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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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And here he is, the poor lad.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the best word processing software for writers is a Notepad .txt document with a handgun kept next to the keyboard in case it tries anything funny.

What a magnificent—and so, so relevant—episode. Thank you. I hope I’m not overstepping any boundaries if I confess that, especially after the delightful Mitford family tea and the mountain of *what the actual fuck did I just hear* of this story, I can’t help hoping for a Siegfried Wagner episode…

Rainbow capitalism was good because the alternative we got wasn’t rainbow socialism but “the guy who runs around being physically violent until Target removes all the gay stuff wins.”

Spit-laugh rating: 9/10

Debrett's..............welcome to the resistance

two pages from a comic about Batman as co-worker. Text reads" I think of Batman like a man on my commute. I don't know him. I don't know where he goes. But I notice when he isn't on the bus in the morning." "I think of Batman like a coworker from a different department. I know his name. And I think he knows mine too... but I can't be sure."

More from this comic, text "Not someone I talk to. Not someone I know personal things about. But when we have a break at the same time I leave my headphones out in case that changes." "I think of Batman like a friend of a friend. Someone I know by proxy. If someone asked Do you know him? I'd pause a moment to think ...No?"

final page from this comic, text reads: "But maybe at some point if our friend leaves the room we will realize that we both like the song that is playing or that we both watch the same show. And maybe for that moment I Do know Batman."

Over the moon about this comic from my brilliant student @lizardshands.bsky.social - "I think of Batman like a coworker from a different department..." An absolutely delightful & thoughtful narrative with a perfect ending! So pleased and blown away!

Sepia toned black and white photo of four stout gentlemen posing for a group portrait, two are seated in the front, two standing in the back, with a rug-covered small table between them all. On the table is an ornate chalice and a shorthaired tabby cat.

I don’t know the story behind this photo so I’m going with “Gentlemen’s Cat Appreciation Society”. Ca. 1860 - 1880. www.historicnewengland.org/explore/coll...

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Some examples of how the Victorians threw shade…

Off your chump = unhinged
Dying duck in a thunderstorm = unattractive
Parish pick-axe = a prominent nose
Death’s head upon a mopstick = a gangly, miserable-looking man
Put your flute away = shut up
Go fry your face and play with the gravy = go away

A list of sorely missed Victorian-era slang…

Got the morbs = temporary sadness
Gigglemug = always smiling
Scandal water = tea
Bitch the pot = pour the tea
Sauce-box = mouth
Cupid’s kettle drums = breasts
Dash my wig = OMG
Tight as a boiled owl = drunk
Poked up = embarrassed
Not up to dick = unwell

A tabby cat on a metal shelf near a radiator. The shelf is partially covered by a cat-size crocheted orange throw.

Thank *you* for filling our feeds with so much joy and love! Here’s Cat Vimes on his favourite shelf, still a bit unsure about the throw his human has crocheted for him...

Meme with the title 'Mary, watching churches everywhere quote the Magnificat' Underneath are two photos of Captain Ray Holt (character from the police comedy show Brooklyn 99) with the captions 'Why is no one casting down the mighty?' 'I specifically requested it'

Posted last year by @karenod.bsky.social and well worth another shout:

The biggest advantage of actual, physical cookbooks over recipes found online is cookbooks aren’t written to be read and used by computers for search-engine optimization; they’re written to be read and used by human beings.

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

“Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.”

Accidental W.B. Yeats poem

never gonna get over how one of the alleged leading international corporate assassins in the world who is currently in jail in the UK for a planned hit she flew over to execute is a lady nobodys ever heard of whose day job was office worker for the Brewers

Any antifascism that is indistinguishable from fascism is just fascism, hate to break it to the bluewavers

Guest post: A women’s history guided tour along London’s Suffragette line Nuns, jiu-jitsu and the first women’s football match.

Do you like the REBRANDING of the LONDON OVERGROUND? Do you like WOMEN?

Then please read this delightful guest post in which @isabelleroughol.com offers a women’s history guided tour along the newly renamed Suffragette line

Pierce Brosnan, with grey hair and a full beard, looking stylish and distinguished in an Armani photoshoot

I always wanted to write a story where someone's going around killing retired 007s, so the surviving so-called "Bonds" have to band together, figure out who's behind it, and stop the killer. Sign this man up for the lead:

A 2 panel black and white cartoon by ReparrishComics dated 2020. Titled “Tolkien vs Lewis: Allegories” Top pane labeled TOLKIEN: a man asks Prof Tolkien “Professor Tolkien! Is it true that you wrote your novels as an allegory for the First World War?” Tolkien responds, looking angry: “No. Never. Ask me that again and I will call the police.” Bottom panel labeled LEWIS depicts Carroll Lewis writing and looking sad and forlorn as he thinks to himself: “if even ONE person reading this does not understand that the big lion is Jesus, I will set myself on fire.”

Sometimes I remember that this comic exists and I need to make how hard I always laugh at it everyone else’s problem. 🤓

This is particularly weird to me, having lived through the Golden Age of Webcomics. It wasn’t even democracy, it was complete anarchy. We made so many comics and some of them were terrible and some were gloriously weird and nobody stopped us. Nobody is stopping anyone now! You can just make a comic!

If I may be frank: too many leftists are looking for absolution of the sin of being American, rather than the power to effect concrete changes. If it's absolution you want, get religion. There's work to be done otherwise.

bill watterson, greatest artist & writer of our time

A screenshot of Sheenagh Pugh's poem 'Sometimes'

'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Transport on 8 July 2024.

I am still finding it incredibly odd watching the government appoint people to roles based on their competence and knowledge of that domain.

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Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures

"If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd."