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Roger Giner-Sorolla

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Social psychology Professor at University of Kent in England. Moral emotions, collective apologies, scientific reporting reform, ironic enjoyment, and more. Opinions are my own and do not represent any employer.

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a man is having his teeth examined by a dentist while another man looks on . Alt: Dustin Hoffman is having his teeth examined by a dentist (Laurence Olivier) in the dental torture scene from Marathon Man
04.03.2026 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love being in a Black Mirror timeline written by Bruce Sterling

04.03.2026 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
cover of JG Ballard novel High Rise

cover of JG Ballard novel High Rise

03.03.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every Home Secretary of the past 15 years: "migrants contribute little and we need fewer of them"

Every Chancellor:

03.03.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OMFG

03.03.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's for regime change, no it's for biblical prophecy, no it's to stop WMDs, no it's for Israel

03.03.2026 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(takes off kabuto helm, reveals lateral mohawk with Pride-coloured gas jets)

you (rassssp) make me feel (rasssp) mighty real

03.03.2026 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a white coat stands in front of a phone booth that says an ALT: a man in a white coat stands in front of a phone booth that says an

"The sparrow will fly when the silkie bantam rooster crows at midnight"

03.03.2026 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

About Labour's woes: the things they are trying to do against immigration and refugees (which primarily affect immigrants and refugees) are not going to impact the experience of the voters they are going for.

03.03.2026 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

JG Ballard lives again

02.03.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Starmer is an expert in finding ways to not have his cake and not eat it

02.03.2026 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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5 β€˜SNL’ Sketches that Never Saw the Light of Day Sometimes, the censors win

That's very continental, trust Americans to just have a casserole mix

www.cracked.com/article_4394...

02.03.2026 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Stinktier, however, is top shelf

02.03.2026 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So Victoria was ... a cat?

02.03.2026 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
17th century painting of a foppish male cavalier holding flowers

17th century painting of a foppish male cavalier holding flowers

English civil war loser: fop

28.02.2026 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Holocaust / Warcloud - A History Of Violence (2021) [ Full Solo Album ]
YouTube video by Dr. Chainsaw Handz The Holocaust / Warcloud - A History Of Violence (2021) [ Full Solo Album ]

this is a good start: but his earlier works with Bomshot are also great, alternating verses with an aligned but more conventional flow

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_e...

28.02.2026 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Digging into a lot of unreleased material from Warcloud (RIP), little-known Wu affiliate whose style approximated a 12-year-old latchkey kid coming home after talented and gifted club to absorb hours of Animal Planet, History Channel, and Syfy Network.

28.02.2026 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Shabana Mahmood to sacrifice β€˜bourgeois support’ over migrants
The home secretary will copy Denmark’s Social Democrats to seize the immigration narrative from Reform UK and appeal to working-class voters

Shabana Mahmood to sacrifice β€˜bourgeois support’ over migrants The home secretary will copy Denmark’s Social Democrats to seize the immigration narrative from Reform UK and appeal to working-class voters

Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
This article is more than 3 months old
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years

Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses This article is more than 3 months old PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years

almost have to admire their total, unwavering commitment to xenophobic loser shit

28.02.2026 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just think of a certain illustration by Vonnegut

28.02.2026 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We had a lounge that now - to enhance the student experience - is an all-access lounge

27.02.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's as bad to be in a demographic they thought was in the bag, as in a demographic they thought unreachable

27.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good working class name, Spencer, and his mates Tarquin and Oliver

27.02.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The men whose vote diminished

27.02.2026 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like the Kennedy Center, if it won't weather conversion, they'll settle for destruction

27.02.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I do think we’ve got a responsibility to really sit with the truth that some Trump administration things we’re horrified by were Obama administration things too, and we just didn’t listen.

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100% marking workload (anonymized scripts)

27.02.2026 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you pilot your subfaction to party control, purge noncompliant members, and witness a plunge in membership and votes, only then can you start to call others "sectarian"

27.02.2026 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Graph of Spanish polling 2012-2018 showing support for two insurgent parties (Podemos, purple and Ciudadanos, orange) increasing at the expense of support for institutional parties (PP. blue and PSOE, red)

Graph of Spanish polling 2012-2018 showing support for two insurgent parties (Podemos, purple and Ciudadanos, orange) increasing at the expense of support for institutional parties (PP. blue and PSOE, red)

"2010's in Spain" energy here

27.02.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/otto...

27.02.2026 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Us: "Christian country" and "women should be guided by their husbands"

Them: "sectarianism" and "family voting"

27.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0