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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 11/10/2026

the Brits are Briting at an increasing rate, scientists very concerned

"There's a very well-established set of definitions in law of what constitutes racism, so I don't think it's for party political conferences to decide what is and is not racism," Swinney told the PA news agency.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 13/08/2026

sit on the fence any harder and you'll get splinters up your backside

"Labour needs to talk about women. If I say that, your thoughts probably jump to one particular debate. You may be thinking about JK Rowling, you may be thinking about David Tennant. You are thinking about how the next government is going to respond to the tension between those who recognise the reality of biological sex, and those who want to ensure that trans people can live comfortably in their chosen gender.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 22/07/2026

Britain today vs Britain in the '40s (latter from the auto bio of Leslie Mitchell, BBC radio announcer)

Instead, trans civil servants must only use facilities which are mixed sex or unisex, or opt to use toilets that match their biological sex.
The guidance, seen by Metro, makes clear that access to toilets 'is a matter for the Department to manage and cannot be decided by you alone'.

I woke one morning to find that my voice had all but gone, just at
the start of a heavy day. On my way to work, I stopped at a chemist
who diagnosed laryngitis and offered me some very unpleasant pills
which, he said, should do the trick although they would not make me
<i>feel</i> very good. The pills were to be taken every half-hour in water.
Arriving at Alexandra Palace, I made my way to the men's room for a
drink of water and took my first dose. In the office, we were coping
with a series of announcements, preparing a studio presentation and
planning the outline for a forthcoming outside broadcast.
At the end of half an hour, I trailed along to the cloakroom once
more for water with which to take my second pill. After the third
journey and third pill, I decided to telephone for a glass and a carafe of
water to be sent to my office.
"Who is that," said the voice. "Ah, Mr Mitchell, I'm afraid you are
not <i>entitled</i> to a carafe of water and a glass, sorry,"
I slammed the receiver down and called up the Head of Television.
"You got me here, Gerald," I croaked, "and I really have just about
had enough. I've just been told that I'm not entitled to a carafe of
water in spite of the fact that I'm atting here with laryngitis, prepar-
ing and writing two programmes and will be on duty for the rest of the
day. If I can't have a carafe, you'll have no announcer!"
Smoothing me down with his accustomed understanding, Gerald
promised me that if I coukd keep my temper, the carafe would arrive,
As indeed it did — on a small circular tray, carried by a diminuitive
office-boy. Behind him loomed the head af the department. Waiting
until the boy had left, he stared at me with a smouldering eye and
announced, “Mitchell, as you see you now have a carafe of water and a
glass to which you are not properly entitled. I want to make it clear
that this is solely because <i>I</i> have changed my mind."

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 15/07/2026

ummm excuse me have you heard of petit-bourgeois guilds? perhaps a battle that happened a century ago? what about a folk singer who died sixty years ago? checkmate libs

Ever hear of a Farmer's Co-Op? How about the history of the term "redneck"? Ever hear of Woody Guthrie? Speaking about people and places you have no knowledge of is one of the most ignorant things a person can do, but you're doing it with your whole chest. I suggest you STFU and try listening.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 03/06/2026

British elite society, especially in the workplace, runs on inflicting humiliations on one's perceived lessers in order to maintain a hierarchy that has been running, with less alteration than you'd think, for centuries. See anecdote from ~7 decades ago (leslie mitchell autobio)

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 23/05/2026

Choosing to believe Noel was the guy who yelled at Swan Boy after hitting him with his car that SB's writing about in his tumblr(?) in this old panel. That's why Andrea thought that SB hit Noel with his car. Swan Boy has epic Lore and intertwined vendettas like a soap opera

A panel from an old Swan Boy strip where SB is writing on his macbook. "dear diary, you'll never guess who yelled at me today! It was Rona (also Noel)
I made a joke about the Brave Little Toaster dying and she got so mad that I was like 'holy shit was he a readl dude?' but it turns out he's fake and she just had an intense childhood
Also got hit by a car today! The guy was like 'you gotta pay attention!' and I was like 'you gotta not hit me with a car!' and he saw the wisdom in that"

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 10/05/2026

tfw you grew up a coddled american in the pax americana of the 90s/00s and so existential threats aren't real, fascists just made them up to scare you. also you really really badly want to call people faggots

Bsky post that reads "'But it was written by a gay liberal!' Yeah gay liberals tend to be right wing by any sand definition of the term. We've been saying that for decades."

