omegajak.bsky.social
Anarcho-Immortalist Space Communist Goth and nightclub aficionado.
He/Him.
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Nah. If anything it's tame.
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Well, apart from the second attempt you made at Iraq you've lost more or less every major war you've fought since the middle of the 20th century, so yes.
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Honestly at this point I'm not particularly concerned about AI taking creative (or any other) jobs, I'm just annoyed at the absolute cluelessness of AI evangelists and a bit worried about how much influence they have with UK politicians.
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Yeah, that's fair.
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Sort of feels like he *has* to say it, there is absolutely, 100% a credible threat to people who go and it would be irresponsible for someone in his position to say anything else. But also people should absolutely still go, and be aware of the danger.
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To be fair that is the only left wing British tabloid, the rest... Well, they don't like Trump much but they aren't exactly gunning for him.
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Flour and water, huh? <Takes notes, sends them on to a few comrades>
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I'm gonna guess crypto.
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I drank loads of it as a teen, and so did everyone else I know. Tasted like absolute hell.
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Modular synth enthusiasts are laughing in their tiny, cramped rooms filled from floor to ceiling with weird cables and bizarre glowing machinery.
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Yeah, having had a look at that article I feel confident saying these people are idiots who haven't really thought it through. There is absolutely no coherent pattern to those names.
Mind you it's still unacceptable, you wouldn't name a menu item after, like, a confederate general.
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A cult leader who tried to start a race war shouldn't be an advertising mascot and it's weird that anyone thinks he should be o.O.
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What Remains of Edith Finch deserves to be in there too, I think.
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Not valid, vapid, bloody phone.
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He strikes me as a kind of American-Canadian David Starkey. Sort of a respected academic on paper, but the moment you scratch the surface you find something valid and horrible.
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You joke but a Beastie Boys cover of Vision Thing could be an absolute cast iron banger.
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And on a more serious note: I can walk through the centre with my stepson and my wife without falling under the gaze of a man who would have had them kidnapped, beaten, raped and worked to death thousands of miles from home. There are people who think it should still be there. They can go to hell.
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But I digress, it's gone now, in a museum instead of a place of honour in the centre of my city. The word 'prick' is written on the state's leg in blue spray paint. In all the noise and intellectual discussion it's easy to kind of forget that he was, in fact, a total prick.
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There has been an ocean of ink spilled about it since, right wing hand wringing and left wing celebrations, worries about backlash and sneering about 'rewriting history'. There has been almost nothing written about the venturers and tories who ensured it stayed up for so long, unchanged.
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Think this is the first time I've seen UK based fundraising for something that's obviously a thinly veiled far right paramilitary organisation.
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I got married at Bristol zoo in 2021 (fantastic wedding venue tbh) and I already miss it horribly, but ffs we desperately need housing in this city and the animals have already been moved out.
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I remember seeing an interview with a British soldier who fought in (iirc) Burma in WW2 and he put me off spam forever when he mentioned that it was so hot and humid in the jungle that when they opened their spam ration tins it came out as a liquid.
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Solid electoral strategy too for the tories too. They'll pick up plenty of votes if they promises to make sure he never, ever makes a single media appearance as prime minister.
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Reasonable, and I agree, but I *would* rather have my fares go up than experience the presence of Robert Jenrick.
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I mean I see what you're saying even if I disagree with your analysis a bit, but honestly I'd rather walk through a tube station exclusively populated with fare dodgers than a tube station with a single Robert Jenrick in it.
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Every single time there's a horrendous, tragic incident where people from Liverpool get hurt there's some horrible right wing bastard chomping at the bit to say something appalling.
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I mean, it was supposed to be a joke but sure, if you want to take things seriously: I'd say it depends on the genre. Disco Elysium stood out for good writing because it's effectively a well written visual novel, the Witcher 3 stood out because it's not a simplistic good vs evil power fantasy.
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I'd ask 'why are Baldur's Gate 3, Disco Elysium and The Witcher 3 the only games from the last decade and change with good writing?' but it would result in a load of people saying things like 'Hideo Kojima is a brilliant writer you just don't get the brilliance of calling a character "Die Hardman"'.
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And it'll be way, *way* too late for them to recover what they've lost by then. The amount of people I know who voted Labour in 2024 and have since vowed never to do that again is really quite something.
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Perhaps, but the *real* conspiracist take is that someone leaked it on Starmer's behalf in preparation for jettisoning McSweeny.
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Running in the wrong circles, I'd say, I catch their scent at every club and music festival.
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I absolutely have met and spoken with these people. The most prolific offenders,as you know, are deterred by *nothing* and will be charged and imprisoned again anyway. Short sentences are completely pointless, a total waste of time and money.
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Do you understand that tagging people and community orders are still, like, a punishment? You do understand that non-custodial sentences are still sentences? Right?
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I have never once, in my entire life here in the UK, ever seen anyone write, or say, 'an historian'.
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Kemi Badenoch, sitting in her office desperately brainstorming ways to reconnect with the public: "alright, what if... what if we imply the Prime Minister is a Bonapartist?"
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My uncle, who is also Scottish and worked for the British Antarctic Survey for many years (long after that picture was taken), once told me that by far the most popular film down there, for a long time, was John Carpenter's The Thing.