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@paintserratically.bsky.social
Paints minis, still trying to figure the rest out.
@kaelairish in the other place 😛
@kaelairish in the other place 😛
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Keir Starmer's expression is always that of a dog making eye contact while it's having a poo.
December 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Keir Starmer's expression is always that of a dog making eye contact while it's having a poo.
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Ludicrous for the Guardian to badge 'single sex spaces' a key test facing Starmer. It's neither a key test (polling shows it's a voting issue for almost no-one) nor a test for Starmer (it falls to judges to try and work out the disgraceful Supreme Court meant). Still, gotta stir the culture war pot.
From Send to single-sex spaces: key tests facing Keir Starmer in 2026
From Send to single-sex spaces: key tests facing Keir Starmer in 2026
Moment of maximum danger will come in May’s local and regional elections and PM is already plotting his comeback
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Ludicrous for the Guardian to badge 'single sex spaces' a key test facing Starmer. It's neither a key test (polling shows it's a voting issue for almost no-one) nor a test for Starmer (it falls to judges to try and work out the disgraceful Supreme Court meant). Still, gotta stir the culture war pot.
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Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May
December 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May
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sincerely, if you're in wargaming i strongly recommend getting very good at spotting which people play the black templars because of the "templars" part, there's a lot of fash hiding behind the fandom in some spaces
Far-right groups are co-opting the aesthetics of the Crusades for their own objectives, transforming an obsession with feudal justice into a campaign for a White Christian nation.
Why We Should All Be Worried About "Crusadercore"
This online trend equips young, White men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon — one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry.
hyperallergic.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
sincerely, if you're in wargaming i strongly recommend getting very good at spotting which people play the black templars because of the "templars" part, there's a lot of fash hiding behind the fandom in some spaces
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Reactionaries truly live in a hell of their own making.
Being mad at things that don't happen mustn't be good for the brain.
Being mad at things that don't happen mustn't be good for the brain.
December 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Reactionaries truly live in a hell of their own making.
Being mad at things that don't happen mustn't be good for the brain.
Being mad at things that don't happen mustn't be good for the brain.
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"Reed being let loose as a Christmas Day attack dog shows how worried Labour have become about Polanski and the Green Party,”
Really awkward for Steve Reed that it just drew lots of attention to the unlawful hacking of a website!
insidecroydon.com/2025/12/27/m...
Really awkward for Steve Reed that it just drew lots of attention to the unlawful hacking of a website!
insidecroydon.com/2025/12/27/m...
MP Reed spent Christmas tweeting link to Inside Croydon
Housing minister’s attack against the Green Party leader may have back-fired, as the cabinet member flagged up reports linking him to the unlawful hacking of this website. By STEVEN DOWNES Th…
insidecroydon.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Reed being let loose as a Christmas Day attack dog shows how worried Labour have become about Polanski and the Green Party,”
Really awkward for Steve Reed that it just drew lots of attention to the unlawful hacking of a website!
insidecroydon.com/2025/12/27/m...
Really awkward for Steve Reed that it just drew lots of attention to the unlawful hacking of a website!
insidecroydon.com/2025/12/27/m...
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TL:DR; ‘Gender critical’ transphobes are getting desperate, as it boils down to this…
“Mr Justice Swift is expected to give his ruling on the case in the coming weeks, and if he finds in favour of the Good Law Project, Ms Phillipson may tell the EHRC to rethink its guidance.”
👉 archive.ph/awJ8K
“Mr Justice Swift is expected to give his ruling on the case in the coming weeks, and if he finds in favour of the Good Law Project, Ms Phillipson may tell the EHRC to rethink its guidance.”
👉 archive.ph/awJ8K
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
TL:DR; ‘Gender critical’ transphobes are getting desperate, as it boils down to this…
“Mr Justice Swift is expected to give his ruling on the case in the coming weeks, and if he finds in favour of the Good Law Project, Ms Phillipson may tell the EHRC to rethink its guidance.”
👉 archive.ph/awJ8K
“Mr Justice Swift is expected to give his ruling on the case in the coming weeks, and if he finds in favour of the Good Law Project, Ms Phillipson may tell the EHRC to rethink its guidance.”
👉 archive.ph/awJ8K
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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1/ You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, but two recent employment tribunal rulings have vindicated those of us who have said from the start that the Supreme Court judgment did not require the automatic exclusion of trans people from single-sex toilets and changing rooms. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
1/ You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, but two recent employment tribunal rulings have vindicated those of us who have said from the start that the Supreme Court judgment did not require the automatic exclusion of trans people from single-sex toilets and changing rooms. 🧵
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“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!”
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Hurricane Helene. Not one has been approved.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved.
More than a year after applying for a federal buyout, many North Carolina homeowners have heard almost nothing definitive.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!”
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
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How and when did it become unacceptable to be anti- Zionist?
My Uncle was a synagogue attending, Tory voting, High Court judge who was (two decades ago) anti-Zionist. He'd be amazed to read this passage (and others) in Sigrid Rausing's piece in The Times (web.archive.org/web/20251227...).
