Dr Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast.
Ooh, forgot to give my thoughts on this after watching!
So basically yeah, it's as great as it was sold to me, very emotional and hard-hitting. Just a couple of thoughts that really stood out to me:
So basically yeah, it's as great as it was sold to me, very emotional and hard-hitting. Just a couple of thoughts that really stood out to me:
This is on tonight on Channel 4. Strongly encourage people to watch. Can't speak to what it's like myself yet, but have heard from folks who have seen it that it's a really insightful and emotional exploration of intersex people's lives.
The Secret of Me - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Rogan Productions
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Ooh, forgot to give my thoughts on this after watching!
So basically yeah, it's as great as it was sold to me, very emotional and hard-hitting. Just a couple of thoughts that really stood out to me:
So basically yeah, it's as great as it was sold to me, very emotional and hard-hitting. Just a couple of thoughts that really stood out to me:
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This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
AI nudification: the latest weapon of violence against women and girls
In Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Spectator, Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?, she makes the argument that those who, like me, have repeatedly had their clothes removed by socia...
jessasato.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM
This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
Relieved that he doesn't seem to be any relation to Avril.
The next speaker is, Jason Lavigne, host of The Lavigne Show. Lavigne says people describe separatists as traitors to shame and shut down conversations before they begin. "When people are labeled instead of listened to...it becomes about who gets to speak and who doesn't."
January 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Relieved that he doesn't seem to be any relation to Avril.
What about all the people who've had sex in cubicles?
JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 23, 2026 at 6:35 PM
What about all the people who've had sex in cubicles?
Glad The Lonely Island kept redrafting the lyrics after this, doesn't really roll off the tongue quite so well
January 23, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Glad The Lonely Island kept redrafting the lyrics after this, doesn't really roll off the tongue quite so well
I really do not see the value in publicising footage like this.
📽️ WATCH: Lucy Letby was arrested by police while still in bed and wrapped in her duvet, previously unseen footage shows.
The investigation into her crimes is to feature in a Netflix documentary about the former neonatal nurse ⬇️
The investigation into her crimes is to feature in a Netflix documentary about the former neonatal nurse ⬇️
Netflix’s Lucy Letby documentary to show unseen footage of arrest
Netflix’s Lucy Letby documentary to show unseen footage of arrest
www.thetimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:20 PM
I really do not see the value in publicising footage like this.
"failed Horst Wesseling", or alternatively, "Shinzo Abeing"
books about this era are going to heavily feature the failed Horst Wesseling of Kirk. it was the first place where the regime wanted something, got elite buy-in, and it blew up in their face
just thinking again about how MAGA’s attempt to suppress all criticism of Charlie Kirk created a backlash so intense that he is now probably the most abjectly Internet-defiled person in human history
January 23, 2026 at 5:33 PM
"failed Horst Wesseling", or alternatively, "Shinzo Abeing"
"legal systems... don’t typically contain mechanisms through which the interpretation of basic, everyday terms can be changed across the board"
What a silly thing to say. Of course they do. Parliament pretty routinely changes the legal meanings of terms, which courts are required to follow.
What a silly thing to say. Of course they do. Parliament pretty routinely changes the legal meanings of terms, which courts are required to follow.
Checked out The Philosophers' Magazine, which has only gotten worse under its new EIC, Daniel Kodsi, who is a young reactionary with no experience. Its recent output is a whole lot of laughably bad anti-trans garbage. Look at this! The law operates under ordinary language philosophy?! What?
January 23, 2026 at 5:06 PM
"legal systems... don’t typically contain mechanisms through which the interpretation of basic, everyday terms can be changed across the board"
What a silly thing to say. Of course they do. Parliament pretty routinely changes the legal meanings of terms, which courts are required to follow.
What a silly thing to say. Of course they do. Parliament pretty routinely changes the legal meanings of terms, which courts are required to follow.
I was today years old when I discovered the existence of Scots-Yiddish poetry.
David Bleiman wins Scots Language Association's Sangschaw competition - The Poetry Society
Poetry Society Member David Bleiman's poem, 'The Trebbler's Tale', written in a macaronic Scots-Yiddish, won the first prize and the Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie in the Scots Language Association's Sangscha...
poetrysociety.org.uk
January 23, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I was today years old when I discovered the existence of Scots-Yiddish poetry.
*Scammer
Elon Musk Isn't an Optimist, He's a Salesman
Elon Musk Isn't an Optimist, He's a Salesman
At Davos, Musk sold a vision of himsel that doesn't align with reality.
gizmodo.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:36 PM
*Scammer
See, they really should've followed through on Husk/Chamber not least because then we'd have avoided the monstrosity of Husk/Angel.
Our Generation X Marathon continues as we get the REAL Monet. She's meaner, smarter and has WAY more sexual tension with Jubilee than before! Also Paige and Jono's will-they/won't-they might drive one of our hosts insane! Check it out! #xspoilers #xmen
Episode 96: Generation X Marathon Part 5 Family Business | Escape the Mojoverse: An X-Men Comics Podcast
New Year, New Me, New You, New Mutants
shows.acast.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:46 PM
See, they really should've followed through on Husk/Chamber not least because then we'd have avoided the monstrosity of Husk/Angel.
Honestly in the long-term outlook, Linke becoming predominantly a party of young lefty women rather than Ostalgic boomers who miss the GDR is a good development.
fucking dying at the Linke numbers for 18-34 women
holy shit dawg
holy shit dawg
January 22, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Honestly in the long-term outlook, Linke becoming predominantly a party of young lefty women rather than Ostalgic boomers who miss the GDR is a good development.
