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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 11h
Never underestimate the amount of money rich people will give to keep the poor in their place. Without it we'd have none of the right wing media ecosystem up to and including those stabbing lifeboats. Naturally those doing the funding will always claim it's for free speech or Christian values.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing that AI guys have to spend a long time carefully creating guardrails for their product when they just have to type " don't break the fucking law" into their code. Then again, that may undermine their business model of open theft of all intellectual property...
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The surprise Americans are feeling that the film about musk is being banned from advertising on all social media is roughly level with the surprise they will feel when the same billionaires cheat to help trump win the midterms. You have a fascist kleptoctacy, that is how it works. By cheating.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Finding it hard that there are people seriously claiming English as a racial identify, as not even actual racist Churchill claimed that. Especially since claims of an English race always boil down to being physically identical to Welsh, Scottish etc, which also aren't racial characteristics.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's often said that if Trump were a Russian agent he'd act no different, but I think it's more that if Trump were the personification of every agit prop Marxist satire of US male capitalism he'd be no different. Indeed were he a secret Marxist plot against capitalism that would make sense....
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sure, AI will tell you it's wiped out humanity, but then you look out the window and it hasn't, so you rephrase the prompt but thst doesn't work either, and when you point this out it chirpily says "my bad" and proceeds to fuck up every iteration till you get bored and give up.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
That Facebook makes 10% of it's ad revenue from deliberate fakes and scams, and it's algorithm is designed to actively cause harm makes me wonder how long it is till someone just releases an almost identical product that simply doesn't do these things. It's not hard to not deliberately be evil.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So AI is claimed to be capable of either curing cancer, or killing all mankind, but still cannot format a PowerPoint correctly? I am not sure we should give any money to anyone claiming anything about AI since they can't be arsed to do anything that wasn't already covered by 20th century SF already.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hard to beloved that at meta a bunch of human beings sat around and programmed an algorithm to actively push teenagers towards harmful content. That they thought it morally fine to knowingly make vulnerable people's lives worse. And for what? Did they think people wouldn't find out?
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One thing that always surprises me about tech giants is how terrible they are. Not just terrible human beings, but terrible at actual business. Meta pissed away billions on the meta verse, something everyone knew wouldn't work because we don't live in an SF novel from 1993 but with garish graphics.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There are so many awful aspects to the arday case, and not just to horrible inevitability of human tragedy. There is the bad faith by those on the right pretending they care about academic ethics, there is the fact that a generation of non white scholars will be belittled because of this.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Contrary to popular belief not every member of a shoegaze band needs to be a heroin addict. Lead singer / guitarist do, obviously, but you need the drummer at least to be clean, even if just to tap the singer if he nods out during a long guitar solo.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Having recently visited portmeirion I now have the theme tune to the prisoner in my head, which as we know goes " do be do, do be do, he's the pri-so-ner! Do be do, do be he's the pri-SO-ner!". Also have now been frowning and opening doors manfully like Patrick McGoohan does in the opening credits.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The only truly great thing about the internet is that I can listen to weak indie music on stations across the globe ( ie France and Scotland). Have to keep switching them every time they play nineties indie though. The horror of having my twee interrupted by an oasis intrusion....
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Seeing that capitalism is pretty obviously just systemised greed it should never surprise that the end state for every company to enshittify itself to death, since their only purpose is to make short term gains for the people currently at the top. They aren't there to make good things for us.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Trump, finding ever more new ways to lose the war against Iran, has now lost the last moral point he had as he now wants to charge for use of the strait. Any other leader could have welded together a coalition of states against Iran in the name of freedom of shipping, and he's fucked that.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The existence of minority candidates amongst the right always confuses progressives, because we assume the right genuinely stands by its prejudices. In fact the right will accept any minority group so long as they follow the principle of maintaining power at all costs against basic equality for all.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The problem is not just that the the right always argue in bad faith, but that they get taken seriously. So on immigration the received wisdom is to bring it down, which both accepts the idea of immigration as bad, but will also never work because it's not about the number. It's about stoking fear.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Due to recent shortages Scotland has been forced to dip into its strategic indie reserves. Luckily the country has the largest proven reservoirs of skinny men, scarves and jangly guitars.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I've never subscribed to the great man theory of history- that some individuals through their genius push progress forwards. But I do subscribe to the great idiot theory of history- where by accident or stupidity one person can wreak havoc and destroy an entire system, leading to historical change.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The problem in our society is not that some people want wealth, it's that some people want all the wealth. Because its not about having money, it's about getting money. Most rich people are born with more than enough, but because of that fact their wealth becomes essentially meaningless.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Trump first shits the bed, then asks NATO to clean said bed, and then when they refuse claims that he doesn't need anyone to clean the bed. Continues to defecate wildly, all the while his party tries to pretend this was all the plan.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Perhaps if trump hadn't dodged the Vietnam war he'd have been less keen to involve the US in what is obviously it's sequel. Who would have thought a less powerful and technologically developed country could fight the US to a standstill? Who'd have known you can't bomb people into submission?
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
War between US and Iran will continue since neither sideunderstand how to defeat the other. The Iranians don't get they could probably buy off trump with a note saying " you won" stuck to a random ayatollah and drop him off in the gulf for the Americans to find.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Remember in 2003 how we warned that invading Iraq would strengthen Iran and its proxies across the middle east? Nice to be listened to.....
