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The thing about nazis is that every iteration of them will be dumber and more evil than the last, because thats what you have to be to see the last version of them and go "oh yeah thats so cool"

It’s a good day for looking very closely at mosses

The NY Times is not failing & becoming part of the propaganda machine by regurgitating the narrative that it's about DEI when Trump purges Black people wherever he can. The NY Times HAS ALWAYS BEEN the elite propaganda machine that CREATED the narrative of equality having gone too far TO THIS END.

People being rude to service workers is a red flag both in needlessly being a dickhead to someone but also in that you can tell they appreciate it when you make their work a little easier and who doesn’t want that shit? That shit feels amazing. A waiter being happy? That shit makes your weekend

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primary the absolute fuck out of this asshat

sometimes I fear that Pegg & Frost will reunite to do a Jay & Silent Bob crossover where everyone's still an overgrown adolescent for peak Gen X geek fodder but they're all old men now and anti-woke and most of my entire generation will lap it up

seldom has one of the chatterati griftset made me think of Mon Mothma's shitty cryptofash husband Perrin Fertha more than Thomas Chattering-Class Williams does, and pretty much ALL of the chatterati griftset make me think of Mon Mothma's shitty cryptofash husband Perrin Fertha A LOT

"pound-shop Elon Musk" is exactly what reasonable civil political discourse should sound like, it's an exercise in civility not just saying "get tae fuck, ya fuckin spineless bootlickin numpty"

imagine being such a pish poor excuse for a political party that you end up copying a party of freaks so weird that they think being *Tory in Scotland* is normal when those gammons themselves are copying the absurd fascist sadsack clown show in the US that acts like it's scripted by Armando Iannucci

A day after Glasgow Labour called for more public spending investment, their leader tells them forget it, & bend the knee to the Right Wing. You don't defeat Reform by dropping your principles - you stand up for people shafted by big business & small government parties: that's what Greens will do.

A former Soviet spy says that Trump was indeed recruited to the KGB 38 years ago by his department. He was given a codename, 'Krasnov'. We checked, and the source was indeed a KBG intelligence officer at the time. Read about it in my @bylinetimes.bsky.social report: bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

"take the word *crass* and just Russify it" couldn't be a better way to codename Trump as a Russian asset

today is once again, just like yesterday and the day before, Freddie Oversteegen Appreciation Day I have been lax on reminding you all, but it will be Freddie Oversteegen Appreciation Day until further notice

in the year of our lord 2025 somehow there are still idiots looking at all the fascist shit a fascist does to overwhelm you with fascism & picking out the shit they don't care about to say "this is a distraction from the proper Bad Things!" drawing focus to the bad take & so creating a distraction

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

I don't care how it actually went down I'm shipping the antifa supersoldier who molotoved the ICE van and the fire marshal who surveyed the scene and said "you know sometimes shit just goes on fire"

AND a bad Elvis impersonator

burnt offerings to Moloch to create more offerings to Moloch

The Pope should excommunicate him just for being a prick

Just finished reading The Last Shield by @cameronjohnston.bsky.social which I thoroughly enjoyed. If you fancy a gender-swapped Die Hard in a castle this is the book for you. Don't know how I missed it when it first came out. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

As a proud heir of what Saint Patrick lamented as the "apostate Picts" of West Central Scotland, sorry, it's an article of my faith to persecute born again weirdos. It's an ancient & venerable tradition going back to Ceretic Guletic, Pirate Warlaird of Dumbarton Rock--religious liberty, mate.

Well, I have to give it another pass or two for consistency (insofar as that's even possible with this) but at last I have a first draft of the Arthur book... again. And this time it's only 192K words! And it doesn't even have the ~90K word glossary. Just a book two now. And maybe a three, four,...

with the "enhancements from other organisms" who knows, some actually human DNA might even have slipped in there

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

Yup, this. The liberal chattering class projecting their own prejudices out onto the Volk so they can tell themselves "My main concern is with keeping the antisocialism *moderate*" while preaching that antisocialism is the only possible path is the story of the last decade and change.

if you wanna become the tories in policy, you gotta go all the way, not just with the policies but with the craven careerist ambition leading to a leadership challenge every five minutes

and put it in the context of the pardons he's given out already, as not just permission but as a promise. it's a statement made in the general, "he who...", it's not even *primarily* about presidential power, it's a statement of principle as to how the system will operate henceforth

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Your regular reminder that Labour's "pothole campaign" is nothing but a data mining exercise, using a serious political issue as an excuse. If you actually want a pothole fixed, report it here: glasgow.gov.uk/article/1779... You'd expect your councillors to know that...

God, every time I go down to visit my folks over the weekend and actually end up seeing the state of standard British telly from my mum sticking it on in the background, it's like... how weirdly English royalist can the UK media be, why the fuck are you making a fawning documentary on Prince Edward?

it's not a request just a pressing question that surely we *all* want an answer to: *will* no one rid us of this turbulent prick?

Spotted in New York. #3E

special forbidden meats

disappointit that the official Scottish Parliament response to JD Wanks going off about our abortion exclusion zones isn't "get tae fuck, ya bawbag"

Midway across the river the duckling stings the pizza, dooming them both. When asked why, the duckling points out that this is its nature.