One of the key messages of Qanon, which was easy to miss if you weren't looking closely, was "one day your family will HAVE to speak to you again." The Qanon movement died but not because it failed, because its more insidious goals had been effectively mainstreamed.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

Here is an article I wrote last year about the tragic death of Joelle. I didn't publish it as I didn't want to impede Trans Legal Clinic. But now that they have made the story public, here is the article. I'm in tears 😥😥😥😥😥😥 Stop killing us!!! sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/transphobi...

Transphobia Took The Life Of My Chronically Ill Daughter

Joelle Plow (She/Her) tragically lost her life whilst waiting for a hospital bed on the haematology ward during an urgent hospital visit.

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Life in the UK is just one long call for an inquiry into the government killing people.

There's a lot of fucking scumbags who should be feeling bad and apologizing about how they tried to turn PAC's death into some sort of gotcha moment. But since they're scumbags, they won't.

An MP villainises members of the public for, I cannot emphasise this enough, accessing emergency healthcare when they need it and then plays the victim because she got pushback about it.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last wk.

It would IMO be better if MPs had not utterly deranged their own brains on Twitter dot com, wildly radicalising themselves and each other.

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AK Faulkner ➡️ MCM@ravenswordpress.com · 2w ago

I'm so upset not to be at FantasyCon because the complete nuisance I would have made of myself, Peter F Hamilton wouldn't go anywhere all weekend without me heckling and booing. I would absolutely use the power of autism to give zero fucks if I'm upsetting him.

Just on my way out to do something culturally British* *whip up a moral panic about a minority group then hang some flags upside-down from a lamppost

People who constantly call for "serious grown-up politics" will turn around and hit you with the "Green/Labour coalition" without even blinking, I swear to god

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Let me try this once more. It was a choice. EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan. OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc. It was never going to be both. Which one makes a material difference? #GazaGenocide

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These fuckers

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Creepy Gentlemen Vampires

Alt: The monsters called 'The Gentlemen' from the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode 'Hush'

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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 3w ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

#ThankYouPac

The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle

Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.

Some great mist this morning.

Live your life so you don’t have to include a section about black mold in your webpage’s FAQ.

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

They prefer be called John Coheed and Daryl Cambria, actually.

That the government's response to a large-scale fascist mobilisation is to say stuff like "the right to protest is fundamental" and "we already *are* stopping the boats" is in itself the story of how we got here.

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Aida@aidap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This was document freely available and free to distribute. Lets preserve it the old fashioned way: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:eb3e6f89f9c71404643bc7b9bb6d74963017dda9&dn=Report_A_growing_threat_the_anti_rights_movement_in_the_UK_July.pdf Pop that into your friendly torrent program, no host to dmca.

Not to belittle the creative endeavours of Marvel Films but I wrote a poetry pamphlet inspired by Paul Blart Mall Cop and you don’t even have to watch Paul Blart Mall Cop to get it

I sometimes worry I go a bit too hard with my resentment of British newspaper journalists as a class, but then I am reminded of stuff like this and am reaffirmed in my belief that we simply do not loathe them enough.

Whatever might have been the truth about the PhD, fundraising, or childhood, the relentless media feeding frenzy over Jason Arday has been shameful. Daily columns, endless criticism and speculation. Unprincipled editors who valued clicks and sales over ethics.

Went to a former limestone mine turned museum today. Apparently the mine was directed by Dario Argento.

I will always stand with you 🏳️‍⚧️

“addicted to the shindig” is a genuinely ludicrous claim to make

The real reason the entire UK media is being so hysterically defensive about Rod Liddle goes beyond the usual syndromes: reactionary wagon-circling, herd mentality, in-group elitism, etc. It's because Liddle is the example par excellence of the fundamental sickness at the heart of UK media.

I really do believe that if we are to live in a remotely decent society, the socio-economic system that produces UK op/ed columns must be destroyed, down to the root, and every last person at its core provided make-work jobs writing about their fantasies that are then promptly shredded, at base pay

The inextricable inherent value of human life is really stifling debate you absolutist leftie scum

Long covid radicalised me because some cleanshirt podcast prick gets to call it "disputed" and I don't have the energy to go spit on him in the street.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 3mo ago

Long covid is a disputed subject, at best.

So many people showing their arses about how much they watch film reviews to give them a cosy film explainer rather than crit