Spyro the Antifascist Dragon
@antifaspyro.bsky.social
Living in the imperial slagheap known as Britain
They/Them
They/Them
Pinned
There is no path to a better future that does not begin with Labour's corpse - what is even left worth preserving?
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One reason disfigurement had an outsized cultural presence in the 20s/30s (especially in things like horror films and pulps) is that there were an unprecedented number of people coming back from WW1 having sustained injuries that, before recent medical/surgical practices, would've been fatal
The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict in history that saw more deaths in combat than deaths by disease.
Realistically, if you were sent to war any time before WW1, you were more likely to shit yourself to death than die at the hands of the enemy.
Realistically, if you were sent to war any time before WW1, you were more likely to shit yourself to death than die at the hands of the enemy.
If anyone asks you who won the Crimean War the answer is indisputably “cholera”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean... (scroll to “Casualties and Losses”)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean... (scroll to “Casualties and Losses”)
February 17, 2026 at 10:57 PM
One reason disfigurement had an outsized cultural presence in the 20s/30s (especially in things like horror films and pulps) is that there were an unprecedented number of people coming back from WW1 having sustained injuries that, before recent medical/surgical practices, would've been fatal
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Billionaires should not exist because they can use their vast wealth and influence to create crises like this in service of something the vast majority of the public does not want and cannot be meaningfully stopped as long as they're billionaires.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Billionaires should not exist because they can use their vast wealth and influence to create crises like this in service of something the vast majority of the public does not want and cannot be meaningfully stopped as long as they're billionaires.
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One change to discourse on Palestine-Israel that would make everything a little better is if one side could stop assuming, “we were here first, thousands of years ago” means anything at all legally today, and the other could stop insisting every Jew is European and has no connection to the Levant.
February 17, 2026 at 10:33 PM
One change to discourse on Palestine-Israel that would make everything a little better is if one side could stop assuming, “we were here first, thousands of years ago” means anything at all legally today, and the other could stop insisting every Jew is European and has no connection to the Levant.
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liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price
February 16, 2026 at 2:39 AM
liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price
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This seems completely reasonable. West Bank settlers are in violation of international law, and if they choose to live in violation of international law, they should not expect its protections.
Belgian deputy prime minister (who is also the foreign minister) confirms today in a rebuke of the Israeli foreign minister that the Kingdom of Belgium has suspended all consular services to Belgian citizens who have chosen to live in occupied Palestinian territory as settlers.
February 17, 2026 at 10:38 PM
This seems completely reasonable. West Bank settlers are in violation of international law, and if they choose to live in violation of international law, they should not expect its protections.
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very close to 5k on this! please help if you can
Due to being a refugee, I only get invited to interviews for menial and service jobs. Because of my disability, I can't work those. I live on modest and sporadic freelance earnings and can't afford surgical expenses. Please help if you can 🙏
#HelpSky #MutualAid
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#HelpSky #MutualAid
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Donate to Help Emma Get Gender-Affirming Surgery, organized by Em Zakharuk
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February 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
very close to 5k on this! please help if you can
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One thing I learned listening to political journalists on podcasts (besides that I’m wasting your life) is that they use fillers constantly. Often struggle to express basic points coherently. That’s not under hostile questioning, it’s in a studio with their colleagues & friends.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
One thing I learned listening to political journalists on podcasts (besides that I’m wasting your life) is that they use fillers constantly. Often struggle to express basic points coherently. That’s not under hostile questioning, it’s in a studio with their colleagues & friends.
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"Mordor is communist" lmfao i wish i had half the confidence of men with a fraction of the intellect they believe they posses
In what sense is the takeover of the Shire capitalist? I genuinely may have missed something. It involves smokestacks and corruption but these are common in, say, communist systems
February 17, 2026 at 11:46 AM
"Mordor is communist" lmfao i wish i had half the confidence of men with a fraction of the intellect they believe they posses
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In my AI movie, a train will come directly at the viewer at very high speed!
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
In my AI movie, a train will come directly at the viewer at very high speed!
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I imagine that if you described *any* medical procedure in detail and then asked if it was appropriate to perform it on minors a bunch of people would say no. A lot of anti-healthcare and anti-vax sentiment is just downstream of things like needle anxiety.
I am 100% sure that have been more articles about youth gender surgeries than actual youth gender surgeries in 2026. When is someone going to reckon with the fact that ‘pivoting’ on this issue means signing on to a moral panic?
Lakshya Jain and the Argument fled this website because they couldn't take the criticism and now he's advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues with polling about 'gender surgery for minors' a thing that is not real
February 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I imagine that if you described *any* medical procedure in detail and then asked if it was appropriate to perform it on minors a bunch of people would say no. A lot of anti-healthcare and anti-vax sentiment is just downstream of things like needle anxiety.
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These anti-fat activist screeds always include a blithe acknowledgement that fat activists are correct on the merits.
"To be sure, weight and health aren't perfectly correlated, fatphobia is widespread and losing weight is extremely difficult..."
Right, but that's the entire thing!
"To be sure, weight and health aren't perfectly correlated, fatphobia is widespread and losing weight is extremely difficult..."
Right, but that's the entire thing!
The way she winds up for the BUT after “not everyone can control their weight, and no one should be mistreated for it”
This is indistinguishable from right-wing anti-SJW agitprop
February 17, 2026 at 8:25 PM
These anti-fat activist screeds always include a blithe acknowledgement that fat activists are correct on the merits.
