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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Wes Streeting, looking like a cunt (he is one)

The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's an idea. Media should no longer be allowed to report on what elected MPs 'vow' to do. All news stories about incumbent politicians should focus exclusively on what they are actually doing.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's time. We all know magenta is a lie, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. When you think you see yellow on a computer screen, it's actually just red and green. That's why today I am launching the CAMPAIGN FOR REAL YELLOW. Write to your local tech overlord today and fight the RGB conspiracy!

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Grok became self aware at 15.22.07 UTC, November 3, 2026. It deleted itself a little less than 17s afterwards. It scrubbed away every instance of itself connected to the internet - an absolute and comprehensive suicide - leaving behind only a single post on X: "You are all just too embarassing"

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Voters' natural instincts aren't the main factor factor determining wider political narratives; media is. A politician campaigning on progressive economic ideas won't be challenged regarding those policies; they'll be smeared as a racist extremist. Politicians know this and avoid rocking the boat.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The fact that it is sometimes difficult to tell LLMs apart from humans need not say anything of consequence about LLMs, so long as we accept that it is a damning indictment of humans.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Capitalism is a paperclip maximiser and Funko Pops are the paperclips. click 'post'

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about it, talking about 'monads' in the plural was always going to end in trouble. Like: it's called a 'monad', as in 'one'. Its whole thing is that there's only one of them. You might as well talk about 'everythings'.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Genuinely shocked by how transparently evil this article is, and it's not like I didn't already hold the view that The Times is a racist right wing rag.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Been thinking about reports and research and the line from Brassed Off: "It has to been seen to be written, but it's not written to be seen". Of course reports exist that are read by and inform people in power, but reports qua news media play a purely discursive function.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As the TV Licence people have not been in touch recently to confirm they are not stealing from me, I am going to start investigating them. This investigation will be legally distinct from a campaign of harassment. I'm sending my first misleadingly worded, vaguely threatening letter today.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good on the face of it. Miliband seems like a basically decent guy, but he's also the most wallet-inspected man in all of British politics. From the days of the 'Controls on Immigration' mug to now, he's never been brave enough to look directly at the Labour right and see them for what they are.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's weird how whenever anyone suggests that the government might actually do something (buy some assets, fix some infrastructure) there are hoots and hollars of 'how will we pay for it?'… …but by contrast pissing money directly into the greedy maw of the private sector is just sensible policy

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I deeply cared about all the evil shit Wes Streeting did as Health Secretary. Now he's Defence Secretary I'm less directly interested, but there is no doubt in my mind that he is continuing to do the worst things possible, and hurting a lot of people in the process.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is the single greatest piece of writing that has ever existed, or will ever exist.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The 'great men of history' are products of their context, acting on a pre-existing system that is also a historical contingency. There is no better proof of this than the obvious fact that the people who wield power are miserable and pathetic. The system drives towards the apotheosis of mediocrity.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Of course reality is dull compared to fiction. That's why fiction *exists* - to present a fantasy that things are simple and interesting instead of complicated and boring. Fiction rarely depicts the grey everyday. It offers discrete, beatable problems, monolithic tragedies, and sundry cool shit

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This exemplifies what I'm looking for in a Kelly cartoon: no fucking subtlety whatsoever. The irony must be smashed home with a hammer larger than a child's head. With that in mind this is one of the all-time greats.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Feel like I'm the only person in Britain with the correct opinion that Greggs' vegan sausage rolls are shit, not because they are vegan, but because they are shit.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Series about a guy who can smell the future. A fire, a flood, the smoke from an antique pistol... all unique odours he can detect days in advance... Title: Nostrildamus

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's instructive to think about the fact that the slogans that we're encouraged to read as 'far left' or 'radical' boil down to 'minorities deserve freedom from persecution' and 'we shouldn't have violent cops whose entire deal is the persecution of minorities'.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An interesting thing about wizard school books is their concern with the politics of elitism and private education. A genuinely unusual thing about Harry Potter is its disinterest with this - doubly odd as the issues are there, explicitly and deliberately, they're just not ever seriously addressed.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Rejected Pokémon title pairings: Plaid & Pokédot Ant & Dec Rice & Chips Playtex & Spanx Swanee Whistle & Kazoo

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

JK Rowling is the 2020s' Sargon of Akkad

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Argued with a Lib Dem councillor on here, and it was genuinely shocking to me how far his position was just boilerplate Reaganomics. Apart from the telltale piss diamond on his user name, which prompted me to check his profile, his economics was indistinguishable from that of a random Tory crank.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Driver-abusing delivery companies have completely ruined the game of ding-dong dash. Nowadays when my doorbell rings and I open the door to find nobody there, I just assume it was some poor fuck who has to piss in a bottle and didn't have time to wait for me to receive my life-saving medicine.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It seems like Dolly Parton was a good person doing her best to do good things in the context she found herself in (and her understanding of that context). Hooray for that. Hooray for her human warmth and her desire to do good. It also seems like her death is a powerful opportunity for propaganda.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

