Redback
@redback.bsky.social
Australian 3D Artist/Animator
2 dogs, 2 children
1 small house full of spiders.
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2 dogs, 2 children
1 small house full of spiders.
Arachnophobe
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To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.
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The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
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serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
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This, from @attackerman.bsky.social, is brilliant and appropriately brutal. Must read.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This, from @attackerman.bsky.social, is brilliant and appropriately brutal. Must read.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Unfortunately, I find it easier to chart a concrete path towards a complete breakdown of the constitutional order than to envision a democratic turnaround: Escalate the conflict in the streets to declare “emergencies”; attack the elections; criminalize all opposition as “domestic terrorism.”
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Unfortunately, I find it easier to chart a concrete path towards a complete breakdown of the constitutional order than to envision a democratic turnaround: Escalate the conflict in the streets to declare “emergencies”; attack the elections; criminalize all opposition as “domestic terrorism.”
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My assessment of where America stands, one year after the election.
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet:
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet:
Revolutionary Escalation, Semi-Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround?
One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here.
New piece:
One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here.
New piece:
Escalation, Authoritarian “Normalization,” or a Democratic Turnaround?
One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here
steady.page
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
My assessment of where America stands, one year after the election.
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet:
A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet:
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On All Saints' Day or All Hallows' Day a beautiful poem to remember our departed loved ones 🖤
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
On All Saints' Day or All Hallows' Day a beautiful poem to remember our departed loved ones 🖤
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This is why the right has worked so long and so hard to push the idea that tolerance doesn't mean accepting human brotherhood and free speech doesn't mean the right to protest, they both mean smiling politely when someone says the most fucked-up thing you've ever heard in your life
November 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is why the right has worked so long and so hard to push the idea that tolerance doesn't mean accepting human brotherhood and free speech doesn't mean the right to protest, they both mean smiling politely when someone says the most fucked-up thing you've ever heard in your life
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Aside from Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being a disgusting piece-of-shit who should be thrown in jail, it's pretty interesting from a comms perspective to watch how Buckingham Palace navigates their deserved PR crisis and it's unclear how long it'll take them to recover, if at all.
(quick thread)
(quick thread)
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Aside from Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being a disgusting piece-of-shit who should be thrown in jail, it's pretty interesting from a comms perspective to watch how Buckingham Palace navigates their deserved PR crisis and it's unclear how long it'll take them to recover, if at all.
(quick thread)
(quick thread)
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Very important not to become accustomed to the fact the US is literally in the "masked men are rounding up your neighbors" phase
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Very important not to become accustomed to the fact the US is literally in the "masked men are rounding up your neighbors" phase
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It’s weird that of all the scifi media predicting the future Tim and Eric’s Celery Man sketch got it the closest
October 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It’s weird that of all the scifi media predicting the future Tim and Eric’s Celery Man sketch got it the closest
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Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
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That's no ballroom
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
That's no ballroom
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."
October 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."
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Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.
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Experts disagreed on whether portions of the facade of the White House were literally being torn down by an excavator. A spokesperson for Just Rip It To Shreds With A Fucking Excavator, a nonpartisan environmental policy think-tank, said that the photographs were “unconvincing Marxist propaganda”.
October 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Experts disagreed on whether portions of the facade of the White House were literally being torn down by an excavator. A spokesperson for Just Rip It To Shreds With A Fucking Excavator, a nonpartisan environmental policy think-tank, said that the photographs were “unconvincing Marxist propaganda”.
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Here’s the other big problem: Treasury Secretary Bessent is sitting on a massive Epstein file containing thousands more bank documents that would help us continue to follow the money through his sex trafficking ring.
October 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Here’s the other big problem: Treasury Secretary Bessent is sitting on a massive Epstein file containing thousands more bank documents that would help us continue to follow the money through his sex trafficking ring.
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Frankly if a multibillion dollar news company can't think of a next day story about a 7-million-person protest that ended with the president of the United States posting a video of himself shitting on America, everyone there should find a new line of work.
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Frankly if a multibillion dollar news company can't think of a next day story about a 7-million-person protest that ended with the president of the United States posting a video of himself shitting on America, everyone there should find a new line of work.
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.