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Ian Rennie

@theangelremiel.bsky.social
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Higher than weather balloons, empty hearts on fire. miscellany.pckt.blog isn't really anything

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 6h
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.
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Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
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SirFox @sirfox.bsky.social · 8h
That sandwich you got from Chick-fil-A helped to fund this happening. Thanks.
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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 6h
We have been living in the Black Hole Sun video for about a decade now
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 7h
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 7h
so today I found out there's a Phoebe Bridgers version of So Much Wine by the Handsome Family. And it's as good as that statement makes it sound. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBh...
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So Much Wine
YouTube video by Phoebe Bridgers - Topic
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 16h
The video advertising Unity's ew AI-driven autocomplete game maker has 'Mari' who has a game idea they "always wanted to make" and that idea is "Space Corridor" and it looks like this, and that's the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands.
A conversation between Theo and Mari. He asks "you know that game you always wanted to make?"A screenshot of Unity building a game called "Space Corridor".A generic 3rd person space marine in a generic scifi corridor. It is large and empty.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 7h
Great idea. The Republicans will be poised to completely ratfuck the results, and then go "but wait, we promised!"
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 12h
"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train
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Mr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 11h
A bunch of folks who have never had empathy for Palestinian deaths are quoted here en masse responding to an accurate, smart, and thought out statement. Same as if ever was. Zohran is great. His critics continue to relegate themselves into history's villain pile.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13h
"My opponent wants to pass laws to hurt a handful of high school student while appointing stranger to look up your daughter's skirt in the name of protecting them--that's weird and wrong and disgusting and I'll fight like hell to stop them" come on something like that but more articulate.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 13h
Right, so. I’m with Ketan here: the theft I refer to with AI isn’t so much training data (which sucks) but the ways that it enables an entire culture of permissible theft maintained by folks who don’t see the harm in what they do.
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Fanzine. Moxism was always the right way @fanzine.bsky.social · 13h
I'm going to point out that Cody revealed that this was a Kevin Owens joint. He setup this on his own and asked talent to sit down to do messages when they got a chance. WWE saw this and said "we did this'
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h
CO-SIGN
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 15h
Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 15h
His first two terms are going to be absolutely delightful and his third is going to be only okay?
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 15h
When the bruschetta comes out sizzling
A chef through a circular window with a look of Entire Joy
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
goblin mask! twenty dollars can buy many peanuts

norman osborn! explain how
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly.
"but you've automated your hobby"
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no, fantasy football is not my hobby. it's more of a social obligation.
my actual hobbies are gainful and awesome and mostly involve being outside. not fixating on team news and sportsball RNG. i have more time to do them because I use Al for all the boring stuff in my life.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 20h
"I'm going to offer you a massive tax cut". Tribal audience cheers. Interviewer: "how will you pay for that and keep key spending promises?" "No, you can't draw me into a trap of discussing hypotheticals"
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 20h
"Instead" is deeply disingenuous here. It gives the impression that the Green Party took all mention of environmental issues off their conference docket and replaced it with discussion of Israel and Palestine.
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 20h
There has to be a way to acknowledge and discuss the rising antisemitic violence in the UK, to talk about Heaton Park and Golders Green, without saying that the perpetrators "always wore [...] keffiyehs", and publishing that assessment in a national newspaper
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 20h
I feel like memes like this miss how few of the SS (especially the rank and file SS) faced any punishment at all.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 21h
People like Blake Stephenson never name the "no go zones", do they? Probably because if they did people would go and take photos of themselves having coffee there just to clown on him.
Luton has 'no-go zones' for white people, claims MP ,
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Blake Stephenson was speaking at a Conservative Party conference fringe event
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 22h
congratulations to everyone on my timeline for resisting taking part in British Food Discourse.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 22h
AEW should have called their Paris show "Mode Sauvage"
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I thought her reputation was as a horrible person who sucks but ok
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Vivid dream about The West Wing, except in this version it had Brittany Murphy in the season one cast as Harley Quinn.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
theonion.com/dnc-releases...
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DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms
WASHINGTON—In an effort to get ahead of the forthcoming criticisms of how they squandered such a commanding lead in the polls, the Democratic National Committee released a preemptive autopsy Tuesday i...
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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, apparently I should bookmark this and drag it out every three months or so
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is about the most reasonably priced Kickstarter I've ever seen.
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West of House @taterpie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every new thing I learn about Mike Tomlin's Minecraft server makes me even more delighted.
a screenshot of a twitter post from an account called theNFLDrop, which says 'Report: Mike Tomlin says he banned Antonio Brown from his Minecraft server after he used TNT to bomb a hospital'.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I continually struggle to reconcile “Kemi Badenoch, who as business secretary went ‘getting rid of all retained EU law would be the act of a nutty arsonist’ and backed Rishi Sunak in 2022” with “almost everything Kemi Badenoch does and says as leader of the opposition”.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I sincerely wish we had a Democratic party as cool as the one Republicans imagine.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to the last 1.5 years well, yknow, just organizing with my coworkers to unionize the most celebrated & beloved TTRPG and TCGs of all time 🥰✊ this took buckets of blood, sweat & tears but we DID IT!!! If you want to support us, sign that petition and BOOST!
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Talkin'
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights & sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958”
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Apply in person to the Magnus Institute, London"
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's important to pressure politicians on your side when they display shitty views. If you don't, they will take your vote for granted.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Despite myself I feel an amount of sympathy for people who wanted to be in a "small government, free trade, responsible capital" party and are actually in the "anything Reform can do we can do better" party.
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The passing of Jeffrey Archer is also an interesting moment for remembering what bestselling fiction was like in the late 70s and early 80s. Huge 500 page cliffs of fatuous guff, family sagas of horrible people destroying each other, serialised across acres of prime time.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/10/2026
I'm a scientist concerned about trainees using Chat, Claude etc recklessly Imagine if that internal employee ID number was protected human subjects information, like the email address of a participant, or a confidential diagnosis or worse
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lawsuit.
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