Angry Monk
@garedur.bsky.social
Independent mead-peddler, translator, writer, political hothead and general doer-of-things.
My website is www.rogue-trading.co.uk
My website is www.rogue-trading.co.uk
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Today's December Comfort Watch: Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is right now as many years from its debut as it is from the movie serials which inspired it. How has age treated Indy, and what, if anything, does he still have to teach us?
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Thirteen: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the greatest adventure films of all time — if not the greatest adventure film of all time, full stop — but here nearly 45 years after its release, it&#…
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December 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Today's December Comfort Watch: Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is right now as many years from its debut as it is from the movie serials which inspired it. How has age treated Indy, and what, if anything, does he still have to teach us?
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/t...
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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I’m having a bad Wrath and Dread day, but it’s also vaguely comforting that everyone else I know who’s paying any attention at all is having one too
September 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I’m having a bad Wrath and Dread day, but it’s also vaguely comforting that everyone else I know who’s paying any attention at all is having one too
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I bet he wishes he’d thought of that
September 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I bet he wishes he’d thought of that
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Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
September 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
For anyone interested, I will be running a Mead and Cheese tasting on 31/07/2025 in Morningside, Edinburgh!
We'll be tasting our way through 5 different meads paired with selected cheeses.
I've actually learned a lot about cheese from this.
mellischeese.net/product/chee...
We'll be tasting our way through 5 different meads paired with selected cheeses.
I've actually learned a lot about cheese from this.
mellischeese.net/product/chee...
June 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
For anyone interested, I will be running a Mead and Cheese tasting on 31/07/2025 in Morningside, Edinburgh!
We'll be tasting our way through 5 different meads paired with selected cheeses.
I've actually learned a lot about cheese from this.
mellischeese.net/product/chee...
We'll be tasting our way through 5 different meads paired with selected cheeses.
I've actually learned a lot about cheese from this.
mellischeese.net/product/chee...
Hot take (so feel free to disregard): Centrist and liberal politicians right now react to crises by engaging in "common sense" realpolitik.
Unfortunately for them, realpolitik hinges on a consistent and shared reality. No "real" = No "politik". Maybe time to dust off those moral compasses instead?
Unfortunately for them, realpolitik hinges on a consistent and shared reality. No "real" = No "politik". Maybe time to dust off those moral compasses instead?
June 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Hot take (so feel free to disregard): Centrist and liberal politicians right now react to crises by engaging in "common sense" realpolitik.
Unfortunately for them, realpolitik hinges on a consistent and shared reality. No "real" = No "politik". Maybe time to dust off those moral compasses instead?
Unfortunately for them, realpolitik hinges on a consistent and shared reality. No "real" = No "politik". Maybe time to dust off those moral compasses instead?
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remember this; try
if the things some people are trying look useless or stupid to you maybe they are, find something that seems smart. and keep an eye on whether or not the shit other people are trying works.
if the things some people are trying look useless or stupid to you maybe they are, find something that seems smart. and keep an eye on whether or not the shit other people are trying works.
“it matters to try”
that’s everything, friends
i don’t give one gat damn if the odds are slim for any one particular action
we have to try
that’s the moral and ethical injunction for all of us living in 2025
we have to try
that’s everything, friends
i don’t give one gat damn if the odds are slim for any one particular action
we have to try
that’s the moral and ethical injunction for all of us living in 2025
we have to try
ok. that's all i've got.
today's democrats aren't who will liberate us in the end, but the folks nearest institutional power are the ones who can, while things are bad, most easily help hold up the falling sky & buy time.
this shit can be both "not enough" & "really matter."
it matters to try.🏳️⚧️💜
today's democrats aren't who will liberate us in the end, but the folks nearest institutional power are the ones who can, while things are bad, most easily help hold up the falling sky & buy time.
this shit can be both "not enough" & "really matter."
it matters to try.🏳️⚧️💜
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
remember this; try
if the things some people are trying look useless or stupid to you maybe they are, find something that seems smart. and keep an eye on whether or not the shit other people are trying works.
if the things some people are trying look useless or stupid to you maybe they are, find something that seems smart. and keep an eye on whether or not the shit other people are trying works.
