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Phil McDuff
@mcduff.bsky.social
· Nov 8
The Unbearable Weight of Small Absences
This morning my dog Jingles wasn’t in the kitchen while I was making coffee.
open.substack.com
I've had this in the drafts for a while. One month after she went seems like a good time to publish. ❤️
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I again urge you to ask which is more likely: that millions of members of the public have gone insane, or that a comparatively tiny number of people at the heart of media and politics - who all know each other and often work together - have driven *themselves and each other* crazy.
As previously noted, below:
December 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I again urge you to ask which is more likely: that millions of members of the public have gone insane, or that a comparatively tiny number of people at the heart of media and politics - who all know each other and often work together - have driven *themselves and each other* crazy.
Billionaires have a brain disease.
My issue is that everyone wants legislation and assumes it will just all work. It won’t. Too many vested interests. Too much need for AI to make it all work, which will scare people and make them question it more.
If you have a written path to get from here to them. Just email it to me
If you have a written path to get from here to them. Just email it to me
December 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Billionaires have a brain disease.
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Which countries with universal healthcare have used AI to make it work
My issue is that everyone wants legislation and assumes it will just all work. It won’t. Too many vested interests. Too much need for AI to make it all work, which will scare people and make them question it more.
If you have a written path to get from here to them. Just email it to me
If you have a written path to get from here to them. Just email it to me
December 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Which countries with universal healthcare have used AI to make it work
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Sad thing about anyone with any sense having seen it all before is that those in power, liberals, arch-idiots, will think this stuff never happened before and is great and won't lead anywhere dark and evil.
December 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Sad thing about anyone with any sense having seen it all before is that those in power, liberals, arch-idiots, will think this stuff never happened before and is great and won't lead anywhere dark and evil.
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The "I believe in climate change" liberals seem like they should have come out against the increasing electrical demand of data centers.
December 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The "I believe in climate change" liberals seem like they should have come out against the increasing electrical demand of data centers.
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It's pretty breathtaking when you step back and look at it really. All these dickheads feel they should have license to be total arseholes and you still need to love them regardless.
As previously noted, below:
December 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It's pretty breathtaking when you step back and look at it really. All these dickheads feel they should have license to be total arseholes and you still need to love them regardless.
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Britain is not the only country where the ruling class have been forced to choose between neoliberalism and democracy, and they have resorted to force and crime to enforce the former, at the expense of the latter. But it is IMO the dumbest, most insulting example, and it’ll be the hardest to remove.
December 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Britain is not the only country where the ruling class have been forced to choose between neoliberalism and democracy, and they have resorted to force and crime to enforce the former, at the expense of the latter. But it is IMO the dumbest, most insulting example, and it’ll be the hardest to remove.
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feel a sense of foreboding as i notice that notifications like this show up for me in an increasing amount of english-speaking locations i set my VPN to. at this rate i'm gonna have to learn portuguese so i can tunnel thru brazil to avoid this bullshit
December 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
feel a sense of foreboding as i notice that notifications like this show up for me in an increasing amount of english-speaking locations i set my VPN to. at this rate i'm gonna have to learn portuguese so i can tunnel thru brazil to avoid this bullshit
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Britain does not have to be competently managed to be a managed democracy, and I don’t think it could’ve been made more clear that any threats to the status quo will be treated as extremist insanity or Russian aggression, or whatever other bullshit is required to prop up this system up.
December 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Britain does not have to be competently managed to be a managed democracy, and I don’t think it could’ve been made more clear that any threats to the status quo will be treated as extremist insanity or Russian aggression, or whatever other bullshit is required to prop up this system up.
Can anyone help out here!?
Massive long shot but is there anyone on here who lives in/near Cardiff, has a drone and would be willing to help me find my cat today? She got out at some point yesterday whilst we were away and we spotted her on a nearby roof this morning but she’s now disappeared. Please share
December 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Can anyone help out here!?
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Have I got any Cardiff mutuals who could help?
Massive long shot but is there anyone on here who lives in/near Cardiff, has a drone and would be willing to help me find my cat today? She got out at some point yesterday whilst we were away and we spotted her on a nearby roof this morning but she’s now disappeared. Please share
December 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Have I got any Cardiff mutuals who could help?
