mercury
@theteethofgod.bsky.social
PhD @ LBU | Writing about national identity in Hollywood horror cinema | part time filmmaker 🏳️⚧️
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November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point
September 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point
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ok. let's all have a 36-72 hour debate about the efficacy of political violence.
September 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
ok. let's all have a 36-72 hour debate about the efficacy of political violence.
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
September 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
phd is like being beaten with a metal rod while a really interesting documentary plays in the background
September 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
phd is like being beaten with a metal rod while a really interesting documentary plays in the background
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a big mistake we made was computers *should* be refrigerator sized and live in special basements, not ride along in everyone's pocket like an evil Jiminy Cricket
September 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
a big mistake we made was computers *should* be refrigerator sized and live in special basements, not ride along in everyone's pocket like an evil Jiminy Cricket
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oh haha when i first saw your text i thought it said "brian cancer" and i was like, Uhh wait who's this brian guy? lol but fuck dude, that's awful about your kid
February 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
oh haha when i first saw your text i thought it said "brian cancer" and i was like, Uhh wait who's this brian guy? lol but fuck dude, that's awful about your kid
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Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
August 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
bad day to be 50-2000 mediocre words produced at underwhelming speed
August 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
bad day to be 50-2000 mediocre words produced at underwhelming speed
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My bereaved family: Can't believe he's gone. But now, with the power of technology, we can ask him what he thinks about current events
My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE
My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE
August 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My bereaved family: Can't believe he's gone. But now, with the power of technology, we can ask him what he thinks about current events
My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE
My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE
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The ‘politics of eternity’, says Timothy Snyder, is nostalgia for a mythical past. Putin blames the West, Trump blames migrants, Reform UK blames both. Truth doesn’t matter, only enemies. A thought-provoking read by Marc Ainge ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @marcainge.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @marcainge.bsky.social
The politics of eternity: weaponising moments that never were
Donald Trump is the global face of a growing political movement that deceives voters by distorting history
eastangliabylines.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The ‘politics of eternity’, says Timothy Snyder, is nostalgia for a mythical past. Putin blames the West, Trump blames migrants, Reform UK blames both. Truth doesn’t matter, only enemies. A thought-provoking read by Marc Ainge ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @marcainge.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @marcainge.bsky.social
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Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
July 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
Remington’s here 🦡 @stevenashwrites.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Remington’s here 🦡 @stevenashwrites.bsky.social
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🚨1 DAY TO GO🚨
Tomorrow, we release the brilliant Remington Platypus by Steve Nash!
A darkly comic crime novel with an animal cast, preorders are on their way, and you can order yours here: share.google/iHDUuRxehTb9...
Tomorrow, we release the brilliant Remington Platypus by Steve Nash!
A darkly comic crime novel with an animal cast, preorders are on their way, and you can order yours here: share.google/iHDUuRxehTb9...
July 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🚨1 DAY TO GO🚨
Tomorrow, we release the brilliant Remington Platypus by Steve Nash!
A darkly comic crime novel with an animal cast, preorders are on their way, and you can order yours here: share.google/iHDUuRxehTb9...
Tomorrow, we release the brilliant Remington Platypus by Steve Nash!
A darkly comic crime novel with an animal cast, preorders are on their way, and you can order yours here: share.google/iHDUuRxehTb9...
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This. A 2023 Oxfam report called every billionaire a policy failure. My thoughts on this from a few months ago: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
July 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This. A 2023 Oxfam report called every billionaire a policy failure. My thoughts on this from a few months ago: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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This is no accident. The groups behind age-verification laws have been explicit that they regard "gender ideology" and nearly any representation of LGBTQ+ existence as pornography
AV is government censorship. Platforms are either designating LGBTQ+ content NSFW or removing it all together.
AV is government censorship. Platforms are either designating LGBTQ+ content NSFW or removing it all together.
the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit
what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!
what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!
July 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is no accident. The groups behind age-verification laws have been explicit that they regard "gender ideology" and nearly any representation of LGBTQ+ existence as pornography
AV is government censorship. Platforms are either designating LGBTQ+ content NSFW or removing it all together.
AV is government censorship. Platforms are either designating LGBTQ+ content NSFW or removing it all together.
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Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
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Excellent work from @keithkahnharris.bsky.social here talking about Black Sabbath / Ozzy Osbourne's farewell show and the pivotal role played in metal by the frailties and imperfections of the human body.
#BlackSabbath
#OzzyOsbourne
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
#BlackSabbath
#OzzyOsbourne
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park | The Quietus
Black Sabbath began with a broken body – Tony Iommi's industrial accident – it is both fitting and inspirational they end in the same way.
thequietus.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Excellent work from @keithkahnharris.bsky.social here talking about Black Sabbath / Ozzy Osbourne's farewell show and the pivotal role played in metal by the frailties and imperfections of the human body.
#BlackSabbath
#OzzyOsbourne
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
#BlackSabbath
#OzzyOsbourne
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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JD Vance is suggesting that neo-Nazis and the descendents of confederate soldiers have more claim to being part of this nation because they're white than immigrants who believe in the Declaration of Independence.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.
July 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
JD Vance is suggesting that neo-Nazis and the descendents of confederate soldiers have more claim to being part of this nation because they're white than immigrants who believe in the Declaration of Independence.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.
This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.