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Bracken

@summonrats.bsky.social

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She/they A sleepy mongoose, a feathery firefly. Fannibal, Critter, MtG, D&D, comics. Bisexual, disabled. Rat keeper. Very slow gardener. Living with ME/CFS. I like to draw, crochet, and paint miniatures. Aspiring illustrator.

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I'm so sorry.

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Nate O's avatar Nate O @nateo.bsky.social
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Everybody knows Cass got a peerage because her report fit exactly what the government wanted; had her report aligned with the medical consensus and indicated any respect for trans children it’s 100% certain she wouldn’t have received it. Quid pro quo.

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸's avatar Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social
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"Keep the far right at by by capitulating entirely and doing all the things they want to do". Yeah, cheers Tonty, great advice, now fuck off back into whatever deep sea thermal vent it is you've managed to escape from.

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Thom's avatar Thom @mrmoth.bsky.social
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Sir, this is a Marxist platform centrists are generously allowed to post on.

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Bracken's avatar Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social
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Somehow, SOMEHOW, I am surprised that I've been knackered for the past two days. Apparently I thought I'd get over staying up for the election in like, one night's sleep. Eternal optimist 🙄

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Bracken's avatar Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social
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I would not keep quiet about that either

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Ray 's avatar Ray @sireviscerate.bsky.social
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This is the one Ben did that got me the most. I was in tears laughing.

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸's avatar Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com
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If our posts didn't matter, they wouldn't have wanted to make the internet a place where you can't decide whether a post was written by a bot, a troll or someone who actually knows what they are talking about. They have intentionally gone out of their way to try to sabotage online activism.

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸's avatar Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com
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People who believe nothing you post has impact- have no idea how to use a platform & they may also have an interest in discouraging you from speaking out. Online activism matters. Look at what they did to Twitter. Twitter was previously one of the most important communication tools on the planet.

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Bracken's avatar Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social
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My gran's partner is like this. Every single interaction is just an opportunity for him to one-up someone else. Incredibly tiresome. He also loves to interrupt my gran when she's telling a story and finish it for her.

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WildGorillaMan's avatar WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Reform spent £108,413 on Meta ads for each seat they won, the Lib Dems just £3,700.

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Compare to the Active Ingredients in Woman®'s avatar Compare to the Active Ingredients in Woman® @i-rohl.bsky.social
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Lessons I've learned from the LLM era (list to be expanded, probably): 1. Sufficiently advanced autocomplete is indistinguishable from an impossibly well-read toddler on peyote. 2. Almost any decision has the potential to be a life-or-death decision, if you're bad enough at it.

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Chef Gaykwon's avatar Chef Gaykwon @gaykwon.bsky.social
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This guy was such a G for telling his evil wizard cyborg boss that his religion is bullshit during a work meeting.

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mx elle is eepy's avatar mx elle is eepy @ellearmageddon.bsky.social
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you can 100% build real and genuine human relationships with people who start out as fans or employees. you can connect with people on a human level, even when there is a power imbalance. CRITICALLY, there are limits to how close those relationships can become while the power imbalance exists!

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Zamira Rahim's avatar Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social
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Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.

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Daedalus's avatar Daedalus @skymoo.bsky.social
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“It’s not fair that I had to stand next to this fetishist freak” says Man in Baked Bean Mask

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Joel Morris's avatar Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social
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For those who don’t know the phrase. (From Andy Riley’s comedy writer glossary.)

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Joel Morris's avatar Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social
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ACTIVATE THE LANGDON MACHINE. (Have I Got News For You office goes into scramble mode.)

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phyphor's avatar phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org
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If your area got a new Labour MP then it is your duty to email them and say that you are happy the Tories are out but that transphobia should have no place in the party. Make Starmer gently walk back his support for Rowling's position!

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Jason!'s avatar Jason! @amazestrong.bsky.social
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The Neil Gaiman thing is reminding me of the time loads of people I knew went from "Always believe the victims" to "Oh we should wait and see." because it was Joss Whedon being accused and that would mean having to rethink their relationship with Buffy.

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Bracken's avatar Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social
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It was so nice to laugh at the Tories' misfortune with my best friend. I'm feeling relatively hopeful, given the Green's tremendous result, the Lid Dem recovery on a progressive manifesto, and the number of independents winning thousands of votes on pro-Palestine platforms.

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So I managed to watch a lot of the GE results come in live, for the first time. I had a nap from 11.30 until 2.30am, then was up until about 5.30am. Very exciting and running on adrenaline. I've had another good chunk of sleep and feeling less frenetic now. Hopefully I can recover over next 3 days

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Rose Schmits's avatar Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social
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I really need people to understand that when a marginalised person laments their oppression its actually very upsetting to tell em its not that bad chin up people are on your side really

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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“yoda was super old and died” “yoda was unable to prevent the rise of the fascists” ok that literally makes the metaphor better you idiots

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this

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scott⚡️mccloud's avatar scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social
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Over the weekend, I found a tiny pink plastic shoe on the ground near my office. I placed it at eye level, on a wooden post, by the stairs. This morning, on that same post, was this picture.

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Tony Corsentino's avatar Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net
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my toxic trait is … [clears throat, takes deep breath] … believing that whatever prerogatives parents have over their children’s lives derive from their obligations to meet their children’s needs and to respect their rights as human beings, and that conversely, children don’t owe their parents shit.

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Col. Boozy Badger's avatar Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.bsky.social
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Good morning to all my legal colleagues rolling into the office this morning in an open bathrobe, boxers, a stained t-shirt, and mismatched fluffy house slippers, clinging a bottle of vodka and answering every question with “What does it fucking matter, nothing’s real anyhow.”

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Sinan Kose's avatar Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social
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Starmer is going to be remembered even less fondly than Neville Chamberlain

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Bracken's avatar Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social
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It's the second part that absolutely infuriates me. They can't own their choices and accept what that makes them. They want us to *like* them.

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Bracken's avatar Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social
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If that parasite/investor can put down that much cash, they can afford the other 15k. So sorry you have to deal with all this.

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Will they still claim they "won it"? I reckon they will, somehow.

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Peaches come from a can they were put there by a man in a factory downtown

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It was inevitable, I agree - the more unhinged she is the less seriously she will be taken. The commentariat won't want to be associated with her.

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Bracken's avatar Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social
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Saw someone describe her as "beyond the Glinner event horizon" and they're not wrong.

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