Madeleine Morris

DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.

Reader, worrier, lefty, PhD. Lacanian, complicator. Interested in politics, pottery and sewing. Slightly strange. Uncomfortably intense.

Fiction (inactive): http://www.remittancegirl.com
Kimono Sewing: https://kimonomad.com.remittancegirl.org
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Vietnamese

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2026-09-29 10:55:29 GMT

So, I have a warning for anyone who depends on #AI for advice or technical information for anything.
This story is going to take a bit, but I want to relate it completely because it shows a pattern of supplying fundamentally false information on a topic where, in technical circles, the information is solidly documented and the technique is entirely reproducible.
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2026-09-11 16:37:35 GMT

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Here they are - the first three, from left to right, are my attempt at a magic white style layer glaze that you use over another glaze, which creates a kind of white streaky effect. The two on the right are my attempt at a floating iron. It needs much more iron, and will require some mitigation of the way the iron will act as a frit and make it run more - it's pretty runny now! But nothing blew up, nothing stuck to the drip tray, nothing looks entirely like shit. #pottery #ceramics.
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/117/253/358/515/587/992/original/9351d1dc07837733.jpeg

2026-09-11 11:42:16 GMT

If I were a politician this is what I would say about right-wing groups demand to examine the genitals of athletes:
While it is gratifying to think their motivation for doing this is to hate on Trans folk, (Because at least then they see you - even if it's seeing you and hating you), I think the motivation is much baser.
I think this whole spurious hysteria over Trans athletes is simply window dressing for their perverse desire to examine children's genitals with the blessing of the state.

2026-08-27 17:11:29 GMT

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Wholeheartedly agreed!

2026-08-14 15:29:10 GMT

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isn’t it???? I think I need to mix some up to go on my black clay!!!

2026-08-14 08:52:03 GMT

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I saw this and suddenly fell in love. https://glazy.org/recipes/65804

2026-08-14 07:47:16 GMT

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I would love to see your redart pieces with black slip!

2026-08-13 18:02:23 GMT

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back away from the redart…. Slowly 😂

2026-08-08 11:31:50 GMT

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good day!

2026-07-31 14:55:12 GMT

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I wish I found this surprising but I don't. What kind of person chooses to do that sort of thing for a living? I suspect a fair proportion of them get real enjoyment out of the terror and powerlessness of those people they deport.

2026-06-21 08:19:34 GMT

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I think what I love most about this is that it really promotes free-range farming, dual use applications, etc.
It is not the sparkling futurism of ad executive imagination, but the gritty authenticity of sustainable reality.

2026-06-21 08:16:49 GMT

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So they are doing more intensive studies about building the panel structures higher, and grazing cows the same way.
Also, looking at high-light, but indirect sun-loving crops.

2026-05-25 13:30:32 GMT

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I wouldn't for a moment suggest that Cuba's political system is unproblematic (although I have to wonder if it was ever any more problematic than any other system). But they had excellent education and outstanding health care services.

2026-05-25 13:28:39 GMT

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@artemis/116635435070572453
I often wonder if much of the US's aggression against other parts of the world doesn't come down to the fact that they face utter financial ruin if they get sick, and feel the rest of the world should have to suffer similarly.

2026-05-04 13:19:04 GMT

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And who pays for the costs of cleaning this up? Tax payers. And as a percent, the less you can afford it, the more you pay.
The people who profit from war are not the ones hurt in any way by this stunt.

2026-03-13 11:37:00 GMT

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116221646008456537
I have mixed feelings about this. I spent 20 years living in Vietnam, not photographing the things I was prohibited from photographing.
Because I was visitor. It wasn't my country, and I was allowed to live there under the forbearance of the government. So, you know, I obeyed their laws.
Dubai isn't a democracy. Your rights are whatever the government says they are. If that offends you, go home.
#note18pk…vz7e

2026-01-16 11:20:51 GMT

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Fun!!! I hope you have a wonderful time.

2026-01-16 08:26:26 GMT

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Where are you going in Spain?
I hope you have a great time. Please eat chocolate y churros - it is a morning moment of utter delight!