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 12/04/2026

This anecdote from the autobiography of Leslie Mitchell (wartime BBC radio presenter) has been kind of a skeleton key for me understanding the specific ways in which British media is fucked up

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 07/04/2026

Mona Charen, who thinks supporting LGBT children is child abuse? Mona Charen, who thinks rape victims had it coming for being too feminist? If she’s not a “hateful person” in your opinion, I shudder to think who is!

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 05/04/2026

you soft handed civilians will never understand killing every random shepherd and teenager in three kilometers so Our Precious Warfighters don’t have to spend the rest of the war opening red cross care packages

US MQ-9 Reaper drones protected the crew member by striking Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of the Airman.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 08/02/2026

this is not a flex because aella is either deeply malicious or too dumb to consent to sex. winner of the 2nd Traudl Junge “it would have been possible to find out” award

tweet thread where aella and grimes slowly realize they both have literally gotten into bed with the modern Nazi party

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 12/01/2026

you have to go to sleep hating beltway journalists and wake up hating them more. whenever you feel like "i can't do this anymore" someone who went to the NYT straight out of Yale smiles. when you do something nice for yourself or achieve a personal goal they scowl and fume

"I mean, it wasn't just the fact that Trump was a gravy train. It's also juxtaposed (against) the most boring administration in modern history. You go from a circus with flaming chainsaws to ... what? An old man watching his dog?"

"I loved covering Trump. It was a great and fascinating story. It wasn't just about him; it was about his movement and the institutions and America. The story was always so dramatic and had these larger than life characters. The stakes often felt very high. I like covering Biden, too, but it just doesn't feel as dramatic."

"We're so back," one reporter whispered to another. All of the chairs in the White House briefing room were filled, and reporters and photographs were crammed into every available nook and cranny.

President Trump
Do you think Biden would do an interview like this? I don't think
So.
Karoline Leavitt
Let's wrap it up, guys.
President Trump
You know where he'd be, right now? He'd be on the floor.
Katie Rogers
He did not do one.
David E. Sanger
We never had an interview with President Biden.
Karoline Leavitt
He changed his phone number after Tyler called him.
Tyler Pager
I did call him and he did change his number.
President Trump
I didn't.
David E. Sanger
But Tyler called you and you didn't change your number. If Putin
rejected the 20-point plan or just drags it out, are you prepared to
go rearm Ukraine?

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 28/12/2025

it’s so fucking funny to be woke enough to have pronouns in bio and be mad about ICE yet also be posting literal NSDAP propaganda and Holocaust denial. Let’s hear it for Swedish neutrality!

An assertion that “Stalin killed between twice and three times as many people as Hitler” and “Soviet gulags and mass executions were worse than anything Hitler did”

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 28/12/2025

a frenchman has no history in common with a german and it’s impossible to make one big country out of many smaller ones

dejected napoleon at elba on a white background captioned “there is nothing we can do”. kinda looks like an album cover

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 27/12/2025

TODAY IS THE DAY THAT PRATFALLS LEARN TO WALK UPRIGHT

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 15/12/2025

i don't want to shock anyone, but perhaps this british substacker has ulterior motives for wanting the left around again. now that he's all alone with the hard right and they've started kicking *him* instead.

bluesky user residentadviser.bsky.social posting "No, it's a victory for gender critical feminists. The reason why it's not a triumph of one group over another in our society is preciesly because the GC position was never about one group trumping another. Just preventing one group trumping another."

bluesky user residentadviser.bsky.social posting "FWIW I think Rowling and Hodges are right. Rowling is right that it's compelled speech and perfectly reasonable to use sexed pronouns. But I personally think you can indulge a social fiction a little bit (but only for some people and in areas where it doesn't hugely matter).

