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that is centrism
Fishhook theory: because centrists love the far right infinitely more than they love the far left.
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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reclaim the calendar!
Stewart Lee, with confetti on his head, talking about how he was in Granada, Spain, on 911, the 9th of November, reclaim the calendar!!!!!
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinbor...

okay, this is a whole new rabbit hole.

I think my original thesis still works. Hang on.
Members of the Eriez, Iroquois, and Cornplanter Native tribes were the first known inhabitants of the area that is now known as Edinboro. These nations called the region Conneauttee, meaning "land of the living snowflake". William Culbertson moved to the area in 1801, building a gristmill near Conneauttee Lake.[6] From 1801 to 1825, the roots of the town were formed when congregations of Presbyterian and Methodist churches began moving to the area and building houses and churches, some of which are still standing today. The first settler, William Culbertson, built the first school around 1825. The first post office was built around 1837 when it was included in the Erie and Crawford counties' postal routes. The farms helped the area grow during this time, and the area was incorporated in 1840 with a population of 232 at about 500 acres (200 ha). A turnpike between Erie and Meadville was constructed in the 1840s; it was made of wooden planks, and completed in 1852. In 1857, an academy was started, which was renamed the State Normal School in 1861, and which would eventually become Pennsylvania Western University, Edinboro.
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Where in West Africa was the term 'obeah' first used? I don't know, but it came to have multiple definitions and associations across what is now Ghana and Nigeria. Highly recommend this essay on the subject (transcriptions of excerpts in alt text) jeromehandler.com/wp-content/u...
Wherever the term was first used in the Caribbean, linguists and other scholars agree that the term itself ultimately derives from some African language or languages. Cassidy and Le Page tentatively note that the derivation of ‘Obeah’ is ‘probably multiple’, and give words, with malevolent meanings, in Efik and Twi as possible sources. A Twi (Gold Coast) origin, with its implication of witchcraft/sorcery, is more commonly given, and this etymology, with its negative implication, is often accepted, albeit uncritically, by scholars who rely on secondary sources in the British Caribbean literature for their information.13 Yet, as Richard Allsopp has recently noted in his Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, ‘no precise origin [for the term] has been determined, but some items esp[ecially] in W[est] Afr[ican] lang[uages] suggest a connection.’ Deriving his information from English dictionaries of several African languages/language groups, he gives words in Twi, Efik, Igbo, and Ibibio that refer in one form or another to evil magic or sorcery/witchcraft although the term means ‘practitioner, herbalist’ in Ibibio.14 With the exception of the Ibibio word, virtually every discussion of the etymology of ‘Obeah’ traces it to a root with socially negative or malevolent meanings. In an earlier study, Bilby offered a very different perspective of the etymology of the term and the variety of meanings attributed to it. Although agreeing that the term derives from an African language, Bilby rejected most conventional interpretations and made a case that there is simply insufficient historical or linguistic evidence for assigning an original meaning in which ‘we can have reasonable confidence’. More significantly, Bilby argued that the meanings often attributed to ‘Obeah’ derive from assumptions in the primary written sources that it is ‘essentially malevolent witchcraft; [thus] it is not surprising that etymologists looking for parallel words in African languages have focused their search on terms that are usually translated into English as “witchcraft,” “sorcery,” and the like.’ But, Bilby’s argument continued, ‘what if the search had started from a different initial assumption?’ Since etymologists have started with the assumption ‘that Obeah denotes evil sorcery’, they ‘have predictably succeeded in finding words in a number of African languages that are phonologically somewhat similar to ‘Obeah’ and have meanings related to witchcraft or sorcery’. However, if etymologists were to view Obeah ‘to begin with as a kind of neutral or positive spiritual force’, then etymological discussions might go in another direction and find the roots of ‘Obeah’ in other linguistic contexts and languages.15 13. Cassidy and Le Page, Dictionary of Jamaican English, p.326; Orlando Patterson, The Sociology of Slavery (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1967), pp.185–6; cf. M.J. Field, Religion and Medicine of the Gã People (London: Oxford University Press, 1961), p.137. For acceptance of this etymology, see, for example, Bailey, ‘Obeah’, p.551; Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, p.620; Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting Zion (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp.56–7, 224 n.112; Alan Richardson, ‘Romantic Voodoo: Obeah and British Culture, 1797–1807’, in M. Fernandez Olmos and L. Paravisini-Gebert (eds.), Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah and the Caribbean (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997), p.190. 14. Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p.412. The specific African terms given as possible etyma in Allsopp’s entry are: Twi o-bayi-fo ‘witchcraft man’ (also given in Dictionary of Jamaican English); Nembe obi ‘sickness, disease’; Igbo obi a ‘this (particular) mind’; Ibibio abia ‘practitioner, herbalist’; and Efik ubio ‘a charm put in the ground to cause sickness’ (also in Dictionary of Jamaican English). Other published etymologies proposed for Obeah include: Edo obi ‘poison’ (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1963); Twi abia ‘a creeper used in making charms’ (Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, 1967); Ga obeye ‘entity within witches’ (Patterson, Sociology of Slavery, p.186); Akan abayide ‘sorcerer’ (Ian Hancock, cited in John A. Holm and Alison W. Shilling, Dictionary of Bahamian English [Cold Spring, NY: Lexik House, 1982], p.145); KiKoongo (o)b-bi ‘evil’ (Hazel Carter, cited in Dictionary of Bahamian English, p.145); Awutu obire ‘charm’ (George Huttar, ‘Sources of Ndjuka African Vocabulary’, New West Indian Guide, 59, 3 & 4 [1985], p.59). 15. Bilby, ‘Strange Career of “Obeah”’, pp.24–6. The challenges presented in Bilby’s paper to a number of conventional assumptions in modern scholarship concerning Obeah, and the larger perspective it offers are, we believe, also fully supported by the ethnohistorical data from Barbados examined by Handler. One modern author who early recognized and emphasized the largely positive functions of Obeah, as well as the way the term and its referents have been negatively redefined by those in positions of power in the Caribbean, is Kamau Brathwaite. Going against the most commonly held views at the period of his writing (in the early 1970s), he noted how ‘Obeah ... is an aspect of [healing and protection], though it has come to be regarded in the New World and in colonial Africa as sorcery and “black magic” ... The principle of obeah is, ... like medical principles everywhere, the process of healing/protection through seeking out the source or explanation of the cause ... of the disease or fear. This was debased by slave master/missionary/prospero into an assumption, inherited by most [West Indians] … that obeah deals in evil.’ See Edward Kamau Brathwaite, ‘The African Presence in Caribbean Literature’, in Sidney W. Mintz (ed.), Slavery, Colonialism, and Racism (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1974), p.75
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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In West African folklore, the obeah, also spelled 'obia', is a massive creature sent by witch doctors to kidnap young girls from nearby villages so they can tear off their skin to use as a coat.

