Claire Vaughan
@pixieglas.bsky.social
🏳️🌈📽️ 'A puffed-up orb of a woman with a gaping mouth'.
Enthusiast. She / her / hi.
Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff.
Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
Enthusiast. She / her / hi.
Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff.
Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
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I mean there are a lot of reasons to not use AI. It's benefiting fascists, it damages your brain, it's definitely going to destroy the economy, it's putting dangerous bugs in everything, it's making poor communities unlivable... But climate is the worst thing.
February 14, 2026 at 9:34 AM
I mean there are a lot of reasons to not use AI. It's benefiting fascists, it damages your brain, it's definitely going to destroy the economy, it's putting dangerous bugs in everything, it's making poor communities unlivable... But climate is the worst thing.
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WE ARE ALL ANTISEMITES NOW, EXCEPT FOR OUR BENEVOLENT BILLIONAIRE P***PHILE OVERLORDS
@washingtonpost.com
@washingtonpost.com
"The scourge of rising antisemitism in recent years has found its latest manifestation in the government’s release of millions of files about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein," Matthew Schmitz writes. https://wapo.st/4qwVJn7
Opinion | The Epstein files expose a corrupt elite. And a dark hatred.
Antisemites on the left and right have seized on the Epstein files.
wapo.st
February 14, 2026 at 3:46 AM
WE ARE ALL ANTISEMITES NOW, EXCEPT FOR OUR BENEVOLENT BILLIONAIRE P***PHILE OVERLORDS
@washingtonpost.com
@washingtonpost.com
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happy charli xcx day to those who celebrate ✨🕺🏻✨
February 13, 2026 at 9:29 AM
happy charli xcx day to those who celebrate ✨🕺🏻✨
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Charli XCX’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ album is a fully-realized LP of goth bangers that add a whole new texture to her always-changing sensibility.
Read our review: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Read our review: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
February 13, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Charli XCX’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ album is a fully-realized LP of goth bangers that add a whole new texture to her always-changing sensibility.
Read our review: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Read our review: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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it's kinda impossible to do
February 14, 2026 at 6:44 AM
it's kinda impossible to do
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For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
Never reactivate it.
BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security shuts down as the White House and Democratic leaders continue to discuss changes to U.S. immigration enforcement.
February 14, 2026 at 5:24 AM
For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
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Pylon politics very tangled in Wales. Plaid promising a ban; Greens less hard line.
Greens' leader @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social made case well recently:
"We have to be honest with people. If we tell every community they can have cables underground...we, as politicians, know that's not true."
Greens' leader @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social made case well recently:
"We have to be honest with people. If we tell every community they can have cables underground...we, as politicians, know that's not true."
February 12, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Pylon politics very tangled in Wales. Plaid promising a ban; Greens less hard line.
Greens' leader @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social made case well recently:
"We have to be honest with people. If we tell every community they can have cables underground...we, as politicians, know that's not true."
Greens' leader @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social made case well recently:
"We have to be honest with people. If we tell every community they can have cables underground...we, as politicians, know that's not true."
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Labour need to stop splitting the vote
Fletton & Woodston (Peterborough) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 29.4% (New)
🌍 GRN: 27.6% (+16.2)
🌳 CON: 21.8% (-11.8)
🌹 LAB: 16.8% (-31.2)
🔶 LDM: 4.4% (-0.7)
No TUSC (-1.9) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
➡️ RFM: 29.4% (New)
🌍 GRN: 27.6% (+16.2)
🌳 CON: 21.8% (-11.8)
🌹 LAB: 16.8% (-31.2)
🔶 LDM: 4.4% (-0.7)
No TUSC (-1.9) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Labour need to stop splitting the vote
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Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
February 13, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
Can you imagine another era where so many politicians are having to deny being Nazis??? We shouldn't have to "get out out of the way", these people should be afraid to be in public life.
he may not be a Nazi, but he has absolutely abysmal judgement, demonstrable incuriosity, and he gets petulant and defensive when called out for having shit judgement, so not worth attention.
And he should be doubted. 20 years with a tattoo and he never bothered to figure out what the hell he got?
And he should be doubted. 20 years with a tattoo and he never bothered to figure out what the hell he got?
February 13, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Can you imagine another era where so many politicians are having to deny being Nazis??? We shouldn't have to "get out out of the way", these people should be afraid to be in public life.
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For anyone watching Harold and Maude this weekend, recently the lovely Roddy Woomble talked to @90minfilmfest.bsky.social about one of his (and my) favourite films. He captures how perfect it is and I wish I was screening it again at valentines this year!
www.90minfilmfest.com/episodes/har...
www.90minfilmfest.com/episodes/har...
Harold and Maude with Roddy Woomble — 90 Minutes or Less Film Fest
In episode 154 Sam is joined by musician Roddy Woomble. Lead vocalist in indie rock band Idlewild, their self-titled tenth studio album is out now.
