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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 1h

Omar El Akkad, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” page 59 #Democrats #Midterms #TransPeople #Transphobia

Of course the Republicans would be worse. What the mainstream Democrat seems incapable of accepting is that, for an even remotely functioning conscience, there exists a point beyond which relative harm can no longer offset absolute evil. For a lot of people, genocide is that point. Suddenly, an otherwise very persuasive argument takes on a different meaning: “Vote for the liberal though he harms you because the conservative will harm you more” starts to sound a lot like “Vote for the liberal though he harms you because the conservative might harm me, too.”

In reality, not a single Western politician or party, not a single government anywhere in the world, can be expected to change when constantly rewarded this way. The argument in favor of voting for the lesser evil is frequently made in good faith, by people who have plenty to lose should the greater evil win. But it also establishes the lowest of benchmarks: Want my vote? Be less monstrous than the monsters.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 24/10/2026

I will *never* not be angry about how Alex Morse was pedojacketed -- by centrist/liberal Democrats who resent progressives. Rich, powerful people acting like Tumblr brats over an age gap between grown adults.

Op-Ed: Platner Was Forced Out—So Why Has Deaton Escaped Scrutiny?
Oct 22, 2026by wmasspiin Uncategorized
by Matt Chilliak

Deaton
A lack of balance? (created via Google image search, Wikipedia and WMP&I images)

There should be a simple standard for politicians’ bad behavior: sexual misconduct allegations deserve serious scrutiny. We rely on news media and reporters to shine a light on legitimate allegations so that the voting public can make an informed decision.

But apparently, that scrutiny has limits—or at least a double standard.

Take, Graham Platner. In July, sexual assault allegations the press reported pressured him to step down as the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine. He denied the accusation, but for Democrats, it was the last straw for a candidate who for months was repeatedly making national headlines for bad behavior.

And rightfully so—the fourth estate serves as an important watchdog to inform the public about those who hold and seek higher office. That includes scrutiny of their past and present character Ultimately, Platner was out, and a new nomination process replaced him.

Contrast that to John Deaton, the Massachusetts Republican nominee for Senate.

Like Platner, Deaton’s path to politics was unconventional. And like Platner, his story includes an incident of sexual impropriety. However, in Deaton’s case, there’s no question. He wrote about it himself.

In his 2023 self-published memoir, Deaton details several transgressions: small-time drug dealing, a shootout and possible homicide, drunk driving, filing a false police report while serving as a Marine JAG officer, and, perhaps most notably, that as an adult he approached a 15-year-old girl, began a sexual relationship, and had her move in with him as she completed high school.

Of the relationship, Deaton wrote: “I made the inherent mistake of thinking, because she was young, I could mold her into the perfect partner.”

Why would Deaton include this in his memoir just months before …

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 24/10/2026

The rabid Zionist who cheats on his wife has a defender! (tw misogyny)

r/h3h3productions
u/Independent_Cod_7519 . 8m

Hate to be devils advocate but anybody else low key get it?

Like live for yourself why sacrifice your own happiness. He gave her nearly 20 great years She's pushing 40 Post partum body x3 He's a millionaire with options what's he meant to do just be unhappy? Celibate? Be the bad guy and divorce her? Lose half his wealth? Or just take the risk and have some fun. Do something for himself. Yeah he fucked up bad getting caught and that's on him especially after all his spouting on infidelity but you're all so high and mighty like you wouldn't do the same in his shoes.

