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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 38m

"That's a lovely compliment ... I'll accept it" is one of the most psychopathic lines in any TV show ever and getting Toni Collette to deliver it is genius.

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English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social · 10h

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 12h

In Orbit THIS Wednesday!

Judge Dredd Megazine is 35 years old! @molcher.bsky.social and @cuntersthompson.bsky.social kick off the celebrations! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cz...

How does a comic last 35 years? – In Orbit Every Wednesday

YouTube video by 2000 AD

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 1d

Get weekly Thrill-powered listening: subscribe to IN ORBIT EVERY WEDNESDAY as Molch-R & KLO-E dive into 2000 AD, welcome special guests & more...
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English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social · 1d

War Becomes Inevitable ⚔️

Although the raising of the royal standard in Nottingham in August 1642 is seen as the start of the English Civil Wars, preparations for conflict had begun several months earlier.

📷: Levitt Parkes

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 1d

Another day, another ai enthusiast warning me I’ll get ‘left behind’ if I’m not careful. He makes the future of entertainment sound delightful

An ai arsehole tries to defend his use of ai

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English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social · 3d

When some of our members met Hacker T Dog in Wigan yesterday, they knew what had to be done…

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 1d

One if the best bits of feedback on 'I Am The Law' that I ever received was someone who told me they'd bought it for their dad as he was an arsehole and it would make him furious.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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Dr Sea Rotmann @drsearotmann.bsky.social · 2d

As a coral reef ecologist by training, this is the single-greatest heartbreak of my otherwise blessed life: the extinction of the greatest ecosystems on earth, in our lifetime, with full knowledge it would happen, because humans love fascism & tat more than life 💔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Michael VanCalbergh @mvcpoet.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning! Want to read a quick review about a book that has policing and Judge Dredd?

Of course you do!

A review of I Am the Law by @molcher.bsky.social

widely-read.ghost.io/books-of-our...

Books of Our Time: A Periodic Review of Books That Feel Extra Timely

I don’t know how any of us are reading right now, let alone getting up, drinking coffee, sighing deeply into the steam, and not going straight back to bed (if you are doing this, you’re my hero always...

widely-read.ghost.io

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 4d

That is ... bold.

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 5d

Saw it for the first time a couple months ago in a local cinema and it blew my mind. Genuinely can't stop thinking about it.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 25d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 7d

"Life ... not a growth market."

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 7d

There's a scene in THX-1138, in which THX visits a 'confession booth' where a machine provides empty platitudes.

I think about that an awful lot lately.

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 7d

So anything that alleviates that terror, anything that gives us the rush of creation without the fear of inadequacy ... And then when we're reliant on the thing that provides that, that's when they have built a monopoly on being able to live at all.

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 7d

I've been thinking a lot about how fear and grief affects the way a life is lived. Suspect we are so bombarded by messages highlighting our shortcomings that we live in a near-permanent state of terror over how we have "failed", how we have wasted our potential, our lives.

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 7d

"I use it, it's just a tool like Photoshop," is the refrain from people I know that has me biting virtually clean through my tongue.

No. It's emptying you.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 11d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Tufty McTavish @tuftymctavish.com · 8d

🔖 It turned into an epic reading project but I completed @molcher.bsky.social’s excellent “I Am The Law” tonight.

The reason for the long elapsed time was I kept going off to read a huge stack of #JudgeDredd: “The Complete Case Files” 🤗

👨‍🏫 #NonFictionBooks 💡📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
🦹‍♂️ #ComicBooks 📚 #ComicSky 🦋

A tall stack of “Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files” beside Michael Molcher’s “I Am The Law” stood up beside them on a table. The case files that I read are stacked flat and tower over the upright paperback beside them. A yellow bookmark sits in front of all the books to denote that they were read.

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 9d

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9d

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.

Rob Henderson © @robkhenderson • 11h
"the left has allowed itself to become shackled by unpopular luxury beliefs: abolishing the police, opening the borders, the corruption of female-only spaces. Everyone has gone mad...associated with the observable decline in literacy across the rich West"

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 9d

Give 'em time...

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English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social · 10d

We're still buzzing after our final event of the year – occupying the town of Newent in Gloucestershire for Newent Celebrates! What an amazing weekend, check out what we got up to here 👇👇👇
earlofmanchesters.co.uk/no-tears-all...

No tears, all fun as Newent Celebrated!

What an amazing end to our reenactment season – Newent Celebrates! may have ended up a bit wet but the only tears were those of our competition-winning onion eaters! Newent is a historic town in the h...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Apr 22

"A fascist society is one in which some people are deputized to do violence, and everyone else is forced to defend themselves. Those who have lived under an authoritarian regime know how it weakens collective self-defence." www.bostonreview.net/articles/mut...

Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism - Boston Review

As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.

www.bostonreview.net

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 10d

Haha yeah, at least Children of Dune is a manageable length 😂

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