2026-01-16 06:27:04 GMT

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like watching what is going on in the US is like witnessing the Stanford Experiment played out in real time?

2026-01-16 06:15:33 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115902590165875706
This so much. I have been very wary of posting any of the footage coming out of Minneapolis because, honestly, I cannot tell when something is AI.
The outcome is that real footage that people should see, to understand what is happening, doesn't get the reach it should have, because we're so frightened of being shamed.
#note1vsy…n9wn

2026-01-15 23:51:16 GMT

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Bon Voyage!

2026-01-15 23:29:11 GMT

I absolutely understand many, many people do not like AI generated videos. I don't like them either.
However, do not get threatening and sanctimonious and dog pile on someone who has posted something in good faith, clearly didn't know it was AI, and doesn't have the skills to spot it.
Because people become terrified of posting anything for fear of it being AI and getting lambasted for it.
AI is DESIGNED to fool people. And when you beat up someone who is fooled, you're beating up a victim.

2026-01-15 14:49:59 GMT

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My heart just aches for her. She’s had such a traumatic year. I feel powerless, there’s nothing I can do for her other than to be her friend.
I indulge in fantasies of formally adopting her and bringing her here, but she has a family she loves there, and therapy patients who she cares for there. She has made her choice to stay and be a brave psychoanalyst in a place of peril. Her ethical stance and her bravery blow me away with admiration.

2026-01-15 14:48:37 GMT

I just got a phonecall from my friend in #Tehran. Very short and full of tears, but she did get through. My sms to her didn’t.
But she and her family are okay. I’m hesitant to phone her back because I don’t want to get her into any trouble.

2026-01-15 07:23:26 GMT

On #Greenland - a thread
At the moment, we cannot know what diplomatic discussions have been going on out of the public eye regarding Trump’s threats regarding taking over Greenland, but I have to say that I’m really, really disappointed with Denmark, Greenland and Europe’s responses.
Specifically because the one and only response should have been a unanimous: “Don’t be ridiculous.”
And that response should have been repetitively consistent across the board from every quarter.

2026-01-14 08:56:18 GMT

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But I do hope this is a warning to people in the US. Because Iranians have been living under this tyranny for 40+ years. Once you let a leadership get that much power to act with impunity, it’s insanely hard to get rid of it.
If you think this can’t happen to your country, you’re not paying attention.

2026-01-14 08:52:40 GMT

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They have 70% - SEVENTY PERCENT inflation on food. Over 100% on bread.
The IRG has their fingers in a ton of commercial ventures and there’s fuck all competition. Trump level corruption. And the hypocritical sanctimony of the modesty laws is incoherent.

2026-01-14 08:50:23 GMT

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My knowledge of this is only anecdotal, but my dear friend in Tehran is adamant that the protest has no roots outside the country. It is purely grass roots and is simply the obvious: they are socially, legally and economically oppressed as hell and the population - 50% of whom were born after the Islamic Revolution, are fucking sick of it.
Sick of the fucking tyranny.

2026-01-14 08:46:12 GMT

https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-tehran-forced-confessions-human-rights-f7cd9b1987480a8024a6e549fc51535d

2026-01-13 14:10:38 GMT

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They’re also far cheaper to maintain.

2026-01-12 11:53:55 GMT

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115854908039065969
I wish I could boost this 1000 times.
Because it is so fucking true. These people who claim to be so passionate about defending ‘women’s spaces’ from Transwomen, seem unfazed by the kind of obscene public displays of misogyny that are being perpetrated.
They never cared about women in the plural. They cared about themselves and their prejudices.
#note1jyg…ed0k

2026-01-11 19:25:22 GMT

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I always find it really good to remember that the US has not actually won a significant war since WWII. Korea, VIetnam, Iraq, Afghanistan… eventually, they had to withdraw in every case. And, also worth remembering, for the most part, they abandoned the people who helped them.
They may ‘invade’ Greenland successfully. It has a tiny population. But if they think, for a moment, they’ll be able to stay there comfortably, they have never met a Greenlander.
They will, eventually, go home.