My Uncle was a synagogue attending, Tory voting, High Court judge who was (two decades ago) anti-Zionist. He'd be amazed to read this passage (and others) in Sigrid Rausing's piece in The Times (web.archive.org/web/20251227...).
December 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
How and when did it become unacceptable to be anti- Zionist?
My Uncle was a synagogue attending, Tory voting, High Court judge who was (two decades ago) anti-Zionist. He'd be amazed to read this passage (and others) in Sigrid Rausing's piece in The Times (web.archive.org/web/20251227...).
My Uncle was a synagogue attending, Tory voting, High Court judge who was (two decades ago) anti-Zionist. He'd be amazed to read this passage (and others) in Sigrid Rausing's piece in The Times (web.archive.org/web/20251227...).
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The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
oolong.medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
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This is a great expression of the thing I keep saying about text-generating algorithms: “Hallucination” isn’t some kind of glitch. ALL their responses are hallucinations. Sometimes they align with reality, sometimes they don’t.
December 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This is a great expression of the thing I keep saying about text-generating algorithms: “Hallucination” isn’t some kind of glitch. ALL their responses are hallucinations. Sometimes they align with reality, sometimes they don’t.
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They were mad at me strategically because I was a safe target for their ire; by accusing me of being successful because of "woke" they'd avoid being directly bigoted against POC/LGBTQ+ authors more successful than them. But then they went ahead and targeted them anyway, because bigots gonna bigot
Wait so they ran out of non-white folks and women to get mad at so now they’re big mad at you and declaring you non-white? (So they can hate you?)
Man White Supremacy is a helluva drug…
Man White Supremacy is a helluva drug…
December 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
They were mad at me strategically because I was a safe target for their ire; by accusing me of being successful because of "woke" they'd avoid being directly bigoted against POC/LGBTQ+ authors more successful than them. But then they went ahead and targeted them anyway, because bigots gonna bigot
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There is ongoing scam happening posing as a black trans safe house in Texas. The fake org is "Black Trans Texas Connection."
There is an IG page
@blacktransscam
that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇
There is an IG page
@blacktransscam
that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇
March 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
There is ongoing scam happening posing as a black trans safe house in Texas. The fake org is "Black Trans Texas Connection."
There is an IG page
@blacktransscam
that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇
There is an IG page
@blacktransscam
that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇
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🚨 ALERT: New Copyright Laws Going Into Effect January 1st, 2026 🚨
Starting in the new year, if you play a #ttrpg on a streaming service or write about folks streaming #ttrpgs and you fail provide links to those games for your audience, you will be legally considered an absolute poopy-butt.
Starting in the new year, if you play a #ttrpg on a streaming service or write about folks streaming #ttrpgs and you fail provide links to those games for your audience, you will be legally considered an absolute poopy-butt.
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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For all the new artists joining Bluesky:
🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi.
🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted.
🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!
🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi.
🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted.
🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!
December 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
For all the new artists joining Bluesky:
🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi.
🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted.
🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!
🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi.
🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted.
🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!
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Apparently it’s Friday, weird.
This week the theme is…best of 2025.
So let’s see your best thing.
As usual I’ll repost the lot and if you like something, share it!
#Nerdlings #FindFolkFriday
This week the theme is…best of 2025.
So let’s see your best thing.
As usual I’ll repost the lot and if you like something, share it!
#Nerdlings #FindFolkFriday
December 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Apparently it’s Friday, weird.
This week the theme is…best of 2025.
So let’s see your best thing.
As usual I’ll repost the lot and if you like something, share it!
#Nerdlings #FindFolkFriday
This week the theme is…best of 2025.
So let’s see your best thing.
As usual I’ll repost the lot and if you like something, share it!
#Nerdlings #FindFolkFriday
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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 10:39 PM
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
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Stings a bit. 38% would be “disappointed or angry”
But 61% either said they “wouldn’t mind either way” or “would be pleased or happy”
And that’s almost two thirds.
And given the political and media environment they’re all swimming in, that remains remarkable.
But 61% either said they “wouldn’t mind either way” or “would be pleased or happy”
And that’s almost two thirds.
And given the political and media environment they’re all swimming in, that remains remarkable.
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Stings a bit. 38% would be “disappointed or angry”
But 61% either said they “wouldn’t mind either way” or “would be pleased or happy”
And that’s almost two thirds.
And given the political and media environment they’re all swimming in, that remains remarkable.
But 61% either said they “wouldn’t mind either way” or “would be pleased or happy”
And that’s almost two thirds.
And given the political and media environment they’re all swimming in, that remains remarkable.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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This here, a proud and upsetting member of His Majesty's Royal Navy, is Pollyanna the reindeer.
And for the avoidance of doubt, she's the one on the right of the photograph.
And for the avoidance of doubt, she's the one on the right of the photograph.
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This here, a proud and upsetting member of His Majesty's Royal Navy, is Pollyanna the reindeer.
And for the avoidance of doubt, she's the one on the right of the photograph.
And for the avoidance of doubt, she's the one on the right of the photograph.