The Web of Evil

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In no way a web of evil

AI-generated picture (taken from X the Everything App, naturally) of Charlie Kirk and Ann Widdecombe smiling companionably in what to the stunted chud brain is meant to represent Heaven but in reality just looks like they've joined a Californian cult that's going to end in some deep ritual unpleasantness
Extract from a Financial Times story after Trump's victory in 2024: "I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled... it's a new dawn."
For what it’s worth (£0), I’d like to see BBC News split into three separate channels: * BBC News for actual news * BBC News Live for those interminable shots of press conference platforms with no-one on them, shots of doors out of which someone at some point is due to emerge, overhead shots of nothing happening and so on, interspersed with constant unconfirmed “Breaking News” banners * BBC Have Your Say 24 so that helpful viewer comments from Basil in Altrincham or whoever can be safely and permanently quarantined away from actual news items
Shabana Mahmood photographed looking triumphant in a detention camp guard in Denmark while Home Secretary
Post today by @gingerspiced.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said she "misspoke" when saying last week she had landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia as first lady in March 1996. She later characterized the episode as a "misstatement" and a "minor blip." The Obama campaign suggested the statement was a deliberate exaggeration by Clinton, who often cites the goodwill trip with her daughter and several celebrities as an example of her foreign policy experience. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23789011
OP's post cropped so that it just says "I still laugh when I remember Tom Harwood"
Post by me on 7 July: Ever since his comment that Leave won the Brexit referendum "without a shot being fired", it has been clear that he never even considered Jo Cox to be a person. Quoting a post by @jamesrball.com: Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.
Bluesky posts from today, names redacted because they didn't ask me to use their words in this context: Post 1: His hatred of women has really been overlooked and undercovered. Among other things Graham voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, against equal pay, repeatedly pushed abortion bans, and was viciously cruel to Christine Blasey Ford. Post 2: And tried to make it impossible for kids with cancer to get insurance. He was horrible.
Post by @dexerto.bsky.social: A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It's factually wrong; they didn't row, they sailed over the Atlantic" 10:03 10 Jul 2026
Push notification from the Guardian: Breaking news: Police investigating death of Ann Widdecombe
Tweet by @francessmith: Who funds Count Binface? why are journalists failing to ask this question.
Fall in international student numbers 'cost UK £2.9 billion' Latest cost-benefit analysis finds overseas enrolments generate nearly 10 times more money for UK than they take away
Guardian headline: What is the Timms review into PIP and what is it likely to conclude?
Post by @paulmcmc.bssky.social: Chris Mason writes [about Reform] like a 12 year old in a propeller beanie discussing his favourite dinosaur.
Extract from an interview by the Sun with British boy band Blue in October 2001 : We started by asking Blue what they saw in New York. ANTONY: We saw the second plane crash into the tower and then the building crumble. THE SUN: You witnessed all that? That must have been scary. SIMON: Of course it was scary, it would be. It's the biggest day of terrorism in history. LEE: What about whales? (Everyone paused and looked at him, confused) LEE: They are ignoring animals that are more important. Animals need saving and that's more important. This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. SIMON: Shut up, Lee THE SUN: That's a bit out of order, don't you think? LEE: Who gives a fuck about New York when elephants are being killed? DUNCAN: Shut up LEE: I'm not afraid to say this, it has to be said and that's why I'm the outspoken one from the band.
CONMAN: Hello, I'm very nice. PUBLIC: He's very nice, isn't he? CONMAN: I'm not corrupt, you know. PUBLIC: Ooh, he isn't corrupt, you can tell by looking. CONMAN: Those people over there want your stuff. PUBLIC: Our stuff! Protect our stuff! CONMAN: That's because they're the elite and they despise you. PUBLIC: Hate them! Hate the elite! [Start throwing rocks]
Official communication from the World Health Organization: WHO consider the hantavirus outbreak over.
Lorraine met former PC Phil Hunter when he made a welfare visit to her home in 2017. He was found guilty of gross misconduct at a disciplinary panel in August 2024. The panel heard that, over a period of two years, he sent her inappropriate messages and tried to isolate her from friends and family as part of a "deliberate" and "predatory" plan to have a sexual relationship with her. When Hunter retired in 2019, he was under investigation for a case involving another vulnerable woman he had met during a welfare visit and with whom he had started a sexual relationship.
