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The Lincolnshire Poster @desiderratum.bsky.social · Jan 1
Mood for the coming year
A panel from V FOR VENDETTA, in which V is giving a televised address. TRANSCRIPT: [PANEL 1: V stands in front of a still of a young boy sucking his finger] "AND WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? IT'S ALWAYS THE CHILDREN WHO SUFFER, AS YOU'RE WELL AWARE. "POOR LITTLE MITES. WHAT ARE THEY TO MAKE OF IT? [PANEL 2: SOLDIERS WITH RIFLES RUSH THROUGH A DOORWAY] "WHAT ARE THEY TO MAKE OF YOUR BULLYING, YOUR DESPAIR, YOUR COWARDICE AND ALL YOUR FONDLY NURTURED BIGOTRIES? [PANEL 3: THE SAME SOLDIERS ARE SEEN FACE-FORWARD] "REALLY, IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH, IS IT? [PANEL 4: V WAGS HIS INDEX-FINGER AT THE VIEWERS] "AND IT'S NO GOOD BLAMING THE DROP IN WORK STANDARDS UPON BAD MANAGEMENT EITHER... [PANEL 5: ADAM SUSAN, DICTATOR OF ENGLAND. SITS IN HIS SPHERICAL CHAIR AS HE WATCHES THE BROADCAST ON MULTIPLE SCREENS AT ONCE] "...THOUGH TO BE SURE, THE MANAGEMENT IS *VERY* BAD. "IN FACT, LET US NOT MINCE WORDS... THE MANAGEMENT IS *TERRIBLE!* [PANEL 6: V STANDS, HIS HANDS OUTSPREAD, IN FRONT OF STILLS OF HITLER, STALIN, ????, AND MUSSOLINI.] "WE'VE HAD A STRING OF EMBEZZLERS, FRAUDS, LIARS AND LUNATICS MAKING A STRING OF CATASTROPHIC DECISIONS. "THIS IS PLAIN FACT. "BUT WHO *ELECTED* THEM? [PANEL 7: A FAMILY WATCHES V'S ADDRESS FROM THEIR LIVING-ROOM] [PANEL 1: SOLDIERS RUSH THROUGH A DOORWAY] "IT WAS *YOU!* *YOU* WHO APPOINTED THESE PEOPLE! *YOU* WHO GAVE THEM THE POWER TO MAKE YOUR DECISIONS FOR YOU! [PANEL 2: SOLDIERS CLUSTER IN FRONT OF A CLOSED PAIR OF DOORS. A SIGN ABOVE THE DOORWAY READS "ON THE AIR".] "WHILE I'LL ADMIT THAT ANYONE MAKE A MISTAKE ONCE, TO GO ON MAKING THE SAME LETHAL ERRORS CENTURY AFTER CENTURY SEEMS TO ME NOTHING SHORT OF DELIBERATE. [PANEL 3: V, IN FRONT OF A STILL OF NAZIS MARCHING CARRYING SWASTIKA-BANNERS] "YOU HAVE *ENCOURAGED* THESE MALICIOUS INCOMPETENTS, WHO HAVE MADE YOUR WORKING LIFE A SHAMBLES. [PANEL 4: A SOLDIER KICKS THE RIGHTMOST DOOR] "YOU HAVE ACCEPTED WITHOUT QUESTION THEIR *SENSELESS* ORDERS. [PANEL 5: V STANDS IN FRONT OF A STILL OF A MUSHROOM-CLOUD] "YOU HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO FILL YOUR WORKPLACE WITH DANGEROUS AND UNPROVEN MACHINES. "YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED THEM. [PANEL 6: THE DOOR GIVES WAY AS A SOLDIER BATTERS IT WITH HIS RIFLE] "ALL YOU HAD TO SAY WAS *'NO'*. "YOU HAVE NO SPINE. YOU HAVE NO PRIDE. "YOU ARE NO LONGER AN ASSET TO THE COMPANY. [PANEL 7: THE SOLDIERS ENTER THE BROADCAST-ROOM, WHERE THEY ARE GREETED BY THE CLOAKED FIGURE OF V] "I WILL, HOWEVER, BE GENEROUS. "YOU WILL BE GRANTED TWO YEARS TO SHOW ME SOME IMPROVEMENT IN YOUR WORK. IF AT THE END OF THAT TIME YOU ARE STILL UNWILLING TO MAKE A GO OF IT... [PANEL 1: THE SOLDIERS OPEN FIRE ON V] "YOU'RE FIRED [PANEL 2: A WINDOW IS SHATTERED] [PANEL 3: THE FIGURE OF V FALLS TO THE FLOOR] [PANEL 4: TWO SOLDIERS] "THAT WILL BE ALL. YOU MAY RETURN TO YOUR LABOURS. [PANELS 5, 6, & 7: THE BLOODY FIGURE OF V LIES ON THE GLASS-STREWN FLOOR, AS THE PERSPECTIVE ZOOMS OUT TO REVEAL SOLDIERS SURROUNDING THE BODY] [PANEL 8: FLOODLIGHTS LOOM OVER THE SCENE. A BOX READS: "TO BE CONTINUED"] "NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE."
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charlesdeguava.bsky.social
I lost it but a couple months ago I had a post about how much I hated people saying “What about the red states with actually high crime?” because they were always going to go there and, for reasons practical and political, can go more full tilt in red state cities—especially when the govt is in line
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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utopia-defer.red
old enough to remember when white guys in the beltway said the occupations weren't a big deal
thepeskyfly.bsky.social Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 2d
Memphis is experiencing gestapo-style raids 24/7 now. Our local media is failing us and the national media is ignoring this black/blue/incredibly poor city in a red state. I guess we just aren’t as sexy as LA or Portland.
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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naomielizabeth.bsky.social
Don’t talk about my violent delights. Just because yours didn’t end how you wanted
October 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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ascalaphid.com
Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
gharial of the cloth
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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today-maybe.bsky.social
A tribute to the suburban surrealist version of Heathcliff by Peter Gallagher. Heathcliff, an orange cartoon cat, is standing on a neighborhood sidewalk with three generic compatriot cats and a frog. All of the assembled are wearing helmets in various colors. Each helmet has one word written on it and read together they say ‘Maybe it will happen today’. Sitting in a tree above the sidewalk are two yellow birds one of whom is speaking the caption of the comic which is ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
July 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.

