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@red-dog.xyz
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Professional curmudgeon, lover of film, music, comics, politics, books, RPGs and just about everything else. He/him A website, of sorts: www.red-dog.xyz

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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 2h
Seeing a lot of articles recently talking about events running the risk of reviving the Tories' "nasty party" reputation. I must have missed the memo where said reputation somehow magically disappeared for an unspecified period of time...
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 12/10/2026
Today's #earworm - Fear Loves This Place by Julian Cope
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 08/10/2026
Very funny show by @misterabk.bsky.social tonight - highly recommended seeing him. Also, top notch deployment of David Devant and his Spirit Wife as part of the interval music - not heard that song in years 🦰
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
TL:DR - our political/media class gambled an enormous amount of their credibility and legitimacy on America’s noble War On Terror, and *they lost disastrously*. Rather than admit they fucked it horribly, they have doubled down on militarism and propaganda again and again. Look what they’ve now done.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 08/10/2026
Wait a minute - is this a test..? I don't want to get kicked out before I've learned about sentient cheese...
From my Welcome to the Ministry of Secrets welcome email:
I am sure it goes without saying that you are NOT UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES to pass on this
information. DO NOT SHARE OR REPOST ANYTHING. The last thing we want is to
unleash a viral a cognitohazard. DO NOT TELL YOUR FRIENDS
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 06/10/2026
This morning's #earworm - It Ain't Over 'til It's Over by Lenny Kravitz
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The press have decided to reimpose the two party model and unfortunately, that requires “pretending to believe Kemi Badenoch is doing a good job”. Which is pretty bad, given she’s a disastrously online wacko.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 04/10/2026
"What we want to see is that people who work harder don't get punished for doing so" There you have it folks - according to Kemi the fact that you're not making £100k a year is because you are lazy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Conservatives pledge to scrap £100,000 childcare 'cliff edge'
Party leader Kemi Badenoch tells the BBC that she wants to see "people who work harder" not getting punished for doing so.
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 01/10/2026
Good morning, children, welcome to your first day at School. Your 5 years of play are over and the rest of your lives will be spent in service to capital, specifically, to my billionaire friends that make my life very comfortable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Employers should teach primary-age children about work, Milburn says
The author of a major report into youth activity in the UK says children as young as four should be learning about careers.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 29/09/2026
Just walked past a guy on his phone whose AI system of choice was telling him that "whilst I can tell you about the pharmacology of amphetamines, I cannot help you buy any"... 🤦
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... They have had their chance. They have blown it. We need a real alternative in this country now. They will never be it again.
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It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour
As I say on fiscal rules in the glossary to this blog: Fiscal rules are targets set by governments to limit borrowing, debt, or deficits over time. They are presented as if they are neutral, technical...
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 28/09/2026
It would be hugely amusing if this was a bunch of black shorts (masks and white transits seems to fit the MO) who thought every RAF base is likely to house migrants, and picked the most well-defended one out there
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 24/09/2026
Today's #earworm - The Sun Always Shines on TV by A-ha
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One dizzying-yet-oddly-fun aspect of thinking on timescales this vast is the reminder that our concept of "world geography" is just the briefest instant, a single ripple, a shadow thrown by firelight. Here's one projection of how things will look 250 million years from now. Look at those mountains!
National Geographic illustration of the Pangea Proxima model for the future of the Earth's continents in 250 million years, where nearly all the land masses have once again glommed together into one mega-continent.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 19/09/2026
Isn't it wearyingly predictable the self-serving bollocks rich people come out with to justify themselves? BBC News - Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Veronica Danie @veronicadanie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don't know who made this. But we love you for making it ❤️
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I invite ONE journalist to do ONE journalism and ask these AI psychosis enabled AI CEOs "So, how exactly will everyone on Earth die, or is that your TESCREAL religion mixed with Ketamine overdose?"
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 15/09/2026
The "AI will kill us all" hyperbole is obviously shonky, and for reasons that are unsurprisingly mundane - money
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yup, the Armageddon they're currently trying to scare everyone over is, in reality, the bubble bursting, not AI going full Skynet.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 15/09/2026
Today's #earworm - Justice in Freedom by Thee Hypnotics
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 15/09/2026
Is it just me, or does this Piddington nonsense seem a "organically grassroots" as those black shorts nob heads terrorising our ports? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Why is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK?
Residents of Piddington, near Bicester, will vote in a symbolic referendum on Tuesday.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was thinking about Neuromancer and the distinction between constructs like Dixie Flatline — an LLM with the memories of the real dead hacker — and the AIs ‘Neuromancer’ and ‘Wintermute’ — which have artificial general intelligence. Anthropic et al. are selling Dixies like they’re Wintermutes.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Watching people struggle to grasp the philosophical issues without a Marxist analysis is kinda painful. They know something is up but without the right tools they're floundering around. The bosses would always rather automate your job away because they hate paying wages. That's it, man.
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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
‘She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.” Linocut illustration inspired by Alan Garner’s novel ‘The Owl Service’ with digital colour.
Linocut illustration inspired by Alan Garner’s novel ‘The Owl Service’ with digital colour. The illustration features a young woman with her hands covering her eyes, the palms of her hands feature owl eyes. The background is a photograph of some woods and a stream in the UK.
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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/09/2026
"I have forgotten so much that it resembles forgiveness"
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 08/09/2026
What genius at Le Creuset thought ST themed pots and pans was a good idea, and would do anything other than cheapen the brand? (Cheapen in the more general sense, rather than paying £425 for casserole with a Star Fleet insignia for a handle)
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 22/08/2026
Today's #earworm - Silent Hedges by Bauhaus
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 19/08/2026
Today's #earworm - Poison Arrow by ABC
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm going to take the same approach I have to "identity politics", "cancel culture" and other reactionary boogeymen to "woke 1." Give me a clear definition of what you're mad at or I'm just gonna assume it's vague on purpose so you can lump a bunch of unrelated reactionary gripes together.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This might be good news but really, it amounts to us all cheering or booing an utterly malignant class of people who do not give a damn what’s good for the country, and are only ever interested in what’s best for them, with minimal public participation.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
£5million for his security and Farage pretends he’s been threatened and won’t turn up to thank the people who managed his monstrous tantrum by-election, staying up through the night counting votes… or the voters who let him get away with his gross abuse of power. From start to end, an epic disgrace.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 14/08/2026
For his next stunt Farage is going to challenge a toddler to a tennis match and then crow about his overwhelming victory when he wins in a tie break
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why bang on about re-enchantment? #ReEnchantmentIsResistance
Re-enchantment as an assertion of wonder and the numinosity of our relationships with landscape. Re-enchantment as an assertion of our collective ability to both imagine and experience better worlds. As a refusal of despair, as a lensing of hope.