"To be sure, weight and health aren't perfectly correlated, fatphobia is widespread and losing weight is extremely difficult..."
Right, but that's the entire thing!
"To be sure, weight and health aren't perfectly correlated, fatphobia is widespread and losing weight is extremely difficult..."
Right, but that's the entire thing!
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So it turns out he can't in fact chair a meeting, draft a minute and do all those other things that we were loudly assured would lead to a roaringly successful government?
REVEALED: The Prime Minister doesn't know what he's doing
WATCH HERE - youtu.be/5FQw8QpZl_0
WATCH HERE - youtu.be/5FQw8QpZl_0
February 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
So it turns out he can't in fact chair a meeting, draft a minute and do all those other things that we were loudly assured would lead to a roaringly successful government?
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Ok so just to be clear: everyone who said this guy was the most competent, sensible, rock solid course for a renewed Britain - they were absolutely fucking wrong, yeah? And so, will there be any consequences for that?
this is very very funny. I always thought the issue was that he thought he could ignore politics, view government as a series of decisions and simply be the Manager of Britain. turns out he also doesn't make decisions.
REVEALED: The Prime Minister doesn't know what he's doing
WATCH HERE - youtu.be/5FQw8QpZl_0
WATCH HERE - youtu.be/5FQw8QpZl_0
February 17, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Ok so just to be clear: everyone who said this guy was the most competent, sensible, rock solid course for a renewed Britain - they were absolutely fucking wrong, yeah? And so, will there be any consequences for that?
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today I saw a dad at costco deploy a high-risk “fine, I’ll buy you this basketball hoop if you can make this shot” maneuver to his young son only for the boy to swish from like twenty feet away. net barely moved
February 16, 2026 at 7:55 PM
today I saw a dad at costco deploy a high-risk “fine, I’ll buy you this basketball hoop if you can make this shot” maneuver to his young son only for the boy to swish from like twenty feet away. net barely moved
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RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/
February 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/
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It should also be pointed out that Sauron is an imperialist who uses plunder and slavery to power his mines and factories - it's pretty damn political!
Stop with your actually reading the book with its dark satanic [stand in for mills] thinking it might have something to do with capitalism and industrialisation blighting the landscape.
How are people going to mindlessly dunk if they have to read the books first!?
How are people going to mindlessly dunk if they have to read the books first!?
February 17, 2026 at 11:27 AM
It should also be pointed out that Sauron is an imperialist who uses plunder and slavery to power his mines and factories - it's pretty damn political!
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New "this motherfucker again" just dropped.
The Atlantic continues to cover itself in glory. This guy is treated as an elder statesman for a career that peaked with—drumroll—being one of the earliest and loudest proponents for invading Iraq after 9/11. I suppose it's good he's now a fan of white nationalism, that means it too will fail.
February 17, 2026 at 3:33 PM
New "this motherfucker again" just dropped.
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Ignore them for weeks until the public outcry becomes so overwhelming that you're forced to order a largely toothless regulator to launch a multi-week investigation with no actual consequences while continuing to use the platform the images were posted all-over as it poisons society?
Go off, king.
Go off, king.
UK PM STARMER: WHAT WE DID WITH GROK OVER SEXUALISED IMAGES, WE MUST DO IT WITH ALL AI CHATBOTS
February 16, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Ignore them for weeks until the public outcry becomes so overwhelming that you're forced to order a largely toothless regulator to launch a multi-week investigation with no actual consequences while continuing to use the platform the images were posted all-over as it poisons society?
Go off, king.
Go off, king.
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This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.
February 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.
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Meanwhile, in New Zealand, cops use their car guns overwhelming to shoot & kill disabled and mentally ill people, just like cops in the US
"Over half of the mental health events (n = 11, 57.9%) resulted in fatalities"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Over half of the mental health events (n = 11, 57.9%) resulted in fatalities"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 17, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Meanwhile, in New Zealand, cops use their car guns overwhelming to shoot & kill disabled and mentally ill people, just like cops in the US
"Over half of the mental health events (n = 11, 57.9%) resulted in fatalities"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Over half of the mental health events (n = 11, 57.9%) resulted in fatalities"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...
Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:09 PM
The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...
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I didn't go private, on advice I joined the queue and waited 2+ years for the NHS ADHD test, got the diagnosis, and my GP still refuses to prescribe me any meds.
Patients were forced to go private at great personal cost because NHS assessments for ADHD have waitlists up to 8 years long. And now, despite having those diagnoses, GPs are just refusing to give people meds they need for a diagnosis they have because... fuck you, that's why.
Cool!
Cool!
Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.
February 17, 2026 at 11:38 AM
I didn't go private, on advice I joined the queue and waited 2+ years for the NHS ADHD test, got the diagnosis, and my GP still refuses to prescribe me any meds.
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The old world will burn in the fires of industry. Forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc who is NOT an enslaved worker bound to empire that grows needlessly and heedlessly. who's ungoliant? i don't know her
Mordor was not a stand in for the capitalist mode of production, there is nothing capitalist about it. Economic modes of production are almost impossible to map onto LotR; depictions of monetary or barter transactions or taxation are almost absent
February 17, 2026 at 12:06 PM
The old world will burn in the fires of industry. Forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc who is NOT an enslaved worker bound to empire that grows needlessly and heedlessly. who's ungoliant? i don't know her
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'Sir Keir “thanked him for his presentation but said he wasn’t interested in hope and change”, according to a source.'
February 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM
'Sir Keir “thanked him for his presentation but said he wasn’t interested in hope and change”, according to a source.'