Hal Duncan
@halduncan.com
Writer, editor, gardener--sometimes even in that order.
Queer. He/thon, but mainly just cause thon's a guid Scots pronoun fur aebdy, whitever thur gender.
Contact: hal AT halduncan DOT com
Queer. He/thon, but mainly just cause thon's a guid Scots pronoun fur aebdy, whitever thur gender.
Contact: hal AT halduncan DOT com
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Hal Duncan
@halduncan.com
· May 7
your intermittent reminder that the left/right axis is a spatial metaphor, not a reality, that the "centre" is not in fact a moderate middle ground but rather the *centre of power & privilege* protected by the vulgarly overt antisocialists operating on behalf of the polite paternalist antisocialists
antifa superhackers with multicolour hair straight from hollywood central casting for "streetwise cyberpunk kid" tappety-tapping on their keyboards to execute a forced exploit on the blockchain mainframe servers* just to make 3K of catturd's bot followers unfollow him
*yes this is word salad, shush
*yes this is word salad, shush
The funniest thing about Twitter these days is that right wing dipshits still think their content is being suppressed by some unseen liberal forces.
Elon Musk has owned the site for over three years now.
Elon Musk has owned the site for over three years now.
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
antifa superhackers with multicolour hair straight from hollywood central casting for "streetwise cyberpunk kid" tappety-tapping on their keyboards to execute a forced exploit on the blockchain mainframe servers* just to make 3K of catturd's bot followers unfollow him
*yes this is word salad, shush
*yes this is word salad, shush
It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Look, Vance knows this is false. He doesn’t actually believe it. He has said this outright. For fascist filth like Vance, factual correctness is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it is symbolically correct. It’s vice signaling. Does it accurately represent your imagined fears?
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 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Look, Vance knows this is false. He doesn’t actually believe it. He has said this outright. For fascist filth like Vance, factual correctness is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it is symbolically correct. It’s vice signaling. Does it accurately represent your imagined fears?
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
Um... 15 is not the "barely legal type". 15 is the "not at all legal, in fact very much illegal type". 15 is the "statutory rape type".
15 is the "we made it an *age of consent* rather than some creepy *do they have pubes yet?* question precisely to protect THIS TYPE OF VULNERABLE KID type".
15 is the "we made it an *age of consent* rather than some creepy *do they have pubes yet?* question precisely to protect THIS TYPE OF VULNERABLE KID type".
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Um... 15 is not the "barely legal type". 15 is the "not at all legal, in fact very much illegal type". 15 is the "statutory rape type".
15 is the "we made it an *age of consent* rather than some creepy *do they have pubes yet?* question precisely to protect THIS TYPE OF VULNERABLE KID type".
15 is the "we made it an *age of consent* rather than some creepy *do they have pubes yet?* question precisely to protect THIS TYPE OF VULNERABLE KID type".
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That’s why they call me ‘Noelstradamus’ ;)
I don’t post on twitter any more, but I access it periodically for reference. @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social has always been up front about The Apprentice “star” so I revisited one of his posts from a couple of years ago. I’ll remove this if he objects, but for now, here it is. Prophetic, isn’t it?!
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
That’s why they call me ‘Noelstradamus’ ;)
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Take note, rest of the world.
Make them pay people. It's the law.
Make them pay people. It's the law.
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Take note, rest of the world.
Make them pay people. It's the law.
Make them pay people. It's the law.
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This is your regular reminder that most men who sexually abuse children do not meet the clinical definition of a pedophile.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is your regular reminder that most men who sexually abuse children do not meet the clinical definition of a pedophile.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.
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Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.
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Yer Dad tapes urinals is the new yer Dad paints roundabouts
These patriotic displays have gone a bit too far now, if you ask me.
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Yer Dad tapes urinals is the new yer Dad paints roundabouts
three different spellings of "coherent" in one line, none of them correct, is S-tier irony
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
three different spellings of "coherent" in one line, none of them correct, is S-tier irony
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Why the NYT didn't report on their Epstein info is tangled up with another question: was Epstein a friend of the Sulzberger family? Epstein claims he first befriended NYT publisher "Punch" Sulzberger in the 1970s, when Sulzberger's daughter (age ~12) was at the prep school where Epstein taught. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Why the NYT didn't report on their Epstein info is tangled up with another question: was Epstein a friend of the Sulzberger family? Epstein claims he first befriended NYT publisher "Punch" Sulzberger in the 1970s, when Sulzberger's daughter (age ~12) was at the prep school where Epstein taught. 1/
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Plenty of things to give Bluesky a kicking about regarding moderation and 'open' labellers, but the private school labeller now having an 'Epstein Connection' label also shows it can be extremely lmao.
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Plenty of things to give Bluesky a kicking about regarding moderation and 'open' labellers, but the private school labeller now having an 'Epstein Connection' label also shows it can be extremely lmao.
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Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
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getting really apparent that the entire "anti-woke" moment was all about protecting rich pedophiles from consequences
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
getting really apparent that the entire "anti-woke" moment was all about protecting rich pedophiles from consequences
what the fash rags can't deal with is how Polanski brings the charm of, like Mamdani, just honestly enjoying Good Things and sincerely wanting people to have said Good Things versus the slick charisma of the chancer fake-leftist demagogue type they keep desperately trying to pin on him
"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
what the fash rags can't deal with is how Polanski brings the charm of, like Mamdani, just honestly enjoying Good Things and sincerely wanting people to have said Good Things versus the slick charisma of the chancer fake-leftist demagogue type they keep desperately trying to pin on him
"I am outraged by this accusation,"said the reporter at the heart of the BBC's reporting on the topic, "we have all worked tirelessly here for over a decade now with the most *rigorously* unbiased objectivity to demonise the filthy [slur]s, indeed our reportage was at the *forefront* of this issue."
The lads are looking for ways to explain the damning case against the BBC is 99% witless drivel, created by roaring wingnut cranks for the consumption of other wingnut cranks, but that’s not easy when all your colleagues have insisted saying so about these issues is unacceptable
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"I am outraged by this accusation,"said the reporter at the heart of the BBC's reporting on the topic, "we have all worked tirelessly here for over a decade now with the most *rigorously* unbiased objectivity to demonise the filthy [slur]s, indeed our reportage was at the *forefront* of this issue."
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Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade
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"Be clear: I blame the protectors of the predators just as much as the rapists themselves because without them, this cycle might’ve ended long ago with sexual abusers, especially those ensconced in politics and media, rooted out," MFP Founding Editor Donna Ladd wrote in August. "Maybe."
The Epstein Saga Is Not a Game. It’s About Protecting Women.
Donna Ladd reflects on her own story amid the still-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein saga of rape, retribution and the protection of sexual predators.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"Be clear: I blame the protectors of the predators just as much as the rapists themselves because without them, this cycle might’ve ended long ago with sexual abusers, especially those ensconced in politics and media, rooted out," MFP Founding Editor Donna Ladd wrote in August. "Maybe."
but NOW what I wanna know is whether Patrick Stewart with hair making that slightly goofy smile was the inspiration for casting Jason Isaacs in Discovery
You sometimes see a black and white photo of Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, wearing a #StarTrekTNG season 1/2 uniform, claiming this is from an early 1986/87 make-up test with Stewart wearing a wig ⬅️. Instead this is from the 2353 flashback scenes in "Violations"➡️. 🧵 1/3
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
but NOW what I wanna know is whether Patrick Stewart with hair making that slightly goofy smile was the inspiration for casting Jason Isaacs in Discovery