scribblerhackit.bsky.social
Bookworming. Writing. Watching flicks. Losing sleep over the state of the world.
Author of THE MYRIAD OF SIMON HANSEN, a meandering, egghead gay romance(?) set in a Dublin bookshop in the 90s.
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Right? It’s like escaping your kidnappers under that administration.
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Thank you. I am so tired of seeing excuses all over Bsky when it comes to DOING SOMETHING.
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Aussi.
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With you.
"I want to give you my money but not my data" has become my mantra these last few years.
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TIL!
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As you said, we all have our differences. We can't help what turns us on or off. I think that's generally a good thing? Sameness across media would suck, IMO.
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I have to put ghost or reaper hot sauce on my Jamaican takeout. 🤷♂️
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It's unbearable to me--nails on chalkboard. Writing, producer, much of the cast... But yes, I know it's popular. I'll be over here watching other popular shows. 🤷♂️
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And neither Canada nor Mexico can afford to essentially declare war on the US by allowing sea and land access to the US for EU or anyone else. Yr neighbours are only yr enemy if you (god forbid) invade us first.
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This. The US spent the last 100 years building the stoutest military on the planet. Canada and Mexico can't breach that curtain wall and moat with their piddly militaries or even rattle sabres convincingly.
US citizens have to topple from within. You're too much beast. Per design.
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Lol was involved with a physicist before that show (and Twitter) existed, and never watched but one episode and promptly loathed it so that can't track either.
I have 2 outs! 🤣
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KITTIES
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Charming. Thyssenkrupp submarine manufactory is right there in Kiel. Just a coincidence, I'm sure. 😡
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"Just following orders."
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America 2024: Hold my beer.
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He's another one where people will be lining up to...soil his grave when that fine day comes.
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Jenny McCarthy, who made antivax Wakefield a household name. Otherwise that Lancet article (pre or post debunking) wld have stayed buried in the medical field.
Instead...
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I'm glad. It's dreadfully overlooked!
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I mean...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla
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Exactly.
I can't imagine the fragility it takes to be "concerned" about the MX flag even in the current context. Like, it even makes sense to me?
Have they not seen all the yellow/blue flags in 1000s of non-Ukrainian cities these last years?
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Not just that, the US spent the last 100 years building up the biggest military on the planet. Y'all get to defend your own selves within those massive curtain walls and moats you erected.
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Truth.
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This. I used to feel tremendous antipathy toward him, back in the Kitchen Confidential days.
He died leaving me a big fan and someone whose mind had been changed, just as his own did over time.
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Tbf those are helpful details for us non-Americans too. 🤷♂️
Brilliant OP post and photo.
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That's something, at least.
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With you in spirit from another land/citizenry. I remember jumping up from my chair in rage and horror. Did that demonic shitstain ever face a single unlikely consequence?
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Fuck me, I had somehow memory-holed that image.
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Yeah, I went to NYC last May, pre-election, to say goodbye to a favourite place because this was so evidently coming. US is no-go now.
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Because I just read of it in a Le Carre novel, loose change can also be used as defensive grapeshot.
(If opponent isn't too kitted out in faceshields, ofc)
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This. The saying isn't "one bad apple" full stop. It's "one bad apple spoils the bunch/barrel", and there have been so many for so long that the barrel is just a dumpster of fetid mush by now.
Too many look away = complicit.
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Agree. I have fantasies that US exceptionalism might actually exist after all and that something might be different *enough* in the mix there to let them break the historical mould, but so far it's pretty textbook. Like, painfully.
(Not that my country will likely do better when it gets here too.)
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Yeah, it's a critical mass that's needed, and history shows populations idle for literally years before they finally get the CM to topple despots. Too many Americans are still comfortable enough to just frown and bear it.
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I'm not optimistic.
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👍👍👍👍👊
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Les mots justes.
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3 also = taking down socials. Bsky for sure, X if he's still on the outs with Musk. Zuck's stuff up in the air and trickier for him.
But the despot wld be delighted if only his Pravda Social were operating in the US. Typical end game. I've been expecting it since Project2025.
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And there's even a few infamous cases of GPS leading overdependent drivers into bodies of water too. 🤣
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Ew.
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These cute youngsters thinking we were all going around driving into lakes pre GPS. 🤭
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In the truest, Simon Schama sense of it. 👍