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 04/12/2025

me looking for normie Dem pro-palestinian protests for two full years:

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 25/11/2025

If you keep tugging your forelock like that, it'll come off!

A screenshot of bluesky, in which three british posters say the following about the right to jury trial being removed for most offenses:
"Good idea. Getting unqualified members of the public to preside over complex issues has always seemed ridiculous to me?"
"I was a jury member on an armed robbery case. One member of the jury said 'He must be guilty otherwise the police wouldn't have him here'. Even the simple cases are beyond some."
"Exactly the same thing was said to me when I was on Jury Service. Most didn't want to be there."

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 23/11/2025

Which country is Maale Adumim in? Which country is Gush Etzion in?

A screenshot of the Nefesh B'Nefesh website, encouraging viewers to move to the illegal settlement of Maale Adumim by describing it as having "all the advantages of a city [...] clean and pleasant, surrounded by palm trees and a breathtaking desert view, [...] only 20 minutes from downtown Jerusalem."

A screenshot of the Nefesh B'Nefesh website encouraging viewers to move to the illegal settlement of Gush Etzion, extolling its "diversity, expressed in the variety of settlements and the mixture of religious, secular, traditional, and Haredi communities."

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 28/10/2024

enraptured by the minor DC Comics supervillain "Torque", whose super powers are that his head's on backwards and he's Irish

a screenshot of the dc comics character "Torque" sittng by the hospital bed of the character "Blockbuster". He says "Look at th' mighty, Roland Desmond. Machines t'breathe for you. Machines t'eat for you. Machines for heaven knows what. I've changed me mind."

His head's on backwards, like it's twisted all the way around and he's facing towards his own back. If he looked down he could see his butt. This is his *super power*.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 25/10/2024

Eternal jihad on New York personal essays in magazines! If you have a crippling neurosis, write a book and then throw that book in the Hudson! Death to NYmag! Death to the New Yorker! Death to the Atlantic! A thousand curses on the eastern seaboard in general!

"The only problem was that, like some mouse in a cognitive behavior experiment, I began to crave that [e-bike motor acceleration] bump. It was the effect of the assist I wanted; it was the feeling of being assisted."

"It's a cheat!" my friend Rob Kotch, the owner of Breakaway Courier Systems, said, when I got him on the phone and asked him about electric bikes. "Everyone cheats now. They see Lance Armstrong do it. They see these one-percenters making a ton of money without doing anything. So they think, why do I have to work hard? So now it's ok for everyone to cheat. Everyone does it." [He is referring to riding an electric bike.]

"I [a woman in her 20s] wanted to know Tavi [a fourteen year old girl]. Or, I wanted Tavi to know me. I didn't think I should be the one to initiate. She probably wouldn't like that. To stand out, I should probably run into her the old-fashioned way. No, I should probably become successful myself."

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 20/10/2024

have you seen/tried X-Com Files? its a very long medpack that starts you out as an early X-Com a few years before the invasion proper, sending out your mulder and scully mod.io/g/openxcom/m...

A screenshot from The X-Com Files, showing a transportation item: PUBLIC/CAR. It's a car

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 26/09/2024

if you want a materialist reason why the state dept is going after comrade eric adams

A screenshot reading "New York leads in industrial garnet production and is a major producer of construction sand and gravel, crushed stone, and salt. It produces cement, common clay, dimension stone, industrial sand and gravel, natural gemstones, and peat." The words 'industrial garnet' are highlighted and in bold.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 30/08/2024

this and the fact that tech/entertainment/journalism are the industries that are doing worst in terms of layoffs may explain an awful lot of arguments. economic pain directly correlated to how online you are

an EPI graph of wage growth during the pandemic, divided into five groups based on wage tier. low-wage grew 13.2%, lower-middle wage grew 5.0%, middle-wage grew 3.0%, upper-middle wage grew 2.0%, and high-wage grew 4.4%. the fact that upper-middle had the lowest wage growth is significant.

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balrog bongcloud @balrogbongcloud.silmarillionaire.moe · 19/08/2024

heard you're sending your bf back to the old country so y'are now so y'are

A wikipedia map of a town called "Goonhusband" in Cornwall

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