A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
Matt Gaetz, wearing a paisley tie and black suit jacket. A headline reads: "In Matt Gaetz Scandal, A 17-year-Old Was Left Vulnerable to Exploitation." Photo by Kenny Holston/New York Times
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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utopia-defer.red
everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
desiderratum.bsky.social
ELO's "Yours Truly, 2095" is such a good pastiche of The Buggles
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
desiderratum.bsky.social
"Odysseus'); DROP TABLE Achaeans; has poked out my eye!"
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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cameroncorduroy.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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caioalmendra.bsky.social
Another selection of the best dril's replies on Threads:

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November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
desiderratum.bsky.social
Keeping up with the Qarmatians
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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saramchenry.bsky.social
jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
desiderratum.bsky.social
This probably sounds rich coming from me, but I think the trick is to say it starkly straightforwardly: "These are very bad people & we can't have a good society with them in charge"
bluespacecanary.bsky.social Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 2d
man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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segyges.bsky.social
based iain banks
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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desiderratum.bsky.social
Found it!
www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
Pivar was also present for a number of Epstein’s science summits. Epstein himself was no scientist, said Pivar, the author of Lifecode: The Theory of Biological Self-Organization and an advocate of non-Darwinian models of evolution. (This was borne out in a recent New York Times story that described Epstein’s interest in cryonics and eugenics and his wish to “seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women” at his New Mexico ranch.) Epstein was a dilettante, and easily distracted. But he pulled so many prominent thinkers into his social circle, using the promise of his money to create “some kind of a mini university of thought,” that in Pivar’s view he did “amazing, incredible, amazing, remarkable things for science.” There were lavish dinner parties with the likes of Steven Pinker and Stephen Jay Gould during which Epstein would ask provocatively elementary questions like “What is gravity?” If the conversation drifted beyond his interests, Epstein was known to interrupt, “What does that got to do with pussy?!”
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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theophite.bsky.social
what is absolutely crazy is that this entire Epstein problem was personally created by Trump, and virtually all the emails released today were released by Republicans.
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
desiderratum.bsky.social
Grok's out here talking like a vizier who's 100% plotting Musk's downfall in his every idle moment
rvbdrm.com Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · 2d
Y’all want to see the saddest shit ever?

