Gavin
@schofig.bsky.social
North West UK
He/Him
Sometimes paints miniatures, or posts pictures of cats, or talks about films/books, works in 'data'
Some sort of leftist
He/Him
Sometimes paints miniatures, or posts pictures of cats, or talks about films/books, works in 'data'
Some sort of leftist
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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if you don't read the Telegraph or the Times or the Mail - and frankly, why would you nowadays, as a decent human being? - you might not realize just how much they've radicalized to the far-right, especially the Telegraph.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
if you don't read the Telegraph or the Times or the Mail - and frankly, why would you nowadays, as a decent human being? - you might not realize just how much they've radicalized to the far-right, especially the Telegraph.
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wonder if this could have anything to do with the British press running a 24/7 hate campaign where typically a single newspaper might contain 3 anti-trans stories *a day*
"The wide-ranging polling on attitudes also suggested the proportion of the public feeling transgender rights have gone "too far" has more than doubled in five years" I WISH there was a follow-up question as to what new trans rights they think have come in over say, I dunno, the last 15 years?
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
wonder if this could have anything to do with the British press running a 24/7 hate campaign where typically a single newspaper might contain 3 anti-trans stories *a day*
Here's some stuff I painted recently and forgot to post.
I finally finished the Epic Encounters Local Legends Kickstarter box, and I also did two of the small Heroquest boxes.
Just basic paint jobs to get my to-do list down a bit.
I finally finished the Epic Encounters Local Legends Kickstarter box, and I also did two of the small Heroquest boxes.
Just basic paint jobs to get my to-do list down a bit.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Here's some stuff I painted recently and forgot to post.
I finally finished the Epic Encounters Local Legends Kickstarter box, and I also did two of the small Heroquest boxes.
Just basic paint jobs to get my to-do list down a bit.
I finally finished the Epic Encounters Local Legends Kickstarter box, and I also did two of the small Heroquest boxes.
Just basic paint jobs to get my to-do list down a bit.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys.
Thankyou 💔
Thankyou 💔
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys.
Thankyou 💔
Thankyou 💔
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Burn the gambling industry down. Seize the assets of every single company and plough them into mental health services. Sow the ground with salt.
Possibly crack out the guillotines as well.
Possibly crack out the guillotines as well.
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Burn the gambling industry down. Seize the assets of every single company and plough them into mental health services. Sow the ground with salt.
Possibly crack out the guillotines as well.
Possibly crack out the guillotines as well.
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This isn't a Wi-Fi outage, it's an ISP outage! Your Wi-FI was fine! This is a hill I will die on.
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This isn't a Wi-Fi outage, it's an ISP outage! Your Wi-FI was fine! This is a hill I will die on.
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Small point I hadn't noticed until someone highlighted it to me on the other site; a commentator who still thinks of a computer monitor as a "TV screen" is likely to be out of touch on other matters too.
I'm always quite sceptical of claims like this. The main barrier to data-led campaigns in Britain is the availability of data on registered voters, not the tech to analyse it
October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Small point I hadn't noticed until someone highlighted it to me on the other site; a commentator who still thinks of a computer monitor as a "TV screen" is likely to be out of touch on other matters too.
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It seems possible to me that they basically are just repeating, like a broken telephone, a message that is everywhere, mostly due to the deliberate perversion of our normal media channels through far-right propaganda, due to the artificial boosting of their messaging online.
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It seems possible to me that they basically are just repeating, like a broken telephone, a message that is everywhere, mostly due to the deliberate perversion of our normal media channels through far-right propaganda, due to the artificial boosting of their messaging online.
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Went canvassing tonight and I'm starting to develop a theory of the Reform, and indeed general anti-immigrationist phenomenon that goes something like this: it's a moral panic. In the traditional sense.
October 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Went canvassing tonight and I'm starting to develop a theory of the Reform, and indeed general anti-immigrationist phenomenon that goes something like this: it's a moral panic. In the traditional sense.
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This makes me furious beyond words. Keep your blood-dripping proboscis out of my society, you fucking vampire mosquito.
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This makes me furious beyond words. Keep your blood-dripping proboscis out of my society, you fucking vampire mosquito.
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Bland boilerplate is honestly sort of underrated. You don’t really *want* a big faceless organization or stranger trying to be your friend when giving you potentially bad news. Obviously actual personal empathy is better but that’s not always possible.
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Bland boilerplate is honestly sort of underrated. You don’t really *want* a big faceless organization or stranger trying to be your friend when giving you potentially bad news. Obviously actual personal empathy is better but that’s not always possible.
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The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.
I bought a bag of 8 random t shirts on clearance. Most of them were fine but I also got one of the worst shirts I've ever seen.
I cannot comprehend the mind that would willingly buy this.
I cannot comprehend the mind that would willingly buy this.
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I bought a bag of 8 random t shirts on clearance. Most of them were fine but I also got one of the worst shirts I've ever seen.
I cannot comprehend the mind that would willingly buy this.
I cannot comprehend the mind that would willingly buy this.
Here's a screenshot from the Times showing the office chairs they recommend buying.
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Here's a screenshot from the Times showing the office chairs they recommend buying.
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Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.
I did a quick paintjob of a green dragon and two trees today.
October 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I did a quick paintjob of a green dragon and two trees today.
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"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
jonn.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
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Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."
October 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."
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i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem
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Just a ridiculous joke of a country proclaiming it's "going for growth" and spending every waking moment instead focussed on vindictive cruelty to migrants.
What a waste of everyone's time.
What a waste of everyone's time.
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just a ridiculous joke of a country proclaiming it's "going for growth" and spending every waking moment instead focussed on vindictive cruelty to migrants.
What a waste of everyone's time.
What a waste of everyone's time.
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Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar.
Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.
Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵
Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.
Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵
October 21, 2023 at 9:52 AM
Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar.
Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.
Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵
Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.
Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