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This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs
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Mizuki bonking Andreza Giant Panda in the head with a hammer at TJPW All Rise 2024
January 7, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Mizuki bonking Andreza Giant Panda in the head with a hammer at TJPW All Rise 2024
TV pitch: Wrestling With A Dilemma. Two wrestlers give you life advice while performing brutal body slams on each other
January 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM
TV pitch: Wrestling With A Dilemma. Two wrestlers give you life advice while performing brutal body slams on each other
TOP TIP: instantly achieve inbox zero by dumping all 3,000 of your unfiled work emails into a folder called “2025”
January 7, 2026 at 2:15 PM
TOP TIP: instantly achieve inbox zero by dumping all 3,000 of your unfiled work emails into a folder called “2025”
It’s zones 6-9 vs zones 1-5 let’s goooo
Their chosen candidate, Laila Cunningham, is telling a Reform press conference about how London is a crime-ridden hellhole and no one feels safe, a perspective that does not survive even the briefest contact with actual statistics.
January 7, 2026 at 10:58 AM
It’s zones 6-9 vs zones 1-5 let’s goooo
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It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
January 6, 2026 at 10:27 PM
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
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touching their face and saying "it looks so real" when I meet a friend's new boyfriend
May 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
touching their face and saying "it looks so real" when I meet a friend's new boyfriend
Been catching up on a long Trashfuture backlog, and been sympathetically entertained by them gradually losing their minds as the Your Party saga unfolds
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Been catching up on a long Trashfuture backlog, and been sympathetically entertained by them gradually losing their minds as the Your Party saga unfolds
First day back at work, and already spent half of it doing meeting schedule tetris. Can’t say I’ve missed this much
January 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
First day back at work, and already spent half of it doing meeting schedule tetris. Can’t say I’ve missed this much
Sticking to my commitment to become even more of a hater in 2026 by subscribing to the If Books Could Kill patreon for the bonus episodes
January 5, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Sticking to my commitment to become even more of a hater in 2026 by subscribing to the If Books Could Kill patreon for the bonus episodes
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Opening my January advent calendar. Instead of chocolate, it's an email from my job asking me to do things.
Outlook. I'm opening Outlook.
Outlook. I'm opening Outlook.
January 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Opening my January advent calendar. Instead of chocolate, it's an email from my job asking me to do things.
Outlook. I'm opening Outlook.
Outlook. I'm opening Outlook.
Robots only do this when they’re *extremely distressed*
January 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Robots only do this when they’re *extremely distressed*
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you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.
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Curse the idea of a "Dead cat on the table" spreading, it means now every bit of stupid shit becomes in people's minds part of a bigger tactic, and not just some more stupid shit.
I've seen no less than FIVE takes now suggesting this is "just a distraction from the Epstein Files" and, seriously, stfu. Please.
January 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Curse the idea of a "Dead cat on the table" spreading, it means now every bit of stupid shit becomes in people's minds part of a bigger tactic, and not just some more stupid shit.
You can see why no-one takes the US vaguely seriously as a force for peace or stability in the world, when every 15-20 years or so it goes mental and invades somewhere at random
January 3, 2026 at 11:19 AM
You can see why no-one takes the US vaguely seriously as a force for peace or stability in the world, when every 15-20 years or so it goes mental and invades somewhere at random
Considering launching my new podcast, Rest Is Politics, about how it’s important to use your annual leave and log off from your work email. Featuring zero war criminals or Tory spooks
January 2, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Considering launching my new podcast, Rest Is Politics, about how it’s important to use your annual leave and log off from your work email. Featuring zero war criminals or Tory spooks
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The 1920s produced so much of the art, music, film, and literature that I love and I'm really enjoying the way that the 100 year mark is bringing new attention to it 🥰
Please enjoy a random thread of some of my favourite 1920s things:
Please enjoy a random thread of some of my favourite 1920s things:
January 2, 2026 at 9:59 AM
The 1920s produced so much of the art, music, film, and literature that I love and I'm really enjoying the way that the 100 year mark is bringing new attention to it 🥰
Please enjoy a random thread of some of my favourite 1920s things:
Please enjoy a random thread of some of my favourite 1920s things:
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January 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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As is traditional, we’ve assembled lemon pigs for the new year (but forgotten the chant, so we made one up)
December 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
As is traditional, we’ve assembled lemon pigs for the new year (but forgotten the chant, so we made one up)
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The Terror (2018)
a ship needs to be a little codependant and toxic to be fun. It's fiction, after all. ships need to be a bit fucked up
December 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Terror (2018)