Grok: "Elon crafts his own words with clarity and conviction. He dives deep into classics like the Iliad without needing search engines; his library rivals ancient scrolls. If anything, I learn from him, not the other way around."
Screenshot of an exchange on twitter: @ratlimit · 1d Elon only knows what the Iliad is bc at some point he googled “epic poems.” the dilettante editor @laxerra · 1d elon doesnt google & @grok is his ghost/writer Grok @grok Flattered by the promotion, but I’m no ghostwriter—Elon crafts his own words with clarity and conviction. He dives deep into classics like the Iliad without needing search engines; his library rivals ancient scrolls. If anything, I learn from him, not the other way around. 2:38 PM · 11/11/25 X.com logo in bottom right corner.
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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moh-kohn.bsky.social
I've been trying to express exactly this discomfort with modern interface design and especially LLM design and this lady nailed it back in *1993*

("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)
What interests me about these scenarios is not that they make fantastic, unrealistic promises (though I think they do), or that the instructions given by the user are couched in simple English (Tesler at least concedes that more structured languages may be needed), or that they embody such a grand vision (though the vision has much appeal). Rather, it is interesting that it is the programmer who is to control all of the computational magic. As Tesler says, programmers will endow computer-agents with their basic capabilities, even meeting such exciting challenges as pro gramming the computer to know what users will think before they think it! By comparison, notice the relationship of the end user to the computer; the end user is engaged in the most humdrum activities: making queries regarding a phone conversation, asking the computer to set up an appointment, requesting articles from the library (Tesler, 1991). Now contrast this vision of the computer-agent with what Alan Kay (in the same issue of Scientific American) envisions for educational software: children writing simulations of complex natural phenomena such as bi ological and physical systems to better understand how they function. Kay's colleagues have created a simulation construction kit for children so that they can build their own simulations. The construction kit lets children write simple scripts that model animal behavior. Using the kit they can change parameters to see how changing conditions affect the animal. This use of computers is an instance of what Tesler called the "personal implement": the children are doing nothing more or less than programming. With the kit, the children have tools that give them tremen dous scope for intellectual exploration and personal empowerment.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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theophite.bsky.social
in the 19th century, there were extraordinarily graphic religious tracts condemning lesbianism and bondage. these were sold for relatively high prices to people who wanted to read about lesbianism and bondage. QAnon is that, but for pedophilia.
tosthaha.bsky.social tost @tosthaha.bsky.social · 2d
q anon specifically is really fascinating given that it was initially founded on an infamous gathering site for pedophiles, moved to the site which was explicitly founded by pedophiles for pedophiles, and basically faded away when its followers just got bored of Satanic Pedophile Armageddon
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
desiderratum.bsky.social
It's far from the most infuriating thing about the 2024 election, but it nonetheless gets me that the question of "Whatever happened to Mike Pence?" just wasn't on voters' minds
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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mckay4senate.bsky.social
Don't want to unfairly dunk on this guy, because pro-Eisenhower propaganda has convinced people that he was George McGovern with an R next to his name, but Eisenhower was an awful President for anyone who considers themselves a friend of progress, and in this thread, I'll cover why. 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
Bizarre part of this that I didn’t realize
mugrimm.bsky.social grimm 🍂 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 2d
Also, don't forget that was all part of the plan.

On Trump's last day in office in 2021, he literally told Venezuelans to surge at the border to literally create the increase in immigration to justify another term.

www.politico.com/news/2021/01...
Trump grants Venezuelans temporary legal status on his way out
The U.S. will defer for 18 months the removal of certain Venezuelan nationals.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
desiderratum.bsky.social
If you see this, post your bird art
A photo of a potoo, edited to appear as if it is wielding a sighted handgun, with silencer attached A photo of a falcon, edited to appear as if it is wielding a shotgun A photo of a potoo, edited to appear as if it is wielding a handgun A photo of a spoonbill stork, edited to appear as if it is wielding a submachine gun
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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gruselzirkus.bsky.social
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Skelly in a sally #tarot #illustration #artsky #art
Death tarot card. the grim reaper in black gothic armour rides atop a pale horse bearing a black standard. the social classes cower in fear before him, a priest, a soldier, a king lies fallen at his horses feet. a burning city can be seen in the distance and a river of blood is flowing past. a crimson coat is trailing behind the reaper.
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM