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Every single school pupil who's ever attended a Planetarium Show, when asked to name whatever planet is on the dome:

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Tomorrow Cambridge University will go to the High Court seeking to impose an unprecedented ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine from key sites of the university. This is a major assault on longstanding principles of freedom of expression and assembly on campus. (1/8)

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Is this because these people think there is a deep vein of knowledge to be tapped here? Or is it because there are only 4000 people who matter in the whole country and they can only ever have conversations between themselves, at risk of some peasant from outside showing them up?

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This is an incredible piece of work, absolutely brutal but well worth spending several hours to read the whole thing:

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Just seen Farage and Truss (grifting over in the US) described as "the Slug and Lettuce".

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

Trek fans who enjoy deep dives into episodes should give this a look!

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Re-upping for the morning crowd. Buy a book, please a squid.

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I think a lot about how someone not wanting to vote for a liberal party because of taxes is seen as reasonable and inevitable but someone not wanting to vote for a liberal party because of genocide is seen as totally implausible and the result of sinister forces.

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truly wild that plenty of centre-left parties would be too cowardly to use this slogan which should be entirely uncontroversial for any nominally left party (looking at you, Labour)

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Please consider buying this book so Ric can afford to fix the aspect ratio on his Mega Drive setup. For a single one-off purchase you can help fund a proper line-multiplier.

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Hey you! Yes you, you big nerd! (chances are high, if you're reading this, lol) I suspect this book will be right up your rue. I've been a fan of these essays since their blog days, and now they're all collected in one convenient, portable book! With bonus content! Hurrah!

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The must read must be read

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Trekkies everywhere will want to check this out. They're really fun essays.

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Delighted to announce that, after an outrageous amount of flapping (because I had/have/will always have no idea what I'm doing), the first Infinite Diversity, Finite Combinations book is up for sale, in electronic form! It's SO pretty, too! Go get your Kirk on! www.idfc.co.uk/category/all...

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Now on to Herzog's Nosferatu, having never seen it. So far, mostly enjoying the gorgeous score, and even more gorgeous kittens.

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Watching History Of Violence for a podcast. Not seen this for near two decades. Love how it's sledgehammer-unsubtle, but sill leaves room for wildly different interpretations.

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Thread.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is true, but worth noting that even in Starmer was right, what's being envisioned, as always, isn't a life in which workers' lives are easier, but in which more workers can be fired to save costs.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

"First we'll defeat anti-fascism, then we'll defeat fascism" working precisely as well as we said it would, huh?

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Fuck Lisa Nandy, and fuck her whole party. With occasional exceptions.

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It might be possible to work with people who genuinely recognise, own, and work to fix the damage they caused in the headlong rush to get us here. That's a form of solidarity I can imagine, distasteful as I'd find it. Fortunately for my tastebuds, these fucks are never, ever going to do any of that.

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Sorry lads, but you already did We Will Bravely Resist Fake News And Tyranny in 2016 and you spent all of those points not on fighting against the right, but on helping the right to kick fuck out of students, transgender people and the left. So I’m afraid it is a big Absolutely Fuck You, from me.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Nate Silver is the worst famous statistician since Karl Pearson.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

One way to tell if someone did a Nazi salute is if afterward they don't say "OMG I am horrified that anyone thought I did a Nazi salute"

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My fears about how little time we (Europeans) have left to watch all this unfold as mere bystanders deepen every day.

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Cosmos just getting away from it all. #Transformers #Maccadam

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There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

I love this @johndevore.bsky.social Fangoria essay on NIGHTBREED, a movie that imprinted heavily on me as well at about the same age: www.fangoria.com/nightbreed-3...

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If Hades is a game that made you feel seen and represented, it's because of the hard work of the people who contributed their talents. Now we have an opportunity to repay that. Please tell Supergiant that you support striking workers.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

When I said "be civil to the creative team" yesterday someone responded with "how will they get the point then?" followed by "I'm tired of toxic positivity". Folks. You can be critical without being a fucking asshole.

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