2026-01-11 06:02:50 GMT

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bingo

2026-01-10 20:22:50 GMT

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205dx61x76o

2026-01-09 00:47:32 GMT

I don’t want Kristi Noem impeached. I want her brought up on charges of crimes against humanity.
That's the proper charge for someone who creates and runs a gestapo.
Of course, I’m disgusted by the deeply disturbed, murderous individual who shot Renee Good. Murder is the charge. He needs to face the law.
But don’t forget that without the permission and organisational structures, the culture that hired him, trained him, and encouraged rampant dehumanisation the event would have never occurred.

2026-01-08 22:24:17 GMT

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collapsed under the weight of its own venal stupidity.
But a more serious question is how fucking useless are the current crop of Dems holding office, that they can’t do these abject fuckers the damage they deserve, politically.

2026-01-08 22:22:54 GMT

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Now, interestingly, at this point, any vaguely competent administration would have said that, considering his experience having been dragged by a vehicle recently, he was probably suffering from PTSD and it had been a mistake to have him back on the job, and that the shooting had been a tragic mistake.
But no, cretinous Ms. Noem doubles down on Renee Good being a domestic terrorist while outing one of her own agents.
At this point, I have to ask how it is… that this administration hasn’t...

2026-01-08 22:16:57 GMT

The shooter of #ReneeGood has been identified as Jon Ross.
It was actually Kristi Noem who outed him by mistake (???) when she mentioned that he’d been involved in a similar incident last year. Via @modalbluesky.bsky.social
Oh, my, dear ICE agents. It seems your overlords are happy to cut you loose when you become inconvenient.
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2026-01-07 14:08:00 GMT

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Actually, the interesting thing is that in forcing me to find a different choice, I found this lovely lady who - because she’s two streets away from me - will do home visits for free. Which is amazing because Dora gets scent disoriented after a visit to the vet. She gets home and hisses at Jacques like she doesn’t know her for about 6 hours. Which was disconcerting for poor Jacques, who wandered around looking forlorn for a day.

2026-01-07 13:29:29 GMT

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The same kind of thing is happening in Spain, so I moved to an independent vet.

2026-01-07 12:36:51 GMT

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X a racist, misogynistic, fascist, pedophilic cess pool. Why is anyone still there?
I was patient for a long time. I get that it took time for some people to adjust. To mourn the loss of their enormous followings.
But now, if you stay, you’re fucking complicit.

2026-01-07 12:33:23 GMT

RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3lhl24rz/-/a-rQmzFV7BRQe8B0_ya1cziA%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0
I know it sounds petty and irrelevant, but I’m absolutely disinterested in hearing how yet another person has been mistreated or silenced by X.
It’s owned by Musk. Literally what the fuck did you expect, buddy? Please show me one act of moral or ethical integrity ever performed by Musk?
At this point, all this grievance is just stupid performance. Get off X
#note17r3…tjyt

2026-01-06 20:12:44 GMT

Worth every ounce of effort #cooking
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/849/976/919/061/457/original/2ed4aa36cee8c022.jpeg

2026-01-06 16:41:16 GMT

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I think humans, as a species, have this incredible need to make meaning of their reality. And narratives guide us to meaning making.
This is why I think fiction is so fundamentally important. The more children read, the more open they are to alternative ways of understanding the world around them. The better equipped they are, the freer they feel to create new and alternative narratives for how to live a good life and what a good life is.

2026-01-06 16:33:18 GMT

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I cannot believe what I am about to do, which is to make a defence of these ‘normal’ people. It’s also going to sound patronising and very elitist.
I think most ‘normal people’ depend on society as a whole to provide a narrative for a model of how to live a good life.
Since the 80s the dominant narrative has been that the only real success is economic, and the only social value is one that creates envy.
For decades, people were being groomed for Trump.

2026-01-06 16:19:09 GMT

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You make an excellent point. He doesn’t care. If there is one characteristic that is emblematic of the whole administration it is their personal greed for money and power, and their utter indifference to the welfare of the people who handed them that power or the country as an entity in the scope of history.

