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We could end up being flashmobbed and stalked by thousands of QAnon followers who all died of the plague decades ago but whose malign, undead internet presence shambles on looking for fresh brains to eat.

I can't help thinking, if the internet crazycakes has gotten this bad so fast (Facebook is less than 20 years old!) then how much worse will it be in a couple of generations, when > 50% of the people on facebook are dead memorial accounts powered by the descendant of GPT-3 bots.

When I was doing my Creative Writing MA, the theme that got you funding for your PhD was always "A historical novel about a small 19th century British village with a dying local industry" and I'd just like to thank Brexit for giving CW postgrads material for another 100 years.

“Sure Margaret Court thinks South Africa under apartheid ‘really had their shit together’ and sure she’s a homophobe and sure she’s a dangerously reckless religious zealot... and for all of these reasons and more we feel she truly embodies what Australia Day in 2021 is all about”

When this is over—which could be many years from now—they won’t hold a public enquiry: they’ll hold a victory march and declare they “won” (ignoring the mountain of corpses and people crippled for life by long covid). They’re botching COVID19 as badly as Brexit. /7 (end)

I heard there was a sodding tweet That often people would repeat In many different times and different places It goes like this: the person cries Aggrieved and taken by surprise Despite their vote for... etchttps://twitter.com/BylineTV/status/1352352805273657347 …

It feels like Google has mistaken people using its products for liking Google. Most people have bank accounts but we all hate banks.

The fact that you don't go to the beach doesn't make the beach cease to exist.https://twitter.com/joshgnosis/status/1352430519628177413 …

#BREAKING Study shows that over the last 12 months, 1.3 million expatriates have fled the reclusive, covid-ravaged UK fearing the impact of the Brexit peace deal with sub-Scandinavian Europe, which, experts say, the island's poor diet may have prevented natives from appreciating.

I get a lot of questions about #Navalny. I am not the world's leading expert on the man, but I can answer most of them with enough veracity. Specifically: "Is it true he is a neo-Nazi/homophobe/mysogynist/anti-Semite?" "What are the charges against him?" "Why did he return?"...

After Database of Nearly 27 Million True Names Hits Dark Web, Concerns Raised Over "Increasingly Invasive" Federal Sorcery License Requirements

If the punishment is a fine, it’s legal for rich peoplehttps://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1352301171684368385 …