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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can’t wait for Mick Herron to bring together the Danny Tommo A-plot and the RAF Fairford B-plot in an unexpected but satisfying way.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is extraordinarily well written.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cannot recommend the audiobook of The Castle by @jonronson.bsky.social highly enough - especially for fans of his Things Fell Apart podcast series. In amongst the existential despair the book induces, it’s also really very funny.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/09/2026

am having to force myself to live in a state of at least partial denial because I find the currenty situation so deeply nauseating that constant knowledge of it would probably have a significant impact on my day-to-day

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine them saying they’re going to limit cancer diagnoses

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m now picturing all the crows tooling up and preparing to battle them for the future of the planet. They are all voiced by Bill Paxton.

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same here? Maybe they were aliens and left the planet because we’re messing up so bad - like the dolphins in So Long and Thanks For All the Fish?

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Done! On the surface it’s weird that such traditional/‘establishment’ (and frankly, small-C conservatove seeming) orgs like the National Trust, the RNLI, and the Church of England are the progressive bulwark against hate in this country. But it just proves those figures are just a loud minority.

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Utterly dizzying heights in the overall FPL rankings. Might have to start a podcast 🙄😂

A screenshot showing James is ridiculously in 6538th place out of nearly 11 million FPL players.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband; son of a man who had to flee the Nazis: I'm Jewish BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian BBC News: 😊

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If Mike Vrabel was this risk-averse at all times, he wouldn't have needed marriage counseling

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Waited over 200 days and staying up until 4am for the return of #Seahawks football - only for injuries and penalties to ruin the evening. Balls.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/09/2026

again, the knowledge that coverage like this now happens because of some people who call themselves feminists drives me insane - must everyone who happened to have been born a girl be seen through the lens of "but what about breastfeeding"? is that really what we're doing, again?

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Doesn’t offend me in the slightest, but since I can remember we always called it ‘bits on a plate’.

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 26/08/2026

The US media cannot comprehend a southern belle country singer who was unapologetically "woke" because that goes against all the narratives they've been reinforcing. So Dolly has to become "neutral" despite her vocally, repeatedly taking the progressive side in the so-called "culture wars"

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

found out Larry David just starts verbally abusing Alan Dershowitz whenever he sees him, this is very good

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 11/08/2026

I gotta get involved in more scandals man. I would love to step back to spend more time with my family

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

eclipse glasses are woke. stare it down you cowards

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Public use of AI is doing weird, unpredictable and damaging things to the state. A dive into how Grok lawyering is upending the employment tribunals www.economist.com/britain/2026...

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Genuinely gutted - the podcast has been a staple listen for me over the last few years as I’ve come to discover and love a completely alien sport. Good luck to everyone involved in the future!

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is apparently the ethical ‘good’ AI guys…

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There really are only three choices: * Release prisoners. * Lock prisoners up in each of our downstairs loos. * Build prisons. The third one takes time. The fourth option, of course, is to recalibrate what a prison is and why we send people there.

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

More than a handful of times I have signed off an email with “Beast wishes”.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Really think this is what irked me about him the most tbh. Just a very ugly writer with no real flair or stylistic quality, whose outsized influence in the industry was also indicative of rock bottom standards and scrape-the-barrel prose

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Things like this, plus the new Madden ratings (Seahawks at #10 overall with an 84 rating) are part of a weird pattern of underestimating/disrespecting one of the most statistically dominant Super Bowl winning teams of this century.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

They don't just employ ivory tower academics, they employ administrators, caterers, cleaners, electricians, plumbers, gardeners, caretakers, medical staff, etc etc etc. By closing a university you're not just punishing the academic elite. You're punishing a glorious cross-section of society.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This match is pure Soccer Aid vibes.

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Coming off a call with Virgin Media retentions team doubling my speed and getting all the good channels for £3 less per month got me feeling like prime Logan Roy.

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Succession I Fucking Win

ALT: Succession I Fucking Win

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14/07/2026

you're all laughing but spanish football, for the last 15 years, was built on two simple premises: 1. what if you play football so beautifully that it is somehow ugly and what if it is so ugly that it is somehow beautiful 2. have you ever considered not letting the other team touch the ball

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Neil Crump @pyramidhead76.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As he says in the end here, identifying as your job is dangerous in this way, whatever your job.

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@footballcliches.bsky.social Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 literally a minute ago - a textbook “for my sins” from a Peterborough United fan. Like a Quinn flick-on for a Phillips finish.

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Trying to go to bed after that and it’s fucking light out. How on earth do we sleep after that? Such a gutsy performance.

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Jay Forster @jakobforster.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

i have no horse in this race but i have always respected pickford for looking FURIOUS whenever the ball gets within six feet of him and he has to do his job because i too feel like that when i have to do my job

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James Diamond @jmdmnd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Tbf - these were very specific instances where despite my misgivings I was temporarily in favour of these things for somewhat selfish reasons. I am generally enjoying this World Cup in spite of FIFAs meddling, not because of it 😂

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