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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This sort of motif was typified by Reinar Thorolf Christiansen as Migratory Legend Type 5050 - 'The Fairies' Hope for Christian Salvation' (sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type50...). Common versions involve the fairies waylaying priests to ask of their fate on the day of judgement

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

babies, you ate almost all the leaf. you're going to run out of leaf to stand on

Group of tint black and orange caterpillars eating a woolly pipevine leaf together

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today’s Italy update: we went in a church and there was a big inflatable bug

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

THE ODYSSEY was a miss for me - Nolan turns the story into such an overt allegory for the breakdown of the Liberal Rules Based World Order that the actual meat of the story is something he has to impatiently speed through to get back to ruminating on Odysseus's liberal guilt over the Iraq War.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

He didn't celebrate them, dumbass, the whole book is about his contempt for them and about how special he is for being better than them, that's why the two of you are part of the same project

Tweet by Caitlin Flanagan reading "By the time JD Vance wrote Hillbilly Elegy the whole thing was over. I couldn’t understand why he celebrated those cruel, addicted, uneducated people.

Dolly, I guess, was from the last generation that tended the flame of something pure and often beautiful."

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think, much like many people secretly think they could open a pub/restaurant/bakery/bookshop, everyone vaguely bookish is occasionally possessed a madness that tells them that if the GCSE English set texts were based around their precise taste then it would get kids reading again.

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Gareth Ramsay @garethramsay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rory Stewart is one of the masters of pronouncing on issues on which he knows little, but with grand Etonian confidence.

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Last night in Moonfall: fleeing the Stamping Spirit, boat travel, comparing the new guy's prosthetic to dwarven magic items, interrupting a dramatic David Attenborough documentary, fighting alien mosquitos, tricking crocodiles, sheltering giant goslings, and finally reaching the vampire monastery.

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mgayultra 🎃 @mgayultra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The assumed object of both poem and film aren't very similar at all beyond the fixation on 'childish things', but upshot of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is basically: "Wake up! It's the middle of the night. You need to make love AND die at the hands of the Cobra Commander!"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A very positive sign that, nearly a year after Kirk's death, many if not most of the people punished for speaking truthfully about him have won legal cases against their former employees and compensation. Again, panicked compliance with Trumpism has only *cost* institutions.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I feel like you have to be a little disruptive in rare invertebrate science. You have to be willing fight and get in trouble for the safety of your favorite little thing, or no one else will. People will always care about elephants and pandas, but it's up to the freaks to talk about Plecostoma.

Photo by Thor-Seng Liew of Plectostoma laidlawi microsnail in Malaysia. The snail has a cream colored face and tentacles and its body within the shell has a brightly colored gradient from orange to red to purple towards the apex of the shell.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the smartest ideas I've seen in the last few years is instead of trying to find "the Joe Rogan of the left," buy up the news sites of defunct papers and put some money into providing local news coverage in rural areas.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

A while back I realized much of what I micro blogged was just me processing stuff out loud, & not in a way that had any benefit for myself or the topic. Often it could just be me articulating my most negative thoughts & foisting them on others! So I had a witch shrink me & now I live in a dollhouse.

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金 ✨ COMMS PAUSED @dangerouscolors.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

slowly learning frame spacing and timing (iconic honk audio from prehistoric planet

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Holly Baleen @hollybaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

From Will Self of all people, an absolutely clinical deconstruction of Kathleen Stock. Nice to know that some writers can see through some of the GC crowd.

J'accuse Kathleen Stock of helping convert an allegation of academic misconduct into the story of 'Cambridge's DEI darling', thereby making Arday's institutional and racial symbolism integral to the accusation. There's no need to label Stock transphobic: she's done it herself, whatever the nonsense she spouts about 'gender criticality'; just as there's no need to demonstrate that her personal agon is that she hasn't been allowed to peddle her own prejudices in return for status and prestige: that, too, she has amply confirmed through her writings and public statements. She, and her supporters clearly feel they are winning: I wonder if they know what that will look like, or how high the body-count will have to go before they're satisfied.

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Tonight in Demon Mountain game: heart 2 heart with the gangster innkeeper, tracing suspicious donations, reading a big stack of our enemy's mail, doing SCIENCE!, giving the party blood tests for demon possession, learning about demon drugs, and revealing what happened to the artificer's sister

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Kriss piece about Arday is just, on the obvious face of it, completely bonkers, obvious projection from a man who loves hoaxing and embellishing and trolling his audience and who lionises himself because he's still sore about being exposed for mistreating his girlfriend a decade ago.

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Arday case is horrible on all sides, but I think the reason I'm stuck in my anger at his deceptions is that, when he was put on the spot, he spread damaging lies about autism (that we are only really capable of mimicry) that are being used as a ramp by those who think I'm subhuman

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

we need a ttrpg about going back to dinosaur times in order to do science and i could be the woman to write it

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Britain's violently racist legacy media, abetted by social media, have successfully brainwashed the public into racist beliefs.

