sprawld
@sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com
Web developer and generally nice guy
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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I wrote about NYT, CNN, and ABC’s casual acceptance that US dictates and Trump’s arbitrary use of American violence against Venezuela is somehow a form of “international” law. It’s not, and US media should stop implying and/or outright lying that it is.
US Media Rushes to Manufacture Legal Legitimacy for Trump’s Venezuela Oil Tanker Piracy
Venezuela oil exports are not “black market” and US sanctions are not “international sanctions.” Why does our media keep saying otherwise?
www.columnblog.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I wrote about NYT, CNN, and ABC’s casual acceptance that US dictates and Trump’s arbitrary use of American violence against Venezuela is somehow a form of “international” law. It’s not, and US media should stop implying and/or outright lying that it is.
If it's not dishwasher safe I'm not having it in my house, and that includes your children.
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If it's not dishwasher safe I'm not having it in my house, and that includes your children.
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Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Insane in the year of our Lord 2025 to read an article using the word "boffins". I assume Angus Daeyton will skewer this on HIGNFY
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Insane in the year of our Lord 2025 to read an article using the word "boffins". I assume Angus Daeyton will skewer this on HIGNFY
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I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
Oxford researchers say octopuses 'likely to take over the world'
Oxford University boffins say the octopuses are likely to take over the world after humans.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...
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Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
really thoughtful piece about the current media reporting template lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
really thoughtful piece about the current media reporting template lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
making an endless parallax scrolling landscape
October 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
making an endless parallax scrolling landscape
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Today is the 63rd anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, which means (well, obviously) it’s time to tell you a ridiculous shaggy dog story about the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Today is the 63rd anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, which means (well, obviously) it’s time to tell you a ridiculous shaggy dog story about the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington
Trump pardoned the silk road guy
Today's NYT Morning newsletter does a good job explaining the failures of Trump's supposedly anti-crime surge. But this framing is unconscionable. Trump doesn't believe that crimes should be prosecuted at all, much less "to the max," against himself or his supporters.
September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Trump pardoned the silk road guy
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10/10 punchline, no notes
*chef's kiss*
*chef's kiss*
September 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
10/10 punchline, no notes
*chef's kiss*
*chef's kiss*
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I feel it’s very irresponsible and inflammatory to accept donations from extremely partisan pro-Israel billionaires to help wreck your own party, then conceal them from the authorities while booting the pro-Palestine left for antisemitism, while you facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.
September 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I feel it’s very irresponsible and inflammatory to accept donations from extremely partisan pro-Israel billionaires to help wreck your own party, then conceal them from the authorities while booting the pro-Palestine left for antisemitism, while you facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.
This is great fun. Play a few times for the writing, then another 10-20 to ɢᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴀᴍɴ ʜᴏʀsᴇ
BEHOLD!
My first ever choose-your-own-adventure game!
"i will strangle a horse" - over seven and a half thousand words of absolute nonsense, as you help Martin Jenkins on his first day at The Farm.
brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...
Totally free to play! I mean, you can pay, but you can also not!
My first ever choose-your-own-adventure game!
"i will strangle a horse" - over seven and a half thousand words of absolute nonsense, as you help Martin Jenkins on his first day at The Farm.
brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...
Totally free to play! I mean, you can pay, but you can also not!
i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE
A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job
brainmage.itch.io
September 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is great fun. Play a few times for the writing, then another 10-20 to ɢᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴀᴍɴ ʜᴏʀsᴇ
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Crazy this would happen to one of the world’s oldest parties of labour after being taken over by a right-wing puppet directed by a right-wing advisor with right-wing politics who was mentored by a right-wing toady to large capital and oligarchical interests, all of whom pathologically hate the left.
Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing.
Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social
“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”
on.ft.com/3VxxCaR
Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social
“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”
on.ft.com/3VxxCaR
September 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Crazy this would happen to one of the world’s oldest parties of labour after being taken over by a right-wing puppet directed by a right-wing advisor with right-wing politics who was mentored by a right-wing toady to large capital and oligarchical interests, all of whom pathologically hate the left.
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Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".
“The belief that uncontrolled legal migration was nothing but good news for an economy should never have been accepted on the Left,” writes Starmer “fighting” populism. What does even mean “uncontrolled” in the case of legal migration? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...
The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give communities back control
Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".
They must have sprayed paint on something
Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating anti fascists as terrorists.
September 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
They must have sprayed paint on something
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In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
September 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
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Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2
September 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2
Performant, a thespian insect
Dormant, an insect with roommates
Protuberant, an insect fond of potatoes
September 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Performant, a thespian insect
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Do you see how yesterday’s deranged conspiracy theories - conclusive proof that you were a dangerous lunatic - are today’s boring, obvious truths, barely even news: there was an organised internal wrecking campaign closely coordinated with the press, Sir Keir’s campaign was a fraud etc etc
Why Keir Starmer cannot survive as prime minister without this man
Many people in Labour want Morgan McSweeney sacked as Downing Street chief of staff, but there are doubts Keir Starmer would survive as PM without him, writes David Maddox
www.independent.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Do you see how yesterday’s deranged conspiracy theories - conclusive proof that you were a dangerous lunatic - are today’s boring, obvious truths, barely even news: there was an organised internal wrecking campaign closely coordinated with the press, Sir Keir’s campaign was a fraud etc etc
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"McSweeney’s first proper job in the Labour Party was [working on Peter] Mandelson’s 'Excalibur' database, which collected information about political opponents of New Labour (including disloyal Labour MPs) that would then be given to journalists."
September 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"McSweeney’s first proper job in the Labour Party was [working on Peter] Mandelson’s 'Excalibur' database, which collected information about political opponents of New Labour (including disloyal Labour MPs) that would then be given to journalists."