Terrifying. Also, given the quoted story in the OP, somewhat familiar.
The obeah, or obia, in West African folklore. Depicted here as a giant, furry quadrapedal creature with a xenomorph's head (no eyes, massive teeth) with blur lines for speed. It is going to kidnap your daughter.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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So the immediate question is, what does the Hobyah have to do with the West Indies practice and religion of Obeah?

Well, nothing really, they're two completely different things.

In confirming that, however, I found that the term 'Obeah' originated in West Africa.

Stick with me here.
The lithograph print 'Negro Superstition' by Richard Bridgens, depicting an Obeah practitioner in what is attributed to 1836 Trinidad, wrapping several leaves or feathers around the neck of a young boy, while his brother stays behind with his hands tied, and the rest of his family (another young boy, a mother, a father, a grandmother, and a grandfather) pray around him.
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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@rubenbolling.bsky.social had a really good cartoon about this
A Tom the Dancing Bug comic called 'LUCKY DUCKY PRESENTS: POVERTY LINES THROUGHOUT THE AGES'. Most of it is spoken by a big dog in a top hat, ie. a rich dickhead, except when noted. Transcript as follows: 1800: You can't be poor! You've got a shirt! (Lucky Ducky in an empty room with only a shirt on, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 1900: You can't be poor! You've got a bed! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 1950: You can't be poor! You've got a radio! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed and a radio in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 1975: You can't be poor! You've got a TV! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed, a radio, and a TV in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 1990: You can't be poor! You've got a VCR! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed, a radio, a TV, and a VCR in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') 2007: Okay, you keep insisting you're poor-- I'll give you something! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed, a radio, a TV, and a VCR in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'hungry') BIG DOG IN A TOP HAT: There! I paid a think tank to come up with this. You can't still say you're poor! LUCKY DUCKY: I am! (Lucky Ducky in a room with a bed, a radio, a TV, and a VCR in it, with a sign pointing at him saying 'temporary food shortage', and the big dog in a top hat pointing at the sign) BIG DOG IN A TOP HAT: Lucky Ducky! I just gave you a $10,000,000 euphemism! LUCKY DUCKY: Gotcha! (The big dog in a top hat clenches his fists in horror, Lucky Ducky points at him)
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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as always, I defer to Tom Leonard
A poem by Tom Leonard, the second in his sequence 'Unrelated Incidents'. Transcription as follows: ifyi stull huvny wurkt oot thi diff- rince tween yir eyes n yir ears; —geez peace, pal! fyi stull huvny thoata lang- wij izza sound-system: fyi huvny hudda thingk aboot thi diff- rince tween sound n object n symbol; well, ma innocent wee friend—iz god said ti adam: a doant kerr fyi caw it an apple ur an aippl— jist leeit alane!
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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do you know of any northern (or otherwise) poets who take after Tom Leonard and write in their local accent

because Leonard was so fucking good at writing in a Glaswegian accent
A poem by Tom Leonard written in a Glaswegian accent. Transcription as follows: GOOD STYLE helluva hard tay read theez init stull if yi canny unnirston thim jiss clear aff then gawn get tay fuck ootma road ahmaz goodiz thi lota yiz so ah um ah no whit ahm dayn tellnyi jiss try enny a yir fly patir wi me stick thi bootnyi good style so ah wull
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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oh, no, that was the part of the song they DIDN'T get

not that they got many of the lyrics right anyway, but the one actual swear word in there? Nope lmao
The FBI's attempt at transcribing the song Louie Louie by the Kingsmen. It is wrong. Transcription as follows: Oh, Louie, Louie, Oh, No, Get her way down low, Oh, Louie, Louie, Oh, Baby, Get her way down low, A fine little girl awaiting for me she's just a girl across the way Well I'll take her and park all alone She's never a girl I'd lay at home (Chorus repeat) At night at 10 I lay her again Fuck you girl, Oh, all the way Oh, my bed and I lay her there I meet a rose in her hair. (Chorus repeat) Ok Let's give it to them right now! She's got a rag on and I'll move above It won't be long she'll slip it off I'll take her in my arms again I'll tell her I'll never leave again. (Chorus repeat) Get that Broad out of here!
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Mini 'Último' Moné

-Black
-made by one of the best wrestlers in the world to diss another of the best wrestlers in the world, thus awesome
-extremely queer coded (purple hair, confident eyes, association with Harley Cameron and Mercedes Moné)
-is clearly the greatest puppet wrestler of all time
Mini Moné, next to Harley Cameron, being an absolute badass
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Eleanor The LNER Puppet

