Dustbin Squid

There is something just too perfect about capitalism having reached the phase where we're supposed to care that there's just so many different varieties of fascism.

what the fuck

cactuscloudsart Today I discovered a woman called "Angie the ICE Chaser" on TikTok and she literally just follows ICE vehicles in her car. They become increasingly erratic in their attempts to lose her (breaking sooo many laws on camera) and they never do. She is single handedly striking terror into ICE agents across LA. She also follows them through neighborhoods honking her horn and shouting "THEY ARE ICE!" out her window. There is a GFM for gas money and the legal fees she is fully expecting to come around.

Hero

Uh-oh!

Outside of loud & proud bigots, there are two types of people. Those who will refuse to sacrifice any minority, however small, for political convenience, and those who will sacrifice *every* minority, sooner or later, as soon as they see value in it.

Go through door #1, is my suggestion.

it's never a real argument when someone says "maybe defending that minority isn't worth the cost to the rest of us," it's just bigotry, it's just that person revealing who they refuse to extend care to in a way they imagine absolves them of being monstrous

*Rustles tentacles somberly*

It's like, how much more black can it be? And the answer is none. OR IS IT?

I've considered the maths, and the solution appears to be to buy more books.

FINALLY, I have a motto!

I feel you could take all the Jason Bourne titles (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Protocol etc) and replace "Bourne" with "Erection Measuring", for pleasure and profit.

This feels like a very thin Venn intersection. "YES, I can find my dick with both hands, but I can't be expected to know how to MEASURE it!".

(Why would anyone paint a black hole? TO MAKE IT MORE BLACK, OF COURSE.)

My Gods, this was such a banger. Wasn't much for either the band or the film, but this thing could strip the paint off a black hole.

the funniest thing Robert Webb has ever done is become a bigot and then get absolutely fucking humiliated by the parent of a trans kid on a podcast he showed up to thinking he'd get some easy promotion.

fuck anyone who is excited for this mans dead career to come back.

People complaining about this, so all I will say is: your Progressive Patriotism is always, at all times, just Keir Starmer reiterating the Rivers Of Blood speech live on TV and it will never be anything better than that. You have had endless chances to do better, and you *always* do this. The end.

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?”

No. Fuck you.

I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

There should be a subdivision of Did The Dog Die? for horror films, where you get to learn not just whether an animal passes away on screen, but whether it was a wee **** who had it coming.

#NowWatching Kuroneko. This bad boy better have MAD cats; your man didn't come here to play.

“What you believe is that some people have less worth than other people, and I think that is an indecent position to take. As a result, there are no details you can present within that framework that interest me in the slightest, and I don’t see any point in any debate about those details.”

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

It really is just like a large segment of the press got a script and despite how things have played out are refusing to deviate from it. He's deeply unpopular within his own party so unless they ban other candidates he can't win and he's going to lose his seat! How is this still going?

It's remarkable how much of the "Wes Streeting is the heir apparent/about to challenge" stuff can be traced back to before the general election and is ploughing ahead despite all the evidence this is dead on arrival.

They’re doing it. This is the actual play. They’re going to do image-rehab for Ghislaine fucking Maxwell. Holy shit.

Catbus!

One dude got up to give Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back a standing ovation, and then tried to make us join in.

Saw a Marvel film (forget which) where someone is killed, and everything is almost silent for the next few moments to sell the death. Maybe five seconds into this a kid yelled "IS HE DEAD?"

Not to keep going on about it, but I see a lot of well meaning takes on the left about the Ian Dunt thing saying, "Well it's bad that when boys search for 'why don't I have a GF?' fasc stuff comes up, but it's complex...."
Pals, Justin is *doing this work on the left and you can help fund it.*

I would love to fight back against the official narrative on how Britain’s major parties all came to have near identical National Front politics, giving absurdly similar Enoch Powell speeches. But there isn’t much of a narrative at all, it seems to have just… happened, somehow.

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’ Pattern of ‘hostile language’ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says

Very difficult to understand how there could’ve been a “backlash against antiracism” from the same people who fought and destroyed the Hitlerian hate of the left. Unless, of course, every word of that was reckless, bleak, calculated bullshit and drivel. If that’s what it was, it makes perfect sense.

We had an actual civil war forescore and seven years in.