Jon Stapley
@jstapling.bsky.social
here for a long time, not a good time. jonstapley.com/fiction
every time they try to sell some tech bung around potholes (like they did with AI a while ago), it reads as seething contempt for the electorate. "This is what you morons care about, isn't it?"
September 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
every time they try to sell some tech bung around potholes (like they did with AI a while ago), it reads as seething contempt for the electorate. "This is what you morons care about, isn't it?"
indicative of the deep sickness in our political culture that "prime minister takes measures to improve country" is framed as "tackling Reform", rather than just being what a prime minister is supposed to do
September 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
indicative of the deep sickness in our political culture that "prime minister takes measures to improve country" is framed as "tackling Reform", rather than just being what a prime minister is supposed to do
I was with my parents when he got shot lol, like to think I pulled off a decent oral one-pager
September 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I was with my parents when he got shot lol, like to think I pulled off a decent oral one-pager
I don't think it's a conspiracy theory to say that "removal of guy who Harry Cole thinks is good" might have perhaps improved the quality of output just a tad
September 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I don't think it's a conspiracy theory to say that "removal of guy who Harry Cole thinks is good" might have perhaps improved the quality of output just a tad
interesting sequence of events from this weekend:
1. Starmer is bafflingly silent about a right-wing racist mob descending on London
2. Someone digs up some 8-year-old kompromat on a right-wing weirdo in the leader's office, forcing him out
3. Starmer remembers that racism is bad
1. Starmer is bafflingly silent about a right-wing racist mob descending on London
2. Someone digs up some 8-year-old kompromat on a right-wing weirdo in the leader's office, forcing him out
3. Starmer remembers that racism is bad
September 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
interesting sequence of events from this weekend:
1. Starmer is bafflingly silent about a right-wing racist mob descending on London
2. Someone digs up some 8-year-old kompromat on a right-wing weirdo in the leader's office, forcing him out
3. Starmer remembers that racism is bad
1. Starmer is bafflingly silent about a right-wing racist mob descending on London
2. Someone digs up some 8-year-old kompromat on a right-wing weirdo in the leader's office, forcing him out
3. Starmer remembers that racism is bad
oh man Inscryption ❤️ a total life-ruiner, you'll love it
August 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
oh man Inscryption ❤️ a total life-ruiner, you'll love it
oh come on, it's a representative example of the kind of rhetoric our country's media has trafficked in for decades, and you know it is. are you trying to claim that the public's attitudes and ignorance around immigration just arose organically next to this? it just wasn't a factor at all?
August 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
oh come on, it's a representative example of the kind of rhetoric our country's media has trafficked in for decades, and you know it is. are you trying to claim that the public's attitudes and ignorance around immigration just arose organically next to this? it just wasn't a factor at all?
like do you not think on the day that the former Prime Minister publishes this, there might, just possibly, be a better explanation for the public's ignorance on immigration than its own natural indolence and incuriosity?
August 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
like do you not think on the day that the former Prime Minister publishes this, there might, just possibly, be a better explanation for the public's ignorance on immigration than its own natural indolence and incuriosity?
I'm sorry but this is drivel. This country's newspapers have blasted fearmongering headlines about illegal immigration for decades, and yet the public is at fault for not bothering to do research? Many people's definition of research *is* reading the news!
August 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I'm sorry but this is drivel. This country's newspapers have blasted fearmongering headlines about illegal immigration for decades, and yet the public is at fault for not bothering to do research? Many people's definition of research *is* reading the news!
I think we've run out of road now, so I'm going to block you. Feel free to boast to your followers about how you won the argument, you did very well. I will never think about you again
July 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I think we've run out of road now, so I'm going to block you. Feel free to boast to your followers about how you won the argument, you did very well. I will never think about you again
oh man I'm really sorry I didn't know you guys had opened up this front in the terf wars lol. you should probably tell Suzanne. Feels a bit like when Hitler invaded Russia, probably one front too many. but hey.
anyway, you're conflating different concepts here and I think you might be stupid :(
anyway, you're conflating different concepts here and I think you might be stupid :(
July 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
oh man I'm really sorry I didn't know you guys had opened up this front in the terf wars lol. you should probably tell Suzanne. Feels a bit like when Hitler invaded Russia, probably one front too many. but hey.
anyway, you're conflating different concepts here and I think you might be stupid :(
anyway, you're conflating different concepts here and I think you might be stupid :(
for someone who's obsessed with biological sex it sure seems like you actually know absolutely fucking nothing about it
July 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
for someone who's obsessed with biological sex it sure seems like you actually know absolutely fucking nothing about it
sorry you replied three times while I was talking lmao. Intersex people do exist, it's to do with differences between chromosomal and phenotypic sex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
Cmon man even old Suzanne Moore conceded that one www.theguardian.com/society/comm...
