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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0

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Fascism walks in through bureaucratic channels masquerading as governance. Small person, large chip on my shoulder: Jalapeño flavor. Takes orders from @feistytheecat.bsky.social • Owns the @shaggin-wagon.bsky.social vending machine.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 12h
It's WILD. You get dumped at T 5, and then you ask some very tolerant info clerk where the hotel is, and they smile, and then tell you to follow the signs... ...which lead you into the parking garage, and then past a bunch of 6 foot chain link fences, and detritus, and trash, and then VOILA! 1962!
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Shirley Ellis Nitty Gritty Dance
ALT: Shirley Ellis Nitty Gritty Dance
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12h
Stop letting the state kill people. I don't think the state should be allowed to do that
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h
If you want to abolish the Greek system you need to curb how and when people can donate to universities. Depending on the data/ school Greek alums can make up as much as 75% of the donor base to universities. Those institutions are really good at cultivating loyalty.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
I will say that your dad probably had the best of Airline Mythology, and everything has been downhill ever since. It's very strange to go from cattle call misery to TWA Hotel, to cattle call misery again in short order.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
It's really nice! It's extremely surreal right now, for reasons I'll go into depth at some later moment, but there's construction all around it right now. For my money, it added to the surreality and enjoyment, but I imagine it's a bummer for a lot of people who aren't me.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
It doesn't take much to make the UK look like Mordor.
Mordor. Or Scotland. 

Black silhouette of a gothic landmark (I can't remember which one) and I shot this photo so many times, but the clouds refracted no matter which angle I shot from and this is the best I got.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
THE EYE 👁️ JUDGETH AND FINDS YOU WANTING.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
TWA Hotel, y'all. It's expensive, you're a captive to all of its craziness, and I had the time of my life there for the 16 or so hours I was there. IT WAS BONKERS.
THE EYE OF TWA STARES AT YOU AND FINDS YOU WANTING. 

Saarinen's design is AMAZING.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
Also: I might have to make a whole This American Life episode about my visit to the TWA Hotel. Right now, I cannot do justice to how crackers the experience was. But LOOK AT THIS HALLWAY.
Um. What.

Hallway in TWA Hotel at JFK airport, an absolutely amazing experience  that I'm not sure if I can recommend because I think my timing happened to be like lightning striking: once in a lifetime.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
They gave this horse Face-Boobs, and I'm unclear why.
Horse armor with boobs and faces.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
Damn. It wasn't Hank's final form. Sorry. Like I said, RAMBLING.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
Also: Ravens are very, very large.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
This codpiece is AMAZING on his armor's schlubby final form. Okay, Hank. Compensating for something?
King Henry the Eighth's final armor's...

...codpiece.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
Tower of London is a great visit. 10/10 highly recommend. However, if you're mentally 12 years old like myself, you will be most entertained by Henry VIII's various iterations of armor. Because there was some compensating going on.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
He was the happiest fellow.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
Not only is it a little urban oasis, but it's run with immigrant communities to grow food that benefits them. Plus they have this glorious pig.
Holmes (I think) the gentleman pig of Spitalfields Urban Farm.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
Brick Lane is great for a lot of reasons. So many reasons. But one of the best seKrit Best Things is its tiny little urban farm.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
The number of great coffee shops is enviable. Almost none of them are Starbuck's, and Pret a Manger seems to have a lock on the train stations, but the rest of them are as varied as constellations in the sky.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 13h
The United States has/had NATIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL PARKS and they are majestic. You, Edinburgh, deserve those parks for yourselves.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
I'll figure out which one it was, but I leave you with this photo. It's like the entirety of natural history stuck in ONE ROOM. It's NUTS.
All of life on earth in one small space! Edinburgh RULES.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
Edinburgh is AWESOME! I loved it so much.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
Edinburgh also has PRIVATE PARKS in GREAT NUMBERS and it's extremely weird. Y'all need to take that space back, Little People.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
Edinburgh has one of the most batshit, lovely museums I've ever been to. Well appointed, state run, gorgeous displays and UTTERLY BANANAS. It was probably the best museum I've ever been to, at least for my personality.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
Trains are magical and they go everywhere.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
He was also aware of the fascism, and called it such. It was refreshing.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
My Scottish taxi driver was the first person to broach the Elephant in the Cab and I hadn't talked politics in almost ten days. AND I SPEWED BILE BECAUSE I'M SO ANGRY AT THE ELEPHANT I think I might have actually shocked our cabbie, I was so full of vitriol. (He laughed anyway.)
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
Sunday Roast is pretty great, but I feel like I need a guide for the Best Sunday Roast, and probably with mates. Of course, I haven't made new friends since COVID so had no idea how to make Mates. Next time, HIT ME UP, LOCALS.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
That's all I can think of right now, but I almost died of dehydration most nights so it seems poignant.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
America has a few things going for it. One: Top sheets. The UK tried to boil me to death with their comforters and no top sheets.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
I went to Tower Bridge at sunset a few days ago, and the entire area was filled with Muslims on their day of rest. It was AMAZING. I loved every minute.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
Maybe it's just me that's been acting like I'm living under siege, but I suspect you've also been acting like you're living under siege if you're aware of the fascism. Because we're under siege.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
People in the UK are not living like they're under siege. Which is pretty remarkable, but they're really not. I mean, they have parallel problems, but the streets are FULL of people. ALL THE TIME, doing normal things. Pubs, restaurants, random events for no reason.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 14h
I'm fighting jet lag, so I'm absolutely rambling. But I'm fighting jet lag, so I'm going to make you suffer while I try to stay awake. FUN! Notes from a trip to the UK, in no particular order: People have health care. It might not even be that great, but they have it.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 21h
This x infinity. I struggle with it constantly and often challenge myself to drown all my electronics in the wide, wide sea.
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👻 YSUBoOoOooOooo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The costs are the cruelty, and the cruelty is the point in genocide.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 21h
My rage is infinite.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 23h
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 30/09/2026
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/09/2026
Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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How to: Manage Your Digital Footprint
Search for your name in any search engine and you’ll likely encounter dozens of results, some of which might include personal information like addresses, email accounts, usernames, or family members. Each piece of information is often public and not typically seen as harmful. But together these parts of your identity...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Read this by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "Rates of violence against women are significantly higher on Division I campuses than at Division II, III, or universities with no athletic programs. Game days at top college football schools are associated with a 28 percent increase in area reports of rape."
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Unmanned
Talking about male supremacy, conservative backlash, managing tetchy feelings, and embracing joyful feminist refusal. Click to read Unmanned, by Soraya Chemaly, a Substack publication with thousands o...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 27/09/2026
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The whole anti-country argument is so self-evidently goofy while we're all in a mass-mourning period for Dolly
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 27/09/2026
Husband works in music, often for country artists, and I can say I have never heard of this song until this last two minutes catching up with "trends." This person being particularly tetchy about their own bugbear is weird defensiveness about nothing.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 27/09/2026
And I'm sick of Good Men forgetting us just as easily as Great Men or Evil Men or Boring Men or Shitty Men have.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 27/09/2026
And in many ways, we haven't been. No one has told our stories. No one has allowed until recently that we could even exist in the political spaces Man has considered his natural right. We - 50% of the population across race, culture, class - are an afterthought.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 27/09/2026
50% of the population has been fundamentally shut out of these types of theories because the patriarchy doesn't even consider us the architects of history.
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