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Reposted by Dr Alex Cruikshanks
in case you didn’t click through, what she had the nerve to do was go to a football game that the school she is currently attending was playing in
This country hates women so much.
ca.news.yahoo.com/ex-porn-star...
ca.news.yahoo.com/ex-porn-star...
Ex-Porn Star Abella Danger Apologizes for Viral Moment During Miami Hurricanes’ NCAA Final Loss
The football megafan's reactions at games have captured the attention of several cameramen combing the crowd, but she says she wishes to be like any other fan.
ca.news.yahoo.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 PM
in case you didn’t click through, what she had the nerve to do was go to a football game that the school she is currently attending was playing in
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Spanberger dismissing Youngkin's education appointees was an important move. It will require actions that look partisan and political to restore nonpartisanship, competency and merit to government. (MAGA must be purged.) newrepublic.com/article/2054...
Abigail Spanberger’s First Move as Virginia Gov. Was a Masterstroke
Even moderate Democrats can be boldly anti-MAGA. Other centrist Democrats should follow her example.
newrepublic.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Spanberger dismissing Youngkin's education appointees was an important move. It will require actions that look partisan and political to restore nonpartisanship, competency and merit to government. (MAGA must be purged.) newrepublic.com/article/2054...
Also, why would this be a surprise anyway? Virtually every major imperial army has men from colonised and marginalised groups. The US Army in WW2 also had Native Americans and African-Americans. The UK Army had Indians and Jamaicans and Maoris. The Red Army had Ukrainians and Kazakhs and Tatars.
i like how this person thinks this is an own instead of the fact that Japanese-Americans believed in America more than the fucking idiots that interned them
January 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Also, why would this be a surprise anyway? Virtually every major imperial army has men from colonised and marginalised groups. The US Army in WW2 also had Native Americans and African-Americans. The UK Army had Indians and Jamaicans and Maoris. The Red Army had Ukrainians and Kazakhs and Tatars.
You misunderstand, that's actually the emoji for Rory Delap preparing to take a throw-in
January 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM
You misunderstand, that's actually the emoji for Rory Delap preparing to take a throw-in
🇦🇲🤝🇦🇿 Finally united in performative bootlicking
The countries that have signed up for the “Board of Peace” out of the 60 invited:
Bahrain, Morocco, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Mongolia, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, Uzbekistan.
Bahrain, Morocco, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Mongolia, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, Uzbekistan.
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
🇦🇲🤝🇦🇿 Finally united in performative bootlicking
This is using a child as a human shield, it's a war crime.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM
This is using a child as a human shield, it's a war crime.
I mean, he shouldn't chair the judiciary committee he because enabled young men in his care to be serially raped for years.
this is a weird take to me
i dont care about lawmakers having credentials like this
jim jordan shouldnt chair the judiciary committee cause he's a fucking conspiratorial buffoon, not because he didnt pass a test
i dont care about lawmakers having credentials like this
jim jordan shouldnt chair the judiciary committee cause he's a fucking conspiratorial buffoon, not because he didnt pass a test
Jim Jordan has never passed the bar exam. The fact that he serves as Chair of the House Judiciary Committee tells you everything about how seriously today’s Republican Party takes its responsibility for legal oversight.
January 22, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I mean, he shouldn't chair the judiciary committee he because enabled young men in his care to be serially raped for years.
At core, 1) is the principle that ethnic Turks in Germany have at some level chosen to be there and so it's reasonable for the state not to provide them with Turkish-language public facilities. By contrast, this would not be a reasonable approach for ethnic Turks in Greece and Bulgaria.
I'd broadly say there are two somewhat useful but distinct ways of using "indigenous":
1) a modern sense, to refer to ethnic minorities more culturally deeply-rooted in a polity than more recent immigrant or refugee communities
2) a historical sense, in contrast to invaders/colonisers
1) a modern sense, to refer to ethnic minorities more culturally deeply-rooted in a polity than more recent immigrant or refugee communities
2) a historical sense, in contrast to invaders/colonisers
it would be good if we had separate words for 'the first people ever to settle a particular territory' and 'the people who were there when the early modern wave of European colonization hit', because 'indigenous' doing double duty for both often confuses people.
January 22, 2026 at 3:15 PM
At core, 1) is the principle that ethnic Turks in Germany have at some level chosen to be there and so it's reasonable for the state not to provide them with Turkish-language public facilities. By contrast, this would not be a reasonable approach for ethnic Turks in Greece and Bulgaria.
I'd broadly say there are two somewhat useful but distinct ways of using "indigenous":
1) a modern sense, to refer to ethnic minorities more culturally deeply-rooted in a polity than more recent immigrant or refugee communities
2) a historical sense, in contrast to invaders/colonisers
1) a modern sense, to refer to ethnic minorities more culturally deeply-rooted in a polity than more recent immigrant or refugee communities
2) a historical sense, in contrast to invaders/colonisers
it would be good if we had separate words for 'the first people ever to settle a particular territory' and 'the people who were there when the early modern wave of European colonization hit', because 'indigenous' doing double duty for both often confuses people.
January 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I'd broadly say there are two somewhat useful but distinct ways of using "indigenous":
1) a modern sense, to refer to ethnic minorities more culturally deeply-rooted in a polity than more recent immigrant or refugee communities
2) a historical sense, in contrast to invaders/colonisers
1) a modern sense, to refer to ethnic minorities more culturally deeply-rooted in a polity than more recent immigrant or refugee communities
2) a historical sense, in contrast to invaders/colonisers
Can't believe this Oscar snub for Kraven the Hunter
January 22, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Can't believe this Oscar snub for Kraven the Hunter
Hinder needs to get in the fucking bin.
January 22, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Hinder needs to get in the fucking bin.