Cmon man even old Suzanne Moore conceded that one www.theguardian.com/society/comm...
July 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
sorry you replied three times while I was talking lmao. Intersex people do exist, it's to do with differences between chromosomal and phenotypic sex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
Cmon man even old Suzanne Moore conceded that one www.theguardian.com/society/comm...
Cmon man even old Suzanne Moore conceded that one www.theguardian.com/society/comm...
if you were interested in anything, you'd know gender non-conforming people have existed throughout history. smarter people than you tried to persecute and legislate them away. It never worked, it never will. you'll go to your grave still shitting and crying about blue-hair genders. sorry about it
July 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
if you were interested in anything, you'd know gender non-conforming people have existed throughout history. smarter people than you tried to persecute and legislate them away. It never worked, it never will. you'll go to your grave still shitting and crying about blue-hair genders. sorry about it
otherwise, it's just boring sophistry. nobody is disputing the "science of biological sex" they're saying that there are people to whom the terms "man" and "woman", as they're applied socially, don't fit well. this is true biologically as well - terfs never mention intersex people for some reason
July 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
otherwise, it's just boring sophistry. nobody is disputing the "science of biological sex" they're saying that there are people to whom the terms "man" and "woman", as they're applied socially, don't fit well. this is true biologically as well - terfs never mention intersex people for some reason
well it's not a genuine question is it, it's the same tedious point-scoring that gets you guys out of bed in the morning.
if a fascist said the earth was flat yes I would disagree because the earth isn't flat you thick fuck lol.
if a fascist said the earth was flat yes I would disagree because the earth isn't flat you thick fuck lol.
July 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
well it's not a genuine question is it, it's the same tedious point-scoring that gets you guys out of bed in the morning.
if a fascist said the earth was flat yes I would disagree because the earth isn't flat you thick fuck lol.
if a fascist said the earth was flat yes I would disagree because the earth isn't flat you thick fuck lol.
okay! no point relitigating this one, we're clearly not going to agree. all I'd ask you is to do is something you're absolutely not going to do: reflect on why your oh-so-righteous movement seems to attract so many bigots and fascists. weird, right? probably a coincidence.
July 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
okay! no point relitigating this one, we're clearly not going to agree. all I'd ask you is to do is something you're absolutely not going to do: reflect on why your oh-so-righteous movement seems to attract so many bigots and fascists. weird, right? probably a coincidence.
couldn't give the tiniest shit what the law says tbh. just think it's funny that your little movement has pegged itself to an obvious racist wingnut, and all the honking and screeching in the world can't prevent that from being obvious to everyone. you shat your own beds - enjoy lying in it.
July 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
couldn't give the tiniest shit what the law says tbh. just think it's funny that your little movement has pegged itself to an obvious racist wingnut, and all the honking and screeching in the world can't prevent that from being obvious to everyone. you shat your own beds - enjoy lying in it.
you could have just admitted got this one wrong. people might even have respected it. but no, instead you chose to die on the hill of this racist halfwit, and now you're here. pathetic, Sonia. miserable and contemptible.
July 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
you could have just admitted got this one wrong. people might even have respected it. but no, instead you chose to die on the hill of this racist halfwit, and now you're here. pathetic, Sonia. miserable and contemptible.
learned not too long ago how effectively a lot of them have been propagandised to believe that tap water is unsafe to drink. they just buy bottled water every day, until the end of time I guess.
July 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
learned not too long ago how effectively a lot of them have been propagandised to believe that tap water is unsafe to drink. they just buy bottled water every day, until the end of time I guess.
also cooking from home in the modern world is not "cooking from scratch" by any definition lmao. if a 14th century serf saw you pouring your jar of pre-mixed sauce onto your pre-slaughtered meat, they would think you a princeling.
July 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
also cooking from home in the modern world is not "cooking from scratch" by any definition lmao. if a 14th century serf saw you pouring your jar of pre-mixed sauce onto your pre-slaughtered meat, they would think you a princeling.