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Google News & BBC are Islamophobic as fuck.
![Screenshot from Google News
Top stories >
[Picture of the blast of a missile being launched at night. Deck of ship in foreground showing the camera is low to the deck]
BBC
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December 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Google News & BBC are Islamophobic as fuck.
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Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
April 22, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
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The correct answer to the dilemma of whether Reform (and for that matter the Greens) should be entitled to more unelected seats in the House of Lords is of course “abolish the House of Lords”
Top Conservative peer urges Starmer to give Reform seats in House of Lords
Reform’s success means their view ‘should be heard in the upper chamber as well’, says Lord True
www.independent.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The correct answer to the dilemma of whether Reform (and for that matter the Greens) should be entitled to more unelected seats in the House of Lords is of course “abolish the House of Lords”
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Neoliberal centrist dipshits: what is your plan for that
Me: [Outlines plan]
Them: no your only plan possibilities are nonrefundable tax credits or corporate subsidies
Me: [Outlines plan]
Them: no your only plan possibilities are nonrefundable tax credits or corporate subsidies
December 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Neoliberal centrist dipshits: what is your plan for that
Me: [Outlines plan]
Them: no your only plan possibilities are nonrefundable tax credits or corporate subsidies
Me: [Outlines plan]
Them: no your only plan possibilities are nonrefundable tax credits or corporate subsidies
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but specifically, we need someone unthreatening enough to not actually hold any opinions that could ever be considered left wing. we need the vague air of opposition to power, but only to the softest target foreign power and with no risk of alienating any of our own political class.
December 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
but specifically, we need someone unthreatening enough to not actually hold any opinions that could ever be considered left wing. we need the vague air of opposition to power, but only to the softest target foreign power and with no risk of alienating any of our own political class.
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If we absolutely had to have an American, then it would’ve been really easy to get Ms Rachel on the phone. But that would create the impression that there is an alternative, when there is not one.
If this is about idiot bastard regimes full of despicable clueless evil swine stomping upon not very interesting celebs who defy their utterly disgusting bullshit, then I’m sure Channel 4 have e.g. Gary Lineker’s number.
I am very switched on to media in general and I only somewhat know who this guy is. But then, I am quite old.
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If we absolutely had to have an American, then it would’ve been really easy to get Ms Rachel on the phone. But that would create the impression that there is an alternative, when there is not one.
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We can be more blunt than this: it was 2016-19, when all the lads in politics and press decided literally anything was justifiable, in the name of restoring the status quo. And we have basically been in a state of exception from 2001, so this is just formally acknowledging reality.
Did 2025 mark the end of British parliamentary democracy as we know it? | Andy Beckett
The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknown, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We can be more blunt than this: it was 2016-19, when all the lads in politics and press decided literally anything was justifiable, in the name of restoring the status quo. And we have basically been in a state of exception from 2001, so this is just formally acknowledging reality.
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There’s a certain type of person who think everything they don’t like was done by foreign bots. Likes, comments, votes, political movements. Never accepting that polls consistently show that at least 30% of people are horrible, have been for decades and they didn’t need interference to get that way
December 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
There’s a certain type of person who think everything they don’t like was done by foreign bots. Likes, comments, votes, political movements. Never accepting that polls consistently show that at least 30% of people are horrible, have been for decades and they didn’t need interference to get that way
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imagine going through a rough patch financially and u have to cancel your subscription to your mum
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
imagine going through a rough patch financially and u have to cancel your subscription to your mum
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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Massive long shot but is there anyone on here who lives in/near Cardiff, has a drone and would be willing to help me find my cat today? She got out at some point yesterday whilst we were away and we spotted her on a nearby roof this morning but she’s now disappeared. Please share
December 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Massive long shot but is there anyone on here who lives in/near Cardiff, has a drone and would be willing to help me find my cat today? She got out at some point yesterday whilst we were away and we spotted her on a nearby roof this morning but she’s now disappeared. Please share
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This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.
Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This quote is from a piece that’s 8 years old now.
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I can’t believe they’re doing this to the only person on earth who’s won the FIFA peace prize.
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I can’t believe they’re doing this to the only person on earth who’s won the FIFA peace prize.