Cassandra Pronouns
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The experience of modernity is basically seeing the world get constantly worse and being told by people in power they can't do anything about it and that you're a bitch for wanting them to try.
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much of the work on AI-generated misinformation focuses on regular users/communities, while ignoring how political and economic elites can seal themselves into a hermetic slop box -- a repeat of the same mistake we made with radicalization and conspiracism in the previous decade
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
much of the work on AI-generated misinformation focuses on regular users/communities, while ignoring how political and economic elites can seal themselves into a hermetic slop box -- a repeat of the same mistake we made with radicalization and conspiracism in the previous decade
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This conundrum comes like a week after "only babies question the value of NATO, why are you showing me a photo of trump?"
When the system collapses, what you (belligerently) call political common sense will evaporate.
When the system collapses, what you (belligerently) call political common sense will evaporate.
We're at a point where reducing prosecutions and incarceration isn't a principled leftist stance, it's the only pragmatic way to keep the system functioning at all. This is an unpalatable reality for carceral ideologues so they have to grope around for magical fixes.
this ongoing crisis of the carceral state is such an infuriatingly blatant opportunity for a public conversation that the carceral state absolutely cannot permit to happen
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This conundrum comes like a week after "only babies question the value of NATO, why are you showing me a photo of trump?"
When the system collapses, what you (belligerently) call political common sense will evaporate.
When the system collapses, what you (belligerently) call political common sense will evaporate.
This is classic Britain shit. If you want to do something and it pols well, that's the end of the argument. If it doesn't poll well though, just do it anyway and find another excuse. It's pure manipulation.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is classic Britain shit. If you want to do something and it pols well, that's the end of the argument. If it doesn't poll well though, just do it anyway and find another excuse. It's pure manipulation.
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What... are they gonna ask?
"Did you say they should not follow illegal orders?"
"Yep, it's right there on video"
"Did you say they should not follow illegal orders?"
"Yep, it's right there on video"
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
What... are they gonna ask?
"Did you say they should not follow illegal orders?"
"Yep, it's right there on video"
"Did you say they should not follow illegal orders?"
"Yep, it's right there on video"
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are you fucking serious
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
are you fucking serious
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My taxes bring all the boys to the yard.
And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".
And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My taxes bring all the boys to the yard.
And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".
And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".
What Kelly said is completely uncontroversial, the point of illegal orders is precisely that it is illegal for you to obey them. You will go to jail if you do.
As for arresting him, well like, go for it big man.
As for arresting him, well like, go for it big man.
REALITY: The last paragraph essentially acknowledges that everything above it is all bullshit spouted from their make-believe "War" department account. (Despite still including more bullshit about a "presumption" of lawfulness.)
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What Kelly said is completely uncontroversial, the point of illegal orders is precisely that it is illegal for you to obey them. You will go to jail if you do.
As for arresting him, well like, go for it big man.
As for arresting him, well like, go for it big man.
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We've had 24 hour news for nearly 40 years now, and during that time news stories do stick around if the press keep banging on about them. Things that don't stick tend to be stuff where right wing politicians/the wealthy are on the hook.
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We've had 24 hour news for nearly 40 years now, and during that time news stories do stick around if the press keep banging on about them. Things that don't stick tend to be stuff where right wing politicians/the wealthy are on the hook.
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See my thread above as to why this is a bad idea
bsky.app/profile/sgfm...
bsky.app/profile/sgfm...
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
See my thread above as to why this is a bad idea
bsky.app/profile/sgfm...
bsky.app/profile/sgfm...
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Summarised all the Budget preview pieces to save you time:
Reeves was going to raise income tax but since the forecast is a bit better she won’t. Instead she’ll just do a bunch of tweaks and freezes that will annoy everyone and not leave her enough headroom to avoid the same thing next year. 1/2
Reeves was going to raise income tax but since the forecast is a bit better she won’t. Instead she’ll just do a bunch of tweaks and freezes that will annoy everyone and not leave her enough headroom to avoid the same thing next year. 1/2
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Summarised all the Budget preview pieces to save you time:
Reeves was going to raise income tax but since the forecast is a bit better she won’t. Instead she’ll just do a bunch of tweaks and freezes that will annoy everyone and not leave her enough headroom to avoid the same thing next year. 1/2
Reeves was going to raise income tax but since the forecast is a bit better she won’t. Instead she’ll just do a bunch of tweaks and freezes that will annoy everyone and not leave her enough headroom to avoid the same thing next year. 1/2
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Just seen another 'but you don't get it! Raising income tax would be unpopular!' It certainly would.