-white
-TERF coded (wrinkles, earrings, stupid hair)
-smug eyes
-made to advertise a train company that's intentionally being run badly by the British government so they can privatise it again and nobody outside the left will complain
-simply awful
Eleanor The LNER Puppet, being a smug jerk in front of a stall full of chocolate bars for members or something I mean wtf is this picture
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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the virgin Eleanor The LNER Puppet vs. the chad Mini Moné
Eleanor The LNER Puppet, who sucks and is bad Mini 'Último' Moné, the absolute best puppet in the world
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I will rephrase then

one major problem of FPTP is that it allows for marginal seats, ie. seats which are elected via a plurality of votes rather than an absolute majority

ranked-choice voting attempts to address this by redistributing higher preference votes until you achieve an absolute majority
look it is 2am and I do not have the spoons to do proper alt text for the third page of the preferential voting comic I'm sorry, tl;dr: votes are redistributed until an absolute majority is achieved, sorry, search 'You Can’t ‘Waste’ Your Vote!' for this comic, idk if it's accessible aaaaa sorry
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Sam Reich on the set of Make Some Noise, a show where the OP could easily be a prompt
October 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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lmao you're doing the thing
Hans Landa from Inglorious Basterds, a Nazi, shouting 'Oh, so everyone you don't like is automatically a "Nazi"'
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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everyone in Springfield glaring daggers at Krusty after he's come back from being in Reno for six weeks
September 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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giving 'boycott modern warfare 2' vibes
a Steam group named 'Boycott Modern Warfare 2 (WE WANT DEDICATED SERVERS)', where a significant amount of people in the group are playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
August 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Super Mario, of course
Mario from Super Mario Odyssey, pictured in the Lake Kingdom with the diver costume, which includes a snorkel and - most crucially - a pair of swimming goggles. Next to him are two Volbonans, also with a snorkel and swimming goggles.
July 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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what an odd thing to say
the nth (@notmyfifth.bsky.social): maybe i did a good thing letting blockenheimer lapse if this is the people who relied on it (screenshot of someone saying thay they used Blockenheimer to get rid of blue maga shitheads)
July 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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let's not forget, it allowed Shostakovich to sign his work
The notes D, S, C, and H (or B natural if you're Molly raging against the German music system), being a musical signature of sorts for Dmitri Shostakovich.
July 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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like, this is the timeline for the list vote polls since 2021

the SNP's thankfully declined (because why tf would you vote SNP 1 and 2, mathematically that's a wasted vote) but it hasn't been to the benefit of the Greens

I really don't like that Reform is now third, right behind Labour
A timeline of polls for Scottish Parliament party list vote intentions between 2021 and 2026. The SNP's numbers have been steadily dropping since 2021, and while Labour rose in turn, they've dipped heavily since Starmer came to power in Westminster in July 2024 and started implementing far-right policies. This, of course, has only lead to the rise of Reform. The Greens are also currently ~5 points ahead of where they were in the 2021 election, but they're still fifth behind the Tories. This isn't looking good for Scottish democracy.
July 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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this is definitely not the kind of shit you'd say if you were in a cult

bsky.app/profile/bpai...
blue maga bullshit. Look, it's nearly one in the morning, I need to sleep and I cbf transcribing this garbage. Sorry. tl;dr: quoted skeet by Parker Molloy saying she 'will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom' and blue maga dickheads quoting Parker, infantilising her, and accusing her of doing 'purity bullshit' and expecting Democrat voters to line up behind a horrible right-wing ghoul like Gavin Newsom. It definitely isn't cult behaviour to preemptively swear fealty to someone who's determined to kill trans people and homeless people just because he's not Trump.
July 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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lmao you believe in horseshoe theory too

the way you're going so hard against the left to prop up the right is vindication of fishhook theory
Fishhook theory: because centrists hate the far left and cozy up to the far right.
June 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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congratulations, you're doing the Matt Bors comic, because you're Blue MAGA
Comic of a conversation between a woman in a red dress and a man in a MAGA hat, transcript as follows: WOMAN: (looking at phone) My GAWD these Trump people are racist. MAN: (popping in from the right hand side) That attitude is what's pushing me to be racist! W: (looking at man now): Say what? M: (indignantly gnashing his teeth): Might as well! You say I'm a Nazi so, fine, I'll be a Nazi if that makes you happy. W: It...doesn't. M: (holding up Waffen SS uniform) I bought this Waffen SS uniform for Halloween. You'll cry "offensive" so maybe I'll just wear it every day. M: (buzzing off his whole hair, getting a swastika tattoo): I just hate to do this. I feel bullied, really.
June 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM