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Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway, Gloucestershire. 2ft gauge 4wDM. Yard No.A497. Hunslet Engine Co Ltd., works no. 6647, 1947. New to Singapore Naval Dockyard as 1000mm gauge; then RNAD Milford Haven. Photo: 26.07.2025. #Toddington #NarrowGauge #railway #locomotive #Hunslet
you thought I was stupid, but in reality, you thinking that I was stupid means that the stupid one is actually you
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A close-up of the spiral design of a mosaic glass bowl, one of the principal patterns employed by #Hellenistic glassmakers. The three-dimensional effect is truly mesmerising. 2nd century BC šø me
Iām starting to get the feeling that some people (NOT ERIN) need to believe theyāre living through special times, and yet another fascist regime playing out yet another eugenicist agenda just doesnāt feel special ENOUGH, so itās gotta be something deeper, something past the edge of human reason.
It's meant to communicate and manufacture consent. It's not just about me, it is about how readers will interpret those words and internalize the logic. When someone says something is "Unexpected" in a headline from a propaganda rag owned by a billionaire, the people who expected it are marginalized
I think it's disgusting to use weasel words to manufacture consent and subtly diminish opposition. Yes, it's disgusting. Yes, it's propaganda. Being told what I think is disgusting. It feels disgusting, and feelings do matter, and are necessarily real. It's disgusting because I am disgusted by it.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
"If you read the article, you'd note that several paragraphs below the headline, I gave a few unexpected freaks a sentence or two at the bottom of the article." As if we don't learn in journalism education that the most important information should be prioritized at the beginning of the article. Hm!
"Unintentional!" "Unexpected" "Accidentally!" As if you have secret knowledge about their intent. Disgusting. Biased. Horrible writing. We're just supposed to assume good faith. This type of writing justifies wars and manufactures consent. Unexpected!
It's a clear sign of media bias in a smiling package. A lot of people are not aware of when labels are being applied to the reader. If you expected this, you were wrong, you never existed, you don't count, EVERYONE thought this was a good idea, which makes the obviously terrible outcome UNEXPECTED!š¤Ŗ
In fact, this irks me so much that it reminds me of the work of @ahjohnson.bsky.social who notes when mainstream outlets say the US "Accidentally stumbles" into oppressive, genocidal wars. Whoops! NO ONE could have expected this! It's scary because it implies that everyone who DID isn't human.
That's coming next in the US, but writers like Drew are paving the way for it here by using weaselly adjectives like "Unexpected", which intentionally diminish the opposition to this.
It's designed to create the bias that the people who oppose this are a small ignorable minority, or don't exist at all, through the use of the word "Unexpected". This was expected by everyone who researched this!
Placing the word "Unexpected" here is TERRIBLE writing. Wow. Really dismissive and disgusting. I, and all my friends, and thousands of others, expected this. Nope! It was unexpected, actually. I guess we never existed. Terrifying phrasing on Drew's part, especially in this political environment.
The headline calls this unexpected consequences, but I would call this extremely expected consequences.
The rules for this CaitVi 2025 Kinktober thing are such an incredible peek into the workings of the liberal puritan brain
This is a hell of a letter. āThe intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccinesā¦will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will sufferā¦.Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generatedā¦ā
"Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport." Sure. If the airport was your house. That you own. And the IDs they were checking was your furniture, appliances, and food to make sure it is Googleā¢ approved. And also they charged a 30% tax on everything you purchased.
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
i remember this story, the original article doesn't mention she's trans at all, because it's in no way relevant to her work. in any other context other than trans identity bringing up the sexuality of a minor would be obviously grotesquely misogynistic behavior
Kunstformen der Natur was published between 1899 and 1904 by the German biologist, philosopher, physician, zoologist, and artist Ernst Haeckel.
I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but āthe president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes himā is in fact very alarming
"The crisis began when a trans woman we all like said something we consider acceptable. Before that it was just a Bad Tran breaking the rules." Thanks.
I would like to thank everyone writing about this who has cast me as an acceptable casualty from social spaces solely because I said something mean about this evil woman
[looking at the gettysburg address] āthat sign wonāt stop me because i canāt readā
![Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGG [Twitter screenshots of Sam Altman and Elon arguing: this is some of what can be read: Ā® Elon Musk O (X) @elonmusk - 15h Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any Al company besides OpenAl to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation.ā Readers added context In January 2025, DeepSeek reached #1 overall on the App Store. abcnews.go.com/Business/deeps Show this note Elon Musk 6 X @elonmusk -7h ALTI You sot 3M views on vour bullshit post. vou liar August 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM Docuprin @grok who's right? dont be biased. Grok Based on verified evidence, Sam Altman is right. Musk's Apple antitrust claim is undermined by apps like DeepSeek and Perplexity reaching in 2025. Conversely, Musk has a history of directingX algorithm changes to boost his posts and favor his interests, per 2023 reports and Show more Takumatoshi Ā© Stokumatoshi ā¢ 59m Delonmusk Imao /end screenshot] Juniper (She/Her) @excesshyperbole.b... ā¢ 2h I really hate the phrase](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g2p3bnbzcvcbohfpvjxfazqv/bafkreifcln3dbfc2sxeio2hv6m6ria545ti3rkzfz5qcazkj3eosnhj7gu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
We need to be harder on people who donāt ābelieveā in climate change. The fact that I donāt believe 1 human had a virgin birth makes people so mad but it is not making people physically suffer & not putting at risk almost all people, entire species of animals, livability of islands & continents, etc
mensa people: not even once
what i find really punk rock about it is that it doesn't exist and will never, that AI has produced no work of any note, that it has done nothing but impoverish minds and stunt development
of all the things that never happened, this happened the least
when someone I thought was normal says "seed oil"
personally I think the path to solving disease was sending people AIDS medications that coat twelve cents per dose
at least Donald Trump was like, walking around and talking in 2016. he was barely even extant in 2024 and still won the election since we can't talk about him like we would any other person who does and says the shit he does and says because rich people like him
important context for headlines like this: Altman also runs a company (Worldcoin) that he claims will solve this problem he also created
Marine Wonders What Will Become Of Angelenos Left Behind As Chopper Rises Into Sky theonion.com/marine-...
Tenet >>>>>>>>>> Oppenheimer
also one of the very few classic shows that might be topped by its spinoff better call saul is a masterpiece and I will go to my grave mad that rhea seehorn never won an emmy for playing kim wexler
Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)
The entire paper should shut down.
HE DELETED IT LMFAO
fascinated by "retvrn" guys who love the *aesthetic* of agrarianism, but have no conception of the lifestyle sacrifices they'd have to make to actually live it
Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column
if you donāt like writing feel free not to do it
Drawing the ASL alphabet is great practice for drawing hands. #signlanguage #asl #drawing #hands
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.
Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
people have raised extremely serious problems with his story (namely, that Lucre watermarked the worst CSAM on earth and was clearly lying about how he acquired it) and the response is to be snarky about the bluesky pileon what is going on in the newsroom there
Cities of the mind, illustrated by David Schleinkofer (1951-2025).
this guy and his weird bald sidekick bongino were two of the biggest epstein conspiracy guys on the right wing until they joined the trump administration -- and now suddenly theres absolutely nothing whatsoever to see here at all
as always, the only kind of fascist profile I'm interested in seeing
This is your brain on Great Men Theory.
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I thought this was going to be about those LASD deputies who were on the take
A.I. could never make a masterpiece like this
This guy got caught sockpuppeting himself on here, who gives a shit about anything he has to say on any topic lol. He's a brand
this combination of reactionary petulance crossed with smol bean therapyspeak is really breathtaking. there's a galling, selfish, put-upon shamelessness undergirding it all that explains exactly why he relates so deeply to trump and israel
I donāt think itās a particularly hot take to say the person who posted a timelapse of themself playing GTA V on the interstate in their Cybertruck should be in prison
this is probably the worst advice iāve ever heard
This is such bullshit. There wasn't a single Dem who made bathrooms and sports significant parts of their campaigns. I'm really getting sick of guys like Cuomo and Rahm Emanuel retconning the 2024 election.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.
A 1994 illustration by Ron Cobb for the video game "Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine"
Cringe overreaction to the āWeāre gonna have to kill this guy, Stevenā comic. This is Bluesky, bitch, we clown in this motherfucker
In 2020 or maybe 2021, I don't remember, IDW told me they weren't renewing my contract because the company was shifting priorities to focus on comics that could be made into movies.
Sorry this is so funny to me.
Witness for the Defense, FASA, 1983. Cover photo of the pergium production facitlity on Janus IV (model by Albert Whitlock). Module is set in the same place as featured in the episode Devil in the Dark. #AlbertWhitlock #StarTrek #roleplaying
i hate these kinds of tiktoks. as a childless adult i have a number of important weekend responsibilities, like picking a good show to watch while i fold laundry, or not napping through the party i'm invited to
Oh yeah the issue with democrats is progressives and not the 94 year olds and consultant class who got us here
finally saw a bootleg of r crumb's episode of star trek the next generation where the enterprise is studying thick anomalies in the bigass system
this is precisely how twitter would have been in germany in the 1940s
Sorry but you canāt just refuse to sign for your box of Fell For It Again Awards.
I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.
"I donāt oppose many of the things that are being done. I just wish they would be done more deftly.ā may as well be the Democratic Party's current official position on fascism.
something cool about seeing this art on floppy disks
I don't know who Steve or Andrew are, but I'm laughing at the idea that 13 people disagreeing with you online is a level of abuse that just cannot stand.
It's considered uncouth to say this but the entire impetus of the antivaxx movement is the idea that having an autistic child is worse than a dead child
I was definitely smarter when I didnāt have to think about him all day every day. In terms of cognitive capacity lost he ranks up there with the four weeks straight I had Donna Lewis stuck in my head on a loop
on a related note, Star Wars has (many) flaws but it is the undisputed GOAT for memorable ship design the TIE, the X-Wing, the Falcon, and of course the king of them all, the greatest to ever do it, the Big Angry Triangle itself Star Destroyers, what a name, what a ship
They have and are literally doing things in every box. This isn't just journalistic failure by the NYT, it is disinformation.
I'm sure there will be many other justifications offered, in rapid succession. But it's wild to be heading into a self-induced recession behind more or less this reasoning.
hereās proof that we live in a simulation: [provides proof that our education system has completely failed]
Welp I guess all that scrambling after the Mario movie was correct. People are tired of.superheroes. Video game adaptations are, after 30 years of trying, the next big thing
"Vanilla is in vanilla ice cream and what else?" is such a perfect encapsulation of the surly self-confidence of the people who are ripping the wires out of our government and our economy.
I just have a hard time choking this down from an outlet that just cannot stop telling us how great Ronald Reagan was
I feel a strong aura coming from that iShowSpeed guy. He's got Luffy energy
Brace and Liz on TruAnon have an incredibly sweet dynamic for people who talk about cannibal sex freaks and doing meth all day
this man who thinks tariffs raise revenue has a full time job teaching children
The extra funny part about these extremely online soft-handed dweebs romanticizing farming is that you know these people are also totally incapable of scratch cooking Chicken tendies donāt grow out of the earth pre-battered