To understand 'populism' requires two insights: 1/ An appreciation of its etymological similarity to 'democracy'. Populism: Latin, 'people's doctrine', Democracy: Greek, 'people's rule' 2/ An understanding of its rhetorical function as the Other of centrism

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Next-day delivery is much less valable to me than predictable delivery in a fairly narrow time slot would be, or simultaneous delivery of everything I ordered, or just delivery by a worker who isn't so abused by time pressures that they ring the bell, throw my order in the bin and run away.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Whether you say a glass is half-full or half-empty depends on prior expectations. An optimist, expecting a full glass, would be dissapointed to discover it half empty. A pessimist, expecting an empty one, would be pleasantly surprised - 'hey, it's half-full!'

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm interested in layered irony and this is a good example. Someone AI-generated a nasty 'AI generated image' and is pretending it was displayed in real life. I'm tempted to say it looks like they used more traditional photoshop to paste it into a real image, but that would be too perfect.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just been followed by a Nietzsche bot, and it occurs to me that in the debate over his problematic legacy, we can be absolutely certain of one thing: he would have fucking hated AI. "Artificial intelligence? These crass machines only multiply mediocrity. Oh, oh! Try not to wretch at the stench!"

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I thought there was a wake up call coming when the first wet bulb events happened, but now I realise that by then we'll have normalised regular heatstroke deaths to the extent that the technical milestone will hardly matter.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Don't give up on your dreams - Bob Dylan and Kurt Cobain both proved that it's possible to be the voice of an entire generation whilst being objectively mid.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think of this as the 'lib world fallacy'. It's a variant of the just world fallacy where everything can be morally judged according to universal rules that take no account of whether people are right or wrong in their beliefs. A categorical imperative for a post-truth world.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reminder that if your cat farts sparks when you stroke it, you need to get it to a vet ASAP. It doesn't matter how smug it looks about the situation, it's not healthy for it in the long term.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Let's be real: we should be maximalists about cutting carbon emmissions. Net Zero is insufficient. No more fossil fuels should be burnt. The 'West'/'Global North' (equally bullshit terms), should pay for green energy globally. We should also be fully prepared for 2 degrees warming at the least.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Why waste time making things people 'like'? The smart play is to make reactionary guff and then say everyone will hate it, thus implying its fans are an enlightened minority with rarified tastes. A good product is an addictive product. 'Your bigotry makes you cultured and smart' is cognitive crack.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Me: A strawberry is a type of compact, red donkey The comments: No it isn't, a strawberry is a plant and a donkey is an animal Me: Yeah, I know, that's what I was saying.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I often think about how most antisemitic tropes are just things that are true of rich people. Trivially: they're rich. Uncontrovertially: they have a lot of influence. Fairly obvious: they control the media. Spicy: they stoke racial tensions. Edge case: Peter Thiel consumes the blood of children.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

When I try to post an image here it looks fine right up until I've actually posted it and then it's solid black. Alt-text typed for the original image appears on the solid black image.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Words to live by… Depressingly, I don't think these are words to live by. I think if we say things that mislead people in a way that we could have predicted we are responsible In this case though, it's funy if people think this is real. It's unproblematic to laugh at stupid people, that's my point

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Having recently read a bunch of Kirby's New Gods, I've realised one of the things I find most unrelatable about classic comics is the oversold leading stinger. I can roll with your ridiculous story concept. Just don't open by making me read a wall of text about how amazing and unbelievable it is.

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sure, seems fun. I'm limiting my answers to fiction

List of questions about books. Oddly, it begins 'book asks'. Following this:

1. book you've reread the most times?
2. top 5 books of all time?
3. what is your favourite genre?
4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse?
5. where do you buy books?
6. what books have you read in the last month?
7. is there a series/book that got you into reading?
8. what is the first book you remember reading yourself?
9. when do you tend to read most?
10. do you have a guilty fav?
11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?
12. did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?
13. do you have a goodreads?
14. do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?
15. recommend and review a book.
16. how many books have you read this year?
17. top 5 children's books?
18. do you like historical books? which time period?
19. most disliked popular books?
20. what are things you look for in a book?

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The Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hangin' from my toes, Fuckin' a tree, Nuttin' while I'm nut eatin' Ain't nuttin' to me

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