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Red Dog

@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 · 7h
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 · 10h
Was this perhaps an episode of the X-Files where Mulder and Scully went on the Otley Run?
The Dry Dock bar, Leeds
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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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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 11/10/2026
From the desk of Archibald Carruthers, @ministryofsecrets.bsky.social operative
Shot of a desktop containing files and a Ministry of Secrets memo that says "As we continue to welcome our caseus colleagues to the Ministry, please be advised of intel we have received from our Parisian colleagues at the Bureau de Répression des Incidents Ensorcelés, who inform us that certain members of the lactose-based community may have been negatively influenced by dangerous continental magical doctrines. If you suspect a new colleague of being a Fro-mage, please inform your handler immediately."
Under the memo are arcane occult diagrams involving cheese.
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 09/10/2026
I think "the cousin is now a fascist" is more common as people get older and can see what their friends and family post on FB etc than folks might believe it is
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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 · 09/10/2026
If you look at U.S. society as a whole, it still remains a C19th culture, with all that that entails
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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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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 08/10/2026
Hate's a strong word. Play a game or don't - it's not worth getting all "hate" about it
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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
Putting a beholder in the first room is pretty flipping hardcore
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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
My earworms are generally just what comes to me in the shower - lord knows what my subconscious was trying to tell me this morning
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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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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 05/10/2026
The horror
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 04/10/2026
Certainly sounds like it
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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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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
As someone who lives in Otley and will be entertained by Mr Beckett-King and his snail on the 8th, I can confidently report that this place is entirely fictitious
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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...
bbc.co.uk
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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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
And They Will Know Us by the Trail of Julies
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
Reader, I blocked her
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
And so it begins...
Bluesky notification of a Julie following me
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
Blasted kids, making me crush them with my tentacles!
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
"There’s been a steady stream of prison officers arriving for their shifts so far this morning but there is no sign yet of any inmates being released." Such incisive reporting of *checks notes* people going to work in Armley
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
Every time a right wing and/or American commentator uses the term "socialism"
static.klipy.com
The Princess Bride Mandy Patinkin
Alt: The Princess Bride Mandy Patinkin "You keep using that word" gif
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
In which the noted giant squid Captain Quinton details the travails of having random blokes in diving suits wandering all over his front lawn
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
Exactly (see also the whole RAF Fairford thing). Only trouble is, in this day and age such raising of doubt just seems to breed more conspiracy theory nutjobbery that feeds directly into people's darkest prejudices, rather than leading to any improvement in journalism
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 01/10/2026
As far as I can tell, the pilot managed to open it from the inside whilst being attacked by his co-pilot, but yes, it's another story where the details taken as a whole just don't seen to make sense, or at least they don't as the official accounts are laid before us
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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
You might want to turn that down a bit mate
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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.
taxresearch.org.uk
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
No, I've no idea why either
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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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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 23/09/2026
He's only following in an old family tradition, given that Grandpa Trumpf had form
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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
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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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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 15/09/2026
Exactly this 👆
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Red Dog @red-dog.xyz · 15/09/2026
What can I say? My subconscious seems firmly rooted at a point about 40 years ago 😜 I saw them headline at Portsmouth Poly in 1990 with Rat Scabies on drums (and I still have the tour poster)
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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
"Huge creep continues to be huge creep" shouldn't really be news to anyone, but here we are...
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