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Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
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The thing is there was already an inquiry into grooming gangs under the Tories and it git buried because it shows that - surprise! - there are a lot more white grooming gangs.
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I will keep shouting until someone sensible shakes some reason into them.
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I'm learning that lawyers are inflexible, textualist dicks, even when some of that text says "Discretion applies here".
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Absurd and annoying and a waste of everyone's time whilst I appeal and shout at people of increasing seniority until sense will certainly prevail in the end.
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this is just a basic ux read, my ontological/epistemic/political economy thoughts are not ready for prime time right now. but even just at the ux/average user level, chatgpt is a _wildly_ irresponsible product deployment and i know this is not news, im just continually surprised at how bad it is.
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anyway, the country didn't take the white supremacist underground seriously after oklahoma city and now a bunch of tim mcveigh's run the country
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Google's AI summaries continue to provoke a combination of delight and horror in me.
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🇬🇧🍺😂
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Those who commit right-wing political violence are often fascinated with police and/or the military.
Attracted to authoritarianism and "order", they'll often cosplay as cops or soldiers (think Rittenhouse). They seek out roles where they have power over others.
A trait common with serial killers.
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Also seeing a lot of military veterans at these No Kings protests.
Some have signs protesting Trump cutting VA funding while holding a military parade, others have signs protesting deploying the National Guard and Marines to the streets
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I do not recall the public being asked whether they want to go to war to protect a government that is committing genocide against its subject population