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
As a history teacher, I do hate living through history. Teaching the mistakes of ww1 whilst watching the US do exactly the same is tiring. The us is basically saying ' the machine gun is a much overrated weapon' whilst the Iranians are having a war on all fronts.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Been an eye opening few days over here. Scary to think that in the country I live in I could literally feet from a right wing influencer. You could be anywhere, hotel, beach, and without warning you might encounter a Tate or a Cheong. Make u think about your life choices.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Nice to see the markets in the US panicking over the scenario of AI working as advertised. Not that it actually will, of course. Either the whole thing collapses like a tulip bubble, or else it works as it does now, ie sometimes works but you need a human always on hand for when it fucks things up
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I see the far right is now nostalgic for a Britain that was enjoying a full welfare state and mass immigration, when trade unions were strong and we joined the European common market. Not that the leaders of the far right believe in anything other than grifting off other people's lazy prejudices....
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Keep seeing articles about how the right ' won' everything from politics to social media and it's no secret. It's money. The wealthy buy up any organisation with influence and bankroll anyone willing to spread their worldview. It's not about a divided left or disillusioned young men. It's cash.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Muriel's wedding but instead of Abba its joy division. Still Aussie, of course.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Have been alerted to the continued existence of Julie burchill and once again astounded that there is not a single issue on which she cannot be malicious, cruel and on the wrong side of. Indeed, I think if she ever agreed with me on anything I'd double check if I was on the right side.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Important to remember trump isn't just the worst American president, but also one of their worst human beings. Hes also incapable of not ruining the far rights whole pretence of caring about murdered people, making it clear again that he only values people if they support him.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Having been reading the history of the industrial revolution the sacrifice of children to the gods of AI is very much on brand. As in, we can as easily avoid kids being tricked into self harming with AI as we could protecting children from being minced by industrial machinery, we just choose not to.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Amazon has added this amazing new feature where if you add the word ' christmas' to anything you search for, it shows you any old shite for three pages before you get to whatever it was you actually typed in. Amazon does excel at doing everything it can to avoid showing you what you actually want.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A defining feature of our tech overlords is their utter, utter stupidity and willingness to burn through billions in order to fail at something everyone already warned them about. Zuckerberg burned through 70 billion to prove that VR doesn't work, something anyone could and did tell him to avoid.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Is now a good time to be reading about how the luddites didn't oppose new technology, just objected to it undermining their labour value, and who were then often arrested and hanged on behalf of wealthy owners? And that the ruling class argued that poverty was good for working people?
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Nice to see that the nostalgia- ometer has moved on to the point where the 1970s are the good old days. Course it wasn't better then, old days never were. The point is for those on the right to pretend it was and con old people. That's why it moves forward as time goes on.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Didn't know there was a star trek section 31 film. Watched it. Realised why I hadn't heard of it. It manages to be bad in a way that trek, no stranger to crapness, hasn't managed in the past. Managed to look both low budget and have jarring whedonesque dialogue. Evil empress wasted utterly in this.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Americans celebrating how peaceful their marches were has the same vibe as democrats celebrating how lawfully they gave power to trump. You're fighting the wrong battle if you think fascists are moved by law abiding actions, and it won't move the narrative because fascists don't care about truth.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The problem with AI video generation is not so much that it provides fakes as good as the original, is that it means anyone can dismiss real video as fake. So all that footage of police violence and states murdering civilians, can now be dismissed. It is the end of effective citizen journalism.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Watching the foundation TV series answers the question " what if andor didn't have very good writing?" Or perhaps more accurately " what would 70s UK SF writers do with 300 million dollars?". Yet still less pretentious than the Dune TV series...
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Still irks me that the best depiction of the US descent into fascism comes from the last season of the TV series' the boys'. Even down to how easily the Dems were fooled into thinking they could centrism their way into power. Even more annoying, Gen Vs take on influencer culture is spot on.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Trumps goons are not banning antifa because they think it's a real organisation, they're banning it because they know it's not. That way anyone expressing anti fascist ideas can be arrested in the most sweeping way possible and accused of terrorism. It's an obvious ploy that will, once again, work.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I've tried to like alien earth, but watching an episode of people who I already know will die, die on a ship like in alien, in pretty much the same way as alien, doesn't really feel like it adds anything. The aliens kill, the company is evil, rich people have no morals. Not exactly groundbreaking.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Almost sunak- esque levels of stupidity behind government dealing with Palestine action. Arresting pensioners protesting genocide while appeasing open racists is never going to work. If the average age of people arrested for protesting is in their fifties then you have lost the argument.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Seeing a Spanish town with an Arabic name, which for centuries was Muslim, ban Muslim festivities for being 'alien to their culture' sums up the deliberate ignorance of the far right. All their claims of ethnic and cultural purity have always been a combination of wishful thinking and bad faith.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Perhaps if those in the UK protesting Israeli genocide in Gaza simple wrote something racist on the reverse of their placards aimed at asylum seekers then the labour government would listen to their voices all of a sudden.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The terms ' surgical strike' and ' humanitarian pause' should be banned from the English language, since both seem to just involve armies killing lots of people and then pretending there is anything rational about it.
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mkesctt.bsky.social @mkesctt.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Just seen a group of divers accompanied by a very solid looking priest prepping a boat. What are they diving for that they need holy sanction? I assume either sunken cursed protestant zombie ship, or dread chthullu. Now imagining a jaws remake, instead of a shark they are hunting dread old ones....
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