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Korenwolf

@korenwolf.vom.org.uk
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Hamster, cook, baker, geek, gamer, carer. If you are MAGA or just plain rude expect to be muted & blocked, science and evidence not hate and "what I think works"

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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 7h
The regret being “should have had two” or “didn’t leave any for breakfast”?
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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fucking weird that's what it is.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 05/10/2026
The "what can we actually successfully prosecute", bottom line he set off a bomb, in a residential area. Prison is the right place, or Broadmoor.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 05/10/2026
The political aim was to change local government policy (ULEZ) but force Pretty much a textbook definition to f terrorism
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 29/09/2026
A video falsely claiming to show a long queue of Muslim women waiting to sign up for free childcare has been liked thousands of times on social media. But the clip actually shows the women waiting in line for a modest clothing sale in Amsterdam.
fullfact.org
Video shows Muslim women queuing for a clothing sale, not free childcare – Full Fact
The video has been widely shared on social media alongside the false claim that it shows women in headscarves lining up to enroll their children into free public daycare.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Hmm... more cooking space...
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Simon Threadgold🍂 @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think it goes baaa baaa babababaaaaa baaaa babababaaaaa baaaaa ba-bababaaaa.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 26/09/2026
Thought for the day, it's been 20 years since Lordi won Eurovision
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 26/09/2026
www.techdirt.com/2026/07/19/f...
In second place, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a comment about J. K. Rowling threatening to sue Amnesty International:

    Transphoba destroys an otherwise normal person from the inside out. It is a brainrot that rips apart someone’s soul and replaces it with a hatred so unyielding and all-consuming that it damn near becomes that person’s entire personality. God, imagine actually hating trans people because they’re brave enough to take charge of their fucking body and live in it the way they want to live in it. Imagine being that much of a motherfucking coward.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 26/09/2026
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
schneier.com
MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance - Schneier on Security
It’s a lot: According to information obtained by The Tech, MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memo...
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 19/09/2026
It’s me so… dwarven prot paladin
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Girls Gone WoW Podcast @ggwshow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom is available NOW and World of Warcraft Forever Beta starts today 17/9! To celebrate we have a World of Warcraft Forever Collection code to 💫GIVEAWAY!!💫 TO ENTER: ☑️Follow 💙Like 🔁Retweet ❓What class will you roll first? ENDS: 24 September #WoW_Partner
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 18/09/2026
Dwarf Paladin, As I began, as I am now, so I shall continue forever
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 11/09/2026
FFS
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
absolutely incredible work. outstanding. no notes
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/09/2026
RNLI volunteers put themselves in harm’s way to save lives. They should never face abuse or threats for doing so. That includes the crews based on the Thames, who respond to hundreds of incidents every year. They deserve to be thanked, not attacked.
bbc.co.uk
Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says
Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.
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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Mike Huckabee claims a trade ban on Israeli settlements would hurt Britain because “25% of pharmaceuticals used in the UK are produced in Israel”. It's bullshit. In 2024, the UK imported $30bn drugs, of which only $16m came from Israel 0.05% wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtra...
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United Kingdom Pharmaceutical products imports by country | 2024 | Data
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
UK, France and Canada say they will join several other countries 'and will bring forward national measures to ban trade in settlement goods' www.gov.uk/government/n...
gov.uk
Joint Foreign Ministers' Statement on the Two-State Solution
Statement of the Foreign Ministers of Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK on the Two-State Solution
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
rnli.org
RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Rupert Lowe said he's "fully behind" the face covered "patriots" who turned up en masse in Dover at the weekend. But last year he signed a motion in parliament to ban face coverings in public. Clearly his motion only applies to people he doesn't like. If you're a blackshirt then go for your life!
edm.parliament.uk
Ban on full face coverings in public spaces - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House notes with concern the increasing prevalence of full-face coverings, including the burqa and niqab, in public spaces across the United Kingdom; believes that the covering of the face i...
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 06/09/2026
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I HAVE BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW THIS WORKS
I have worked all my life. I served my country. I have paid into the system, and I am currently dealing with my own absurd PIP process while another government department already recognises damage to the same bloody body.
So I am not particularly interested in being lectured about how lucrative disability apparently is by someone whose evidence base begins with, “Well, my mate knows a bloke…”
If somebody is committing fraud, report them. If the rules are wrong, argue for reform. If the system wastes money, expose it. If government policy is shit, challenge it.
Those are adult conversations.
But endlessly pointing at imaginary maximum totals and shouting “they get loads” is not a serious argument. It is just another way of making somebody else’s hardship about personal resentment.
And that was the part I was talking about from the start.
Not PIP in isolation. Not Universal Credit. Not housing support. Not council tax. Not whether some mythical cunt in Dudley has worked out how to rinse every department in Whitehall while driving a Range Rover to Tenerife.
