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If I was a vigilante, I'd just be called Consequences. "Oh no! It's Consequences!" they'd cry.

This post was grown in a lab to do well on bluesky, huh?

Countdown to Australia declaring "Free Palestine" to be hate speech in 5... 4... 3...

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

The flipside of a religious upbringing is that I now can't conceive of any part of my consciousness existing outside of my meat-body. Nice one, Sunday School!

Going to start saying "I am now muting the conversation" in real life too.

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

"At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide."

THE SHINING is a horror movie because it depicts a writer having to get a part-time job.

I still mostly agree with myself.

What I Believe (Martyn) Martyn is a writer from Australia. 1. What are your spiritual beliefs? If you take ‘spiritual’ to mean something other than here, other than now, other than flesh? I don’t have any at all. I believ…

Just stumbled across answers I gave for @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social's 'Year Of Belief' project from over a decade ago! "I just try to believe in what Graham Greene called 'ordinary corrupt human love'."

Toronto Film Critics Association Faces Collapse After Allegedly Censoring Indigenous Filmmaker’s Pro-Palestine Speech Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her trophy, the president resigned and 16 members have quit — with more considering their position: "This Is Killing the TFCA."

"Unfortunately, I can’t in good faith participate in an organization that kicked off the awards ceremony with a land acknowledgement, and then proceeded to minimize the sole acceptance speech delivered by an Indigenous artist."

Almost all centrist arguments boil down to "we have to stop caring about minorities if we want to win".

Less ‘therapy speak’, more ‘affordability’: moderate Democrats soul search to woo voters At the Third Way conference in Charleston, centrists debated ways to win – and were sure electoral success lies with them

Because there's nothing more inspiring than "mid".

Anyway, a quick survey suggests all these companies will give up payment info and IP addresses if asked. Happy to hear if I'm wrong!

Also why is the Swiss government giving up details to the US? Isn't this the country famous for its anonymous bank accounts?

Yes, there may be no better options (other than paying for the service anonymously so they don't have your credit card data).

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

Well, this is appalling. I use proton mail and I guess I'm now looking for a replacement.

"Let the pasty humans play their little games. Even encourage them! The games are all they have."

The mascots of sporting teams must think humans are scrawny and plain. They probably can't tell us apart from each other.

Hal Jordan is anti-interesting to me. Even Grant Morrison couldn't make him compelling. Maybe TV will succeed with Kyle Chandler's charms?

*You know that Ursula Le Guin myth about "Omelas"? Well this world is the opposite of that. There's this secret, ritual chamber holding eighty moguls in luxurious contentment, while the entire planet and everyone in it is in obvious suffering and decay

Zoomer Sex Police's first album was a banger, though.

Plausible Daniel is a great nickname.

"Take my waltz – please!"

— Leonard Cohen doing stand-up.

Police told Kelly Wilkinson to ‘cool off’ and give estranged husband ‘a break’ days before he burned her to death, inquest hears Wilkinson was turned away by police while seeking help four days before she was murdered, Queensland coroner’s court told

Queensland police told victim to "cool off" when she sought help about her estranged husband. He murdered her days later.

Baudrillard DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC:

Mr. Baudrillard claims, “Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the 'real' country, all of 'real' America, which is Disneyland."

But if that’s true then why are all the rides IN THERE and not OUT HERE?

Checkmate, Mr. Baudrillard.

After the success of MAMA MIA 2, all sequels should add "Here We Go Again" to their titles.

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural MINNEAPOLIS—Bleeding profusely as he radioed for backup against the uncooperative crowd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Ken Fischer was reportedly injured Tuesday after making repeated atte...

"Fischer is also said to have lobbed a tear gas canister at a woman reading the Bible with her baby, only to have it bounce off the painted edifice and strike him squarely in the groin."

Square Peg, Round Hole - The Massachusetts Review A review of Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love (Harper Perennial 2025) by Zefyr Lisowski and Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980) (Atria 2...

"Where else, we ask, to put the feelings, pending revolution? A scary movie shrinks the world’s horrors down into, not manageable exactly, but bounded, feelable parcels. In a landscape dense with quiescent cultural products, horror is anti-anesthetic."

Someone once said that most writers only have the one story; how much you enjoy their work is based on how much you like hearing that story retold.