Ian Rennie
@theangelremiel.bsky.social
Higher than weather balloons, empty hearts on fire.
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traveller for 5e. 40k for quest. metamorphosis alpha for skylanders. rifts for the lancer companion app COMP/CON. runequest for the nothing phone. top secret for zenner deck. elfquest for 3ds. toon for samsung smart fridges. GURPS for dolby 5.1 surround sound atmos enabled. ars magica for teens
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
traveller for 5e. 40k for quest. metamorphosis alpha for skylanders. rifts for the lancer companion app COMP/CON. runequest for the nothing phone. top secret for zenner deck. elfquest for 3ds. toon for samsung smart fridges. GURPS for dolby 5.1 surround sound atmos enabled. ars magica for teens
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The idea that there are doctors who throw Puberty Blockers, let alone HRT at a kid who wanders in off the street and then whip them away for surgery is on a par with believing in secret alien bases at the centre of the earth, one will get you weird looks, the other will get you a job in journalism
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The idea that there are doctors who throw Puberty Blockers, let alone HRT at a kid who wanders in off the street and then whip them away for surgery is on a par with believing in secret alien bases at the centre of the earth, one will get you weird looks, the other will get you a job in journalism
We could be herpes, just for one day
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We could be herpes, just for one day
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surprised it took this long for a publisher to try this with a 'real' series. next we'll see a series with an AI-created original Japanese dub.
you folks would not BELIEVE how much the production companies want to do this. they want to never hire actors SO bad!!
ok maybe you WOULD believe it ☹️
you folks would not BELIEVE how much the production companies want to do this. they want to never hire actors SO bad!!
ok maybe you WOULD believe it ☹️
Hey just so you know Amazon decided to give us an AI ENGLISH DUB of Banana Fish instead of actually hiring real voice actors
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
surprised it took this long for a publisher to try this with a 'real' series. next we'll see a series with an AI-created original Japanese dub.
you folks would not BELIEVE how much the production companies want to do this. they want to never hire actors SO bad!!
ok maybe you WOULD believe it ☹️
you folks would not BELIEVE how much the production companies want to do this. they want to never hire actors SO bad!!
ok maybe you WOULD believe it ☹️
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If there's one lesson I think we can draw from stuff like this it's that "optics" are a lie. Power will spin fascist cranks as just normal academics who've been unfairly persecuted and peace activists as terrorists if it suits its purposes.
I know we're all focusing on the chat gpt thing but this is an absolutely insane way for the observer and also glinner to refer to an ecofacsist who believes that trans people were invented by jews to eliminate humanity and that mass bombing campaigns should happen for the enviroment.
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If there's one lesson I think we can draw from stuff like this it's that "optics" are a lie. Power will spin fascist cranks as just normal academics who've been unfairly persecuted and peace activists as terrorists if it suits its purposes.
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I don’t get it, why does making art become unsatisfying when you remove the part where your brain works and is rewarded with a sense of accomplishment
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I don’t get it, why does making art become unsatisfying when you remove the part where your brain works and is rewarded with a sense of accomplishment
Because apparently it needs to be said again to the people making background music for public places: Hallelujah is not a Christmas song. For so very many reasons.
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Because apparently it needs to be said again to the people making background music for public places: Hallelujah is not a Christmas song. For so very many reasons.
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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As always when I post about being trans, a reminder: if you support me because I'm "normal" or "reasonable" or whatever because I dress like an old man & go to church, but you don't support all my trans siblings, then you don't actually support me at all, & I encourage you to do some soul searching.
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
As always when I post about being trans, a reminder: if you support me because I'm "normal" or "reasonable" or whatever because I dress like an old man & go to church, but you don't support all my trans siblings, then you don't actually support me at all, & I encourage you to do some soul searching.
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If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
Kemi Badenoch makes much more sense as a person when you realise that her turn to conservatism was caused by her doing much worse in her A Levels than she thought she was going to and deciding that this was the fault of liberals somehow.
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Kemi Badenoch makes much more sense as a person when you realise that her turn to conservatism was caused by her doing much worse in her A Levels than she thought she was going to and deciding that this was the fault of liberals somehow.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Who wants to watch me lose my shit completely
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Who wants to watch me lose my shit completely
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Tony Smith on Ch4News saying international students should be limited because they’re “economically inactive”.
International students pay around £27k p.a. in fees to their universities, at least half again to landlords and they spend their parents’ hard-earned money in local shops.
International students pay around £27k p.a. in fees to their universities, at least half again to landlords and they spend their parents’ hard-earned money in local shops.