Don't get me wrong he fucked up but yall are being ridiculous.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 21/10/2026

What the fuck did I just read (TW Islamophobia)

Bram Reichbaum @Bram_R · 1h

They hated us since we inherited the mantle of the British Empire, the French Empire & the Holy Roman Empire in rolling them back from Spain & Vienna, and since we let white women in skimpy outfits dance w black men in jazz clubs, and since we built a McDonalds too close to Mecca

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 19/10/2026

Dan's wife Carolyn: www.reddit.com/r/raisedbybo... [alt-text continued in next skeet]

And this comment from "Dan's" wife:

Stumbled upon this thread and THANK GOD. I am “Dans" wife. This book is, sadly for my MIL, fiction, or her twisted view she's come to believe. Thanks to all who have our backs. It can be a lonely road when you feel your entire in law family have ill feelings towards you and their own son..certain family members even referred to me as a succubus bitch, had to Google that one lol..bet thats not in the book. We've tried to fix things multiple times but some people can't move forward for some reason. It was sad to read this book and I honestly felt like we were made to be the villain. I've read so many mean comments about how I must be controlling or want him all to myself, quite the contrary. I'm here to tell you all that I encourage my husband to have a relationship with his family despite their feelings for me; however, my MIL demands some kind of justice that, I feel, can never be fulfilled....and NO ONE WAS UNINVITED TO THE WEDDING and trust me when I say their presence and everyone in their family was greatly missed (we still had an amazing time ;). If anyone knows “Dan” (this feels so dumb) then you know he's kind, loyal and will always love his family. So, we press on and have built a wonderful happy family together and have MANY successful relationships with friends and family. I've toyed with writing our tell all but... I don't want anymore hurt and don't need that kind of negativity in our life. At the end of the day I feel this comes down to my mother in law's pride and feelings of losing control on a situation she could, for once, not control. If this book would have helped her heal then bravo, but by the vicious call he received the other night says otherwise. In the end it's sad that they've estranged us.. we've called, sent emails..heck even my parents tried to reach out to them before the wedding. [...]

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 19/10/2026

Sheri has been at this for *years*. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/es... The comments are gone, so I'll link to one from a Reddit thread about this article, quoting one of the Yahoo! comments: www.reddit.com/r/LetterstoJ...

dirkdastardly • 8y ago

Here’s one of the comments from the article:

I personally know Dan McGregor. His Mom (Sheri) is a nut job trying to sell books. She is a so called "life coach". People, there is way more to this than this version that you see here. She is super manipulative and toxic. Dan tried several times to make this right. She is the one who said she wasn't coming to the wedding. She is the one who was rude to the inlaws. She is the one who got Dan's siblings not to come. She didn't like being compared to the other family so it was basically "you hurt me - I am not going to your wedding" and then she wanted Dan to beg her to come which he didn't want to be manipulated in to. This was Dan's big day and his entire family pulled out because her feelings were hurt. Don't buy into this manipulative garbage...

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

Comfortable cis white men blithering on about “principles” when we're under a fascist government that, like all fascist governments, has no principles whatsoever except domination. And the GOP has been playing Calvinball since Gingrich at least, arguably earlier.

Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Witch

People demanding Zuck be hauled before Congress to explain why No Kings insta was suspended... how would you feel if MAGA GOP hauled MSNow execs to explain why they covered Trump the way they do? Both are editorial choices protected by the First Amendment.

If this annoys you... 1/4

2:53 PM · Oct 17, 2026 Some people can reply

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 1h

Witch

... the answer is to not use platforms like Insta, and bring communities to social media built on open protocols, such as atproto or ActivityPub, where the account holder has way more control. 2/4

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Robert Graham@erratarob.bsky.social
Joined Apr ’23

The only "principles" you have are the ones you are willing to defend even when it means your side is losing the fight. If you only argue "principles" in support of your own side, all you really support is "sides".

Here, Masnick defends principle.

Blocked

7:08 PM · Oct 17, 2026

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Wow, hard to believe that someone like STC would start arguing with a guy who was almost bankrupted during an extremely traumatic event that he was wrong/lying/etc.

Greg with two gs @carlos-the-dwarf.bsky.social · 1d

I'd genuinely like to understand why you took the time to reply if you were just going to literally blah blah blah what I wrote. It is possible to say, "this is a valid point, but Talarico is making a calculated political decision and that's more important."

