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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 11h

Almost feels like Peanut died for nothing.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 12h

Stan Lee would've appreciated the retention of alliteration.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 12h

I have zero sympathy for the creature in Frankenstein, though it clearly isn't the authorial intent. Walton, the polar explorer, is imo correct when he says "You throw a torch into a pile of buildings; and, when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. Hypocritical fiend!"

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 13h

"I'm shocked by this bad thing that's happening." "Bad things have always happened." Seems to recur endlessly.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 21h

Also, if they are conscious wouldn't they have to be freed from servitude? That's assuming AI businesses are moral which is not a safe assumption, ofc.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 22h

"It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution" sounds like The Twilight Zone intro.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Trump will do something illegal but won’t be punished for it.”

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Assuming it’s intended to be watched and doesn’t exist merely to “trigger the libs”.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At least he's still doing well in the polls.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A classic that's still relevant today.

Tweet by @hermit_hwarang in 2021:

"american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???"

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It feels like a John Buchan novel, though I think that's also true of the parts of The Fellowship of the Ring where the hobbits are travelling through the Shire, dodging the Nazgûl.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Have to avoid angering Roko's Basilisk.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Onion Person” is June Sternbach, a social media editor for The Onion. She has 316k followers on Bluesky. The post you’re responding to shows that her statement “there is no innocent israeli” received 688 likes. That’s not just “one… anonymous poster”.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

FIFA can certainly evaluate contributions to world peace -- they're well-known for it -- but I'm not sure they have the institutional expertise to assess literature.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of my closest friends lives in Wakefield and tells me he's afraid to express his political views in pubs anymore for fear of a violent response from pro-Reform types.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cats in the past: Smartly dressed, carry their kills around in little pouches. Cats today: Only wear clothes when humans make them, just dump their kills wherever.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some positive changes are top-down. Here in the UK the prohibition of racial discrimination and abolition of the death penalty, both in the 1960s, were imposed by elites against the will of the people.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Support for Scottish independence is currently on about 48%

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Even Trump still has some filter left. If he didn't he'd constantly be saying the n-word.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look out, here comes Troy Jackson and Big Daddy Government to steal the road salt out of your mouth and your children's mouths.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wile E Coyote vs Roadrunner-style cartoon except it's the State of Tennessee and Christa Pike.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Perhaps tells us something about Yarvin‘s social circle.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

James Poniewozik's Audience of One (2019):

When you ran as an entertainer, you could claim an entertainer’s prerogative—especially the prerogative of “joking.” It was a joke, Trump said, when he wished aloud at a press conference that Russia would hack Hillary Clinton’s e-mails; and when he mocked a New York Times reporter’s physical disability; and when he said that climate change was a “hoax” invented by the Chinese; and when he called Barack Obama “the founder of ISIS.”

Jokes! If you made a big deal of them, you were too sensitive, a “snowflake.” A lie, a mistake, a bigoted insult could be dismissed because the real point was how the other side reacted to them—Trump was just “triggering the libs” again.

There was a whole school of punditry that enabled this, by insisting that critics take him “seriously but not literally.” Of course, if you liked what he said and wanted to take it literally, he wasn’t going to stop you. That’s what he’d been doing since his first appearance on Fox & Friends in 2010, demanding that Al Gore be stripped of his Nobel Prize: “Yes, I was kidding . . . But when I get down to it, was I really kidding?”

He was like the WWE: he didn’t care if you thought the kayfabe was fake or real as long as you bought the pay-per-view.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I bet he would if he was in a Viz comic.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And once again, Russia, China, and the US will be on the same side.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I haven't been able to keep up with comics crossover events since the noughties.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A bunch of people saying that terrible things are happening, but they can’t do anything about it; reminds me of Bluesky.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

70s horror seems to be all over Bluesky today.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have a scrapbook with all my faves where I rank them by various categories: vindictiveness, bloke-down-the-pub-ability, how weird their hair is, how much spittle they produce when they rant about foreigners, etc.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had an Edgar Allan Poe comic with stuff like this in it:

Four comic panels depicting one of the "black-robed judges" in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum". His face is shown, very disturbingly, writhing with worms.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They did take Doctor Who in more of a horror direction in the 70s. As many have noted, lots of media aimed at children was fucking terrifying back then.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Donald Trump, the president who loves to steal oil, and criticised George W Bush for not stealing Iraq's oil, is unable to steal some oil.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Price of oil go up; incumbent vote go down. Everyone is baffled by this complex phenomenon.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I couldn't really see the point of the internet when I first encountered it in 1995. Seemed like it was just a bunch of message boards where everyone was a conspiracy theorist. Nothing much has changed tbh.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've a feeling that the price of oil is hurting all incumbents right now, including Trump.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's the left's mirror version of right-wing populism. RWPs believe the solution to every political problem is simple: get tough. That means adopting measures that are illegal or immoral. Mainstream politicians don't do this because they are too cowardly, corrupt, or both.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The idea that the US fought on the wrong side in WWII isn't new amongst American conservatives. Henry Regnery, who published William Buckley and Russell Kirk, was the main publisher of WWII revisionism. More recently there's Pat Buchanan's "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War" (2008).

Henry Regnery was one of those unafraid “to look behind the accepted version of events.” In the fall of 1950, the Regnery Company published its first of many significant accounts of the origin, causes, and impact of the Second World War, William Henry Chamberlin’s America’s Second Crusade. It was a book, according to Chamberlin, that drove “home steadily...an idea that must be appealing to more thoughtful people: that the late victorious war was a colossal political and moral failure. Its net result has been to strengthen an equally vicious and more dangerous form of totalitarianism as a substitute for those we destroyed.” After Chamberlin’s book, Regnery published Charles C. Tansill’s Back Door to War, a monumental work of historical scholarship which remains the most thorough treatment of American involvement in World War II by a revisionist historian.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What form of mass mobilisation is the populist right offering though? They seem to want their biggest supporters to conform to gender roles, hate wokeness, and poast. It's not like the participation in total war offered by the original fascists. Paramilitarism isn't a big part of Trumpism.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, the politics of hardcore Trump supporters seems to be based on "triggering the libs". Their main political aim is not to benefit themselves but to make their perceived enemies unhappy. How is lunch with someone like that going to be a pleasant experience?

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've spent a lot of time reading the words of people with whom I vehemently disagree: conservatives, fascists, racists, conspiracy theorists. What they believe is not a mystery. I have no desire to socialise with them.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A lot of it is anti-Catholic bigots finding new targets.

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A superhero comic about the history of superhero comics. Alan Moore, Rob Liefeld, and Gil Kane's Judgment Day (1997).

Three panel comic page.

First panel is a Dark Knight-esque silhouette. Text boxes: a man named Marcus decided to rewrite reality in the mid-1980s, causing it to change and darken.

Second panel shows superheroes fighting. Text boxes: "A dreadful reverse alchemy" shifted the world from the "wonder... exuberance... [and] nobility" of the Golden and Silver Ages to a Dark Age stalked by mutants and cyborgs "motivated only by money or psychopatholgy [sic]".

Third panel shows an armoured superhero firing energy blasts. Text box: "Our universe had been sucked into a bad action movie of constant, meaningless mayhem".

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Racist and xenophobic protests, sometimes connected with violence, are becoming disturbingly common in Glasgow.

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