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
"the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" -- not actually Albert Einstein just some rando looking at labour's "but you'd vote for us if we're *more* cunty, right?" strategy
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 AM
"the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" -- not actually Albert Einstein just some rando looking at labour's "but you'd vote for us if we're *more* cunty, right?" strategy
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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
apropos of the Elder Nibling and I listening to a brocialist TikToker being wrong about Lord of the Flies
February 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
apropos of the Elder Nibling and I listening to a brocialist TikToker being wrong about Lord of the Flies
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Many of us can recommend our Hal Duncan's sharp eye and insightful comments. A good man and thorough.
Well, it looks like I have a window for more editorial work, with nothing lined up for the next couple of months, so if anyone is looking for an in-depth manuscript critique--annotated m/s + overview report + follow-up wrap-up chat by Zoom--hit me up. One-to-one mentoring by Zoom is also available.
February 2, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Many of us can recommend our Hal Duncan's sharp eye and insightful comments. A good man and thorough.
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Irish Trad Catholics getting het up about non christain adaption of St Brigid's day and Imbolic.
a man with a surprised look on his face and the words " you see the irony in that " behind him
Alt: Timothy Olyphant freaked out saying " you see the irony in that "
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Irish Trad Catholics getting het up about non christain adaption of St Brigid's day and Imbolic.
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Well, it looks like I have a window for more editorial work, with nothing lined up for the next couple of months, so if anyone is looking for an in-depth manuscript critique--annotated m/s + overview report + follow-up wrap-up chat by Zoom--hit me up. One-to-one mentoring by Zoom is also available.
February 2, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Well, it looks like I have a window for more editorial work, with nothing lined up for the next couple of months, so if anyone is looking for an in-depth manuscript critique--annotated m/s + overview report + follow-up wrap-up chat by Zoom--hit me up. One-to-one mentoring by Zoom is also available.
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Kinda reveals how Weiss was able to rise so high and so fast despite being an objective mediocrity - she simply tapped into a huge network of elite pedophiles and signalled that she could help them!
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Kinda reveals how Weiss was able to rise so high and so fast despite being an objective mediocrity - she simply tapped into a huge network of elite pedophiles and signalled that she could help them!
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I think the bookers have probably looked at the overt Twitter fascists and then at - say - guests such as Douglas Murray, Mel Phillips, Nigel Farage and Nick Timothy, and they have quite accurately concluded there is very little difference between them. In politics, rhetoric and behaviour.
January 31, 2026 at 2:21 PM
I think the bookers have probably looked at the overt Twitter fascists and then at - say - guests such as Douglas Murray, Mel Phillips, Nigel Farage and Nick Timothy, and they have quite accurately concluded there is very little difference between them. In politics, rhetoric and behaviour.
I like that apparently we're all not just normal posters dreaming of returning to the homes we fled to escape fascism but some kind of shadow posting government in exile dreaming of our return *to power*
NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
January 31, 2026 at 2:21 PM
I like that apparently we're all not just normal posters dreaming of returning to the homes we fled to escape fascism but some kind of shadow posting government in exile dreaming of our return *to power*
get in losers, we're going for an English language BL drama industry to rival Thailand's!
Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
January 30, 2026 at 5:14 AM
get in losers, we're going for an English language BL drama industry to rival Thailand's!
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Yer da phones in to LBC
Yer da got dumpt by his AI girlfriend!
I think we need to export more scathing ‘yer da’ jokes as a culture.
May I suggest ‘Yer da loves Elon!’
May I suggest ‘Yer da loves Elon!’
January 28, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Yer da phones in to LBC
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Yer Da hinks migrants dig potholes!
January 28, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Yer Da hinks migrants dig potholes!
Yer da got dumpt by his AI girlfriend!
I think we need to export more scathing ‘yer da’ jokes as a culture.
May I suggest ‘Yer da loves Elon!’
May I suggest ‘Yer da loves Elon!’
January 28, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Yer da got dumpt by his AI girlfriend!
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Spotted in Dundee.
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Spotted in Dundee.
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This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
truthout.org
January 27, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
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Tom Homan has such a freaking great name. It's exactly what an ogre who was trying to convince you they're a human would call themselves.
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Tom Homan has such a freaking great name. It's exactly what an ogre who was trying to convince you they're a human would call themselves.
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New threat just dropped
January 27, 2026 at 8:06 PM
New threat just dropped
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The Right can’t fathom the idea of people believing in anything, in trusting others, in being willing to sacrifice themselves to keep strangers safe.
All they understand is self-service. This is why they can say anything. Why their principles were never real. This is why they’re so afraid.
All they understand is self-service. This is why they can say anything. Why their principles were never real. This is why they’re so afraid.
January 27, 2026 at 10:18 PM
The Right can’t fathom the idea of people believing in anything, in trusting others, in being willing to sacrifice themselves to keep strangers safe.
All they understand is self-service. This is why they can say anything. Why their principles were never real. This is why they’re so afraid.
All they understand is self-service. This is why they can say anything. Why their principles were never real. This is why they’re so afraid.
so they'll have friends everywhere
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 9:54 PM
so they'll have friends everywhere
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This is so important because A) she did it in response to Benedict Wong, a far more prominent actor, saying he's listening to the audiobooks a lot and B) did it unprompted, she specifically stopped the fluff interview to draw the comparison to the themes of their film and support trans people.
You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐
Star Wars actor says ‘trans rights are human rights’ when asked about Harry Potter
Kelly Marie Tran said ‘trans rights are human rights’ when the topic of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series was mentioned in an interview.
www.thepinknews.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:33 AM
This is so important because A) she did it in response to Benedict Wong, a far more prominent actor, saying he's listening to the audiobooks a lot and B) did it unprompted, she specifically stopped the fluff interview to draw the comparison to the themes of their film and support trans people.
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hey all those "alt parks service" and the like accounts that people told you to block are fearmongering about signal and pushing for a software that is fundamentally insecure so maybe take the advice to block them seriously this time
soatok.blog/2025/01/20/s...
soatok.blog/2025/01/20/s...
Session Round 2 - Dhole Moments
Last week, I wrote a blog post succinctly titled, Don’t Use Session. Two interesting things have happened since I published that blog: A few people expressed uncertainty about what I wrote ab…
soatok.blog
January 27, 2026 at 12:14 AM
hey all those "alt parks service" and the like accounts that people told you to block are fearmongering about signal and pushing for a software that is fundamentally insecure so maybe take the advice to block them seriously this time
soatok.blog/2025/01/20/s...
soatok.blog/2025/01/20/s...
Woke 2.0 looks like it could be... quite the finding out stage for the fash
The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good).
www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...
www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...
January 27, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Woke 2.0 looks like it could be... quite the finding out stage for the fash