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
If anyone thought "gender criticism" was ever about women's safety:
The recent interpretations of the supreme court ruling now mean that a 6 ft man with a beard can enter the female bathrooms and claim to be "biologically female".
Are they? Who will check?
It was always just transphobia.
The recent interpretations of the supreme court ruling now mean that a 6 ft man with a beard can enter the female bathrooms and claim to be "biologically female".
Are they? Who will check?
It was always just transphobia.
May 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If anyone thought "gender criticism" was ever about women's safety:
The recent interpretations of the supreme court ruling now mean that a 6 ft man with a beard can enter the female bathrooms and claim to be "biologically female".
Are they? Who will check?
It was always just transphobia.
The recent interpretations of the supreme court ruling now mean that a 6 ft man with a beard can enter the female bathrooms and claim to be "biologically female".
Are they? Who will check?
It was always just transphobia.
This is not, and should not be normal. xkcd.com/3081/
PhD Timeline
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April 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is not, and should not be normal. xkcd.com/3081/
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It was truly a meeting of opposites. On one hand, the foremost disciple of an intransigent movement of conservative fundamentalists driven by blind faith, and on the other hand, the Pope.
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It was truly a meeting of opposites. On one hand, the foremost disciple of an intransigent movement of conservative fundamentalists driven by blind faith, and on the other hand, the Pope.
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My current level of anxiety can only be described as “Sir, we’ve run out of canaries”
April 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
My current level of anxiety can only be described as “Sir, we’ve run out of canaries”
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Something a lot of people forget, and the people of the US are finding out hard right now, is that laws are not real. In the same way that money is not real. Both are just norms that we accept to live in societies, and once they are no longer enforced, they cease to exist.
March 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Something a lot of people forget, and the people of the US are finding out hard right now, is that laws are not real. In the same way that money is not real. Both are just norms that we accept to live in societies, and once they are no longer enforced, they cease to exist.
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Every Propaganda Technique 👇
March 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Every Propaganda Technique 👇
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political norms are not just completely useless they are deeply harmful because they always end in the worst people acting with impunity while everyone else goes 'oh my goodness well nothing we can do that would violate the rules that don't exist really'
I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
political norms are not just completely useless they are deeply harmful because they always end in the worst people acting with impunity while everyone else goes 'oh my goodness well nothing we can do that would violate the rules that don't exist really'
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I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:
March 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:
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This piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social makes a helpful distinction between Trump the genius (politics eg getting elected) and Trump the moron (policies eg tariffs, invading Canada). I think it’s possible to go further and see that the moron is created by the genius.
Bleak thread …
Bleak thread …
How Trump could destroy his own political movement
The US president and his followers are entering new and dangerous territory
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March 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social makes a helpful distinction between Trump the genius (politics eg getting elected) and Trump the moron (policies eg tariffs, invading Canada). I think it’s possible to go further and see that the moron is created by the genius.
Bleak thread …
Bleak thread …
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Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…
March 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…
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CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre.
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March 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre.
🤣
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You claw your way towards justice through mud and shit.
always hated the line "the arc of history bends towards justice" cause like, do they think it bends that way under it's own weight? that the fascists get tired, see the error of their ways?
March 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
You claw your way towards justice through mud and shit.
Really enjoyed the latest two BtB episodes about Louis XIV and Versailles (and the way isolation and privilege can drive people insane). I do feel there should have been more shout-outs to J-Stahl's practice of "Keep your friends close and your enemies shitfaced," though. youtu.be/wEvreLB5x_A?...
March 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Really enjoyed the latest two BtB episodes about Louis XIV and Versailles (and the way isolation and privilege can drive people insane). I do feel there should have been more shout-outs to J-Stahl's practice of "Keep your friends close and your enemies shitfaced," though. youtu.be/wEvreLB5x_A?...
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human rights champion bashar al-assad
December 9, 2024 at 9:25 PM
human rights champion bashar al-assad