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Greg with two gs @carlos-the-dwarf.bsky.social · 1d

Instead, Sky used a dril joke (badly) for OP hedging "America is insane" with "but also vote for this guy" and unleashed their followers to whatabout Canadian politics. For as much as liberals complain about the Bluesky echo chamber this is fart sniffing at its purest.

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[hovering over the bio of the user Greg is arguing with…]

siezetheclay.bsky.social
@siezetheclay.bsky.social

User Blocked
Gaza Genocide Denier
Israel Apologia
Misogyny
Denies U.S. Genocide Role

[and while it's not in the screenshot, the “Joined” date is “Nov ’24”]

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

From Collin Gosselin’s Instagram. Of course a “career coach” has a problem with abused, traumatized people advocating for themselves and others in the public eye.

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Healing is not about turning every wound into a purpose. Sometimes reclaiming your life is meaningful enough.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

I had to grab the whole alt-text for this one. The opening paragraph is something else.

[2-page spread in Mechanix Illustrated magazine]

[teaser text]
The robots are coming! When they do, you'll command a host of push-button servants.

You'll Own "Slaves” by 1965
By O. O. Binder

Robots will dress you, comb your hair and serve meals in a jiffy.

IN 1863, Abe Lincoln freed the slaves. But by 1965, slavery will be back! We'll all have personal slaves again, only this time we won't fight a Civil War over them. Slavery will be here to stay.

Don't be alarmed. We mean robot "slaves." Let's take a peek into the future to see what the Robot Age will bring. It is a morning of 1965…

[Black-and-white illustration of a robot dressing a white man, who stands passively as the robot puts his jacket on over his shirt and trousers for him. A smaller robot at bottom right of the illo is holding two trays, one with breakfast laid out on it, the other with a coffee pot and small skillet. On the rear wall to the right of an abstract artwork is an electronic checklist. “Valet robot” and “breakfast” are checked off, while “dinner,” “jet car,” and “commuter helicopter” are not. On the adjoining wall is some kind of giant ray-gun in a recess in the wall, with more electronic buttons next to it, these labeled with numbers.]

You are gently awakened by soft chimes from your robot clock, which also turns up the heat, switches on radio news and signals your robot valet, whom you've affectionately named "Jingles." He turns on your shower, dries you with a blast of warm air, and runs an electric shaver over your stubble. Jingles helps you dress, tying your necktie perfectly and parting your hair within a millimeter of where you like it.

Down in the kitchen, Steela, the robot cook, opens a door in her own alloy body and withdraws eggs, toast and coffee from her built-in stove. Then she dumps the dishes back in and you hear her internal dishwasher bubbling as you leave for the garage.

[continued]

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

But yeah, China isn't authoritarian because the US something something.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council, the other major global certification body, announced in 2024 that it would withdraw from China. While financial considerations were cited, industry reporting linked the decision to an investigation documenting the widespread use of state-sponsored forced labor involving Uyghur and North Korean workers in Chinese seafood-processing plants.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

Racist Islamophobic troll to report and block. They're also spamming AI slop of Christopher Columbus at politicians and others commemorating Indigenous Peoples Day.

AdelineSchmidt
@adeline-schmidt.bsky.social

[screencap within screencap]

Do Muslim moms make airplane noises when feeding their kids?

Or do they just crash the fork into their forehead?

1:45 PM · Oct 8, 2026

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is probably a bot, but this is some bullshit.

TB-Arts @mistraltongym.bsky.social
Joined Oct ’23

Remember alt text is fed into an AI for training. I intentionally never use alt text

[quoting]

Steve Burak @swburak.bsky.social · 7h
Why do people with vision need alt text for an image...?

3:51 PM · Oct 11, 2026

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Reposting with alt-text. 🎻 for these frauds.

At the same time, the clinician-patient relationship was described as fragile and vulnerable to multiple sources of strain. Ongoing controversies surrounding CFS and anticipated or experienced criticism from patients, families, patient organisations, colleagues, and health authorities could challenge clinicians' confidence and sense of legitimacy:

"If I'm met with messages like 'Recovery isn't possible' or 'The ME association says this, so you don't know what you're talking about,' we're dealing with conflicting views. That can make me feel insecure as a clinician and hesitant about being questioned or criticised. When trust is missing, it becomes much harder to offer patients the safety and hope they need."

