Ian Rennie
@theangelremiel.bsky.social
Higher than weather balloons, empty hearts on fire.
Beyond the horror of this, one of the effects of the Trump Administration doing this is that in the future dissidents and whistleblowers will not consider the US to be a potential friend. More soft power burns away.
A Chinese dissident filmed Uyghur detention sites and then released the video on YouTube after fleeing China. He sought asylum in the US. Now the Trump admin wants to deport him to a country with strong ties to China.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
He Recorded China’s Detention of Uyghurs. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him to Uganda.
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Beyond the horror of this, one of the effects of the Trump Administration doing this is that in the future dissidents and whistleblowers will not consider the US to be a potential friend. More soft power burns away.
a lack of Slow Horses on DVD is a real stumbling block when it comes to buying presents for my parents.
December 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
a lack of Slow Horses on DVD is a real stumbling block when it comes to buying presents for my parents.
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Jesus fucking christ
Kamala Harris is reportedly preparing for another White House run, per Axios.
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Jesus fucking christ
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“On behalf of Director Park Chan-wook's new film, we are cordially inviting all Fortune 500 CEOs to a special screening of NO OTHER CHOICE.
This is truly a film that speaks to our gracious executive leaders and the culture they have cultivated.”
Beast mode shit.
This is truly a film that speaks to our gracious executive leaders and the culture they have cultivated.”
Beast mode shit.
December 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“On behalf of Director Park Chan-wook's new film, we are cordially inviting all Fortune 500 CEOs to a special screening of NO OTHER CHOICE.
This is truly a film that speaks to our gracious executive leaders and the culture they have cultivated.”
Beast mode shit.
This is truly a film that speaks to our gracious executive leaders and the culture they have cultivated.”
Beast mode shit.
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Oh and of course it's a backdoor to force you to tie your legal identity to your phone, has anyone seen Blair lately
December 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Oh and of course it's a backdoor to force you to tie your legal identity to your phone, has anyone seen Blair lately
This but with Trump instead of Phillip youtube.com/shorts/Xz3pt...
December 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This but with Trump instead of Phillip youtube.com/shorts/Xz3pt...
Kendrick, do a track with Swerve immediately.
December 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Kendrick, do a track with Swerve immediately.
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If you aren’t actively pro trans then you are not against the far right. them’s the rules
“Together Against The Far Right” is following a variety of groups - but they’ve not actively engaged with ANY LGBT or trans, orgs 🤔
Maybe it’s because their Interim Chair, Kevin Courtney, has a history of aligning himself with anti-trans hate groups??
Maybe it’s because their Interim Chair, Kevin Courtney, has a history of aligning himself with anti-trans hate groups??
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you aren’t actively pro trans then you are not against the far right. them’s the rules
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December 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Also, like, aside from feeling violated, doesn't this just highlight how freakish people can be with regards to media. Just LIKE A THING you fucking loser. You don't have to be friends with the characters. Just LIKE IT. Touch grass you pathetic dipshits.
I have just found out that some reprehensible fucking dork has made an AI chatbot based on the character I played on The Magnus Archives and *it has my voice*. I genuinely don't think I have ever felt so fucking violated. My actual voice. Saying things I have never said. I feel sick.
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Also, like, aside from feeling violated, doesn't this just highlight how freakish people can be with regards to media. Just LIKE A THING you fucking loser. You don't have to be friends with the characters. Just LIKE IT. Touch grass you pathetic dipshits.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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getting great reviews for the soft launch of my new streaming service, Every Show Is Buffy But Without Subtext
No idea what telly Lord Sewell is watching, because I can't think of a single show with this plotline let alone it being something that is inescapable for young white men who subsequently now face a crisis of masculinity drawing them to the far right?? 🙃
December 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
getting great reviews for the soft launch of my new streaming service, Every Show Is Buffy But Without Subtext
"coke please"
"is Pepsi OK?"
"is Pepsi OK?"
December 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"coke please"
"is Pepsi OK?"
"is Pepsi OK?"
When you see people like Mark Cuban claim that AI makes people more creative, remember that this is a reflection of the world they experience. The job of a lot of CEOs is to have ideas and tell other people to execute them. They don't do creative process work, they outsource it.
December 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
When you see people like Mark Cuban claim that AI makes people more creative, remember that this is a reflection of the world they experience. The job of a lot of CEOs is to have ideas and tell other people to execute them. They don't do creative process work, they outsource it.
