Rowanne
@agirlintheshed.bsky.social
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Rowanne
@agirlintheshed.bsky.social
· Oct 13
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Instead of the British knee-jerk ‘It’s not to my personal taste – it should be banned!’
Make the basic legal principle that ‘victimless crimes’ should be just *not be crimes* where people are just doing their own thing
(And, if any exceptions, precise and limited)
Make the basic legal principle that ‘victimless crimes’ should be just *not be crimes* where people are just doing their own thing
(And, if any exceptions, precise and limited)
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Instead of the British knee-jerk ‘It’s not to my personal taste – it should be banned!’
Make the basic legal principle that ‘victimless crimes’ should be just *not be crimes* where people are just doing their own thing
(And, if any exceptions, precise and limited)
Make the basic legal principle that ‘victimless crimes’ should be just *not be crimes* where people are just doing their own thing
(And, if any exceptions, precise and limited)
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
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lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I’m not one for conspiracies but one must admit, the gazillionaire obsession with funding AI, does align nicely with the goal of advancing video generation past the point of detection so that - say - footage of someone raping a 14 year old could no longer be considered ‘iron clad’.
November 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I’m not one for conspiracies but one must admit, the gazillionaire obsession with funding AI, does align nicely with the goal of advancing video generation past the point of detection so that - say - footage of someone raping a 14 year old could no longer be considered ‘iron clad’.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Your donations help us survive but we need real solutions
Please keep speaking about us
Demand a permanent ceasefire access for temporary housing and rapid reconstruction
Your voice matters don’t stop calling for justice and safety for our people
We just need a normal life 🥺
Please keep speaking about us
Demand a permanent ceasefire access for temporary housing and rapid reconstruction
Your voice matters don’t stop calling for justice and safety for our people
We just need a normal life 🥺
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"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
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Posters are essentially the Oompa Loompas. Ripping the piss out of people having the worst day of their lives.
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Posters are essentially the Oompa Loompas. Ripping the piss out of people having the worst day of their lives.
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Seems like there's some diminishing returns kicking in here lads.
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Seems like there's some diminishing returns kicking in here lads.
Bottom-of-the-food-chain drug dealers have better opsec than the world’s most powerful elites
The nuclear codes were 1234.
The Louvre security password was Louvre.
Elite sex-conspirators list their names and crimes in emails and birthday cards to one another.
At least Dan Brown had the church disguise its dark secrets by jumbling the letters up and doing mirror writing and lemon juice.
The Louvre security password was Louvre.
Elite sex-conspirators list their names and crimes in emails and birthday cards to one another.
At least Dan Brown had the church disguise its dark secrets by jumbling the letters up and doing mirror writing and lemon juice.
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Bottom-of-the-food-chain drug dealers have better opsec than the world’s most powerful elites
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The nuclear codes were 1234.
The Louvre security password was Louvre.
Elite sex-conspirators list their names and crimes in emails and birthday cards to one another.
At least Dan Brown had the church disguise its dark secrets by jumbling the letters up and doing mirror writing and lemon juice.
The Louvre security password was Louvre.
Elite sex-conspirators list their names and crimes in emails and birthday cards to one another.
At least Dan Brown had the church disguise its dark secrets by jumbling the letters up and doing mirror writing and lemon juice.
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The nuclear codes were 1234.
The Louvre security password was Louvre.
Elite sex-conspirators list their names and crimes in emails and birthday cards to one another.
At least Dan Brown had the church disguise its dark secrets by jumbling the letters up and doing mirror writing and lemon juice.
The Louvre security password was Louvre.
Elite sex-conspirators list their names and crimes in emails and birthday cards to one another.
At least Dan Brown had the church disguise its dark secrets by jumbling the letters up and doing mirror writing and lemon juice.
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Does this sound like the parliamentary wing of the trade unions speaking or does it sound like standard issue toryism
'Don't tell me you don't want to be out on strike - because that is exactly where you are. Own it.'
As resident doctors walk out again, Wes Streeting calls out the 'reprehensible and cartel-like behaviour' of their union.
As resident doctors walk out again, Wes Streeting calls out the 'reprehensible and cartel-like behaviour' of their union.
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Does this sound like the parliamentary wing of the trade unions speaking or does it sound like standard issue toryism
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Telling people that they have to vote for something they disagree with or the consequences are their fault is just a form of bullying or blackmail which we don't have to stand for
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Telling people that they have to vote for something they disagree with or the consequences are their fault is just a form of bullying or blackmail which we don't have to stand for
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we need to return to sending useless rich boys on deadly expeditions
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
we need to return to sending useless rich boys on deadly expeditions
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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Not only is most of this correct but it was obviously correct *at the time*, and the only thing left is to separate out who was bullshitting the public from who was just repeating whatever it was everyone else was saying, because that’s what they always do.
Starmer was never meant to be Labour’s prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson
His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the price, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Not only is most of this correct but it was obviously correct *at the time*, and the only thing left is to separate out who was bullshitting the public from who was just repeating whatever it was everyone else was saying, because that’s what they always do.
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tapping the sign
everything i hear about Your Party organising at a local level is full of optimism and joy, and everything i read about the central party apparatus makes Change UK The Independent Group for Change look like Machiavelli
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
tapping the sign
The absolute worst thing that could happen to Cristiano Ronaldo is that Portugal qualify for what would be his last World Cup, and I just think that’s neat
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The absolute worst thing that could happen to Cristiano Ronaldo is that Portugal qualify for what would be his last World Cup, and I just think that’s neat
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In America, "boys will be boys" and girls will be "barely legal" "underage women".
Deeply sick society.
Deeply sick society.
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
In America, "boys will be boys" and girls will be "barely legal" "underage women".
Deeply sick society.
Deeply sick society.
My eldest is 14 and when I see him with his classmates I cannot fathom how any Adult could think that they aren’t really Children.
At a developmental level I understand the distinction, but they are still wholly Children. Every person in those emails needs to answer for their crimes
At a developmental level I understand the distinction, but they are still wholly Children. Every person in those emails needs to answer for their crimes
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My eldest is 14 and when I see him with his classmates I cannot fathom how any Adult could think that they aren’t really Children.
At a developmental level I understand the distinction, but they are still wholly Children. Every person in those emails needs to answer for their crimes
At a developmental level I understand the distinction, but they are still wholly Children. Every person in those emails needs to answer for their crimes
Reece James is out of this world
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reece James is out of this world
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as a society we urgently fucking need to deal with the fact that nearly all trafficked girls were first trafficked while in the child welfare system and/or experiencing generational poverty
Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
as a society we urgently fucking need to deal with the fact that nearly all trafficked girls were first trafficked while in the child welfare system and/or experiencing generational poverty
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A sane and correctly operating society would simply investigate everyone in those files and find the evidence to convict each one of them that definitely exists.
But no, we have to sit through columnists redefine what a child is, and Peter Mandelson saying Epstein wasn't what he was convicted of.
But no, we have to sit through columnists redefine what a child is, and Peter Mandelson saying Epstein wasn't what he was convicted of.
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A sane and correctly operating society would simply investigate everyone in those files and find the evidence to convict each one of them that definitely exists.
But no, we have to sit through columnists redefine what a child is, and Peter Mandelson saying Epstein wasn't what he was convicted of.
But no, we have to sit through columnists redefine what a child is, and Peter Mandelson saying Epstein wasn't what he was convicted of.
Been thinking about this since yesterday and am happy to report that it bangs
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Been thinking about this since yesterday and am happy to report that it bangs