2026-01-06 16:06:15 GMT

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Does he even understand how much power the US had when literally hundreds of nations would stand with them, and what they have done in the past year has isolated them completely.
There is hardly a nation on earth now, that wouldn’t stab the US in the back if they thought they could get away with it.
How is that a gain in strength?

2026-01-06 09:08:31 GMT

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I guess I need to remind myself that no other country on earth can make America change its trajectory. That change MUST be internal. And so demotivating and disempowering Americans of goodwill is deeply counterproductive.
We need to cut each other a bit of slack, and also grow a little thicker skin to survive what’s clearly ahead.

2026-01-06 09:05:28 GMT

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It is incumbent on the rest of us to acknowledge that there are groups within the term “Americans” who have always been locked out of the privileges and wealth that US global dominance has afforded the majority. I often force myself to think of these oppressed minorities as kind of like generational hostages, because it reminds me to except them from my anger.
But sometimes I fail to do that. And I apologize. 4/

2026-01-06 09:01:28 GMT

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It is incumbent on those well intentioned Americans to understand the effect of American hegemony. And while they may be dedicated anti-fascists, they also need to acknowledge that along with the privileges of power and global dominance that hegemony has afforded them, comes a level of collective responsibility not to abuse that power.
3/

2026-01-06 08:58:14 GMT

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Meanwhile, what a lot of Americans - even very well intentioned ones - probably cannot conceive of is that the rest of the world experiences the effects of American power as monolithic. We never get the opportunity to vote in your elections, but we pay in insecurity and financially when a terrible American president is elected.
When your president threatens other nations, we don’t (and can’t) stop to specify ‘not all Americans’. That is absurd - because we don’t experience you individually 2/

2026-01-06 08:53:45 GMT

I want to speak about how we speak to each other. Mostly because I am as guilty as anyone else of generalising, and I suspect that even as my very intelligent American friends know that when I shit talk about “Americans”, I don’t necessarily mean them. It still stings on a visceral level - especially if they are fighting like hell personally to try and get their mad king out of power. 1/

2026-01-06 00:03:40 GMT

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And finally, I have noticed that the US military have a really hard time believing anyone white and anglophone might be their enemy.
But they’d be sorely mistaken.
Not that all of Canada is white or anglophone. We have a beautiful and richly diverse society. But I do think it might present a hurdle for them, psychologically.

2026-01-05 23:49:24 GMT

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Also, they can’t very well nuke us, because it will waft across the border.

2026-01-05 23:11:57 GMT

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Nothing could be simpler than offering to supply them coffee and pastries with a warm, polite Canadian smile and poisoning hundreds of them en mass.

2026-01-05 23:06:36 GMT

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Because Canada is a huge country with a lot of underpopulated space, and we seem so friendly.
It would be so fucking easy to lull an occupying force into a sense of security and then slit their throats while they sleep.

2026-01-05 23:03:46 GMT

Canada has a very small and pretty depleted military. I have heard - and this is just chatter - that applications to join it have gone up. But I think it would be infinitely more effective to organise something closer to a civil defence force.
Canadians should absolutely learn guerrilla tactics.

2026-01-05 19:31:08 GMT

From Mark Kelly
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/844/148/723/521/521/original/7ba51249bf59f216.jpeg

2026-01-04 10:11:03 GMT

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The media’s inability to look past the cult of personality of Trumpism, to see the mechanics evolving beneath it - the rise of two massive hegemonies - white christian nationalism and a cabal of billionaire oligarchs (who I suspect will eventually clash with each other) means that they are not doing their job at truly informing people about how the world is being changed for regular people.
And that is their job.

2026-01-04 10:05:01 GMT

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Trump is old and he will die soon. But the destruction of both internal and international norms and systems whose destruction he has presided over will last a decade or longer. Enough time for authoritarian governments to entrench themselves, normalise themselves, in the minds of the population.