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Tony Smith on Ch4News saying international students should be limited because they’re “economically inactive”.
International students pay around £27k p.a. in fees to their universities, at least half again to landlords and they spend their parents’ hard-earned money in local shops.
International students pay around £27k p.a. in fees to their universities, at least half again to landlords and they spend their parents’ hard-earned money in local shops.
Just to be clear about something in this story, I've seen several people interpret this as the court being told Sally Rooney's books may be pulled by the government. What the story says is that Sally Rooney has said that she might stop distributing her books in the UK. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Sally Rooney books may be pulled from UK, court told
Normal People author Sally Rooney's books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to "uncertainty" caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the British High ...
www.rte.ie
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Just to be clear about something in this story, I've seen several people interpret this as the court being told Sally Rooney's books may be pulled by the government. What the story says is that Sally Rooney has said that she might stop distributing her books in the UK. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Because Koushun Takami didn't invent or trademark the concept of young people being turned into gladiators, you weird foot obsessed freak.
Quentin Tarantino bashes ‘The Hunger Games’ for “ripping off” ‘Battle Royale’ on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast:
“I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every f***ing thing she owns.”
“I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every f***ing thing she owns.”
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Because Koushun Takami didn't invent or trademark the concept of young people being turned into gladiators, you weird foot obsessed freak.
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The biggest con in contemporary politics is Gender-Conservatives calling trans women perverts and rapists while constantly, and I mean constantly innovating new ways to sexually harass us on a mass scale.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The biggest con in contemporary politics is Gender-Conservatives calling trans women perverts and rapists while constantly, and I mean constantly innovating new ways to sexually harass us on a mass scale.
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One undercovered aspect of the Epstein emails is the work on reputation management. Working to ensure your Wiki article doesn’t mention anything untoward, and is instead “pretty tame” is well known in my industry but I don’t think its ubiquity or importance is broadly recognised.
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
One undercovered aspect of the Epstein emails is the work on reputation management. Working to ensure your Wiki article doesn’t mention anything untoward, and is instead “pretty tame” is well known in my industry but I don’t think its ubiquity or importance is broadly recognised.
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As noted elsewhere: is somebody going to ask Michael Gove about this, or should we chuck it on top of the big pile of things Michael Gove doesn’t get asked about
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
As noted elsewhere: is somebody going to ask Michael Gove about this, or should we chuck it on top of the big pile of things Michael Gove doesn’t get asked about
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The idea that Biden's health wasn't being covered prior to the debate is one of the most shameless pieces of revisionist history I can remember. It had been one of the dominant topics of conversation for months. I was there, I remember it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The idea that Biden's health wasn't being covered prior to the debate is one of the most shameless pieces of revisionist history I can remember. It had been one of the dominant topics of conversation for months. I was there, I remember it.
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Thankful to my Bluesky feed for giving me these two posts from @mamavitelli.bsky.social and @baronduki.bsky.social back to back
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thankful to my Bluesky feed for giving me these two posts from @mamavitelli.bsky.social and @baronduki.bsky.social back to back
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People don't dislike Tim Sweeney nearly as much as they should.
Opposing Steam’s AI Disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney Says Game Stores Should Drop "the AI tag" Because "it makes no sense" When "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
#ai #gamedev #steam #epicgames #videogames #gaming
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
#ai #gamedev #steam #epicgames #videogames #gaming
Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
Steam has actually made AI disclosures even more prominent
www.gamesradar.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
People don't dislike Tim Sweeney nearly as much as they should.
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*fatboy slim voice*
Right about now
Right about now
Bighole
Mother
Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971
Mother
Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
*fatboy slim voice*
Right about now
Right about now
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Central to the 2010s Legitimate Concerns discourse that paved the way for our current pre-fascist moment was the refusal to acknowledge that these "concerns" were based on demonstrable fictions, filtered through socially constructed prejudices. I.e. they were not, in fact, "legitimate".
"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels"
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Central to the 2010s Legitimate Concerns discourse that paved the way for our current pre-fascist moment was the refusal to acknowledge that these "concerns" were based on demonstrable fictions, filtered through socially constructed prejudices. I.e. they were not, in fact, "legitimate".
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Funny to think a year ago, most Tory MPs thought Starmer had a clever but cynical plan to bank the changes Sunak made on immigration and declare victory, rather than to keep holing himself under the waterline.
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Funny to think a year ago, most Tory MPs thought Starmer had a clever but cynical plan to bank the changes Sunak made on immigration and declare victory, rather than to keep holing himself under the waterline.