Re-enchantment as personal metamorphosis. The space in which we grow glowing red eyes to patrol our communities against this long night of authoritarian pisspuffiny. The space in which we develop iron-hard fur that make us immune to the curses reductionist racists, misogynists, homophobes and AI cultists throw at us. Re-enchantment as the permissive circle where we can voyage into ourselves and find the marvels and bravery we need to deal with this age of violent bruising.

Re-enchantment as resistance.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 13/08/2026
"Would he use the correct pronouns"? Given he was living at a time when he could be socially ostracised for not using the correct form of address for the natural son of the 3rd Duke of Wherever, I'd say he probably would
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 13/08/2026
"Trickle down" economics has always been a lie (or a fig leaf, depending on how kind you want to be to capitalism)
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The grouse moor lobby is out in force today, blaming ‘rewilding’ for wildfires and demanding government lift restrictions on… burning moorland! They want to burn heather because it increases grouse numbers. You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight it with water! www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Daily Mail front page today, headline reads: ‘Rewilding link to record fires’ (followed by an article which provides zero evidence for this bollocks claim, just a bunch of grouse moor lobbyists moaning about wanting to burn more heather this year)
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 12/08/2026
Well the colander method sucks, but my impromptu pin hole camera does the job
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 12/08/2026
All this eclipse chat and how to avoid blinding yourself puts me in mind of 1999, when the more interesting thing about an eclipse is the way colour leaches from the world, animals as one fall into silence, and we get just a small taste of the cosmic coldness of a world without sun
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 12/08/2026
Today's #earworm - Meet on the Ledge by Fairport Convention
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 11/08/2026
Sadly, this removal of endorsement by the likes of Phillips and Alistair Heath will probably do more to stop Restore than any reasoned argument.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 11/08/2026
Today's #earworm - roundabout sadness by Billy Nomates
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The purpose of sociology is to have a critical awareness of the nature of modern society. Which is the last thing that powerful people want.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 07/08/2026
No, me neither 🤷
Not even sure I know where to start with describing this
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 06/08/2026
Today's #earworm - Perfect by The The
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Kitbashcat @kitbashcat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The EHRC guidance slipped its way into law by default overnight. Do not self-police and do not let toilet weirdos and changing room weirdos dictate how you go about your life.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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