2026-01-04 10:01:53 GMT

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It is hard to keep your eye on two games being played at the same time. But this is what has been happening all along. This is why the hard right white Christian nationalists in the US tolerate (and even embrace) Trump.
Not because he has the ability to agree with them ideologically, but because his flagrant global irresponsibility destabilises settled orders enough to make their goals possible.

2026-01-04 09:58:51 GMT

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Trump cannot think longterm, but those around him do. Giving tacit permission for China to invade Taiwan or Russia to take over Ukraine also paves the way for the US acquisition of the parts of the world they want. And an extreme rise in militarism which requires the suspension of all sorts of everyday rights that are taken for granted in stable democracies.
The US far right needs to be able to point at monstrous aggressive instability to force through their goals of a white, christian US.

2026-01-04 09:52:15 GMT

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If Trump loses power in the midterms, his graft game is up. While SCOTUS might grant him unlimited criminal power, the one arm of government that can over-ride SCOTUS and curtail his criminality is congress.
What Trump knows is that Americans love a spectacle. They can be for it - the right loves a good show of force - or against it, but it doesn’t actually matter, because it shifts attention away from the concrete realities of inflation, healthcare insurance and his association with Epstein.

2026-01-04 09:45:34 GMT

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Spheres of influence:
There are, without a doubt, those within the Trump administration who do think in the abstract. They don’t give a shit about Venezuela either, but this act signals to China and Russia that a new world order, made up of aggressive spheres of regional influence is perfectly okay with them.
But Trump can’t even mentally conceive of something that broad or abstract. For him, this strike is a way to stop the media attention on Epstein and inflation.

2026-01-04 09:40:37 GMT

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Oil:
Trump doesn’t care about oil, but he does care about oil companies who contribute to his growing financial wealth. He absolutely doesn’t care if Venezuela’s oil producing infrastructure is crumbling. He cares only about the graft he can extract when he opens the field to corporations who can make a business of ‘revitalizing’ it.
While some of those around him may dream of returning to an imperial US, Trump doesn’t have dreams like that. He dreams of staying in power and gilded ballrooms.

2026-01-04 09:35:17 GMT

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Democracy:
Trump doesn’t care about democracy in his own country (he made extreme efforts to destabilise the electoral process in his own country) and certainly not in Venezuela. Additionally, his own supporters are not fans of historic US efforts at nation building. But this move gives his base something to argue about an chew on. Meanwhile the non-Trump republicans really like a good military in the middle of the night show.
What they’ve done in Venezuela leaves is a dangerous power vacuum.

2026-01-04 09:25:18 GMT

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First - the reasons given.
Drugs: If the Trump regime cared about drug trafficking, they would not have pardoned the Honduran ex-president convicted of it.
The attacks on Venezuelan ‘drug boats’ were spectacle and priming. For months, the media helped prime the public for what happened yesterday.
But how does kidnapping Maduro and his wife stop cocaine being trafficked to the US? It doesn’t. But Trump supporters cannot think in abstracts. They’ve been fed an image of Maduro as Tony Montana.

2026-01-04 09:16:25 GMT

A longish thread on the invasion of #Venezuela.
We are again watching world media be willingly manipulated. Parroting the propaganda they’ve been fed. Normalising international criminality. Sane-washing what is patently not so, and ignoring globally irresponsible behaviour.
A case in point is watching them bend over backwards to try and make coherent the patently incoherent, contradictory rationale the Trump administration has given for its actions in Venezuela.
1/

2026-01-03 23:18:57 GMT

"The United States’ military intervention against Maduro’s authoritarian regime violates international law; “
https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2026-01-03/brute-force-in-venezuela.html

2026-01-03 22:26:37 GMT

The message is now quite clear - Russia, China, US…
Invade whoever you want.
The EU imagined its only threat was from the East. Well, think again. Because there is fuck all daylight between any of them now.
Criminality, the breakdown of rule of law, kidnappings, assassinations, rampant corruption, the daylight robbery of state resources. Imprisonment without due process, roving gangs of secret police brutalising citizens.

2026-01-03 14:01:40 GMT

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The really sad thing is… up until today, my guess is that most Venezuelans fucking hated Maduro. But now, Trump will have managed to make them feel protective of him.
People can despise their own leaders just up until the point where another country comes in, bombs you, and kidnaps him.