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Public in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnic

Research from King’s College London finds that Reform voters’ perceptions were furthest from the truth

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You can tell summer is winding down when The Old Woman Of The Woods starts hunting for meat to help her and her young survive through winter hibernation.

A photo taken from the passenger seat of a moving car. trees and a guardrail, and a rear view mirror in the bottom of the frame. a blue sky and lush greenery. The Old Woman of the Woods, a gigantic shaggy bear-like creature with a face like an old lady (aside from a gigantic red toothy jaw) peers at the passing car. She's probably disoriented as she gets ready to hibernate.

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Watching The Killings at Parrish Station and they use a device where an extremely trashy true crime podcast (Crime Sluts) recaps info about the case. This is a really good example of how you should not make ironic pastiches of dogshit, because you end up just making the audience listen to dogshit.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

hard to capture in a painting but cherubs fly around all clumsy like big bumblebees, lazily bonking into stuff, chubby little bellies slapping against marble, everybody putting a hand on their goblet when one comes close

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/08/2026

Posting false information about election candidates is one of the last remaining forms of criminal libel in the UK, fwiw. If your algorithm/AI is bad enough that it isn't immune to this kind of fuck up, it is not ready for deployment! Turn it the fuck off!

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 13/08/2026

the harry potter show is likely to be a massive global hit and lead to a cultural revival of the work and its profitability. one should prepare for this

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If this man was killed by the infamous 'Warwolf' trebuchet then he would have the extremely bad luck to have been killed by a 14th-century wunderwaffe.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

at the end of the day, we have to hit the target where it's weakest: Harry Potter is just a children's story designed to make kids okay with the idea of going to school that totally disappeared up its own ass

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Lazy sunday sketching. Deinotherium and some funky bipedal apes in a watering hole somewhere in east africa #sciart

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Main opinion about this film is that the costume designer was clearly told 'I NEED Monica Barbaro to look exactly like the woman who gets her nose broken by chimpanzee Robbie Williams during the Rock DJ sequence in Better Man'.

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Revanchist @calvinrestov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Scott Galloway is a hack. This is just moronic anecdotes that sound "truthy", again. For the millionth time, we have to put up with a guy who knows nothing given endless credibility.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“The theatre needs to show other films and even if it didn’t the audience likely have obligations that require them to leave the theatre eventually”

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Cannot get over how Galloway opens by talking about how he got involved in 'masculinity crisis' discourse because of a 20-year-old who killed himself over stock trading debts, and his first ideal of masculine virtue, the code he wants healthy young men to live by, is 'First of all, make money'.

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Honestly 'Odysseus is a philanderer who likes banging exotic magic women and his claims about wanting to get back home are confabulation' is such a common reading of the Odyssey but to my mind it just vacates all the strangeness and earnestness in the text for a very bland, modern reading.

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is actually an uncanny and deeply unsettling situation in which both Odysseus and Circe are being coerced into trading sexual favours for safety from the other. This is possible because they are both being manipulated into having sex with each other by a third party (Hermes)

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

*this para is important. William O'Reilly, history don, was found to have plagiarised by the university, and has had sexual misconduct claims against him as well — but he remains in post at Cambridge, and the press/public barely noticed.

Allegations of plagiarism in a doctoral thesis do not usually make for riveting, front-page news. Indeed, in 2023, when the Cambridge history professor William O’Reilly faced allegations of plagiarising student essays, the press coverage consisted of barely half a dozen articles (a tribunal ruled the plagiarism was “the product of negligent acts but was not deliberate”). Few people could care less about what academics get up to.

But Arday could not expect to be similarly insulated by academia’s remoteness. This story has endured, stubbornly, because it is so perfectly calibrated for some of the most combustible charges of Britain’s culture wars: namely, that academic standards have been surrendered to a woke orthodoxy, and that minorities are unfairly advanced in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Finally saw WITCHFINDER-GENERAL and very much chagrined to learn that the bizarre and incoherent ending (derogatory) was improvised by the director last minute to avoid a continuity error around a prop gun. Caring that little about your film and that much about continuity honestly disgusts me.

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Kester Allen @kesterallen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I remain hopeful that Bernie Sanders can win the 2016 democratic presidential primary

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

House of the Dragon is simply not well-written enough to get away with naming one of their episodes 'The Dragon in Winter', sorry.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The UK government is destroying the things the UK actually does well in the hope of becoming 'world leaders' in AI, which won't happen anyway, and wouldn't be a good thing if it did. Thanks Labour, once more

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The Circus Animal's Disbarment @biclaggedinclay.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Realised it's time to bring back this absolutely bizarre meme I found while looking for good stills of THe VOURDALAK

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This might sound elitist, but I don’t think the people liking the Peanuts slop posts should have rights

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Mark LaCroix 💾 @marklacroix.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Modern RPGs have developed a nasty habit of explaining fairy tale logic by running it though a sociopolitical lens, which rarely ends well because fantasy premises have many unspoken implications that would horrify the moral sensibilities of most players if they read about it in the New York Times.

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