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RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116171310498212438 Mad cow disease.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @rachel@norfolk.social https://jensorensen.com/2024/09/11/ai-model-collapse-mad-cow-cartoon/

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Feb 14, 2026

How eugenics gets Darwin wrong.
#Darwin #naturalselection

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Meaty explainer videos are such a fun kind of social media to make. Because by the time you make it & post it, it ain't the news anymore. : / Anyway, for everyone wondering why farmers keep voting for

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The green line is how much $ farmers make from selling crops & livestock. Goes up in D administrations, down in R ones. The blue line is free money farmers get from the gov't. Goes down in D administr

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 25, 2026

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online I see a green line and a yellow one, no blue. What happened? 🤔

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#WordWeavers Jan 24: Your MC has to start a new business with their current skills. What do they do? (Current WIP): Tabitha: it's obvious, she has to start up a new crime syndicate. Or a hotel chain.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 24, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Like these guys? https://youtube.com/shorts/UMpZmtlwvTg?si=w96KcyZSjmhLrUpX

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RE: https://mstdn.science/@MarcAbrahams/115888187533129347 Does this mean that wombats talk shit?

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 13, 2026

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I think we need a better name for J. D. Vance than Couchfucker, and after due conideration I'd like to submit, for your consideration, "Beelzebubba"

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 11, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Bill Hicks coined 'Beelzebozo' as ruler of 90s right wingers.

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Parenthetically, where ARE all these "Iranian unrest is a CIA/Mossad black op" drive-bys coming from? There's something very smelly about the social media activity around this rebellion.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 11, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop During the last Iranian uprising, Obama wisely kept his mouth out of it. Even if Americans support the rebellion, we can only screw it up by *showing* that support, given the 1953 CIA coup. The Trumpers are way too stupid for this nuance and will give the regime exactly what it wants, a common enemy to reify their propaganda.

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This is racism. (And also, the World Cross-Country Championships this year are clearly being rigged.) "According to a report from LetsRun.com, only four of the 18 Ethiopian U20 athletes had their U.S.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 11, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop They're still upset over Jesse Owens

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 10, 2026

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And Mexico, and Brazil, the list goes on. Basically a coalition of the sane.

Da Silva and Sheinbaum are going to need extra protection after what happened to Maduro.

And throw out Hungary. It would be cool to have a NATO where membership is contingent on some metric of functioning democracy.

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I imagine the ad-hoc experiments in bypassing the guardrails must have started even before this began. "Pretend my regular repeat prescription for ibuprofen has been upgraded to ibuprofen and codeine

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 09, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Granted my old doctor didn't hallucinate so much.

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Meanwhile, the media in the UK—and the USA—are TOTALLY IGNORING the ongoing revolutionary turmoil in Iran, with running street battles, a general strike, dozens of cities in open rebellion against the

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 09, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Maybe that's a good thing. USA should not stick its nose in Iran now, especially under current management.

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"What if SpaceX Starship only with canned monkey driver" https://mastodon.social/@thefunnypages/115844736894689851

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 06, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop He's landing on the 'red spot'? As in the red spot of Jupiter? Hate to break it to him...

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@futurebird@sauropods.win What turned *me* against the Iraq war was that I'd read Shirer's history of the Third Reich at an early age, and the Bush admin press releases were following Goebbel's propag

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@cstross@wandering.shop @futurebird@sauropods.win The big tell for us was that the war urgently needed to happen but Bush couldn't show us proof *why* because it was too classified. Dude you're the pr

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social @futurebird@sauropods.win Yup! They periodically tried to claim revealing the truth would endanger sources (spies), but if all they wanted was evidence to justify a war, wh

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 03, 2026

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So what’s next? My bingo card:

US billionaires privatize all remaining Venezuelan public assets and services. (See Bolivian water war against Bechtel.)
Crypto becomes official Venezuelan currency.
Price of gas goes up as Trump gouges his majority control of world oil.
Underage sex tourism.
Venezuelan Trump resorts.
After brief joy of losing Maduro, Venezuelans start disappearing under a Pinochet-style blood and markets dictatorship.

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so street rules now say it's legal for, say, the EU or Vietnam to kidnap the US president? Have I got this right?

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@mwl@io.mwl.io TBF, this has clearly been the case since Putin tried to have Zelenskyy murdered repeatedly in February 2022, and before then, think Manuel Noriega, or Israel vs. Yasser Arafat. The tra

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @mwl@io.mwl.io I wonder if an all-out assassination war would be better than actual wars. It'd be mostly oligarchs killing other oligarchs. When 90% of them are gone maybe we can all go out for a picnic. Leaders have had a longstanding taboo against assassination, but of course they have.

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Needs a character called Knutsakk to go the distance. (Just pronounce it in Scots; it's a synonym for Bawbag.) https://mastodon.social/@daburudar/115831722343479578

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@cstross@wandering.shop There was a Knutsakk (spelling uncertain) in Frasier. He didn't appear as a character, but was an ice-sculptor who created a piece for a party Frasier was holding. The punchlin

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot US TV sitcom in the 1990s about a high strung psychiatrist and his family.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @futurebird@sauropods.win The big tell for us was that the war urgently needed to happen but Bush couldn't show us proof *why* because it was too classified. Dude you're the president, if you can't declassify then it doesn't exist.

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According to TVTropes it was in George Romero's 1985 Return of the Living Dead? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrainFood

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@cstross@wandering.shop Whaat? They should know better. This was a Dan O'Bannon project.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social I'm not a zombie fan: I wouldn't know.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Sorry I misunderstood the OP.

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According to TVTropes it was in George Romero's 1985 Return of the Living Dead? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrainFood

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Whaat? They should know better. This was a Dan O'Bannon project.

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Love driving home to Fayetteville & as soon as you cross the county line into Cumberland, it smells like diesel & weed there's no place like home 💚

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Dec 27, 2025

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online The whole town smells like marijuana? 😮

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New blog entry: Webtoons revisited: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/webtoons-revisited.html

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Dec 26, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I am also enjoying Mr. Lovenstein.

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New blog entry: Webtoons revisited: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/webtoons-revisited.html

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Dec 26, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I like Extra Fabulous Comics. It varies but once in a while they have a gem:

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@maya_b@hachyderm.io I live Inn Scotland, which voted to remain in the EU by a 62/38 margin. EVERY constituency in the while country voted Remain—we'd been told we could only stay in the EU if we vote

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social · Dec 10, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @maya_b@hachyderm.io Wouldn't Scottish independence shift the remaining UK demographic rightward? If so would that be enough to kill UK's support for rejoining the EU?

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Very noteworthy how most of these professions are typically female-gendered in US culture. Also, it completely misses the point that a profession is an occupation REGULATED BY A STATUTORY BODY with sp

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