2026-01-03 13:52:16 GMT

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Blocked and I’m so sorry you have to deal with that crap.

2026-01-03 13:49:12 GMT

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The irony of this is that pretty much anyone can possess a machine gun in the US, and the secretary of health was a known cocaine dealer.

2026-01-03 13:00:59 GMT

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This link is also lovely
https://color-term.com/traditional-color-of-japan/
@npub1m5v…jc0s

2026-01-03 12:02:13 GMT

I’m not sure why, but this link that @npub1m5v…jc0s sent me is absolutely mesmerising.
I love that the names of the colours are part references to nature, part wish fulfilment.
One of my favourites is "Decaying leaves color” 朽葉色 Kuchiba-iro #D57835
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_colors_of_Japan

2026-01-03 09:25:22 GMT

It took a while, but it’s finally finished.
This is, I think, my best piece so far, in terms of workmanship. I can still see a lot of flaws, but I am beginning to really get my head around the subtleties of the structure.
Most of all, I think I have done as well as I can by this venerable, 60 year-old tsumugi silk. Now I have to find a way to set it free into the world.
#Haori #Sewing
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2025-12-29 14:44:43 GMT

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I’ve watched the faces of people who proffer these kind of conspiracy theories. They become suffused with a kind of secret jouissance.
Someone who suggests that time might not be a constant IS challenging accepted thought. It is critical thinking. Especially when they can use examples to back it up.
But with flat earthers, they don’t. They just *believe* and they take pleasure in believing that the whole of society is lying to them - which makes them martyrs, and special.

2025-12-29 14:40:58 GMT

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The problem is they don’t. Because the goal of believing obviously incorrect beliefs is not to think critically. It involves an illicit enjoyment.

2025-12-25 10:48:50 GMT

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Please tell me this is not AI. I so want to believe this happened.

2025-12-24 00:28:59 GMT

RE: https://nutmeg.social/@chris/115771696399683268
The very best way to defeat censorship is to spread the material as far and wide as you can.
#note1ujy…yrln

2025-12-22 03:19:23 GMT

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This is such a powerful illustration of a very specific kind of racist, fascist rhetoric.
No one, ever, in that man’s entire life, demanded he apologize for being white.
What makes the lie so powerful, so resonant for the people who support him, is that they do harbour hatred in their putrid hearts for people who aren’t white, and their unconscious halucinates the demand to apologize, because indeed they should. Not because they’re white, but because they’re hateful.

2025-12-21 10:03:29 GMT

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This is a far, far better approach. It’s more reliable and more cost effective. But I’m looking at, for instance the US, where communitarian practices have all but disappeared in some places. If I required a medical device that needed mains power, I’d be making damn sure I had alternative sources these days. Because the leaders simply don’t care if you die, and the public is fine with that, unless the threat is to them personally.

2025-12-21 10:00:19 GMT

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I am no prepper by any means. I’m not telling you the sky is falling in. What I’m saying is that, where once you might have taken certain aspects of the infrastructure for granted, you need to change your mindset about that.
If you absolutely require something that runs on electricity for your life, then please do not be foolish enough to assume uninterrupted power. Get batteries, get solar panels. You are going to need them.

2025-12-21 09:56:01 GMT

Perhaps, having lived in a developing country, I have some insight into how one constructs one’s work and life in anticipation of infrastructure failure.
Looking at what climate change is doing to the weather, and what bat-shit crazy leaders are doing to their nations, here’s my advice: assume everything can fail.
Decide what failures might endanger your life, your work, your well-being, your comfort - in that order.
Address the first one first, then work down the list.

2025-12-20 16:14:43 GMT

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It does my head in when parents who say they love their children choose ideology over their children’s health, and are even more blindly entrenched in their wrongness when called out, because they prize their own egos above all else.

2025-12-20 16:04:11 GMT

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I also think that, no matter what the genre, the practice of reading, which requires the reader to reproduce the fictional characters and world, picturing in their own minds, is excellent for one’s longterm mental health.

