churned out by the Corporation.
My exclusive investigative piece for @dropsitenews.com 👇
www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...
BBC journalists are in revolt over what they call "systematic Israeli propaganda" churned out by the Corporation.
My exclusive investigative piece for @dropsitenews.com 👇
www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...
The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza
The BBC is facing an internal revolt over its reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza. Owen Jones investigates.
www.dropsitenews.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:41 PM
The BBC is in civil war over Israel and Palestine.
BBC journalists are in revolt over what they call "systematic Israeli propaganda" churned out by the Corporation.
My exclusive investigative piece for @dropsitenews.com 👇
www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...
BBC journalists are in revolt over what they call "systematic Israeli propaganda" churned out by the Corporation.
My exclusive investigative piece for @dropsitenews.com 👇
www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...
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Why do I bother trying to analyse anything when it's just so obvious why things are going so wrong...
November 24, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Why do I bother trying to analyse anything when it's just so obvious why things are going so wrong...
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Having trouble remembering which axis is which? No problemo, just consult this handy guide!
November 14, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Having trouble remembering which axis is which? No problemo, just consult this handy guide!
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the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century
this is exactly why i still buy discs in 2023. it's crazy to think that we are reaching a point where piracy will be the only option to own media once dvds and blu-rays are gone.
December 2, 2023 at 1:29 PM
the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century
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I took this shot years ago of local stunt pilots who practice here occasionally. The crow was as on his way over to my deck for peanuts and photobombed the shot. 😂 🌿🪶
September 27, 2023 at 10:28 PM
I took this shot years ago of local stunt pilots who practice here occasionally. The crow was as on his way over to my deck for peanuts and photobombed the shot. 😂 🌿🪶
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so I was provoked into writing a response to the ridiculous "What Is a Woman?" question. it's a 5 min read, no-paywall link, please share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so other folks on Medium see it! juliaserano.medium.com/what-is-a-wo...
What Is a Woman? (a response)
Last month, I received an invitation to participate in a public debate about “gender and the definition of what it means to be a woman.”…
juliaserano.medium.com
September 27, 2023 at 7:02 PM
so I was provoked into writing a response to the ridiculous "What Is a Woman?" question. it's a 5 min read, no-paywall link, please share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so other folks on Medium see it! juliaserano.medium.com/what-is-a-wo...
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From @authorsguild.bsky.social: all fiction writers are covered by the suit to the extent that it turns out their works were used to train GPT. AG is collecting names of those affected but you can’t add names once the suit is filed. Please consider joining the Authors Guild.
Anyone know how you join the class action lawsuit?
These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech
Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.
www.theatlantic.com
September 26, 2023 at 7:15 AM
From @authorsguild.bsky.social: all fiction writers are covered by the suit to the extent that it turns out their works were used to train GPT. AG is collecting names of those affected but you can’t add names once the suit is filed. Please consider joining the Authors Guild.