Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47)
@halftongue.bsky.social
Opinionated heterochromic homosexual hemiglossic. He/him. Cis. Soyboy. Views my own. Tolerance is a social contract; if you're intolerant I don't have to tolerate you. No LGB without the TQ+. Sine homines gaudere rebus. #BLM No hands but ours 👍👎.
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I'm going to collect my "scenes subverting dumb genre tropes" posts here.
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Hell yes! That's the way!
December 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Hell yes! That's the way!
I'm having one of those "Did I change universes without noticing?" moments.
I could have sworn that Mark Williams (Father Brown on Father Brown, Rory's dad on Doctor Who) had died some years ago. But apparently he's still alive and starring on Father Brown.
Weirded out, but glad to be wrong.
I could have sworn that Mark Williams (Father Brown on Father Brown, Rory's dad on Doctor Who) had died some years ago. But apparently he's still alive and starring on Father Brown.
Weirded out, but glad to be wrong.
December 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I'm having one of those "Did I change universes without noticing?" moments.
I could have sworn that Mark Williams (Father Brown on Father Brown, Rory's dad on Doctor Who) had died some years ago. But apparently he's still alive and starring on Father Brown.
Weirded out, but glad to be wrong.
I could have sworn that Mark Williams (Father Brown on Father Brown, Rory's dad on Doctor Who) had died some years ago. But apparently he's still alive and starring on Father Brown.
Weirded out, but glad to be wrong.
#DeportStephenMiller to Belarus. I'm sure he'd be happy there for the rest of his life, or for a couple of weeks, whichever is shorter.
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#DeportStephenMiller to Belarus. I'm sure he'd be happy there for the rest of his life, or for a couple of weeks, whichever is shorter.
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If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
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Mark Kelly: "They are not silencing me. I'm still speaking out. I still am going to do my job every single day regardless of whether this president wants to kill me, hang me, execute me, or shut me up. I'm not gonna shut up."
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Mark Kelly: "They are not silencing me. I'm still speaking out. I still am going to do my job every single day regardless of whether this president wants to kill me, hang me, execute me, or shut me up. I'm not gonna shut up."
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That's really the only reason fifa is playing this, it's for the tourist fleece.
FIFA just made up some shit medal so he wouldn’t ICE agent soccer players.
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
That's really the only reason fifa is playing this, it's for the tourist fleece.
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multiple people should go to prison for this
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
multiple people should go to prison for this
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Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
I get this but plenty of people had been calling all the strikes murder and it hadn't broken through. This revelation did and put even Republicans on the defensive and willing to do some oversignt. My sense is that any crack the regime's implacability is a foothold.
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
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I just can’t believe Doctor Who would do something like that.
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I just can’t believe Doctor Who would do something like that.
If they rule against birthright citizenship for immigrants, with some spurious argument that 14A was intended to give citizenship to former slaves (or some other BS), doesn't it become law, regardless of what any reasonable reading says?
The whole Trump process is based on Who's Going To Stop Them.
The whole Trump process is based on Who's Going To Stop Them.
Counterpoint:
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
If they rule against birthright citizenship for immigrants, with some spurious argument that 14A was intended to give citizenship to former slaves (or some other BS), doesn't it become law, regardless of what any reasonable reading says?
The whole Trump process is based on Who's Going To Stop Them.
The whole Trump process is based on Who's Going To Stop Them.
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The 2028 Dem nominee for POTUS really needs an old school fire-and-brimstone anti-corruption platform
from top to bottom all of these guys treat the united states government as a neat toy they can show off to their friends and use to impress girls
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
lol
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel is using the FBI to serve as an Uber for his girlfriend's drunk pals.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The 2028 Dem nominee for POTUS really needs an old school fire-and-brimstone anti-corruption platform
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bring back shame
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
bring back shame
As several comments point out, there's no reason to believe *anything* about this case, since all the information comes from Trump's wholly-corrupt DOJ.