Roddy has chosen Harold and Maude (90 mins). Direct...
www.90minfilmfest.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:50 AM
For anyone watching Harold and Maude this weekend, recently the lovely Roddy Woomble talked to @90minfilmfest.bsky.social about one of his (and my) favourite films. He captures how perfect it is and I wish I was screening it again at valentines this year!
www.90minfilmfest.com/episodes/har...
www.90minfilmfest.com/episodes/har...
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"In Laura Poitras’ ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, the act of witnessing becomes an act of solidarity, in joy and of pain. This is what a cinema of more life looks like."
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022): “Friends, Lovers, or Neighbors”
In ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’, the act of witnessing becomes an act of solidarity, in joy and of pain.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:33 AM
"In Laura Poitras’ ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, the act of witnessing becomes an act of solidarity, in joy and of pain. This is what a cinema of more life looks like."
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OTD 2/13/1972: Bob Fosse's landmark CABARET premieres.
All-timer musical won 8 Oscars, including Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey & Fosse.
Don't think 50yo movie is still relevant? Depicts rise of Fascism while ordinary citizens sit back & allow it. Sounds too familiar...too modern.
#filmsky 📽
All-timer musical won 8 Oscars, including Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey & Fosse.
Don't think 50yo movie is still relevant? Depicts rise of Fascism while ordinary citizens sit back & allow it. Sounds too familiar...too modern.
#filmsky 📽
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 AM
OTD 2/13/1972: Bob Fosse's landmark CABARET premieres.
All-timer musical won 8 Oscars, including Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey & Fosse.
Don't think 50yo movie is still relevant? Depicts rise of Fascism while ordinary citizens sit back & allow it. Sounds too familiar...too modern.
#filmsky 📽
All-timer musical won 8 Oscars, including Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey & Fosse.
Don't think 50yo movie is still relevant? Depicts rise of Fascism while ordinary citizens sit back & allow it. Sounds too familiar...too modern.
#filmsky 📽
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Just ordered a book from my local Waterstones. Click and collect so I’ll get it on way home tonight. As cheap as Amazon. Also bought an instant camera earlier this week from Argos, cheaper than on Amazon. It’s proving very easy not to use the evil billionaire’s website. More of you should try it.
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Just ordered a book from my local Waterstones. Click and collect so I’ll get it on way home tonight. As cheap as Amazon. Also bought an instant camera earlier this week from Argos, cheaper than on Amazon. It’s proving very easy not to use the evil billionaire’s website. More of you should try it.
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So this new Section 28 bullshit means what? We're policing little kids over whether they wear trousers or skirts? How they have their hair? Taking bodily autonomy from children ? That's a charter for abuse.
February 13, 2026 at 8:23 AM
So this new Section 28 bullshit means what? We're policing little kids over whether they wear trousers or skirts? How they have their hair? Taking bodily autonomy from children ? That's a charter for abuse.
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If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:47 AM
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
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Was just thinking about Battles, looked up "Atlas" and realized it came out nearly 20 years ago. 🫠 Hard to overstate how absolutely hard this song went live during that era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp...
Battles - Atlas
YouTube video by Warp Records
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Was just thinking about Battles, looked up "Atlas" and realized it came out nearly 20 years ago. 🫠 Hard to overstate how absolutely hard this song went live during that era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp...
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They Are So Damaged And Follow Blindly….
February 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM
They Are So Damaged And Follow Blindly….
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Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a wild success. #taxtherich @House Our Neighbors: Yes on 1A @Tech 4 Housing
TikTok video by Ron Davis
www.tiktok.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
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Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
February 12, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.
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Also this is every DHS social Gen AI social media post
February 13, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Also this is every DHS social Gen AI social media post
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Watched THE MASTERMIND (2025). I love Kelly Reichardt. Josh O'Connor is great as a married man with kids and adrift in the world who comes up with the most hare-brained heist. Amazing you can feel for him at the end when he's given you almost no reason to. Vietnam War is always in the background.
February 13, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Watched THE MASTERMIND (2025). I love Kelly Reichardt. Josh O'Connor is great as a married man with kids and adrift in the world who comes up with the most hare-brained heist. Amazing you can feel for him at the end when he's given you almost no reason to. Vietnam War is always in the background.
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Said it before & will say it again: A vast proportion of the current framework of Western technology & power is founded on, & delights in proliferating, eugenics. Thiel, Musk, Epstein; "AI," life extensionist, way too much of transhumanism. Gebru & Torres gave it 1 name, but the connections are OLD.
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics
In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."
www.motherjones.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Said it before & will say it again: A vast proportion of the current framework of Western technology & power is founded on, & delights in proliferating, eugenics. Thiel, Musk, Epstein; "AI," life extensionist, way too much of transhumanism. Gebru & Torres gave it 1 name, but the connections are OLD.