Phil McDuff

I've had this in the drafts for a while. One month after she went seems like a good time to publish. ❤️

Does anyone know where my painters tape is?

what this is really about is him wanting to sell inordinate amounts of slop on the steam storefront without customers having the opportunity to make informed choices. he ruined unreal's marketplace like this.

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Neat how my retirement takes a hit every time finance bros don’t get their favorite fascist

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

having fun once again searching book summaries for “aris thorne” “marcus sterling” and “julian vance” if I find all three I award myself a little prize (the prize is to sob for the future of literature)

I think next time you get spitting mad about the obvious radicalisation and hitlerian tendencies of the left, you should reflect on precisely why neither you nor any of your friends and coworkers had a single thing to say about Tory party advisers meeting up with the UVF to discuss contract killings

In Rowling's telling, the movement for trans equality isn't about trans people wanting to live comfortably and authentically post-transition, whether that means using men's spaces, gender-neutral spaces, or women's spaces. Instead it's about interlopers seeking to penetrate women's spaces only.

Six years later, that pose of concern is gone, as is any acknowledgement that slightly more than half of all trans people were assigned female at birth. Rowling today speaks only about transgender women, and only in the most odious terms imaginable.

I felt I really needed to write about Rowling's essay, not because it's new, but because it's so poisonous and ugly that it felt like sanitizing her not to acknowledge it on my trans news site.

It's important to recognize this - and I think it's important for me, as a trans man, to clearly say I recognize this: Rowling's primary motivating factor is an intense irrational hatred of trans women. There's nothing else but that in the entire 2200 word essay.

Damn, being the serious sensible left still doesn't get the capitalist ghouls on your side, huh? Obsessing over fiscal rules and bond markets doesn't make them regard you with an iota less contempt? Wow.

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

Never examining your failures, the failures of your own decisions, the failures of the party you voted for, or the failures of the politics and ideology you profess to believe in is a solid recipe for change. Never holding anyone responsible for anything is how things get better, it's axiomatic

On the specific question of what the Israeli elections mean for Palestinians... well, I'll leave that to the inimitable @danaelkurd.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6XSV...

Fundamentally here this isn't even about market reforms or whatnot. This is about capitalists being mad that the ecocidal fascist didn't get in to let the Amazon burn. This is rage that their death drive has been curtailed. It is deeply fucking sick.

Lovely lovely pots on www.roseschmits.com

I'm sure this bodes well for the imminent victory and return to power of the bourgeois liberal party, and how these same people will react to the likely direction it will take in regards to pushing back on the fascists they definitely did not help empower in any way whatsoever

I see another bourgeois liberal has become disenchanted at the most recent incident of bourgeois liberalism paving the way for fascists, and the other bourgeois liberals are upset about it

is this the only way I can read Normal People now

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

Andy Burnham’s Labour Party is as rightwing as the MAGA Republicans in Texas when it comes to the treatment of trans kids.

Y'know if Labour people like Glasman, McSweeney, Embery and Woodcock took over Reform, I'm not sure you'd even be able to tell

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

I'm not sure fascism is going to be defeated if we're only going to try and do it without putting anyone's job at risk

Honestly the complete lack of coverage on this Turning Point UK story is going to do me in. Compare Israel to South Africa and The Lads will go through your bins, but have links to senior right-wing politicians and brag about being able to hire hitmen? Nada. Not interested. Budget's soon y'know

The Lads clearly know who Turning Point UK are, and not just that but that they are "unabashedly racist" and have links to both Reform and the Conservatives. Reeeaaaaally feels worth commenting on the fact that this organisation was recently exposed as claiming to be able to contract assassinations

Going to buy my favourite three pals an entire pint each to celebrate.

pumpkin done 🔪🎃

With the clear evidence of Meta interfering with Brazil, I want everyone to understand that these algorithms are not simply the product of some neutral 'marketplace of ideas' but an active choice in the part of tech capitalists (and their executives.)

Meanwhile, does this guy still have a job? Can someone remind me?

Here's a direct link to House Dem's Judiciary Cmte report. The executive summary begins: "A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s." democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

They made a bigger story out of Reform complaining they were being bullied by being recorded in secret