not surprised

Meanwhile, certain poshboys are howling with malicious laughter, because that's how it works, doesn't it? "Plausible deniabilty" and what not.

Island -isms are covert, after all. Politeness and civility are the ways and means. Gaslighting and DARVO the modus operandi.

The cruelty is the point.

Once again, that broadcaster showed its true colours.

Heinous slurs on a global stage?
No problem. Terrorize entire demographics with verbal abuse, because who cares about them. They're just [more slurs], right?

Probably even greenlit it all for clicks and engagement.

#academicsky #writingsky

The 44th President and the First Lady

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

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You know that eery prickling before a bad storm?

Yeah...
Something wicked this way comes

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This is the 3rd system collapse in 100 years, isn't it?

Are we simply witnessing the real End of Empire, i.e. the End of 500 years of European hegemony + inheritors?

1945-1965: Centre
1990-1995: East
2015-2025: West

Empires collapse from within after all. Just a thought.

#academicsky #writingsky

As for The Paid Yappers, Antagonisers, What-Abouters, and Noisemakers: Stop playing in our faces. You DGAF about any of this new madness beyond content, clicks, and controversy.

Scream when there's an actual plan to stop this &%#$ing Mess.

Until then: Kick rocks.

#academicsky #writingsky

Given that it's become pretty obvious no one with real power will stop the intentional cruelty and mayhem:

Go about your day as planned and spare a thought for the poor civilians who absolutely did not ask for this.

Light a candle, yell at God, donate to a GoFM, whatever you have the energy for.

Finding enough time to rest & recharge is really hard right now, so I hear you 💔

Two batteries showing energy levels: One battery is in the yellow (caption: Take a break here...) and the other is empty (caption: NOT HERE)

It's difficult right now, but remember to recharge, rest, and recuperate before you run empty.

#academicsky #writingsky

1800s style painting of shocked woman in biblical draperies

Stick figure is speechless

Excuse me WHAT

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A party that runs on betrayal.
Weak. Performative. Useless.

Such utter contempt for anyone who isn't them. Such certainty they will get away with it unscathed.

How trust an organisation whose members will sell you down the river any chance they get?

Disgraceful.

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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

1 million a week? Isn't that a massive public health issue?

*looks at current state of US public health infrastructure*

New question:
Is this deliberate endangerment of minors and vulnerable people by a heavily funded corporation?

For profit? Or for something much worse?

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Imperial History: Come again?

2025: They're not paying or feeding the troops, sir.

Imperial History: Say that again.

2025: Soldiers are not being paid or fed, sir.

*checks past 6000 years*

Imperial History [incredulous]: How precedented do you want this to get?

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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hand on his face . Alt: RDJ sitting in a chair with his hand on his face, fed up with everybody on the planet

Imperial History: How long has payroll been down?

NP: 9 days

Imperial History: Did y'all get bored with Interesting Times?

NP: No, it's all quite unprecedented, actually 😮‍💨

Imperial History: Keep this up and in you'll be in for some Extremely Precedent Times.

News Person: Why?

Imperial History:

News Person: "Military Families are counting on food banks."

The Planet: Come again?

NP: US Soldiers are lining up at food banks.

Planet: Why?

NP: Payroll is frozen due to the shutdown.

*Imperial History enters chat*

Imperial History: EXCUSE ME WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!

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Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

"This Committee was initially created during the McCarthy Era, a dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs [...]"

To the voices that will be heard / May they speak loud and clear.
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www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

That's a nice list 👀

Oooh, I haven't read an entertaining Fanged Fic in a while. I shall check out Play Nice and So Thirsty, thank you!

Every couple hours it's like a new level of absurdity unlocks: Oldheads are avoiding (Boomer) parents' bewildered texts, The Chronically Online feel like they're on crazy pills, all while The Hypocrisy™ burns through yet another layer of the social contract.

The vibes aren't just off. They're gone.

Just took a quick googlepeek: demons and childhood homes, oh my! 👀 Is it good?

What are you reading right now? Fiction, non-fiction, speculative, genre, you name it.

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WTF.

Project MUSE is an academic lifeline! Cutting access is deliberately hurting researchers' access to multiple knowledge bases!

Horrible.

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The vibe these days:

All the juice has been squeezed. The violent re-squeezing for the last few drops.

A vending machine stops working. Cue banging, rattling, more banging, more rattling. Nothing.

Irresponsible persons clicked on obvious malware. All computers jitter, freeze, bluesceen.

#humpday

It is exactly the kind of ideology that builds planetkilling plagiarism machines, terrororises innocents, gladly wrecks nature, and considers abandoning Earth and everyone on it a Worthy thing.

This is an old, old war. Only this time, as Klein & Taylor point out, the entire planet is at stake. /End

For, as vicious as it is self-fulfilling, the horrific binary is fundamentally Life-hating.

It loathes humanity and human creativity. It exists in terror of anything Earth-bound and of the body. It is an ideology that is blind to Earth's beauty and disdainful of its breathtaking diversity. 12/13

That binary is a global problem. Its underlying hopelessness needs adressing, meaning genuine results.

There is a way, as Klein & Taylor agree: By insisting on the future that is possible. By refusing to be sidelined by the poverty of imagination "secular Rapture"-ideologues try to enforce. 11/13