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@heptaglemious.bsky.social

Engineer. Recovering Xitter user. Old enough to remember elections where there was hope for change. Posts may contain traces of withering scorn. Slava Ukraini!

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It’s like Brexit, and every other failed experiment in libertarianism. If failed because people didn’t FREEDOM enough.

08.10.2025 08:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But it’s sincerely held religious bigotry, so entitled to absolute deference according to SCOTUS.

08.10.2025 08:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They have always hated liberal arts degrees. This rhetoric is straight out of the Thatcher playbook.

08.10.2025 08:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Be fair, child abuse isn’t a medical procedure as such.

08.10.2025 01:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is it only conversion “therapy” or are all forms of child abuse going to be legal now, as long as they are done out of sincerely held religious bigotry?

08.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No it’s not “almost criminal”. It is entirely criminal. The founders specifically banned this.

08.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Weird, because the states where ICE is abducting and disappearing people without warrants, or even identifying themselves, look pretty fucking dangerous.

07.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They cannot help announcing their crimes to the media.

07.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks, New Yorker

07.10.2025 17:40 — 👍 17629    🔁 5455    💬 184    📌 170

Left and right in politics are both motivated by fear. The left is afraid of climate change and fascism, the right is afraid of brown faces and tax.

07.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a challenge for me (try tanks, I am better at them!) but: English cars (Morris 10, Hillman, what, 16? a Wolseley 14 I think) with what l guess are wartime German number plates. Also only one has the headlights blacked out.
Now imagine my excitement watching Fury and seeing a genuine Tiger 1!

07.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My god, she must know some utterly shameless crooks if Leavitt is the top of her trustworthy list.

07.10.2025 17:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only way to win is not to play

07.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Damn right! She fairly and impartially dropped prosecution of Trump's fraudulent "university" after she fairly and impartially accepted a campaign donation (in money stolen from his fraudulent "charity")

07.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In related news:
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07.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's a form of abuse and should be illegal.

07.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's awful :-(
I love Rosie.

07.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's like the bullshit on climate change, where paid contrarians have been given equal time with genuine scientists for decades.

It relies on the assumption that if 100 engineers say a bridge is unsafe, but the guy in the toll both says it's fine, we should believe toll booth guy.

07.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am pretty sure he is descended from Reinhard Heydrich.

07.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Because Boris and Donald have removed shame as a moderating force in right-wing politics.

07.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tories want to bring gammon back from Reform. And here we see that they have correctly understood what gammon want: the ability to use slurs ion public. Jenrick's Jim Davidson tribute act is not a sincere expression of his own racism, it is purely performative.

07.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

They seem very insistent on this "doxing". Surely doxing refers only to non-public information? I can quite understand why someone would be ashamed to admit they are with ICE, but it's hardly a closely-held private fact, especially if you're out there on the streets disappearing brown people.

07.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And we all remember who first came up with this specific bullshit: Andrew Jeremy Wakefield. Who had a patent on a single measles vaccine.

07.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Y'all street. Perfect!

07.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ketamine, on the other hand...

07.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

America has problems.

Democrats seek solutions.

Republicans seek scapegoats to obscure the fact that they are paid by the people who caused the problems.

07.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Israel marks 7 October attacks anniversary as Starmer tells students to avoid 'un-British' protests - live updates Meanwhile indirect talks between Israel and Hamas aimed at securing a deal to end the war in Gaza are continuing in Egypt.

Listen up! It's un-British to protest genocide!

Painting red crosses on roundabouts because you hate brown people, now *that's* British.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...

07.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is the topic of COVID vaccine disinformation too broad / tangential? Specifically, the careful statements of scientists (which always include limits of certainty) versus the black-and-white "died suddenly" lie?
It was like watching a speed run of the Wakefield fraud.

07.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isn't this wage theft?

07.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Who also benefited from the Beeching cuts, which of course he commissioned.

07.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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