2025-12-18 18:10:28 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963/115738316648848294
This. Forever.
Please repeat it as often as you need to in order to escape the gravity well of repetition, gaslighting and constant normalising.
You absolutely DON’T need to know ‘what crazy thing he said this time’.
Eschew the spectacle.
#note1v6y…hlvk

2025-12-17 07:18:15 GMT

I’m barely awake, I have a coffee, and this is what confronts me as I enter my study. The sentinels of my labours.
Good morning! #cats #catsOfMastodon
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2025-12-15 09:40:03 GMT

Today I am putting the finishing touches on a soft, warm #Hanten. Hand sewing down the collar.
My neighbour, Ana, two doors down, is of a venerable age. I saw her looking pretty frail the other day. She was complaining about being cold in her house, but that spending all day in her fuzzy bathrobe didn’t seem dignified. So I decided to make her something to keep her warm. #sewing
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2025-12-11 16:59:42 GMT

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"America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told […] America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally"

2025-12-11 16:22:11 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.world/@SuneAuken/115701078233089743
https://open.substack.com/pub/theline/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking?selection=52832556-6e64-4155-a84f-f0e6fc1eadd6&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web&aspectRatio=square&textColor=%23ffffff&bgImage=true
#note190s…dqu4

2025-12-10 13:40:03 GMT

RE: https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum/115695373389418137
There is only one reason why both Russia and the US under Trump are chomping at the bit to break the EU apart and that is because, together, we are a significant threat to their corrupt version of a world order.
Parties in Europe clamouring to help Russia and the US succeed are, quite frankly, traitors to their own states.
Whether they’re doing it for ideological or financial reasons (probably for both), they are knowingly placing their own citizens in a position of subordination.
#note1amz…f453

2025-12-07 00:33:11 GMT

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I admit to finding that sequence the most disturbing of all, which is stupid, considering the human suffering.

2025-12-07 00:08:36 GMT

I watched the entirety of the series Chernobyl again while doing some hand sewing.
It’s so well acted, so well written, the cinematography is subtle but incredible, even the sound design is outstanding.
And a timely quote:
"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt must be paid. "

2025-12-06 14:57:07 GMT

If the Trump administration wants to hold all Afghan immigrants responsible for one gunman, or all Somali immigrants responsible for some one pulling a scam, then I’m good with that.
Deport all white christian immigrants and their descendants for school shootings, for the murder of Heather Heyer, for almost all the death by cops, indeed for most of the crime in America.

2025-12-03 12:26:58 GMT

When I point out that Trump consistently uses the language of genocide, it isn’t that I’m surprised about it.
It is that it needs to be consistently pointed out, and not normalised. It should shock our conscience and keep on shocking our conscience. That doesn’t mean we’re surprised. It means we’re not desensitised to it.
Historically, people in power who call groups of people ‘garbage’ or ‘vermin’ or other dehumanising pejoratives, usually do this just before they commit atrocities.

2025-11-30 07:14:41 GMT

"Those in power want you to de-value others so you will accept atrocities.”
This is a profoundly true statement. And it is important to remember it every time you think perhaps you are over-reacting to witnessing the cruelty and the disdain inflicted on others.
Do not accept the invitation to be a “pragmatist". It’s a way of grooming you to accept the misery of others.
https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/115636872359224164

2025-11-29 06:09:00 GMT

With a data set of 13+ million, the verdict is in: the risks of a #Covid infection and its sequelae are far, far higher than the risk of vaccine side-effects in children and young people.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(25)00247-0/fulltext

2025-11-26 18:25:28 GMT

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This bullshit ‘child sacrifice’ crap just reeks of the same race baiting crap as Jews making passover matzo from the blood of Christian infants.
How ironic then that the only culture practicing child sacrifice these days is the MAGA crowd who refuses to vaccinate their children. Because essentially that is what is occurring. They are sacrificing their children on the altar of their racist, anti-science ideology.
It’s always projection.

2025-11-26 15:01:27 GMT

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Mmmmm… Yum. @npub1cj7…fksg