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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · Sep 3

gender activism. get fucked guardian

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 3

How Graham Linehan’s gender activism led to career armageddon

What began as a nasty Twitter spat seven years ago has led to a peculiar metamorphosis for the comedy writer

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · Sep 8

it's real support from actual racists

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 6h

Haha, yes, probably. That made me chuckle

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 6h

I think people read certain books because they think they should and don't want to look stupid at dinner parties. I think also using your music genre analogy that people can have wide ranging catholic tastes and get enjoyment out of anything that takes their fancy.

Too many books not to enjoy them

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 6h

Bezos has turned an okay paper with good journalists into a joke. Many of them have left or been fired.

People won't forget, and are unlikely to resubscribe unless he sells it.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 6h

The overtly earnest streak will boil you in oil should you step too far out of line.

I experienced that about Meta glasses, you would think I was a senior representative of the sexual predator union by some of the responses.

Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, considering I am everything Vodafone. I was limited to reading a book. I think I need to plan for the apocalypse better.

Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, absolutely, my comment was a bit tangential, so apologies for that. It's a good idea, and I like Lego.

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 8h

Fidgety

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 8h

I don't mind MRIs but they make me anxious/figity because I have to lay still on my back. Something that for some reason I find hugely uncomfortable, and always have.

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 8h

Good🧵I always hated Tarka the Otter, perhaps with good reason.

Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 10h

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

Title page of a collection of animal stories by Henry Williamson: TARKA THE OTTER, SALAR THE SALMON, THE EPIC OF BROCK THE BADGER, CHAKCHEK THE PEREGRINE.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Olivia Reingold is the person who wrote that ridiculous article at CBS that even misspells Mamdani's name in the headline.

You may remember her from her other work....

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 27

Netanyahu shared a video from Olivia Reingold arguing that it doesn’t count as starvation if the kids in Gaza had preexisting conditions

Benjamin
@netanyahu
X.com
Facts matter >>
@TheFP
Mosab al-Debs
The 14-year-old boy was featured in the same CNN story as another child
"suffering from malnourishment." The original caption didn't mention that last May, he sustained a traumatic head injury amid what SHMS News Agency, a Gaza-based outlet, called "an Israeli shell" explosion.
8:20 AM • 8/26/25 • 835K Views

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JonBOOnét Rumsfeld @jonbenetrumsfeld.blacksky.app · 1d

this is christine flowers
shes an immigration lawyer here in philly and she has something to say about first nation people here in the US

Lets make her famous

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Indigenous People’s Day.

Columbus was a piece of shit, his contemporaries thought so, and the USA is continuing its founding settler-colonial genocide against Indigenous peoples.

Amy Lonetree (2012, Decolonizing Museums) argues that we must contextualize

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

America is imperfect, but foreign leaders did not use to assume that the President's family was a key means of leveraging their shared interest in corruption.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Just your typical journalist

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

He is far from alone.
Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?

Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Co-sign. I see this up close and personal living in DC, and it is as described here.

Also, the purge of the FBI, the agency with more established, rule-based, career personnel, while expanding ICE, is particularly worrying. Congress can revert that funding.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 1d

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1d

An important precedent set which I hope is wielded broadly

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, Schedule 7.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tommy Robinson refused to give police phone Pin to protect 'journalistic material'

The far-right activist was charged under the Terrorism Act over an incident at the Channel Tunnel in July 2024.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

It's a little understated that Bari Weiss is really a flat-out 'just-asking-questions' style climate change denier.

Eg, here she is saying the science is up for public debate rather than settled, publishing the work of a big-name denier influencer (Koonin), and boosting a fake controversy

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
"Is Donald Trump a “dictator”? Did the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., constitute an “insurgency”?

Is Joe Biden “sharp as a tack”?

Is the science of climate change “settled”?

Are Javier Milei of Argentina, Marine Le Pen of France, and the AfD party in Germany “far right”?

Is the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis a “conspiracy theory”? Was the persistence of the virus a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? Does Anthony Fauci “represent science”?

Does Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, “promote hatred”? Do “fact-checkers” check facts?

Let’s ask a question about these questions: Why on Earth were we placed in a position of having to answer them?

In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of truth—or at least some useful information.

So even the flat-earthers are allowed their say. Even the Bigfoot-seekers appear on the Discovery Channel. Somewhere among the nonsense, there may be something worth hearing.

Because we don’t precisely know where or when, the conversation is never over.

A vast diversity of perspectives should be promoted within an open society. It’s the intellectual equivalent of hybrid vigor.

If we all think alike, a single fatal error, being shared by all, could destroy the world.

These precepts are not original. They have long been part of the American DNA. The default, for us, has always been debate.

When certain subjects, like slavery, were made taboo and removed from the possibility of discussion, towering figures arose and terrible conflicts were fought to restore the balance.

However, the past four years have seen a sustained effort to overturn the principles of the open society. The just-departed administration, of which Biden was the decrepit figurehead, tried to impose, by threat or mandate, a version of reality that brooked no discussion.

Supported by its allies in the media, the academy, and the bureaucracy, the administrati…

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
Climate change did not cause the LA fires says Steve Koonin in an essential conversation with our
@EmilyYoffe
:

https://thefp.com/p/climate-change-did-not-cause-the-la-fires-steve-koonin

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 6, 2023
Gratified at the outpouring of responses to this important and courageous piece by
@PatrickTBrown31
.

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published
From thefp.com
Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 5, 2023
"Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of them.

Here’s how it works."

@PatrickTBrown31
with a must-read piece:

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published

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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 1d

Complan typically used as an additive nutrition too. Not that it's amazing or anything. Just palatable

Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 1d

No, they're very different.

Complan is milk based with maltodrextrin with vitamins. So an energy drink.

Huel is plant based protein product with plant based added fats, and emulsifiers to make it taste thicker and vitamins and some plant based sugars like complain.

Huel sounds disgusting btw

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

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