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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 14h

They’ve programmed it with the demeanour of an unctuous creep who is haughtily disdainful behind your back.

Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 18h

Is it not the moment when an electron switches from behaving like a wave to a particle, metaphorically a kind of unknowable transformative moment?

My quantum physics is a little rusty, though.

Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 1d

I might pay if you did my ironing and I didn’t have to actually watch.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 2d

He is wrong. Racism is not intent, it is action.

No one cares what you think. We care about what you say and do. If what you say and do is racist, you are a racist, regardless of what goes on in your head.

Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 2d

After the fifth pint or so I have no problem at all.

Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 4d

Most people would end up having the same amount of money. Very poor people would have a bit more, but I don’t think they really drive inflation.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 6d

I think that’s fine I do the same when I am playing Civ or something like X Com.

It’s more like scanning Instagram while watching a movie. I’m not one to point fingers but I am doing a bit of unsubtle side-eye at my wife.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 7d

Or “they meant” - sorry, shouldn’t assume gender’!

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 7d

I assumed he meant death notices, which you can send in and pay for like a classified ad.

Which is an odd idea, on reflection - there’s Aunty Mavis remembered in amongst the old wardrobe for sale and singles ads.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 8d

Hard agree! These people have never worked for a big corporation, in particular.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 12d

Ah yes. The words that marked my entry to middle age were “Would you like me to trim your eyebrows?”

I resisted for a year or two but one day had to concede that it was for the best.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 12d

I like the way this one gets cut off

A screen shot from the Guardian, the headline says “Three neo-Nazis jailed for plotting terror attacks on UK mosques and synagogues”. The subhead is cut off and reads: “Group of ‘like-minded extremists’ styled after the SS and amassed arse.”

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 18d

What the actual fuck?

Quite apart from the fact that she’s a ridiculous empty vessel who deserves nothing but scorn, she was rejected by the electorate at the last election and has no role to play in the public discourse.

Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 18d

This was so good, H-Bomb (7) was in a kind of transcendent bliss the whole time, dutifully scribbling along. Here is a page from his comic:

A Bunny vs Monkey comic drawn by a young fan.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 19d

Ignorance is bliss, it really is!

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 20d

Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein is quite illuminating on this topic. (As well as being a really good book in many other respects.)

I would also recommend Fascist Yoga by Stewart Home, which provides a bit of the historical background - it didn’t happen overnight!

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 20d

Let the punishment fit the crime!

Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 20d

Doesn’t matter what you think, it’s happening so put your best knee forward.

Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 21d

Rich dad bought his spoiled kids all the gimmicky shit they ever asked for.

“I want a big drill that burrows in the ground!”

“Yeah sure, here you go - The Mole.”

Seriously, it’s like they were all designed by six year olds - look at T2, that thing would never fly!

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 22d

God they are stupid - it would quickly be made up by house price inflation as the market overheated and chiefly benefit the landlord class.

I am an old fashioned lefty, but I yearn for the return of a sensible right wing.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 23d

This is exactly the kind of panicky word jumble I’d come out with if challenged. You’re going to have to do better than that to throw her off the scent.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 27d

I agree, but it does sort of depend. There are times when choosing a side will be consequential and we need the courage to stand up for our convictions.

I am of course talking about recent developments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 27d

I have older kids in their 20s and my experience suggests that you are, indeed, doing them a favour.

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Miwantok @miwantok.bsky.social · 27d

If hell is 96 hours of golf on the radio then Heironymous Bosch was WAY off.