Paul Gunning
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Burning bridges to light my way.
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Movie idea: EUROPOP DEMON HUNTERS.
Demons wish to bring Hell to Earth! A feisty pop group sings songs like "Una Paloma Blanca" and "The Birdy Song" to fool the diabolical army into believing that they've already won.
Demons wish to bring Hell to Earth! A feisty pop group sings songs like "Una Paloma Blanca" and "The Birdy Song" to fool the diabolical army into believing that they've already won.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Movie idea: EUROPOP DEMON HUNTERS.
Demons wish to bring Hell to Earth! A feisty pop group sings songs like "Una Paloma Blanca" and "The Birdy Song" to fool the diabolical army into believing that they've already won.
Demons wish to bring Hell to Earth! A feisty pop group sings songs like "Una Paloma Blanca" and "The Birdy Song" to fool the diabolical army into believing that they've already won.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
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This is one of the things that's often missing from online discussions of anti-capitalist theory. The question that actually determines our socioeconomic status and fate is this:
Do you live off what you're paid for your own labor, or off the profits you draw from the labor of others?
Do you live off what you're paid for your own labor, or off the profits you draw from the labor of others?
I can’t believe you idiots are still arguing with me about this. Idc what your job is paying you now, you still have to labor for your money. You’re working class.
All it takes is an unfortunate accident or illness for you to be in the poor house. Medical debt and fallout would cripple you. Stfu.
All it takes is an unfortunate accident or illness for you to be in the poor house. Medical debt and fallout would cripple you. Stfu.
All of you are poor. These hypothetical poor people everyone is discussing are us. We’re poor. Idc if you make 6 figures or not. You’re poor too.
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is one of the things that's often missing from online discussions of anti-capitalist theory. The question that actually determines our socioeconomic status and fate is this:
Do you live off what you're paid for your own labor, or off the profits you draw from the labor of others?
Do you live off what you're paid for your own labor, or off the profits you draw from the labor of others?
Not here, obviously. We've got enough problems
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Not here, obviously. We've got enough problems
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I've read enough cosmic horror to know where this particular combination of hobbies leads. Sad to see Gareth uncritically repeating Nyarlathotep talking points
I think life would be better if more people read books and spent time looking up at the stars
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I've read enough cosmic horror to know where this particular combination of hobbies leads. Sad to see Gareth uncritically repeating Nyarlathotep talking points
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All chess is 4D chess that's why they have that time clock thingy.
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
All chess is 4D chess that's why they have that time clock thingy.
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I don't feel entitled to have impostor syndrome.
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I don't feel entitled to have impostor syndrome.
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We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous
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Strikes me that the finest cultural advice you could give to any voting population right now would be "Treat your politicians like plumbers."
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Strikes me that the finest cultural advice you could give to any voting population right now would be "Treat your politicians like plumbers."
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
Both professions make a living from handling shit, and the better they handle it, the happier you are. But -
1/x
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
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Honestly think the easiest value to society you can add as a bloke is to stand up for women you don't know.
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Honestly think the easiest value to society you can add as a bloke is to stand up for women you don't know.
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Sometimes it's not about happiness. Sometimes it's just about not letting a low mood spiral into something worse, & hanging on til bedtime.
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sometimes it's not about happiness. Sometimes it's just about not letting a low mood spiral into something worse, & hanging on til bedtime.
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If I were suddenly, and through no fault of my own, a multi-billionaire, how would *I* convice people that I wasn't an asshole?
I would quietly spend money solving other people's problems until I was no longer a billionaire.
I would quietly spend money solving other people's problems until I was no longer a billionaire.
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If I were suddenly, and through no fault of my own, a multi-billionaire, how would *I* convice people that I wasn't an asshole?
I would quietly spend money solving other people's problems until I was no longer a billionaire.
I would quietly spend money solving other people's problems until I was no longer a billionaire.
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i fucking hate these people so much. "i spent the time working, reading and thinking" so you want a train. you want the bus. get on fucking public transit you absolute coward. or are you afraid of being next to god forbid someone poorer than you??
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
i fucking hate these people so much. "i spent the time working, reading and thinking" so you want a train. you want the bus. get on fucking public transit you absolute coward. or are you afraid of being next to god forbid someone poorer than you??
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Newsom aside, this is good on Trump/MAGA.
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Newsom aside, this is good on Trump/MAGA.
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the times I have done this - which are few, because you really need to be a good, proper friend to do it - are the things I feel proudest of probably in all the time I've spent online.
'I love you, I agree with you, it's not coming over how you hope which is so unfair. let's get icecream today?'
'I love you, I agree with you, it's not coming over how you hope which is so unfair. let's get icecream today?'
a piece of advice I didn't put in here but I really wish to offer:
if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'
if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
the times I have done this - which are few, because you really need to be a good, proper friend to do it - are the things I feel proudest of probably in all the time I've spent online.
'I love you, I agree with you, it's not coming over how you hope which is so unfair. let's get icecream today?'
'I love you, I agree with you, it's not coming over how you hope which is so unfair. let's get icecream today?'
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So much of the world’s knowledge hasn’t been digitised… and no chance the world’s tacit knowledge will be codified… yet so much nonsense is built on algorithmic analysis.
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
So much of the world’s knowledge hasn’t been digitised… and no chance the world’s tacit knowledge will be codified… yet so much nonsense is built on algorithmic analysis.
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race
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The absolute balls on the person who designed eight digits, ran out of ideas and just flipped the 6 upside down and thought we wouldn't notice.
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The absolute balls on the person who designed eight digits, ran out of ideas and just flipped the 6 upside down and thought we wouldn't notice.
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"Don't scold people who are trying to help" yeah the thing is, if you're trying to help me push my car out of the mud by standing on the shoulder telling me you know better than to run off the road and also my car pollutes the air, I am not obligated to thank you for your assistance.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Don't scold people who are trying to help" yeah the thing is, if you're trying to help me push my car out of the mud by standing on the shoulder telling me you know better than to run off the road and also my car pollutes the air, I am not obligated to thank you for your assistance.
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daily reminder of that quote that the ruling class have forgotten that we have unions, laws, and democracy that prevents them being murdered in front of their families by an angry mob of people with pitchforks and molotovs
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
daily reminder of that quote that the ruling class have forgotten that we have unions, laws, and democracy that prevents them being murdered in front of their families by an angry mob of people with pitchforks and molotovs