👀👀👀👀
About time. Curious to see who this was, and if it’s a Republican, how quickly they get pardoned
About time. Curious to see who this was, and if it’s a Republican, how quickly they get pardoned
Suspect arrested in Jan. 6 pipe bomb case
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
As several comments point out, there's no reason to believe *anything* about this case, since all the information comes from Trump's wholly-corrupt DOJ.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.
May 29, 2024 at 10:55 PM
A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.
A relief: the captions on BritBox disappeared because my Roku needed to be reset.
I was NOT looking forward to watching Shetland without captions!
😂
I was NOT looking forward to watching Shetland without captions!
😂
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A relief: the captions on BritBox disappeared because my Roku needed to be reset.
I was NOT looking forward to watching Shetland without captions!
😂
I was NOT looking forward to watching Shetland without captions!
😂
Saw the doctor. Nurse said "Blood pressure like a teenager!"
I've apparently lost 20 pounds since September.
I've apparently lost 20 pounds since September.
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Saw the doctor. Nurse said "Blood pressure like a teenager!"
I've apparently lost 20 pounds since September.
I've apparently lost 20 pounds since September.
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Also, complain long and loud, when GenAI screws up your interaction with a company - obtaining/using their products, contacting customer service, whatever. Do this direct and on social media. Employees may well be unable to push back against directives to use this garbage without risking their jobs.
This!
You DON’T HAVE TO USE IT!
It’s so easy NOT to use it.
They can’t force us to use it.
stop rolling over & saying “Well, you just have to get used to it. You can’t stop it”… how’d that work for <insert absolute garbage tech or even any insidious, violent movement (like the NF or N*zis) here>?
You DON’T HAVE TO USE IT!
It’s so easy NOT to use it.
They can’t force us to use it.
stop rolling over & saying “Well, you just have to get used to it. You can’t stop it”… how’d that work for <insert absolute garbage tech or even any insidious, violent movement (like the NF or N*zis) here>?
ALL you have to do is just not use it, tell these companies you aren't using it, and make fun of people who do. We need a mass collective effort to make genAI extremely uncool, lame, embarrassing, cringe. Everyone needs to react to it with a MOUNTAIN of hostility until they run out of steam.
December 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Also, complain long and loud, when GenAI screws up your interaction with a company - obtaining/using their products, contacting customer service, whatever. Do this direct and on social media. Employees may well be unable to push back against directives to use this garbage without risking their jobs.
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"OK," I said to myself, "Since I've climbed up to the cupboard with the specialty flours, let's see how much of it is expired."
Some of it expired in 2007 (don't panic, that was a thing I hadn't tried to use in even longer than that).
I guess it's been a while.
Some of it expired in 2007 (don't panic, that was a thing I hadn't tried to use in even longer than that).
I guess it's been a while.
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"OK," I said to myself, "Since I've climbed up to the cupboard with the specialty flours, let's see how much of it is expired."
Some of it expired in 2007 (don't panic, that was a thing I hadn't tried to use in even longer than that).
I guess it's been a while.
Some of it expired in 2007 (don't panic, that was a thing I hadn't tried to use in even longer than that).
I guess it's been a while.
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Gather 'round, younguns, and I'll tell you of a time when will-they-or-won't-they relationship dramas were also totally all about the protagonists fucking.
The year was 1994. The movie? "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
The year was 1994. The movie? "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Gather 'round, younguns, and I'll tell you of a time when will-they-or-won't-they relationship dramas were also totally all about the protagonists fucking.
The year was 1994. The movie? "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
The year was 1994. The movie? "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
TIL that "space ghetto" said in an American accent sounds exactly like "spice girl" in a Glaswegian accent.
According to a comedian on @qi.com, anyway.
According to a comedian on @qi.com, anyway.
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
TIL that "space ghetto" said in an American accent sounds exactly like "spice girl" in a Glaswegian accent.
According to a comedian on @qi.com, anyway.
According to a comedian on @qi.com, anyway.
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.