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on a similar principle, fuck "culture war" as label for all the fash's rhetorical attacks, I'm calling it all "curtain-twitcher issues" now cause it's no grand battle, just the petty moral panic bullshit of pathetic weirdos governed by the cowardice of bigotry, a bunch of curtain-twitchers run amok.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 1h

Voting Labour now is a neoliberal fascist vote, and any idiots clinging to delusions otherwise who throw away their progressive vote on it are going to be fucking mortified and bitch about being "betrayed" by the Labour/Reform coalition that results if there's enough of them.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's Caravaggio's birthday again, good excuse to get people to watch Derek Jarman's extravagantly marvellous CARAVAGGIO (1986) (and look at some Caravaggio paintings).

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Matthew Jackson @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 1h

Caravaggio's birthday was yesterday so happy belated birthday to a certified badass.

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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 1h

It's eugenics, but it's also something stranger than eugenics, because, yes, chronically ill people are more susceptible to communicable disease, but it's not like anyone is immune. They are advocating to make everyone sicker. "Murder-suicide" theory of fascism as yet undefeated.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

one of the most important things you should learn from arguing online and other places is that the way to be open-minded is not to be more accepting of the outgroup -- rather you should be more willing to consider that the ingroup are clowns

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16h

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 13h

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 3h

It's all fratriarchy, all the way down (or up rather.)

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 3h

Fuck X and everyone still on it.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 23h

Netfilx: "What if Heated Rivalry but ERADICATE THE GAYS!!!"

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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 23h

I'm going to need a moratorium on straight people in all media until they learn the lesson of Heated Rivalry wasn't that people really like shows about Ice Hockey...

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 29/09/2026

A correction to my previous post, sorry: CSAMagotchi gonna romance scam your fourteen year old kid, *upload their nudes to the cloud*, and then tell them to kill themselves

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 29/09/2026

Heraclitus: the original poster, pure honed perfect nuggets of weirdness & memes. Socrates: quote-posts every bad take and demolishes it in an umpteen-post thread. Plato: umpteen-post threads of his own bad takes, a gazillion followers who all suck. Diogenes: total shitposter, troll par excellence.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 29/09/2026

BBC Boss Says He Ate a 'Pretty Good' Slop Sandwich 'Mmmm! Mmmm!' said BBC boss Matt Brittin, 'Tasty tasty slop! All the shittiness of a real shit sandwich, but with a frisson of burning plastic! I love eating shit and this is *even worse*--YUM YUM!!!"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

A Norwegian media outlet tested 53 toilets at ONS, our massive oil and gas conference. The results show that the fossil fuel industry is having a great time, even if the rest of us aren't 😍 www.aftenbladet.no/magasin/i/7p...

White caption reads "Aftenbladet tested over 50 toilets during this year's ONS." over a blurred close-up background.

Clear resealable plastic bags with red zipper strips, each labeled and holding small folded fabric pieces, arranged in rows on a table for sorting or distribution.

News headline reports cocaine found in every fifth toilet at the ONS event, shown above a uniformed officer with "POLICE" on his back looking out over a large, empty exhibition hall.

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As usual it's Christian Concern

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 29/09/2026

CSAMagotchi gonna romance scam your fourteen year old kid first and *then* tell them to kill themselves

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

quite sure that's actually also how you radicalize people, to begin with. i don't know why it works, but for some reason people will assess the conclusions of an argument critically, but not its premises. so you can get ppl to believe dire shit by putting it in the premises instead the conclusions

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bluesky's originally envisioned user base was *literally* meant to be all the sex pests at the Silicon Valley orgies @faineg.com has been talking about. Jack Dorsey *left* when trans people showed up instead of the expected Harry Potter sex cultists.

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We stand with the people of the Garvahy Road. After 28 years of peace this change isn't about rights, but pushing conflict and supremacy. ¡No pasarán!