The mentality.
That strange instinct to look at another human being whose life has been altered by illness or disability and immediately ask whether they might be getting more than us.
That is the bit worth examining.
Because if the first reaction to someone losing health, mobility, independence or a career is to start counting their money, the problem probably is not sitting in their bank account.
It is sitting in our own fucking head.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 06/09/2026
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THE SWAP TEST
There is a very simple way to expose how ridiculous the jealousy is.
Take the money, but take the whole package with it.
Take the spinal damage as well. Take the MS, the stroke, the neurological condition, the chronic pain, the reduced mobility, the fatigue, the medication, the hospital appointments, the job that disappeared and the independence that quietly went with it.
Take the nights where sleep is fucked because the body will not settle. Take the days where something as ordinary as shopping becomes a fucking expedition. Take the awkwardness of asking for help with things that used to be automatic. Take the uncertainty about what the future looks like when the body has stopped playing by the old rules.
Then have the payment.
All of a sudden it looks rather less like a jackpot.
That is the psychological blind spot in these arguments. People isolate the thing they can see and compare it with what they have, while excluding everything they would not want in a million years.
Nobody envies the condition.
They envy the number.
That is a very different thing.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 06/09/2026
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AND YES, BEFORE SOMEONE BURSTS A BLOOD VESSEL, FRAUD EXISTS
I know.
Everybody knows.
Benefit fraud exists because human beings are human beings and some of them are dishonest bastards. Tax fraud exists too. Insurance fraud exists. Companies hide money. People fiddle expenses. Landlords bend rules. Employees steal. Politicians have occasionally treated public money like the petty cash tin at a stag do.
Where there is money, somebody will eventually try to game the system.
Fine.
Investigate it. Prosecute it. Recover the money.
I have absolutely no interest in defending someone who is deliberately committing fraud.
What I do object to is the lazy leap from “some people cheat” to “everyone receiving support is probably taking the piss”.
That is intellectually fucking feeble.
One dodgy claimant does not make every claimant dodgy any more than one cowboy builder makes every tradesman a crook. We understand that perfectly well everywhere else in life, yet benefits get mentioned and suddenly nuance is dragged behind the bins and battered with a shovel.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 06/09/2026
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THE MYSTERIOUS BLOKE EVERYBODY KNOWS
Every benefits argument eventually produces the same character.
Nobody has ever quite met him directly, but everybody knows somebody who knows somebody who knows him.
He gets PIP, Universal Credit, free rent, free council tax, a Motability car, three holidays a year and apparently enough disposable income to frighten a Premier League footballer.
He is always “a bloke down the road”, “my sister’s neighbour”, “someone my mate works with” or “this woman I know”.
He is the Bigfoot of British welfare.
Nobody can ever give the full circumstances, because that would spoil the story. It is much more satisfying to reduce everything to “they get six hundred quid a week” and leave out the inconvenient detail of why the person might be receiving support in the first place.
That is how these conversations go wrong.
People do not compare like with like. They compare their wage with somebody else’s entire support package, while quietly forgetting the illness, disability, caring responsibilities, reduced ability to work and all the other unpleasant shit bundled in with it.
That is not analysis.
That is envy with a calculator.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 06/09/2026
THE PART PEOPLE KEEP REMOVING FROM THE SUM
What interests me is how quickly the actual person disappears once money enters the conversation.
A human being can spend thirty or forty years working, paying tax, building a career, raising a family and getting on with life, then one diagnosis, one accident, one stroke, one degenerative condition or one knackered spine changes the lot. Suddenly work becomes difficult or impossible, everyday tasks become negotiations, independence shrinks, plans change, relationships change and life gets smaller in ways nobody fucking ordered.
Then someone on Facebook looks at all of that and thinks, “Yeah, but what are they getting a week?”
That is the bit I cannot get my head around.
The pain is invisible, the fatigue is invisible, the embarrassment is invisible, the careers that quietly disappeared are invisible, and the constant mental calculation around what the body can or cannot manage is invisible. A weekly payment, however, is nice and concrete, so people latch onto it and start doing pub mathematics as though they are auditing the Bank of England.
Suddenly there is no person, only a number.
And once that happens, resentment is easy.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 06/09/2026
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FOR THE HUNDREDS OF CUNTS STILL ARGUING WITH SOMETHING I NEVER SAID
I have now read so many versions of “yeah but people on PIP get other benefits and their rent paid” that I’m starting to think the real national emergency is not welfare spending, it is reading comprehension.
The original post was not complicated. I was talking about the absurdity of people being jealous of somebody receiving disability support. That was the point. I was not claiming PIP is the only benefit in Britain, I was not suggesting nobody gets help with housing, and I certainly was not announcing that benefit fraud had been solved overnight by the power of one sweary Facebook post.