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Update: YouTube straight up removed another video about loot boxes. They’re just hitting anything that mentions gambling regardless of context.
What a ridiculous platform.
What a ridiculous platform.
YouTube restricted an old video about loot boxes being restricted by gambling laws under the “sale of regulated goods policy.”
Yes YouTube, my vids famously “depict or promote” gambling. Those years of anti-loot box videos were secretly pro-loot box the entire time, you ridiculous dumbfuck site 😂.
Yes YouTube, my vids famously “depict or promote” gambling. Those years of anti-loot box videos were secretly pro-loot box the entire time, you ridiculous dumbfuck site 😂.
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Update: YouTube straight up removed another video about loot boxes. They’re just hitting anything that mentions gambling regardless of context.
What a ridiculous platform.
What a ridiculous platform.
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Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
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So much of the commentary on the FWS judgment has been driven by reflexive responses to the outcome, but there are so many gaps and leaps in its reasoning that it will spawn litigation for years to come - @aoifemod.bsky.social and I flag some failings in judge craft:
nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...
nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
So much of the commentary on the FWS judgment has been driven by reflexive responses to the outcome, but there are so many gaps and leaps in its reasoning that it will spawn litigation for years to come - @aoifemod.bsky.social and I flag some failings in judge craft:
nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...
nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...
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This is the time lapse of the map; I wish I could have recorded in real time but alas :’) the nature of The Quiet Year is very transformative and the MAKING of the map is its own story.
Huge thanks to @blackgirlmage.bsky.social for inviting me to do this!! I had a BLAST!!
Huge thanks to @blackgirlmage.bsky.social for inviting me to do this!! I had a BLAST!!
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is the time lapse of the map; I wish I could have recorded in real time but alas :’) the nature of The Quiet Year is very transformative and the MAKING of the map is its own story.
Huge thanks to @blackgirlmage.bsky.social for inviting me to do this!! I had a BLAST!!
Huge thanks to @blackgirlmage.bsky.social for inviting me to do this!! I had a BLAST!!
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Super late but at #PAXU this year, I was asked to be the live cartographer for a The Quiet Year actual play with @blackgirlmage.bsky.social @edwardspence.bsky.social @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social and @drakoniques.itch.io
This was the final map of Company Town 🤠
This was the final map of Company Town 🤠
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Super late but at #PAXU this year, I was asked to be the live cartographer for a The Quiet Year actual play with @blackgirlmage.bsky.social @edwardspence.bsky.social @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social and @drakoniques.itch.io
This was the final map of Company Town 🤠
This was the final map of Company Town 🤠
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People who criticise fantasy novels for merging medieval technology and aesthetics with modern moral norms are quite frankly missing the point which is that that is exactly what people like about it and that it is good
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
People who criticise fantasy novels for merging medieval technology and aesthetics with modern moral norms are quite frankly missing the point which is that that is exactly what people like about it and that it is good
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Remember when you censored Judith Butler for calling the gender-critical movement fascist? Or when you ran an editorial both sides-ing gender identity reform? Or when you quoted a transphobic hate group as a neutral source? Or when you basically republished one of their press releases verbatim?
With the world in flux, our commitment to clear, agenda-free reporting has never been stronger.
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Back factual reporting by supporting the Guardian today. theguardian.com/support/eoy-sc
December 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Remember when you censored Judith Butler for calling the gender-critical movement fascist? Or when you ran an editorial both sides-ing gender identity reform? Or when you quoted a transphobic hate group as a neutral source? Or when you basically republished one of their press releases verbatim?
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11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.
Hello. I’m a “same-sex attracted person” (loathe that description of my sexuality) & I support Trans rights, like the majority of female “same sex attracted people”.
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
What do lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Britons think the British public thinks of them? | YouGov
Gay and lesbian Britons tend to think the public has a favourable view of them, but bisexual and particularly transgender Britons feel less positivity from the public
yougov.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.
the whole "dear liberals, you need to come back to Twitter" thing is just an out-loud affirmation of the idea that it is the job of progressives to suffer for people who hate them and won't notice.
December 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
the whole "dear liberals, you need to come back to Twitter" thing is just an out-loud affirmation of the idea that it is the job of progressives to suffer for people who hate them and won't notice.