@g-hughes.bsky.social
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It is amusing to think that 40 years ago we had a nationwide panic to stop kids from playing Satanic RPG's that would warp their mind, when what we should have been doing was hunting down and destroying high school debate clubs with the ferocity of a Butlerian jihad.
He argued with civility. It's a start.
What disagreements, exactly, was he bridging via his work and words?
September 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It is amusing to think that 40 years ago we had a nationwide panic to stop kids from playing Satanic RPG's that would warp their mind, when what we should have been doing was hunting down and destroying high school debate clubs with the ferocity of a Butlerian jihad.
Dear Brain.
I turned you off and on again.
Where are the good chemicals?
I turned you off and on again.
Where are the good chemicals?
August 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Dear Brain.
I turned you off and on again.
Where are the good chemicals?
I turned you off and on again.
Where are the good chemicals?
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
Post-dono Wagamama's, as a treat
August 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Post-dono Wagamama's, as a treat
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I’ve gone from ‘this version of Labour wouldn’t have repealed Section 28’ to ‘this version of Labour would have enthusiastically introduced Section 28’
🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’ve gone from ‘this version of Labour wouldn’t have repealed Section 28’ to ‘this version of Labour would have enthusiastically introduced Section 28’
There's rain in Birmingham.
Screw the grass, plants, or trees; the George needs this.
Screw the grass, plants, or trees; the George needs this.
June 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
There's rain in Birmingham.
Screw the grass, plants, or trees; the George needs this.
Screw the grass, plants, or trees; the George needs this.
An entire night, dedicated to long knives?
We are truly spoiled
We are truly spoiled
June 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
An entire night, dedicated to long knives?
We are truly spoiled
We are truly spoiled
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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
Surely it's only a temporary problem once a permanent solution is implemented?
May 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Surely it's only a temporary problem once a permanent solution is implemented?
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Oh, you're a people pleaser? Then name 3 people who are pleased with you
May 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Oh, you're a people pleaser? Then name 3 people who are pleased with you
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You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
May 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
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people sometimes say ACAB doesn’t include Sam Vimes and I submit that this is exactly backwards
ACAB absolutely includes Sam Vimes and nobody is more aware of that than Sam Vimes
ACAB absolutely includes Sam Vimes and nobody is more aware of that than Sam Vimes
April 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
people sometimes say ACAB doesn’t include Sam Vimes and I submit that this is exactly backwards
ACAB absolutely includes Sam Vimes and nobody is more aware of that than Sam Vimes
ACAB absolutely includes Sam Vimes and nobody is more aware of that than Sam Vimes
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A trans woman wrote to Wetherspoons to ask which toilets they're meant to use. Wetherspoons replied acknowledging the Supreme Court's verdict...and that trans customers can use whichever loos they want to but to please lock the cubicle door.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
April 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A trans woman wrote to Wetherspoons to ask which toilets they're meant to use. Wetherspoons replied acknowledging the Supreme Court's verdict...and that trans customers can use whichever loos they want to but to please lock the cubicle door.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
@unarmedoracle.bsky.social
The cold open of the most recent LRLive is just what I needed after a bit of a pants evening.
Thank you
The cold open of the most recent LRLive is just what I needed after a bit of a pants evening.
Thank you
April 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
@unarmedoracle.bsky.social
The cold open of the most recent LRLive is just what I needed after a bit of a pants evening.
Thank you
The cold open of the most recent LRLive is just what I needed after a bit of a pants evening.
Thank you
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Recruitment should never have taken off as an industry
Everything is worse because we let 22 year old deanos who played rugby and coasted to a 2:2 in clearingology from the faculty of humanities and clearing at the University of Clearing, who love Dubai, who know nothing, hire people.
Everything is worse because we let 22 year old deanos who played rugby and coasted to a 2:2 in clearingology from the faculty of humanities and clearing at the University of Clearing, who love Dubai, who know nothing, hire people.
March 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Recruitment should never have taken off as an industry
Everything is worse because we let 22 year old deanos who played rugby and coasted to a 2:2 in clearingology from the faculty of humanities and clearing at the University of Clearing, who love Dubai, who know nothing, hire people.
Everything is worse because we let 22 year old deanos who played rugby and coasted to a 2:2 in clearingology from the faculty of humanities and clearing at the University of Clearing, who love Dubai, who know nothing, hire people.
Just in case anyone has decided they need to add 0.1 metric tonnes...
I don't think about the sexual partners I've had in terms of "Body Count." Instead I add up all their weights and contemplate the Gross Tonnage
February 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Just in case anyone has decided they need to add 0.1 metric tonnes...
Back with the vampires, getting stabbed by a professional.
January 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Back with the vampires, getting stabbed by a professional.
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This is a perfect sentence:
"All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."
"All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."
I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs
As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality
www.irishexaminer.com
January 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is a perfect sentence:
"All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."
"All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."
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This really nails it all too
January 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This really nails it all too
I wouldn't say oblivious, per se, more that I don't believe it would be in anyone else's best interest to do it
How oblivious to flirting are you? When I was 19-21, I was convinced that the girl that came to my apartment like 3 times a week and usually sat on my lap was just a good pal
January 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I wouldn't say oblivious, per se, more that I don't believe it would be in anyone else's best interest to do it
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WHY IS THE UK SO HARRY POTTER THEMED WHEN WALLACE AND GROMIT IS RIGHT THERE
December 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
WHY IS THE UK SO HARRY POTTER THEMED WHEN WALLACE AND GROMIT IS RIGHT THERE
There are piles of "stuff" in the single room at my parents'.
Ornaments moved when redecorating three years ago. Kids toys from my niblings, which can't be gotten rid of.
Kids toys from when I was a child, that haven't been gotten rid of.
The dehumidifier, vacuum, tower fan.
Ornaments moved when redecorating three years ago. Kids toys from my niblings, which can't be gotten rid of.
Kids toys from when I was a child, that haven't been gotten rid of.
The dehumidifier, vacuum, tower fan.
December 24, 2024 at 6:08 PM
There are piles of "stuff" in the single room at my parents'.
Ornaments moved when redecorating three years ago. Kids toys from my niblings, which can't be gotten rid of.
Kids toys from when I was a child, that haven't been gotten rid of.
The dehumidifier, vacuum, tower fan.
Ornaments moved when redecorating three years ago. Kids toys from my niblings, which can't be gotten rid of.
Kids toys from when I was a child, that haven't been gotten rid of.
The dehumidifier, vacuum, tower fan.
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I'm falling asleep
She's calling a cab
He's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Mr Brightside's coming to town.
She's calling a cab
He's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Mr Brightside's coming to town.
December 15, 2024 at 5:08 PM
I'm falling asleep
She's calling a cab
He's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Mr Brightside's coming to town.
She's calling a cab
He's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Mr Brightside's coming to town.
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wait why wouldn’t i want a permanent solution to a temporary problem. that way the problem doesn’t show up again. are these therapists nuts or something that’s a bargain
December 8, 2024 at 6:25 PM
wait why wouldn’t i want a permanent solution to a temporary problem. that way the problem doesn’t show up again. are these therapists nuts or something that’s a bargain