HCPs described how such tensions could undermine their ability to communicate confidence and provide clear guidance. ***Some also expressed residual diagnostic uncertainty and concern about how current approaches might be viewed if future research were to establish a treatable biological dysfunction with little or no role for the processes they currently targeted. Several clinicians also reported being criticised for not believing patients or for minimising their suffering, highlighting the moral and professional stakes involved.***

Sustaining a collaborative and trusting relationship was therefore experienced as a delicate balancing act: being sufficiently challenging to support change while avoiding loss of trust or credibility. Many addressed conflicting information and external influences explicitly in treatment, for example by discussing competing messages, recommending recovery narratives, or guiding patients towards alternative sources of support. Some also advised caution regarding certain patient organisations.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Someone else shared this one elsewhere.

[A listing of an Amazon customer’s personal preferences:]

Home & Family
Owns a cat

Brands
Chooses L'Oreal Paris for foundation

Departments
International cuisine

Interests & Hobbies
Cooks international cuisines

Interests & Hobbies
Maintains indoor plants

Interests & Hobbies
Strongly dislikes the actions of billionaires
[this one is circled heavily in red]

Brands
Likes La Roche-Posay for facial skincare

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

Continued. Tl;dr the reviewer wishes it was a completely different movie.

It's two men, masculine, white, tough, cowboys, literal goddamned cowboys, whose identities are not (noticeably) wrapped up in their sexualities. And sure, people like this probably exist, but one of the worst parts of the closet was not being able to be *who I am*yzeee. And so, I can't relate to these guys.

But, you ask, wasn't the point that they couldn't be who they were? And the answer is, no. The point was to make them as blandly straight as possible for mainstream Hollywood audiences so they might remotely identify with them somehow despite their (denied) queerness. The idea that they couldn't be who they really were is belied both by history and the fact that the bulk of their relationship takes place in the middle of nowhere. The point of their escapes into the wilderness was that they could be who they were--we could see their boyish play together especially in the beginning. So the least we deserved from this movie was a moment where their queerness was addressed frankly, directly, unavoidably, without all of the macho cowboy bullshit. Instead, we got Marlboro Man but he fucks other dudes.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can't imagine why this charmer couldn't find a wife. TW misogyny

He stipulated that the lady should be an 18 to 23-year-old religious Saudi from a tribal background, wear a face-covering niqab, agree not to work outside the home, and be willing to live abroad. He had no success using an online matchmaking platform for Muslims, he said, but had become convinced that most women “care primarily about money” and were “skilled at pretence”.

His posts regularly evoked violence against women and used derogatory sexual slurs.

“Her only obligation is to lift her legs,” he wrote. Discussing a woman seeking a divorce over a dispute about posting pictures online, he said: “she needs a good thrashing”.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also, this was just a few months ago (TW SA also) www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Paduch was sentenced to life in prison in November 2024 for his yearslong sexual abuse of more than 50 male patients, including six minors, from at least 2009 to 2019 under the guise of medical care. He was sentenced after being convicted on six counts of inducing a person to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity and five counts of inducing a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is such a welcome righteous corrective to that horrific apologia from the other day. This screencap isn't even the most important part of the essay, but it's something that so many people need to read. The vigor with which people will defend their parasocial faves is freakish. [1/2]

First, we have to establish who “we” is. One of the strongest things surrounding this whole revelation is people who watched Geller’s videos claiming they had been “betrayed” or wronged in some way. Let me be clear: you are not a victim of what Geller did. You watched a YouTube video (or several) and believed in a public persona of goodness crafted by a man who has none. This is not about you, and framing it that way is disturbing. You should consider why you need this to be about you. You may have your own personal response to Geller and his work, but there is no “we.” There is just each of us, and how we deal with it ourselves.

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