A large crowd of local residents blocks the Orange Order from parading through their area.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 28/09/2026

Yes, if you slap the words "growing voter unease" over the words "the Will of the Herrenvolk," the fascism is "an expression of democracy rather than its negation." Arguably. If you're arguing as a fascist.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 28/09/2026

If my life is ever saved by an EMT literally parachuting in from the sky, I'm getting my umbrella and my unspecified "medicines" ready for the rain that will inevitably make him sick and in need of my reciprocal TLC, because that's the set up for the most Green Flag Thai BL ever.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 28/09/2026

Christopher Caldwell (@seraph76.bsky.social) introduces his collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic, which is shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

youtube.com

Christopher Caldwell introduces Call and Response

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 28/09/2026

Yeah, that'll be the fascism. If it's not their Dem opponents oppressing them with all those "don't be cartoonishly evil" laws & regulations to prevent them doing the libertarian authoritarianism of Wilhoit's Law perfected, it's the deep state, or the cosmopolitan liberal elites, or the Jews & gays.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 28/09/2026

Yeah, an opaque idiom with an abstruse rhetorical/logical meaning requiring its own Wikipedia entry to explain doesn't merit the privilege it would require to override the fact that "begs the question" has an actual literal sense of "insistently entreats of us the question" that's just more useful.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 27/09/2026

*insert image of Nabokov himself with a speech bubble framing the quoted skeet*

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This all sounds nice, but the party remains under the control of people who regard e.g. slashing benefits, giving the US a zillion pounds for missiles and AI bullshit and war, and those people have a proven track record of blowing up any attempts to achieve any of this kind of stuff.

theguardian.com

Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain

The long read: The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 27/09/2026

well of course, the weird lesbians feuding in a rural massachusetts town is of far greater national significance than a group of men at one of the ivy league schools drugging and raping a woman and the school reducing the punishments for most of the men

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 27/09/2026

kinda looking back at Art History lectures on 18th c. Rationalism vs Romanticism c. 1991, and all the subsequent expressions of those aesthetics I've learned about over the years, and thinking "yeah, I'd say that description arguably covers BOTH of them pretty well in practise, tbh"

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 27/09/2026

Meta is out to ruin cute little guys. You like cute little guys? Too bad, Meta's out to ruin them for you.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hate this shit so fucking much country is not the music of the "white working class" it's the music of car dealership owners who drive F-150s and wear cowboy hats. This whole "country is actually the counter-culture" shit is pushed by the white ruling class Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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funkyartlady.bsky.social @funkyartlady.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So there is no true investigative journalism anymore. Just tech bros propaganda.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascist republicans in the Senate were seen instructing/influencing Moscow Mitch McConnell on how to vote because he’s cognitively unable to make decisions on his own as he continues to suffer from extremely poor health. It should be illegal to hold a Senate seat hostage.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 25/09/2026

>>“In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 is brutal,” ChatGPT said. “Close quarters is its playground.” The mix of fluent geniality and a total absence of empathy here (because duh, no sentience there to have empathy) brings home how the LLM is functioning as a straight up sociopath

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Tess,, agreeable grunt @brandysaurian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

babe babe babe do you wana get coffees from the cafe what looks like two grasshoppers in flagrante delicto ?? yeah south korea

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026

Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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anna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this is getting a lot of attention all of the sudden so i want to additionally point out: this is all a jesse singal op bsky.app/profile/did:...

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anna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what do you know the most predicable thing happened when a bunch of you decided lolcow farming was ok when you do it

lastditchbar on instagram:

Our community should expect more details in
the future. Today we need to address the safety
of the community itself. Stop harassing Soe
Noire. It is neither productive, progressive, nor
valiant to attack and harass a black patron. He
has been a collaborator and performer of Last
Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his
mind about accountability and repair from the
bar. There are so many misconceptions due to
the disorganization of the Globe's article. He did
not call for a shutdown, nor did he call for the
bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not
disparage the owner for being homeless. As a
result of this abysmal journalism, Soe has been
getting additional threats, slurs, and
harassment, and now he is being reported to the
police over something he did not do. This is not
supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is at its core,
anti-blackness hysteria.

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Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unironically the ruling class are just trying to recreate feudalism using AI. This is just "the peasants don't need to learn how to read or write when in reality the only skill they do need is knowing how to work the field. They have priests to rely on if they for whatever reason ever need to read"

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Data centre electricity use has gone up nearly 600% since 2015, 'cannibalising' all new renewable energy generation. This has not only made decarbonisation harder, deepening dependency on volatile fossil fuels. It has also increased household bills through grid costs and electricity costs. 3/6

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