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@cesigno.bsky.social
one of the london borough of lambeth's middlemost public intellectuals.
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I will hold my hands up as an Avatar Hater, but I think it is because what we're struggling with, as a group, is that it is like being told 'three billion people are sexually attracted to forks'. It's not even that it is wrong, it's that I just don't really understand it at any level.
This, lol; and IMO it takes the form of ‘cultural impact’ debates because the movies are not entertainingly terrible or memorably bad, they’re just profoundly uninteresting, and the fact that they are technically well made only makes that more glaring
The debate about Avatar "having no cultural impact" is kind of a smokescreen for the actual argument which is that Avatar is "boring" and "bad" and "has terrible characters, worldbuilding, plotting and dialogue"
December 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I will hold my hands up as an Avatar Hater, but I think it is because what we're struggling with, as a group, is that it is like being told 'three billion people are sexually attracted to forks'. It's not even that it is wrong, it's that I just don't really understand it at any level.
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Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.
December 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.
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there is no spoon
December 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
there is no spoon
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We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
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I know it’s Christmas but I just gotta say it: I think it’s fucked up the French President is married to his mom
December 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I know it’s Christmas but I just gotta say it: I think it’s fucked up the French President is married to his mom
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Farage says it confidently, Davey, Polanski and Swinney refuse to say it. Starmer tries to avoid saying it by muttering in such a way that the left thinks he said it and the right think he refused wokely. Badenoch sings the wrong word by mistake then makes sure to say the slur on telly the day after
December 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Farage says it confidently, Davey, Polanski and Swinney refuse to say it. Starmer tries to avoid saying it by muttering in such a way that the left thinks he said it and the right think he refused wokely. Badenoch sings the wrong word by mistake then makes sure to say the slur on telly the day after
tag yourself!
We really are a nation that loves animals and hates children. These figures are so shameful (via @natacha.bsky.social).
December 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
tag yourself!
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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In a way the questions here don't really matter, what matters is clocking that the unremittingly negative worldview of these voters is an outlier and mostly cannot be appeased.
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
In a way the questions here don't really matter, what matters is clocking that the unremittingly negative worldview of these voters is an outlier and mostly cannot be appeased.
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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We hope everyone is able to be their authentic selves over the festive period, but we know this isn't always possible 🌈🏳️⚧️
Whether or not you change your behaviour or how you dress, please know that your identity is still valid and you're not to blame for any anti-LGBT+ abuse you experience.
Whether or not you change your behaviour or how you dress, please know that your identity is still valid and you're not to blame for any anti-LGBT+ abuse you experience.
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We hope everyone is able to be their authentic selves over the festive period, but we know this isn't always possible 🌈🏳️⚧️
Whether or not you change your behaviour or how you dress, please know that your identity is still valid and you're not to blame for any anti-LGBT+ abuse you experience.
Whether or not you change your behaviour or how you dress, please know that your identity is still valid and you're not to blame for any anti-LGBT+ abuse you experience.
as a uni lecturer, a good chance this will happen to me eventually and the press and government will be entirely against me
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
as a uni lecturer, a good chance this will happen to me eventually and the press and government will be entirely against me
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The way trans activists are routinely demonised in the UK is really wild. You can engage the most basic of democratic, nonviolent forms of protest and transphobes respond as if the world is collapsing and trans activists are to blame. There is no form of trans activism that is acceptable to them.
December 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The way trans activists are routinely demonised in the UK is really wild. You can engage the most basic of democratic, nonviolent forms of protest and transphobes respond as if the world is collapsing and trans activists are to blame. There is no form of trans activism that is acceptable to them.
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This reminds me! Five years ago I had a chat with the local council official who created “Winterval” in 1998. A real canary in the coal mine of future British culture wars. TBH the real story is that councils used to have money to spend on cultural events. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
December 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This reminds me! Five years ago I had a chat with the local council official who created “Winterval” in 1998. A real canary in the coal mine of future British culture wars. TBH the real story is that councils used to have money to spend on cultural events. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
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It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"
Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise.
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
The Neglected Front in RFK Jr.’s War on Science — Assigned
As trans healthcare is decimated no one is standing up for the integrity of the scientific process for these patients.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"
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We have to be pretty plainspoken about this. Exterminationist ideas are mainstream now
At the start of this year I noted in a piece that, while there were murmurings, the British right at least hadn’t succumbed to the talk of remigration that had taken over some European parties. Anyway, what a year it’s been for all the worst people
www.ft.com/content/1ce8...
www.ft.com/content/1ce8...
Year in a Word: Remigration
The idea that ethnic diversity is a threat has begun to seep into the mainstream
www.ft.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We have to be pretty plainspoken about this. Exterminationist ideas are mainstream now
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Every single thing in the conservative turn from 2010s on can be explained by homophobia becoming less socially acceptable, except homophobia, which is about mysogyny
Ask any gay person what "theater kid," when used as an insult, means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Move Aside, Snowflake: ‘Theater Kid’ Is the New Go-To Political Insult
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Every single thing in the conservative turn from 2010s on can be explained by homophobia becoming less socially acceptable, except homophobia, which is about mysogyny
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Yes, this is bog standard Trumper stuff: people who are just normal stroppy arseholes finding friends online and driving each other completely insane, alienating their own friends and family as they become increasingly wacky and difficult to be around.
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Yes, this is bog standard Trumper stuff: people who are just normal stroppy arseholes finding friends online and driving each other completely insane, alienating their own friends and family as they become increasingly wacky and difficult to be around.
arroved back late to my parents home. they have gone to bed, so I'm trying to get their dodgy box to work. it's really pushing gb news, so I assume they've been watching a lot of that. not a good sign for ur old pal Roz this Christmas!
December 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
arroved back late to my parents home. they have gone to bed, so I'm trying to get their dodgy box to work. it's really pushing gb news, so I assume they've been watching a lot of that. not a good sign for ur old pal Roz this Christmas!
my family run a Leeds United prediction league. as a bit I predict Leeds win 5-0 every week. it's finally gonna happen
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
my family run a Leeds United prediction league. as a bit I predict Leeds win 5-0 every week. it's finally gonna happen
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I agree with this fully, but it reminds me that the sexual revolution is the kind of success that’s so huge I feel we (the left + liberals) need to remind ourselves how much our antecedents achieved.
The womens/gay lib movements transformed society so comprehensively, the right is *still* fuming
The womens/gay lib movements transformed society so comprehensively, the right is *still* fuming
That's entirely fair. And I'd certainly agree abt the sexual revolution, although I see it as incomplete, a work in progress that requires perpetual struggle & vigilance to sustain [& now facing a gigantic conservative backlash by very powerful forces].
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I agree with this fully, but it reminds me that the sexual revolution is the kind of success that’s so huge I feel we (the left + liberals) need to remind ourselves how much our antecedents achieved.
The womens/gay lib movements transformed society so comprehensively, the right is *still* fuming
The womens/gay lib movements transformed society so comprehensively, the right is *still* fuming
when we win we will punish them for what they did ☺️
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The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
when we win we will punish them for what they did ☺️
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Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language
EXCLUSIVE
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language