Adam B
@xarrion.bsky.social
Humanist, system developer, geek, Internet patron, list-maker. Juggler of a hundred projects, conqueror of none (yet). He/him. Also @[email protected]
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was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read
“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world
Check this out. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 1, 2026 at 4:06 AM
was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos reportedly received a standing ovation.
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos reportedly received a standing ovation.
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
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Right - women are a plot device in a male psychodrama, the good girl who dies in the first act to spur the hero to Do What It Takes, the proverbial Woman in the Refrigerator. It doesn't have to be literal death - Graham Linehan is living out this fantasy with hypothetical women.
The conservative rhetoric around protecting women makes more sense once you understand that victims exist purely as a hypothetical for them. Once a victim actually claims the label, they become a threat. This is also why they prefer dead women to living victims.
January 11, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Right - women are a plot device in a male psychodrama, the good girl who dies in the first act to spur the hero to Do What It Takes, the proverbial Woman in the Refrigerator. It doesn't have to be literal death - Graham Linehan is living out this fantasy with hypothetical women.
Almost scrolled past this as a cool (static) fractal thing, but made it full screen to get a better look and was mesmerised for a few minutes as it morphed between patterns.
(Mathematical art, I guess.)
Phase-shifting the Fourier transform of a regular 14-gon. Or equivalently: seven plane waves meeting at equal angles.
Phase-shifting the Fourier transform of a regular 14-gon. Or equivalently: seven plane waves meeting at equal angles.
January 11, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Almost scrolled past this as a cool (static) fractal thing, but made it full screen to get a better look and was mesmerised for a few minutes as it morphed between patterns.
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"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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"I always say and believe we should all uphold international law, but-"
That's the start of Keir Starmer's speech on Venezuela. You don't really need to see the rest.
And no, that's not parody Keir. It's real. Although they seem to be converging.
I don't detect anything resembling a spine here.
That's the start of Keir Starmer's speech on Venezuela. You don't really need to see the rest.
And no, that's not parody Keir. It's real. Although they seem to be converging.
I don't detect anything resembling a spine here.
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
"I always say and believe we should all uphold international law, but-"
That's the start of Keir Starmer's speech on Venezuela. You don't really need to see the rest.
And no, that's not parody Keir. It's real. Although they seem to be converging.
I don't detect anything resembling a spine here.
That's the start of Keir Starmer's speech on Venezuela. You don't really need to see the rest.
And no, that's not parody Keir. It's real. Although they seem to be converging.
I don't detect anything resembling a spine here.
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The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.
December 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
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I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Gender criticals: "Listen to women! Unless you're Girlguides or the Women's Institute or you disagree with the male judge who wrote this decision or if you don't 'look like a woman' or if you're a trans man because then you're definitely a man."
Everyone will suffer from this madness. Everyone.
Everyone will suffer from this madness. Everyone.
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender criticals: "Listen to women! Unless you're Girlguides or the Women's Institute or you disagree with the male judge who wrote this decision or if you don't 'look like a woman' or if you're a trans man because then you're definitely a man."
Everyone will suffer from this madness. Everyone.
Everyone will suffer from this madness. Everyone.
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SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you.
Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.
Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.
The Women's Institute has been forced into excluding trans women too
"Not doing so would leave us at risk of costly legal challenge and potential regulatory action from the Charity Commission. We have a public duty to ensure our charity is not in breach of the law."
www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre...
"Not doing so would leave us at risk of costly legal challenge and potential regulatory action from the Charity Commission. We have a public duty to ensure our charity is not in breach of the law."
www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre...
Press Releases
www.thewi.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you.
Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.
Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.
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Idiots: "The arts have no purpose"
Me:
Me:
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Idiots: "The arts have no purpose"
Me:
Me:
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And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
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fair play i enjoyed this
Hope is here.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
fair play i enjoyed this
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This suddenly came to mind, good night all.
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This suddenly came to mind, good night all.
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Boris Johnson promised to govern as an amiable and cynical clown. He positioned himself as a clown, the country elected a clown and then we were governed by a clown, as demanded.
Starmer presented himself as a serious man for serious times. What did we get? More clown.
Starmer presented himself as a serious man for serious times. What did we get? More clown.
This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Boris Johnson promised to govern as an amiable and cynical clown. He positioned himself as a clown, the country elected a clown and then we were governed by a clown, as demanded.
Starmer presented himself as a serious man for serious times. What did we get? More clown.
Starmer presented himself as a serious man for serious times. What did we get? More clown.