Of course some people who receive PIP also receive other support. Circumstances differ because human lives differ. Some people can work and some cannot. Some rent, some own their homes, some live alone, some have partners, some have savings, some do not, some have caring needs and some do not. That is why the system has different forms of support with different eligibility rules.
Yet the comments keep arriving as though someone has uncovered the fucking Rosetta Stone.
“But they get other benefits.”
Yes, Derek. Some do.
That still does not make disability an attractive financial plan.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 01/09/2026
*shudder* :)
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 01/09/2026
Berkshire would like a word. "Berks shuh", source, a native.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 01/09/2026
macabre = "muh-kahhb-ruh" Worcestershire = "Woostuh-shuh" Omnipotent = "ohm-NI-puttent" Reticent = "rettisent" Epitome = "eh-pitt-um-me" Myriad = "mirry-add" For God's sake, this place is so America-brained ... * *sarcasm
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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 01/09/2026
Today marks the beginning of World Alzheimer's Month. Sir #TerryPratchett was a patron of Alzheimer's Research UK and had a form of #Alzheimers himself. At this year's #DiscworldConvention, we raised over £30,000 for charities -- including Alzheimer's Society! #Discworld #WorldAlzheimersMonth
Black text on a pale yellow background with a black Art Nouveau border.

The text reads "World Alzheimer's Month" above a digital illustration of three pale blue forget-me-not flowers -- the symbol for Alzheimer's Disease.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How To Be a Writer: First, obtain a writing-desk carved from a single ironwood tree a pen made from a lyre-bird's feather a ream of hand-made paper, embellished with moonflower petals a special writer's hat. Burn them all to ashes Try to read what's in the smoke Write down what you see in blood Tea.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/08/2026
Also, to all you SICKOS comparing the Hugo to a DILDO and making jokes about the FLARED BASE and all that DISGUSTING AWFUL STUFF: Yes, indeed, we've all been saying that for years, welcome
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 31/08/2026
Shameless plug for Katrina's new youtube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZl-...
youtube.com
Easy Polymer Clay Earrings for Beginners | Chat & Craft With Me
YouTube video by Katrilee Tutorials
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 27/08/2026
Oh sure you could get AI to do your research for you, but you’ll never get so overinvolved that you end up writing a science fiction epic about life without AI. The choice is yours.
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 27/08/2026
Posts being shared thousands of times on social media claim Japan has named a Covid mRNA vaccine the “most deadly drug” in the “history of humankind”. It hasn’t. And it isn’t. Approved Covid vaccines are safe. fullfact.org/world/japan-...
fullfact.org
Japan hasn’t named Covid mRNA vaccine the ‘most deadly drug’ – Full Fact
The misleading claim is being shared again after first appearing in 2024.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 27/08/2026
I’ve been seeing a surge of anti-vax shorts across my feeds, whack-a-mole reporting but it’s tedious
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Digital S. Pumpkins @digitalprophet.online · 24/08/2026
Lol. "Powerful accounts." I guess that's... @katie.bzky.team and... @scalzi.com? Also, nobody piles on, we just put you on an ignore list and then nobody ever thinks about you ever again.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 16/08/2026
"Why are we using the emergency alert system"!!!!! also www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... People are fucking morons, that's why
bbc.co.uk
Thatched Hoby pub's beer garden set alight by cigarette
The pub near Melton was calling last orders when a fire broke out in the beer garden.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Mike Knell @blat.at · 14/08/2026
I'd like to propose that the cost to the taxpayer of fighting forest- and wildfires be added up every year and recouped through a corresponding increase in the tobacco tax. They aren't *all* caused by discarded cigarettes but enough of them are that it seems fair enough.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 12/08/2026
“Warranty coverage no longer includes sleeping on hotel pillows” sent me.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you enjoyed this eclipse, you should pop the date of the next one in your colander.
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El Squigg @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 10/08/2026
“Why oh why is the evil government forcing us not to use predatory business practices” It’s attitudes that you support which mean I won’t sign up because it’s a pain to cancel
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 09/08/2026
Remember the pile of purple prints... and of course a link byeverlee.com
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 07/08/2026
Hmmm... I can trigger the chime on the reolink and old ring chime from home assistant...
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 07/08/2026
My phone go "BING" when I get an email letting me know Amazon delivered something
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Korenwolf @korenwolf.vom.org.uk · 06/08/2026
I am not a geek. In other news Amazon appears to be unable to press the doorbell so I have procmail copying the "delivered" emails so they can be picked up by node-red triggering an alert via home assistant to my phone with a "no more than once in two minutes" thing to stop alert spam. Fuck amazon
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