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please stop forgetting how elections work i beg of you @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think a big reason so many Christofascists have latched on to Trump is, on rare occasions when they read the Bible, they get extremely uncomfortable with how woke Christ's teachings actually were. With Trump, they don't have that discomfort. He's just awful for the sake of awful and they love it.

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realryanwhorton.bsky.social @realryanwhorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is why I get really pissed off when people, especially online, zero in on class. “No you have more in common with these guys than you do à famous actor. We can win them over with class solidarity.” And no you fucking can’t. They are just hateful evil people.

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please stop forgetting how elections work i beg of you @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"You celebrated human rights without acknowledging my invisible man in the sky who hates human rights so we're gonna threaten to nuke you" Could please someone explain how the FUCK this is any functionally different from a Sharia Law fatwa? bsky.app/profile/dumb...

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please stop forgetting how elections work i beg of you @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We don't talk nearly enough about how psychotic MAGA Trump worship is just downstream from psychotic Christofascist "Christian" worship that completely ignores the teachings of Christ in favor of insane arrogant self-victimization.

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please stop forgetting how elections work i beg of you @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 16h

Because the centrists know that right-wingers might actually fucking kill them. The whole thing reeks of "trying to placate the abusive dad."

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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gradientdescent @gradientdescent.net · 06/10/2026

boycott it so your trans friends don’t get a sick feeling in their stomach when they come over to your house for a party & see a stack of HP merch on your bookshelf, politely excuse themselves a bit early without saying anything, and then go home feeling just a little degraded

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Harry Potter sucks and Harry Potter adults need to grow up. “Most tragic characters of modern media” there is no way you’re a grown ass human being saying this.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

comedians suffer one (1) consequence and turn into the whiniest men alive

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026

The entire edifice of "sex-based rights" is an absurd moral and legal fiction wearing feminism's stolen clothes--and it seems this group of people promoting "Christian Rights" are trying a similar trick. The UK has fertilised itself for this perfidy with its own bullshit. Democracy is at risk.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/09/2026

And the extras, by the way, give you an inside look at @chriswildgoose.bsky.social's process--the clothing, weapons and even languages in this nameless world. A stunning level of detail. Every so often Chris would say "hey I came up w/this landmark and its backstory" and I'd just pop it in.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/09/2026

IDW did a really great job with this deluxe edition--it's got the whole series plus some fun extras in one beautifully designed volume with more gilding than it has any right to possess. The title is gilded! The binding is gilded! So much gold!

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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

old Cleese is precisely who young Cleese used to ridicule so thoroughly.

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Oliver Barratt @ordgar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not everything can be or needs to be updated with a touchscreen! We really don't regulate tech nerds enough if this is what they think people want or need. They slap an ipad on every non-digital item that was already working, while our computers die sooner and sooner.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘FORGOTTEN ISLAND’ includes a legal notice in its credits prohibiting the film from being used to train AI models: “This work may not be used to train AI.”

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's really that succinct. You can elaborate on it further, but none of them ever really believe their bullshit, and it's either they enjoy cruelty for the sake of it or extremists using transphobia as a wedge like all those fundamentalist Christian orgs, but they're always lying sacks of shit.

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am begging journalists to stop believing this slop and trying to sell it to the American people. Trump has never acted like a grown up who is willing to accept reality for a single god damn minute of his life and there’s no way he’s starting now.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think Bernie has enough of a platform to make any “pro-human” point he wants, at length, without being on the same bill as a rancid far-right criminal. Even if they didn’t take the stage at the same time, it really makes a sick joke of the supposed message. Boooo!

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Late to this, but - no. You never share a stage with Bannon. No no no. He’s a lying Nazi trying to curbstomp what’s left of democracy. Any organization that invites him can’t be trusted. Plus he is riddled with lice and other parasites. Big fuckup by Sanders. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

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Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Condemn Tech ‘Oligarchs’ and Demand A.I. Reforms

At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's "reaching across the aisle" and then there's "sticking your hand in the toilet"

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Oliver Barratt @ordgar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carve this onto a f*cking mountain

