Alex
@drspider666.bsky.social
Confirmed bachelor. Writing about queer & disability representation. Only watching anything for the queer-coded villains. Opinions my own.
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The bitterly ironic transformation of the iconography of the poppy, from sombre reminder of the senseless futility of a war in which the British ruling class systematically ordered the wholesale slaughter of millions of working-class men, to 'War Christmas', says everything about the current crisis
That's it. Peak remembrancy shop window has been located.
October 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The bitterly ironic transformation of the iconography of the poppy, from sombre reminder of the senseless futility of a war in which the British ruling class systematically ordered the wholesale slaughter of millions of working-class men, to 'War Christmas', says everything about the current crisis
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.
Really unwell so rewatching Lord of the Rings. THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD!
As always, Gollum is my little guy, but I do like the the uruk hai style. They're REAL & doing their thing. Yes their job is destruction, but their PASSION is DRAMA.
As always, Gollum is my little guy, but I do like the the uruk hai style. They're REAL & doing their thing. Yes their job is destruction, but their PASSION is DRAMA.
September 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Really unwell so rewatching Lord of the Rings. THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD!
As always, Gollum is my little guy, but I do like the the uruk hai style. They're REAL & doing their thing. Yes their job is destruction, but their PASSION is DRAMA.
As always, Gollum is my little guy, but I do like the the uruk hai style. They're REAL & doing their thing. Yes their job is destruction, but their PASSION is DRAMA.
Why is Sauron so funny? I'm laughing just thinking about him.
September 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Why is Sauron so funny? I'm laughing just thinking about him.
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Open call for submissions!
Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters
Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻
Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th
paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
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Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters
Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻
Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th
paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
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![Submission Guidelines:
Please email your submission to phenomenapress@gmail.com with '[STORY TITLE] - Aspec Paranormal Anthology' in the subject line
Include: name, email address, WIP title, word count and short synopsis
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September 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Open call for submissions!
Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters
Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻
Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th
paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
🌈📚🪐💙
Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters
Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻
Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th
paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
🌈📚🪐💙
I've been struggling with my occasional urge to shear all my hair off again (it doesn't suit me - I need a bit on top to balance out my medieval peasant batch-cake face). But I just saw Alien 3 again and the urge is irresistible. I still remember Sigorney Weaver being interviewed about it!
September 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I've been struggling with my occasional urge to shear all my hair off again (it doesn't suit me - I need a bit on top to balance out my medieval peasant batch-cake face). But I just saw Alien 3 again and the urge is irresistible. I still remember Sigorney Weaver being interviewed about it!
Well from now on I will celebrate! Raise a glass of safe tap-water!
Happy Broad Street pump handle day to those who celebrate!
September 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Well from now on I will celebrate! Raise a glass of safe tap-water!
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one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar
September 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
September 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
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Not an academic? Not a problem. I’m just a nerd who likes to tell people about my morbid special interests, and I’ll be doing my fourth talk for RtG tomorrow. So, if you’ve got something good and Gothic to share, do consider submitting a pitch!
Don't forget to get your pitches in for next year's series of Romancing the Gothic talks!
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Romancing the Gothic 2026 Talk Series – Call for Papers
In 2026, our annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘…
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September 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Not an academic? Not a problem. I’m just a nerd who likes to tell people about my morbid special interests, and I’ll be doing my fourth talk for RtG tomorrow. So, if you’ve got something good and Gothic to share, do consider submitting a pitch!
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My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet?
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
September 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet?
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
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Either we are all free, or none of us are free. Either we all have the right to be who we are, or none of us have that right.
And if someone doesn’t believe that, all they are doing is choosing whom they wish to start with eliminating, but their end goal is to get rid of everyone who is not them.
And if someone doesn’t believe that, all they are doing is choosing whom they wish to start with eliminating, but their end goal is to get rid of everyone who is not them.
September 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Either we are all free, or none of us are free. Either we all have the right to be who we are, or none of us have that right.
And if someone doesn’t believe that, all they are doing is choosing whom they wish to start with eliminating, but their end goal is to get rid of everyone who is not them.
And if someone doesn’t believe that, all they are doing is choosing whom they wish to start with eliminating, but their end goal is to get rid of everyone who is not them.
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Good news everyone!
September 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Good news everyone!
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Realized Frankenstein is just this
September 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Realized Frankenstein is just this
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A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
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Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
September 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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When people say 'I think there's too many vaccines/ immigrants/ people going to university' -
Ok so tell me the precise correct number there should be. You've obviously studied it and know exactly how many, so please give us that number and explain your evidence for it. Fuckwit.
Ok so tell me the precise correct number there should be. You've obviously studied it and know exactly how many, so please give us that number and explain your evidence for it. Fuckwit.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that?
RFK JR: “I never said that.”
KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.”
RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024)
ht: @cwebbonline.com
RFK JR: “I never said that.”
KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.”
RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024)
ht: @cwebbonline.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
When people say 'I think there's too many vaccines/ immigrants/ people going to university' -
Ok so tell me the precise correct number there should be. You've obviously studied it and know exactly how many, so please give us that number and explain your evidence for it. Fuckwit.
Ok so tell me the precise correct number there should be. You've obviously studied it and know exactly how many, so please give us that number and explain your evidence for it. Fuckwit.
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The Labour party right now:
September 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Labour party right now:
Bonus is that anyone who walks in UK knows that the rudest, loudest people out there are the boomer rambling groups - constantly walking 4-abreast to shove other walkers off the path - so I'd really enjoy a film where this is resolved via Black Shuck/ Heathcliff's malevolent ghost.
I don't like found-footage horror - partly because it's 99% YOUTHS, and youths are annoying to my eyes & ears. But I might be in the market for old people filming their walk of the Pennine Way and you just glimpse a ghost accidentally between tea rooms & interesting clouds & tutting about litter.
September 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Bonus is that anyone who walks in UK knows that the rudest, loudest people out there are the boomer rambling groups - constantly walking 4-abreast to shove other walkers off the path - so I'd really enjoy a film where this is resolved via Black Shuck/ Heathcliff's malevolent ghost.