Iain
@iainl7.bsky.social
Internet Old Man, sorry. Films, music, games, photography, cats. Frequently fails to quit that politics addiction.
Post Rock, Ergo Propter Rock
Post Rock, Ergo Propter Rock
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
I know this! It’s not just that most games seem to be Games As A Service subscription bullshit now, it’s that Super Monkey Ball is awesome and you can “borrow” your father’s GameCube for nothing.
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I know this! It’s not just that most games seem to be Games As A Service subscription bullshit now, it’s that Super Monkey Ball is awesome and you can “borrow” your father’s GameCube for nothing.
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Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.
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Leaving aside the immense "Hello fellow kids!" vibes of launching a Substack in er December 2025 it's yet another confirmation that this Labour government's approach to comms is to focus on the channels with the most fascists.
Which is er interesting...
Which is er interesting...
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Leaving aside the immense "Hello fellow kids!" vibes of launching a Substack in er December 2025 it's yet another confirmation that this Labour government's approach to comms is to focus on the channels with the most fascists.
Which is er interesting...
Which is er interesting...
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Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
My first MacBook, a review after 20 minutes of use:
I will never buy another Windows 11 laptop again. By this point in my last laptop I wasn’t even halfway to the interminable setting of all the configuration settings to the same ones I used on the previous install, rather than the ones MS want.
I will never buy another Windows 11 laptop again. By this point in my last laptop I wasn’t even halfway to the interminable setting of all the configuration settings to the same ones I used on the previous install, rather than the ones MS want.
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My first MacBook, a review after 20 minutes of use:
I will never buy another Windows 11 laptop again. By this point in my last laptop I wasn’t even halfway to the interminable setting of all the configuration settings to the same ones I used on the previous install, rather than the ones MS want.
I will never buy another Windows 11 laptop again. By this point in my last laptop I wasn’t even halfway to the interminable setting of all the configuration settings to the same ones I used on the previous install, rather than the ones MS want.
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I think that's why he seems, for the first time in ages, genuinely rattled by this stuff. Because it shows him doing the less socially permissible form of racism, and reminds everyone that this skill had to be learned
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I think that's why he seems, for the first time in ages, genuinely rattled by this stuff. Because it shows him doing the less socially permissible form of racism, and reminds everyone that this skill had to be learned
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[shamelessly both promoting Dorian's point and adding my own]
Farage has always been very good at doing sort of golf club racism. He has an instinctive grasp on what codes to use and how much he can say before people recoil that his heirs and imitators lack. (...more)
Farage has always been very good at doing sort of golf club racism. He has an instinctive grasp on what codes to use and how much he can say before people recoil that his heirs and imitators lack. (...more)
It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
[shamelessly both promoting Dorian's point and adding my own]
Farage has always been very good at doing sort of golf club racism. He has an instinctive grasp on what codes to use and how much he can say before people recoil that his heirs and imitators lack. (...more)
Farage has always been very good at doing sort of golf club racism. He has an instinctive grasp on what codes to use and how much he can say before people recoil that his heirs and imitators lack. (...more)
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December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Speaking as a former immigrant married to an immigrant (both NHS employees) I'm particularly revolted that a Labour MP is using protection of the service I work for to spread racist narratives about immigrants.
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Speaking as a former immigrant married to an immigrant (both NHS employees) I'm particularly revolted that a Labour MP is using protection of the service I work for to spread racist narratives about immigrants.
Finally got around to hearing the 2023 remaster of one of my fave Pets LPs, Relentless.
They’ve cleaned it up A LOT.
I think I hate that. Like, as a 2am dancefloor obscurity it *should* come at you through fog.
They’ve cleaned it up A LOT.
I think I hate that. Like, as a 2am dancefloor obscurity it *should* come at you through fog.
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Finally got around to hearing the 2023 remaster of one of my fave Pets LPs, Relentless.
They’ve cleaned it up A LOT.
I think I hate that. Like, as a 2am dancefloor obscurity it *should* come at you through fog.
They’ve cleaned it up A LOT.
I think I hate that. Like, as a 2am dancefloor obscurity it *should* come at you through fog.
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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
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MAN FINDS TAPE - out tomorrow.
@cinefiedcom.bsky.social said "It feels like we're watching something we shouldn't be"
which is accurate
Our company Rustic Films was founded to make movies like this.
WATCH:
manfindstape.com
@cinefiedcom.bsky.social said "It feels like we're watching something we shouldn't be"
which is accurate
Our company Rustic Films was founded to make movies like this.
WATCH:
manfindstape.com
Man Finds Tape | A Magnolia Pictures Film | Starring Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson and Brian Villalobos | In Theaters and on Digital December 5.
Lucas Page’s (William Magnuson) viral YouTube channel “Man Finds Tape” features a series of creepy home videos. When he reaches out to his sister, Lynn (Kelsey Pribilski), with surveillance footage of...
manfindstape.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
MAN FINDS TAPE - out tomorrow.
@cinefiedcom.bsky.social said "It feels like we're watching something we shouldn't be"
which is accurate
Our company Rustic Films was founded to make movies like this.
WATCH:
manfindstape.com
@cinefiedcom.bsky.social said "It feels like we're watching something we shouldn't be"
which is accurate
Our company Rustic Films was founded to make movies like this.
WATCH:
manfindstape.com
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"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago
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GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
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If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
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"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
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It's worth noting that the Government has a massive majority and could fix this in an instant with a one-line piece of legislation. It doesn't want to.
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It's worth noting that the Government has a massive majority and could fix this in an instant with a one-line piece of legislation. It doesn't want to.
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Paid for by the Harry Potter Institute for Fucking Monsters.
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Paid for by the Harry Potter Institute for Fucking Monsters.
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Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.
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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