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We need more fiction about how fucking good liberal modernity is, because for all the bellyaching about it, it's a hell of a lot better than what came before, and compared to all the (horrific) actually existing alternatives. Come to the lib side! We have fun, excellence, and basic human decency.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The NWA is terrified of the ebb and flow of a living, changing world and lashes out with atrocity in response. The ppl who crush them--Nick and Danny--are positively attracted to modernity and fight for it. Danny wants to have a good time and be left alone. Nick wants to live out his ambitions.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It gives a farcical but remarkably on-point portrayal of the totalitarian response to modernity--total surveillance, centralized control over all culture and expression, and the liquidation of anyone who doesn't fit in. And it shows the correct response to this threat: crushing the totalitarians.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

What I really fucking love about Hot Fuzz is that it is a rare piece of artwork that unapologetically defends liberal modernity. A representative of the impartial, uniform rule of law & depersonalized state beings justice to a lawless, backward community run by a wretched clique of local grandees.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it’s almost like ciswomen aren’t inherently athletically inferior to cismen and maybe the Trans Threat In Sports has been hallucinated by 37 bigots with bullhorns

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More in my lane is how anti-semitism is now basically unregulated on social media, how any 14 year old can now find "Jewish question" content that was walled off 10 years ago... and all the energy is in banning Israel boycotts. I assure you, that's making this worse!

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI will take over the world, but it doesn't know The Odyssey exists

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please stop forgetting how elections work i beg of you @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Deciding on a premise?" It's the Muppet Show! The Muppets putting on a variety show! That's your premise! They made five seasons based on that premise from 1976-1981! And an Emmy-winning special this year with the SAME premise! The whole point of that special is, THAT'S ALL YOU NEED!

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Salthegeek @salthegeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There’s an essay or such to be written about the how the aesthetics of transgressigvness in political candidates allows people to overlook obvious flaws, Fetterman and Planter being prime examples of it.

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.

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willy nilly @rdb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

you can reverse the flow of immigration but its not going to satisfy them unless you can make them feel like they did when they were young again, or if you can’t do that, at least provide images of gratuitous violence against the people they associate with their inevitable marches towards death

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willy nilly @rdb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i think where this confuses people is that it doesn’t then mean that you can win their votes simply by reducing immigration. they aren’t concerned about net migration flows so much as ongoing cultural change that can only be reversed with wholesale ethnic cleansing (or, more likely, a time machine)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026

In case this wasn’t obvious, a core reason I talk about USAID and Elon Musk’s historically-hideous mass murdering actions all the time is because he must not be allowed to get away with it.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Hermione, Texas Granger @misterfungi.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

i don’t think political experts fully grasp how many people still hang onto the “both sides are bad” narrative because of an episode of South Park they saw 20 years ago

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Except that Germany (among other European societies) has robust social welfare and other state benefits and that still hasn't stopped the AfD's rise, because the AfD's rise is mainly about immigration (and therefore identity).

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Filthy Casual Crusader @casualevan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"I love Harry cuz he's a nerd like me!" He's not a nerd. He just has glasses. He's a C+ B- grade student with dead wealthy parents who becomes captain of the sports ball team, married his high-school sweetheart, and became a cop.

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

...because his obvious innate superiority to his lessers still sticks out regardless. His "Hero Journey" is another weak riff on the Excalibur cycle: The True King must be restored to his position so that the land may heal. Americans enjoy this story, obviously. But we have trouble RECOGNIZING it.

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

...a bog-standard "Displaced Royal"/"English Boarding School" melodrama with added (literal) fairy dust: Not a story about DEFYing your station but RECLAIMING it - Harry is a literal aristocrat whose money, title, etc have been unjustly hidden from him, and he "Feels different"...

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

...but that's because Americans (even smart Millennials who "escape" to higher ed 😏) suck at media analysis and don't read enough other books, and failed to recognize that what they saw as an "Escape your red state suburb to Berkley!" analog to themselves in Harry was actually...

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Americans (specifically American Millennials) latched onto HP as a distillation of THEIR (American Millennial) hero narrative: "Escape working-class hell via higher education, join the professional class that runs the world and is resented by dumb normies." Religious right protests sealed the deal..

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This has been beaten to death by smarter people than me, but the "other" problem w/ 'POTTER' itself separate from its author is it's an EXCESSIVELY English-specific thing that got globally huge because **AMERICANS** liked it an American pop-culture is global, but Americans didn't really "get it"

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

...okay but unless I FORGOT the hat is generally implied to be *right,* though? And it ends up repeatedly helping the good guys? It isn't a story about overcoming classism, just FEELS like one to Americans because that's *our* Hero's Journey model. HP is VERY ENGLISH, it's about class-RECLAMATION

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