Phil
@piplodocus.bsky.social
The most cultured person Jon Madsen knows.
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
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Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
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Very sustainable model!
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Very sustainable model!
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POTUS gave a convicted child sex abuser favorable treatment, and dangled the prospect of a pardon, so she would tell lies about if he was implicated in her crimes. That's not speculative or circumstantial, it's a cold hard proven fact, in and of itself more than enough to demand removal from office.
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
POTUS gave a convicted child sex abuser favorable treatment, and dangled the prospect of a pardon, so she would tell lies about if he was implicated in her crimes. That's not speculative or circumstantial, it's a cold hard proven fact, in and of itself more than enough to demand removal from office.
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Analysis of Fox News coverage preceding the Portland troop deployment reveals a misleading narrative.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Analysis of Fox News coverage preceding the Portland troop deployment reveals a misleading narrative.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
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like, why would any democrat compromise with the GOP right now? you have a once in a millennium upper hand. every member of trump’s admin who opened that file is complicit. go after them. open investigations. have hearings. say it on the news every night. do something other than roll over for once.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
like, why would any democrat compromise with the GOP right now? you have a once in a millennium upper hand. every member of trump’s admin who opened that file is complicit. go after them. open investigations. have hearings. say it on the news every night. do something other than roll over for once.
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every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
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Is social media to blame for teens’ mental health decline?
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Is social media to blame for teens’ mental health decline?
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit.
This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame.
Here’s why: 3 reasons.
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1/ For the benefit of Lisa Nandy - I have transcribed this interview with Chief Superintendent Tom Joyce from West Midland's police, and SkyNews. Contrary to Lisa Nandy' spin, he is clear, the threat TO THE MACCABI TV FANS was not the primary driver for the ban
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
1/ For the benefit of Lisa Nandy - I have transcribed this interview with Chief Superintendent Tom Joyce from West Midland's police, and SkyNews. Contrary to Lisa Nandy' spin, he is clear, the threat TO THE MACCABI TV FANS was not the primary driver for the ban
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Sun Tzu once said, "when the enemy carves a path through your center and rolls up your flanks, this is expected and you should not read too much into it."
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Sun Tzu once said, "when the enemy carves a path through your center and rolls up your flanks, this is expected and you should not read too much into it."
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“It is outrageous that YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes from public view.“
— Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney
— Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“It is outrageous that YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes from public view.“
— Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney
— Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
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1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
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I will venmo any reporter $400 to ask trump "what does SNAP stand for"
November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I will venmo any reporter $400 to ask trump "what does SNAP stand for"
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I think its now got to be the case that respectable people should just refuse to appear on panels with Goodwin, even if that means cancelling on the BBC at short notice.
We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I think its now got to be the case that respectable people should just refuse to appear on panels with Goodwin, even if that means cancelling on the BBC at short notice.
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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Thing is, it’s normal for people to be appalled by massacres and genocide. The unusual thing is people making excuses for it, propagandising to help it continue and cheering it on. Thats the thing that’s crazy and despicable here.
November 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Thing is, it’s normal for people to be appalled by massacres and genocide. The unusual thing is people making excuses for it, propagandising to help it continue and cheering it on. Thats the thing that’s crazy and despicable here.
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Who would they write a letter to? Anyone who’s loudly saying the war crimes are excellent and the RSF are fully entitled to kill as many people as possible, I guess. But that appears to be almost nobody, as you would expect.
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Who would they write a letter to? Anyone who’s loudly saying the war crimes are excellent and the RSF are fully entitled to kill as many people as possible, I guess. But that appears to be almost nobody, as you would expect.
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What, a period of financial crisis and stagnation that exposes the shaky foundations of the current political settlement? This seems like the perfect time for 15 years of relentless screaming terror about leftists and ethnic minority groups undermining and destroying society. What could go wrong?
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What, a period of financial crisis and stagnation that exposes the shaky foundations of the current political settlement? This seems like the perfect time for 15 years of relentless screaming terror about leftists and ethnic minority groups undermining and destroying society. What could go wrong?
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Even if we want to blame all of this on Farage - and it’s very clear that lots of personally culpable people do want to blame it on Farage - he is a pure media creation, a man who owes everything he has to the indulgence and promotion of maybe six or seven media outlets.
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Even if we want to blame all of this on Farage - and it’s very clear that lots of personally culpable people do want to blame it on Farage - he is a pure media creation, a man who owes everything he has to the indulgence and promotion of maybe six or seven media outlets.
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And that’s the paper of record, the one that all the politicians read.
October 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
And that’s the paper of record, the one that all the politicians read.
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The Times used its initial reporting of grooming gangs to “declare war” on liberalism and multiculturalism - their words, not mine. That was fourteen years ago and they have been absolutely true to their words ever since, a relentless Nordstream pipeline blasting crackpot far right incitement.
October 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The Times used its initial reporting of grooming gangs to “declare war” on liberalism and multiculturalism - their words, not mine. That was fourteen years ago and they have been absolutely true to their words ever since, a relentless Nordstream pipeline blasting crackpot far right incitement.
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Well, I’d ask “what is the purpose of British news media” before I declare that they’re doing a bad job. On one level, they are highly effective.
To this point, the top eight news stories served by Google News this morning, from six sources, are all about asylum seekers. To call the British news media unfit for purpose would be charitable.
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Well, I’d ask “what is the purpose of British news media” before I declare that they’re doing a bad job. On one level, they are highly effective.