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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:52 UTC

I do see your point, really, it's good practice, but the thing is stories have short lives, it's probably already had all its coverage. So nobody's tracking the victims down. Gaiman isn't saying anything & can't be forced to except by a legal process that probably isn't coming. So what then?

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:10 UTC

Couldn't bring myself to vote for Labour, so went for Plaid. Came 2nd, knocking the incumbent Tory MP into 3rd by a margin of under 100 votes. I'll take it.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:02 UTC

That's why Elmo has to stand over here.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 04:20 UTC

I think he's one of the guys who changed his name to a youtubers.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

We need electoral reform desperately.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:47 UTC

😬This is going to be the lesson they take isn't it. Bumpy road ahead.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

There's some people on my feed questioning if Gaiman even made a response, which makes sense if all you've heard is "podcast" & "Boris Johnson's sister", but no- that's a site run by people who know precisely how much you can get away with.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:37 UTC

That would be incredibly stupid. I'm not saying it's impossible, but as a British outlet, reporting on allegations is one thing, making up whole cloth a response is the point where that company is dead, it is gone, you will be sued til it's a smoking crater in the ground.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:58 UTC

I'm so glad you put alt text on this, because I would've felt too rude to ask "is that an andalite?" in case it was not.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

I was a young teenager when a million people marched through London and the government said "lol" and got re-elected a couple of years later. It certainly left a mark on my thinking.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

He's definitely considered if he can get away with a smaller moustache. Coward should just do it.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

Yes, literally yes. The centre left position is that he's only saying these things to get into power and then once he is ;) he'll go left. They don't really like it when I point out that means we both think he's a massive liar.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

Yeah. The source has a grudge against him, but like my partner said, that could just mean they're motivated to find dirt, not that the dirt is false.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

Yeah it'd be fine if they'd stay where they're supposed to be. Occasionally I'm reminded that the Beano still exists. That's nice, Dennis still out there, entertaining the kids. That's it, that's my sole opinion. No one would ever expect me to have more than that. Bliss.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:04 UTC

I vaguely remember that, but only really as an aesthetic. People were more into unicycles as a mode of transportation. Much easier to store.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:13 UTC

Well not that bad compared to some of the others lol. Afaik she was ok as a person. But there's a lot of exceptionally egregious fatphobia even for a children's author, and some weird race stuff in the 2nd Howl book, and possibly elsewhere but I was too young and white to notice.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:01 UTC

I *think* she's saying that trans femininity is a straight man kink that's got out of hand, but honestly she could be saying practically anything at this point.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

The leftism leaving American's bodies when you talk about the military

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

And you're a fucking imperialist, so there we are.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:45 UTC

Could any of you just like, click? On the link? I promise that the Military Times is not "my blog" as I've been accused of. The claim was that they target *poor* kids. They do not. This is a very successful myth designed to ameliorate anti military sentiment. An 18 year old is also... an adult.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:36 UTC

I am not interested in debating the semantics of people being killed. No matter how many terrible propaganda films you make about how sad their murderers feel, it makes no difference to how dead the dead remain.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

It's like when people talk about how they can't do a boycott because blah blah, like okay, just do that then, I'm not your mum.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

May you be reincarnated in a third world county and find out how blameless American troops are. "Bad faith trolling". So far down the imperial rabbit hole you can't understand how anyone could possibly disagree.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

They do kill exclusively foreign people. They are vastly more palatable to the American left than cops (can you imagine this thread going this way if it was about the police?). These two things are directly related.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:49 UTC

Then what fucking insult?? What are you talking about, and did you fucking see what your mates said before I blocked them? Those are insults. How could you possibly read anything I said as an insult to you if you're not in the military?

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

There's no insult, let alone a disgusting one. Murderer is a fair term for someone who kills people.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

I just keep wondering if there's a line. As long as there's a slightly worse bogeyman out there, is there anything the ""left"" team can do that is too far? I have yet to get a yes answer from this genre of person either side of the Atlantic, and that's terrifying.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

Woaw, and how did that go? A tool is as evil as the hand that wields it, this is why it's important not to be a tool.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:58 UTC

That's because it's not true
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

"recent recruits tend to have higher than average socioeconomic background"

And even if it was true, signing up to be a murderer for economic reasons is still disgusting. You prefer them to cops because they kill foreign people.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:19 UTC

Ah fuck, my tea! Hey, one of these bots actually kind of works, that's neat.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

I know this is just spreading distrust, but it's such a double negative anyway. If someone bad follows you, maybe (very hard maybe) that says something, but if they're secretly a massive hypocrite then that balances back out to the poster being fine.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:21 UTC

I used to take some pleasure in "I told you so" but now I'm old enough to just be tired. They will never ever listen to us, and they will never ever learn. It won't affect them, and if it does they will immediately swing right and blame us or minorities or anyone but them.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:00 UTC

It's probably someone who works for her. Hopefully someone at the level of publisher or legal, and she hasn't started harassing her staff.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:12 UTC

Thank you for sharing Matt. May everyone be chill about it.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:09 UTC

I did start feeling bad for it halfway through. They're trying their best 😥

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

It's the 80s, we're on the go, we don't have time for two P's.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 01:53 UTC

Love how they're just so tentative like maybe... maybe women have other concerns?? Perhaps. Unknowable really. No offense to Dr Kay who didn't ask to be treated like a fascinating new species of bug.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 01:31 UTC

Who have you got in 4 years? Why has nobody been spending the past 4 years making sure your choices aren't between two genocide supporters with cognitive decline? Why has nobody even spent the past year? Why are you angry with the electorate about this, not the people who have failed you all?

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:14 UTC

This I guess, I happened to see it now I'm in the search trying to figure out context cos I'm nosy lol.
bsky.app/profile/miri...

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 13:18 UTC

But absolutely do vote. Even if the party cannot win in your seat, as long as they get one MP somewhere your vote helps them get public funding called "Short money".
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/ru...
Or if there's a really good indy then help them get their deposit back.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 13:06 UTC

The only good thing (good here being a relative term) is that I've got immunity to tactical voting. It's going to be a landslide for the red Tories, so I can vote for who I actually want to support in the hopes of it encouraging something better next time.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

Even when the inevitable critical reassessment came I still think she would've been fine. Enid Blyton & Roald Dhal, Diana Wynne-Jones and probably so many more I'm forgetting. Horrible shit is the norm and the gentle fog of nostalgia softens. But then she went on twitter.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 11:47 UTC

Saw this twice because it came up in discover, like a loading screen tip.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:37 UTC

Well there's that, but in the interim it'd be nice for you folks if the powers that be pick someone who isn't on the grim reaper's naughty list next time. For a treat.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 16:09 UTC

I've been a vegetarian since I was a kid and haven't had a period in years. What does the supermarket suggest to me every single time? Chicken and pads. Their "vast volumes of data" are fucking useless on an individual level.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 20:44 UTC

This is like a post you'd see in a horror film.

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

Genuine answer- not very. My mum doesn't have a telly, doesn't listen to the radio, isn't on social media, and deliberately avoids news. I still catch her regularly repeating the same right wing talking points that are like catnip to her generation because she's half heard a story somewhere.

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