James
@augustustrout.bsky.social
I am both dyslexic and sarcastic … which means problems.
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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Things are not what they seem in the art of Thomas Deininger.
October 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Things are not what they seem in the art of Thomas Deininger.
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YA shouldn’t exist as a separate category—it infantilizes teenagers who can/should just read regular books for adults. And don’t get me started on adults reading YA…
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
YA shouldn’t exist as a separate category—it infantilizes teenagers who can/should just read regular books for adults. And don’t get me started on adults reading YA…
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I’m sorry but no. Protests and demos with dozens or low hundreds of attendees are not especially newsworthy. I’ve seen larger turnouts at a Warhammer event.
August 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m sorry but no. Protests and demos with dozens or low hundreds of attendees are not especially newsworthy. I’ve seen larger turnouts at a Warhammer event.
The extent to which these guys still permeate British politics and media both on the right and far left cannot be understated.
On the 30th anniversary of Srebrenica, let me just say: Death to Spiked/Living Marxism
July 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The extent to which these guys still permeate British politics and media both on the right and far left cannot be understated.
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I don’t know what’s wrong with people who still use X. You’re getting your breaking news and sports chat from a Nazi site. Draw a line
July 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I don’t know what’s wrong with people who still use X. You’re getting your breaking news and sports chat from a Nazi site. Draw a line
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A second free push for this. I’m slightly surprised that the doge thing is the only element of the Reform local govt agenda that seems to have captured the national chat in any way. From where I’m sitting, this is the bit of their agenda, and their politics, to watch before that
on.ft.com/44qrdlT
on.ft.com/44qrdlT
How Reform’s anti-asylum message won over Durham’s former mining communities
[FREE TO READ] Populist party is already taking credit for a Home Office contractor’s pause in asylum placements
on.ft.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A second free push for this. I’m slightly surprised that the doge thing is the only element of the Reform local govt agenda that seems to have captured the national chat in any way. From where I’m sitting, this is the bit of their agenda, and their politics, to watch before that
on.ft.com/44qrdlT
on.ft.com/44qrdlT
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Raise your hands if you absolutely fucking loved Moviedrome and Alex Cox is partly responsible for making you the human you are today…
🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️
#moviesky #filmsky #horrorsky
#cultfilm #moviedrome
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/a...
🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️
#moviesky #filmsky #horrorsky
#cultfilm #moviedrome
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/a...
Alex Cox on the legacy of Moviedrome, the BBC’s essential cult film slot
Broadcasting a weekly diet of transgressive, iconoclastic cinema into British living rooms, the BBC’s Moviedrome series turned a generation of viewers into adventurous cinephiles. How did it come abou...
www.bfi.org.uk
June 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Raise your hands if you absolutely fucking loved Moviedrome and Alex Cox is partly responsible for making you the human you are today…
🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️
#moviesky #filmsky #horrorsky
#cultfilm #moviedrome
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/a...
🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️
#moviesky #filmsky #horrorsky
#cultfilm #moviedrome
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/a...
…Company says, our AI is dangerously amoral… please give us more money. 🤷
Headline of the day. Anthropic’s new AI model threatened to reveal engineer’s affair to avoid being shut down
Anthropic’s new AI model threatened to reveal engineer's affair to avoid being shut down
Don't tell AI your secrets.
fortune.com
May 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
…Company says, our AI is dangerously amoral… please give us more money. 🤷
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He pulls an encyclical? You pull a papal bull. He sends one of yours to vespers? You send one of his to compline! That's the Chicago way
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
He pulls an encyclical? You pull a papal bull. He sends one of yours to vespers? You send one of his to compline! That's the Chicago way
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Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔
Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
🧵1/22 (1/1)
Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
🧵1/22 (1/1)
April 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔
Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
🧵1/22 (1/1)
Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
🧵1/22 (1/1)
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For anyone in the UK watching this and thinking, "This is America's version of Brexit," it's not. It's what would have happened if the lettuce had lost.
April 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
For anyone in the UK watching this and thinking, "This is America's version of Brexit," it's not. It's what would have happened if the lettuce had lost.
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"Its hard duw, its hard. Its harder than they will ever know"
People LOVED their factory jobs back in the 60s / 70s.
That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.
That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.
April 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"Its hard duw, its hard. Its harder than they will ever know"
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Fantastic article by @tomcalver.bsky.social: not only is the UK not a high-tax country, taxes on *middle-income* earners are low by international standards.
If taxes are to rise - and they should - it can't/won't be just on "the rich".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
If taxes are to rise - and they should - it can't/won't be just on "the rich".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
March 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Fantastic article by @tomcalver.bsky.social: not only is the UK not a high-tax country, taxes on *middle-income* earners are low by international standards.
If taxes are to rise - and they should - it can't/won't be just on "the rich".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
If taxes are to rise - and they should - it can't/won't be just on "the rich".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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I have been banned from helping with GCSE Chemistry homework after I was asked what happens when you add base to acid and I said, "Jungle?"
March 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I have been banned from helping with GCSE Chemistry homework after I was asked what happens when you add base to acid and I said, "Jungle?"
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Along with other #callofcthulhu goodies, the Japanese scenario collection Japonism that I translated last year is on sale in @drivethrurpg.com's GM Day Sale.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
I also ran one for a @miskatonicplayhouse.com matinee last year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=21at...
#ttrpg
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
I also ran one for a @miskatonicplayhouse.com matinee last year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=21at...
#ttrpg
Matinée: Chanting Sutra Network | Call of Cthulhu Actual Play
YouTube video by Miskatonic Playhouse
www.youtube.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Along with other #callofcthulhu goodies, the Japanese scenario collection Japonism that I translated last year is on sale in @drivethrurpg.com's GM Day Sale.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
I also ran one for a @miskatonicplayhouse.com matinee last year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=21at...
#ttrpg
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
I also ran one for a @miskatonicplayhouse.com matinee last year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=21at...
#ttrpg
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This is bad news - Dempsey has a long history of involvement in the nastiest kind of Red-Brown 'anti-imperialist' politics, and has flirted with both antisemitism and sympathy for the far-right
March 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is bad news - Dempsey has a long history of involvement in the nastiest kind of Red-Brown 'anti-imperialist' politics, and has flirted with both antisemitism and sympathy for the far-right
Seems appropriate as Moshoeshoe the great the founder of Lesotho, was one of the greatest diplomats and strategists of all time. He built his kingdom from nothing by creating a safe haven for refugees and playing the Zulu empire, the Boers and the British empire against each other.
President Trump defended his humanitarian aid cuts to countries around the globe, including one nation he joked "nobody has ever heard of." Here are some facts about the African nation of Lesotho.
What to know about Lesotho, the country Trump said 'nobody has ever heard of'
President Trump defended his humanitarian aid cuts to countries around the globe, including one nation he joked "nobody has ever heard of." Here are some facts about the African nation of Lesotho.
www.npr.org
March 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Seems appropriate as Moshoeshoe the great the founder of Lesotho, was one of the greatest diplomats and strategists of all time. He built his kingdom from nothing by creating a safe haven for refugees and playing the Zulu empire, the Boers and the British empire against each other.
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Happy Free Borsht Day to those who celebrate
March 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Happy Free Borsht Day to those who celebrate
The law of unintended consequences
Taiwan suggests $100bn Trump semiconductor deal is not guaranteed
Taiwan suggests $100bn Trump semiconductor deal is not guaranteed
Country’s government says deal with TSMC needs state assessment and it may protect its most advanced tech
* Business live – latest updates
Taiwan’s government has suggested a $100bn semiconductor deal between Donald Trump and the Taiwanese chip…
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The law of unintended consequences
“Have you said ‘thank you’ even once?”
March 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“Have you said ‘thank you’ even once?”
March 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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starting a business that just sells Canadian merchandise at US airports for Americans traveling abroad
February 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
starting a business that just sells Canadian merchandise at US airports for Americans traveling abroad
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Keir Starmer lays down Ukraine peace demand ahead of Trump talks www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer lays down Ukraine peace demand ahead of Trump talks
Kyiv ‘must be at the heart of negotiations’ says PM as US threat to block Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites fuels wave of alarm
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Keir Starmer lays down Ukraine peace demand ahead of Trump talks www.theguardian.com/politics/202...