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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 1d

Sidenote is it King Charleses, or Kings Charles? I can never remember

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 1d

Things are moving fast. 1 in 3 chance upgraded to 1 in 2. I'd be watching my back if I were him

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 1d

33.3% of King Charleses have been subjected to regicide, so it's not unthinkable

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 1d

I think that's the same point as the OP: we can do whatever we want with our books (I enjoy them both as objects and as reading material), but musn't pearl clutch when other people cover theirs in notes or tea stains, or tear them in half to make them easier to travel with. They're not sacred.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 2d

It's a trap. Suggest any alternative and you're being "too Utopian" and "pushing away moderate voters". There's no way to win without telling them they are great and brilliant and really quite handsome, actually

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 2d

All of this but also the collapse of the idea that you and I and all of our neighbours *deserve* good things and to live well and that we should build our politics and economy around that truth instead of around competition and perceived enemies. This has shifted dramatically in the last 20-25 years

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 2d

Gentlemen, this is justice manifest

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 5d

From what I've read (admittedly I only read this today and haven't fact checked) she's fairly pro-US, pro-Israel, and anti-socialist - and Trump championed her earlier in the year. Could this be, in part, a quiet concession to him? (I mean he'll still probably flip out)

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 9d

If the secret material existed surely they could just root out the offenders, prosecute them, and/or ban them from the organisation? If the stated aims of an organisation are legal, and the majority of members are faithful to those stated aims, proscription seems untenable

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 13d

A picture of Logan Roy from Succession with the caption "NRPI. No real person involved. It's nothing."

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 14d

Nobody rocks like *checks guitar* Conference!

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grilled cheese 🧀 @grilldcheese.bsky.social · 15d

i put a big sign on my bedroom door: "DEPARTMENT OF WAR
NO GIRLS ALLOWED"

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 16d

It's alarming how fast we have moved from "people can identify however they wish, we just want to protect women" to "the existence of trans people is an extremist ideology"

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 20d

"Diverse voices can counter it" no they can't Grok, the platform is designed to drown them out, whatever their numbers. That's one of many reasons why there is no merit to the argument that progressives, journalists, or public bodies should stay on Twitter/X

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 6

"The last three years have seen the de facto legalisation of racial abuse in online space. Elon Musk has turned Twitter/X into one of the most powerful amplifiers of racism we have ever seen"

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 26d

Yes, I'm sure they haven't been advertising it - or dozens of similar projects - thus far, which raises the interesting question, what's the strategic purpose of making an announcement?

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · 29d

Germany knows: "As we say in Germany, if there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you've got a table with 11 Nazis."

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · Sep 13

They're already on it. Of course.

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · Sep 12

To put it another way, shootings are almost exclusively a right-wing problem. But there are regular attempts in the media to associate such political violence with the left, a phenomenon which the piece above is contributing to

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · Sep 12

You've misunderstood what I'm saying. My point was not about her own political affiliation, but the fact that right wingers overwhelmingly agree with her publicly stated views. Therefore if any shooter is rw, as most are, they are unlikely to be targetting JKR next

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · Sep 12

Plus there's every possibility that the person who "got" Charlie Kirk is the kind of person who aligns with JKR's views, as the person who tried to "get" Trump likely was. This constant attempt to frame a mostly right-wing problem as symptomatic of "the intolerant left" is maddening

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · Sep 11

a man is sitting in a car with a group of women and says `` that 's bait . ''

ALT: a man is sitting in a car with a group of women and says `` that 's bait . ''

media.tenor.com

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · Sep 11

Absolutely love Americans thinking that cunt is a nuclear tier insult which will naturally devastate a British person, have they never heard us talk

Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · Sep 11

When I was growing up we had some friends from the wealthiest family we knew, big house, etc. I learned that when they went to private school (which none of the rest of us did), they were known as "the paupers"
Reminds me of Succession's "$5m will make you the poorest rich person in America" bit

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Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fuuuuuckinell. Surely Starmer can't hang on to him now. Surely?

Cristen @cristencaine.bsky.social · Sep 10

Authoritarianism: your record company's PR team saying "this might upset your fans"

Not authoritarianism: governments on both sides of the Atlantic shutting down access to healthcare, faciliities, and the freedom to openly exist, of a vulnerable minority group

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