I just am asking anyone who posts that to look at the currently planning departmental spending allocations going into 2028-9 and to explain why they think the *current* plans will be popular:
I just am asking anyone who posts that to look at the currently planning departmental spending allocations going into 2028-9 and to explain why they think the *current* plans will be popular:
Spending Review 2025 (HTML)
www.gov.uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Just seen another 'but you don't get it! Raising income tax would be unpopular!' It certainly would.
I just am asking anyone who posts that to look at the currently planning departmental spending allocations going into 2028-9 and to explain why they think the *current* plans will be popular:
I just am asking anyone who posts that to look at the currently planning departmental spending allocations going into 2028-9 and to explain why they think the *current* plans will be popular:
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It was crystal clear that Mel was an absolutely deranged fascist crackpot ten years ago, fifteen, and you’ll notice it has barely hindered her career, not even when the Oslo killer cited her in his crazy manifesto. Quite the opposite, if anything.
Remember when it was revealed that Israel's internal analysis concluded that the only way to reverse the disastrous plunge in Israel's standing was to fuel Islamophobia and portray Israel as the defender of the "West"?
Well, here you have it. Melanie Phillips' speech in NY.
Well, here you have it. Melanie Phillips' speech in NY.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It was crystal clear that Mel was an absolutely deranged fascist crackpot ten years ago, fifteen, and you’ll notice it has barely hindered her career, not even when the Oslo killer cited her in his crazy manifesto. Quite the opposite, if anything.
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happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
There's so many horror games about being a lesbian who's trying to find her missing wife.
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
There's so many horror games about being a lesbian who's trying to find her missing wife.
It's sort of funny how allowing the US tech industry to become so politically powerful has kind of done to it all the things that make armies that are too politically powerful very ineffective armies.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It's sort of funny how allowing the US tech industry to become so politically powerful has kind of done to it all the things that make armies that are too politically powerful very ineffective armies.
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(also of course it makes it harder to take this policy seriously when it is the only thing the government claims to be doing against racism; you can't say "for this reason we must cut migration" while not regulating Twitter)
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
(also of course it makes it harder to take this policy seriously when it is the only thing the government claims to be doing against racism; you can't say "for this reason we must cut migration" while not regulating Twitter)
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I feel dirty even engaging with this but whoever wrote this speech doesn't know what "net" means. She surely can't mean it would be better for social cohesion if more British born people left? (I suspect she means the gross flow but is so used to saying "netmigration" it feels like one word)
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I feel dirty even engaging with this but whoever wrote this speech doesn't know what "net" means. She surely can't mean it would be better for social cohesion if more British born people left? (I suspect she means the gross flow but is so used to saying "netmigration" it feels like one word)
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'If you opt out of our LLM business spying on your mail we'll turn off the categories on Gmail' is an all timer from Google lol
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
'If you opt out of our LLM business spying on your mail we'll turn off the categories on Gmail' is an all timer from Google lol
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like "how do we give Moron Islanders safe and meaningful lives within the limits of our abilities" is a definite concern but in the event that any of them turn out to be professors, the first thing i'm reevaluating is the Moron Island survey team's competence, not the standards for Ph.Ds
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
like "how do we give Moron Islanders safe and meaningful lives within the limits of our abilities" is a definite concern but in the event that any of them turn out to be professors, the first thing i'm reevaluating is the Moron Island survey team's competence, not the standards for Ph.Ds
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no man. like. i think that one will work itself out on its own. i do not think that we need to ensure that homo erectus does not trick us into being a professor. that is not even in my top one hundred problems if this is true.
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
no man. like. i think that one will work itself out on its own. i do not think that we need to ensure that homo erectus does not trick us into being a professor. that is not even in my top one hundred problems if this is true.
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Increasingly tired government minister, who dislikes trans people and just wants a reasonable basis on which to discriminate: “So, under this guidance, which I remind you will have to be defended in court, how will trans people exercise their human rights?”
EHRC representative, brightly: “No!”
EHRC representative, brightly: “No!”
the ehrc leaked the draft guidance
answers "what if a business doesn't have space to create gender neutral toilets?"
then trans people just can't use the toilet there
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
answers "what if a business doesn't have space to create gender neutral toilets?"
then trans people just can't use the toilet there
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Increasingly tired government minister, who dislikes trans people and just wants a reasonable basis on which to discriminate: “So, under this guidance, which I remind you will have to be defended in court, how will trans people exercise their human rights?”
EHRC representative, brightly: “No!”
EHRC representative, brightly: “No!”
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"Do you think the plebs should get a jury trial" is such a thrilling line from Labour, truly great to see this
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Do you think the plebs should get a jury trial" is such a thrilling line from Labour, truly great to see this
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