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Alexander Hay

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Writer of weird fiction. Querying away. Dank Goblin. NUJ member. That's definitely me in the profile photo. www.alexanderhay.co.uk https://alexanderhay.neocities.org/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1965-9764

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Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · Jul 22

Sigh. May as well jump on the bandwagon, but with my own spin. For every 'Like', I will post up a song and a reason why I think it slaps, as the young 'uns say.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 55m

Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.

This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 2h

Lads, I recently got informed that I should be wary of completely banning GenAI use in my classes in case I, by chance, penalized students inadvertently using it because it was embedded in their apps and programs.

When GenAI comes to Canvas, we are all so fecked.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 3h

Biden got punished for good fiscal and monetary policy.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 3h

The narcissism and vindictiveness of certain parties is, of course, why Ecclestone cashed in his sonic screwdriver.

Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 3h

Old Who, at its best, was TV written for clever children. Nu Who, at its worst, was TV written for dumb adults.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 19h

I doubt it's unhinged, but The Name of the Doctor obliterates and makes meaningless everything about the Ninth, and all out of snarky spite because Christopher Eccleston wouldn't come back, which he'd said from the beginning he wouldn't do.

it's pathetic and petty, both in-universe and out-.

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Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 3h

Given that every Doctor Who story arc since 'Bad Wolf' has been just 'Bad Wolf', remixed ad nauseum, you're not wrong. Shame it took everyone 20 years to realise RTD was just JNT with a reality distortion field.

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 3h

My unhinged Doctor Who opinion is that all dormant legacy IP, including Who, James Bond, Star Wars and many, many more should just not be resuscitated. People can create New Things. And New Things can be exciting, risky and messy. And all of which should be championed over endless regurgitation.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 5h

Following the announcement of YourParty, support for 'Others' in opinion polls increased from 3.7% to 6.0%. It has since dropped back to 3.7%, with the Greens seemingly gaining, reaching a peak of 10.7%.

electionmaps.uk/polling/vi

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 8h

“If AI products were a car or a new medicine, the impact would be tested and modelled before it was let loose on the community. But simply by being new, Big Tech seeks a free pass based on a trust that it hasn’t earned.”

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 7h

@peterjukes.bsky.social
This is extremely significant. Can you amplify it?

TACC @tacc.org.uk · 20h

Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.

tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...

Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...

tacc.org.uk

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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 22h

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 1d

love that this "resilience engineering" is basically: write things on paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told

Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

www.bbc.co.uk

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maga-crime-watch.bsky.social @maga-crime-watch.bsky.social · 8h

"Our way or the highway" is the only MAGA strategy. They don't want to govern; they want to rule.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 7h

“We’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we?”

Look Keira, the problem with is that the whole 'living together' thing has been made much easier for white cis women like you and me.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 17h

Plus a Dinosaur cameo.

Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 17h

Will the fools try to explain it away as 'not being serious' like they usually do.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 22h

Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."

MARK: So the capacity for great good and evil is inherent in everyone?
JACK: Of course. I was dating my wife at the time Hitler was coming on, and I did this editorial cartoon which showed Neville Chamberlain patting a boa con-strictor, and the boa had a bulge called Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain had just given Czechoslovakia to Hitler, okay.
And the boa had Hitler's mustache. I showed it to my boss at the syndicate and he says, "How dare a 19-year-old like you do a cartoon like that? What do you know?" I says "Well, I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness." And Hitler wanted more and more until there was a face-off.

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Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social · 17h

Can't watch the John Candy documentary because it's too said. May as well go back to the underground extreme metal, horror fiction, grimdark wargames and writing non-stop splatfests...

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El Ingobernable ... Better Knuckle Up 👊🏼 @ooooyeeeah.bsky.social · 1d

Ruby SoHo & "Cool Hand" Angelo Parker are opening up a board game themed cafe called "Victory Roll."

No confirmation on whether board games make Daddy Magic's nipples hard -- yet.

AEW stars to open ‘Victory Roll’ board game cafe in Mishawaka

MISHAWAKA, Ind. — AEW wrestlers Ruby SoHo and “Cool Hand” Angelo Parker, are part of an ownership group putting the finishing touches on their board game themed cafe, ‘Victory Roll’, before opening on...

www.abc57.com

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Mac McGill @maddmac.bsky.social · 23h

CRAZY TALK!!!

Er wait that actually makes sense.

If you had $1000 saved in the bank your proportionate cost for Bezos buying WaPo would be $1.13.

One dollar and thirteen cents.

For Musk buying Twitter is equivalent to you spending about $110 of the money you'd saved.

#NoMoreBillionaires

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23h

It's almost as if, hear me out now, MAGA billionaires like Jeff Bezos (WaPo) and Elon Musk (Twitter) purchased key properties in our public square not as business investments, but so that they could turn them into vectors of right wing propaganda.

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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve seen 21/38 films in Criterion Channel’s Hong Kong Action Classics. May not get through all of the unwatched titles, but I started with Sammo Hung’s Pedicab Driver.

It’s all over the place tonally: ribald farce, serious romantic drama, lessons on Respecting Women, friendship hijinks.

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