WittyProfileName2 [she/her]

Headband of miner intellect:

• Forged by a dwarven artificer who lost too many colleagues due to their lax attitude around safety.

• Anyone wearing this headband becomes aware of the quality of air and props for whatever tunnel they’re currently in.

• Wearers possess an intrusive urge to find proper protective equipment before attempting a task.

Also it’s blunt as a butter knife because none of its past users wanted to try to sharpen something that is always on fire.

Immovable Rod:

• Not actually a magical rod.

• Actually just a bloke called Roderick, or Rodney, or something to that effect.

• Won’t move out of your way.

• Not even if you ask politely.

you should learn to read, and then research logical fallacies and what the terms mean that you call yourself or others.

Everything being made in China is a bit of a hyperbole but…

stream of consciousness rant ahead

The rise of neoliberalism involved the deindustrialisation of the imperial core, partly as a way to cheapen costs by relying on a pool of labour with lower minimum wages and worse safety regulations, partly to kneecap labour unions that were forming an effective political bloc against neoliberal social policies, partly to obfuscate the environmental impact of consumerism by shunting all the environmentally hazardous part of the process of producing consumer goods abroad, and partly to complete the transition of imperial core economies entirely into extraction and finance.

At the time China which was liberalising under Dengist reforms and also cosying up to the west, was a perfect target as one of the places to offload industry.

As for why none of this industrial capacity is being moved out of China despite deteriorating relations between them a the imperial core…

Industrialising a country takes a lot of planning and is expensive, (especially in countries like the UK where most of the factories and former supply line infrastructure has been torn up and the land sold off, and what remains is too dilapidated to support a renewed heavy industry), so it’s unappealing to a capitalist hegemon that’s in favour of austerity and low government spending.

What’s the source of that last image? I’m really hoping that’s one of the examples from the 80s and not a recent one…

Yeah, that’s an 80’s one. Here it is in the Tory Party’s online archive.

I’m hoping this is just me dooming but having grown up in the dying days of section 28, I’m genuinely scared for this next generation of queer people.

Section 28 of the 1988 local government act (often just referred to colloquially as section 28), was a law that made it illegal to discuss queer identities in schools.

It was repealed in 2003, but the recent resurgence of homophobia in parliament is using a similar language around “protecting children” is identical to the shit Thatcher and her cronies were throwing around in the 80’s.

Yeah, and they’ve jumped the “protect our kids” wankery into overdrive as well.

Complete doomer mode: I think they’re also gonna re-establish section 28 soon.

It’s been this kind of shit hole surveillance state for a long time. Look at the snooper’s charter/investigatory powers act, for example.

Fuck yeah! My “Bigfoot is actually a big cellar spider and that’s why it’s always blurry in pictures” theory is gonna be broadcast to everyone’s grandmother!

During the state mandated mourning, a man was arrested for carrying a piece of blank paper because the police thought he might write a protest slogan on it later.

It turns out I’m wrong, they can get that fluffy.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but I think those photos might’ve been edited.

I’m not an ornithologist but, according to the RSPB, this is what they look like:

I’m wrong, they do go like that sometimes.

And here’s a picture of one during the summer when they’re less fluffed up:

Manpril sounds like an over-the-counter erectile dysfunction medicine that’s got a list of side effects taller than the bottle it comes in.

Has anyone staked his heart to make extra sure he won’t come back?

The way that first one tapers at the bottom, that’s probably a conical flask.

My first guess for the second image is a burette but I’m not too sure.

I understand why the liberals disingenuously label live Nazis as freedom fighters, like, they do it so often that at this point I wonder if it’s an involuntary reflex for them to cheer when they see a swastika.

I don’t understand why they’re still doing it now he’s dead and therefore no longer any use to them.

Blairite labour are all posting their little eulogies about him, claiming that he was a hero of democracy. But, like, Navalny was a Neo-Nazi he wasn’t gonna democratise shit. Like, why hitch your wagon to one of the Russian politicians more reactionary than Putin, especially now he’s dead?

Hexbear recently federated with sh.itjust.works, I don’t know if it was polled on your side or what. But on Hexbear’s side there was a thread to discuss it.