SECURE THE LUGS That's a sign on big letters on a piece of railway station kit (I don't know what and I don't want to know, it would sully the magic)
Tweet by @Webofevil on 16 Dec 22: 🎵When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, (Photo of London street poster) "THAT'S HARASSMENT Report it at:lambeth.gov.uk/saferstreets"
Posts by @jacksaundrs.bsky.social: Look, imagine it were the case that Britain, with the 6th-largest defence budget in the world and large arms industry, was not in fact facing any imminent military threat from a major power and could thus have a defence spend more commensurate with its size/population. Who the hell would tell you? The military? Retired admirals and generals? Army officers turned politicians? The arms industry and their lobbyists? The media? Politicians? Who do you reckon would get to convincingly deliver that message to the public?
Spinal Tap on stage as the model Stonehenge (which is just too small, it's obviously too small, I don't care what you wrote on the napkin, Ian) descends from the ceiling, an eerily similar effect to Trump's stumpy papier-maché model of the Hitleresque triumphal arch that he's so desperate to make his "legacy". (Actually, not papier maché; it's probably scaffolding under there, isn't it? Because he clearly knows a guy)
A Norwegian redditor saying precisely this 5 years ago. The screenshot is in Norwegian but I'm putting the translation here. 'jomarthecat: Here in Norway we had a trend of translating movie titles to "Help, we are ....." It was mostly for comedies. I think it started with the National Lampoon movies. "Help, we are on vacation.", "Help, we are on vacation in Europe", "Help, we are on Christmas vacation". We also got "Help, we are flying" (Airplane) and "Help, we are in the music business" (Spinal Tap). Probably more others, can't remember them right now.'
Creamy Cukes CURVE INN CAFE, REDGRANITE Pam and Byrdie Chamberlin Fresh garden cucumbers make this simple salad shine. "Our best dishes are all made from family recipes-a little of this, a little of that," says Pam. "I do most of my cooking all by taste. The rest comes natural." 2 tablespoons salt 4 medium cucumbers, peeled and sliced 1 medium or 2 small onions, finely diced Miracle Whip dressing sugar salt and pepper Combine 5-6 cups water with 2 tablespoons salt and stir to dissolve. Add the cucumbers and onions; toss gently but well, and chill 8 or more hours. Drain cucumbers well. Stir in Miracle Whip, sugar, salt, and pepper to taste. Makes 6-8 servings.
In Joss Whedon's original script draft, the Toad character frequently taunted the X-Men with the question, "Do you know what happens to a toad when...?" When Storm ultimately electrocuted him, her line was intended to be a sarcastic, anti-joke payoff that mocked his recurring catchphrase. However, all of Toad's setup lines were cut from the final film,
Large ad featuring a groovy young woman-about-town emerging from town, asking her pervert glasses, "Hey Meta, where is the best pizza in Brooklyn?", with the strapliine "THIS IS HOW NINA DISCOVERS THE CITY"
Post by Starmer: Absolutely appalling. No one should face violence on our streets. The suspect appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred. I will not tolerate this - he will face the full force of the law. My thoughts are with those who are injured and I thank the police and the emergency services for their response.
Tweet in 2022 by the world's richest, saddest, loneliest man showing Shigeru Komatsuzaki's 1968 painting "The Ark of Space" depicting animals being led two by two into a big spaceship, like he's been commissioned to draw this by a goddamned 9 year-old, but a particularly racist 9 year-old since in the foreground are a ton of black protestors being menaced by armed goons making it clear that they are very much NOT going to space.
"We just don’t want it blown out of all proportion. We don’t want world war three to start because of this, because had it just been the five blasts on their horn, we wouldn’t have reported it, there would have been nothing to report. It was just the gunfire that was a little bit surprising,” she told the Guardian on Wednesday.
Logo on the side of a removal van: a smiling cartoon man carries a box above the words "YOUR MOVE MATE Removals"
Cormega Copening, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was prosecuted as an adult under federal child pornography felony laws, for sexually exploiting a minor. The minor was himself. “It’s dysfunctional to be charged with possession of your own image,” said Justin Patchin, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin and co-founder of the research website cyberbullying.org.
There was also a problem with a slogan the Starbuck campaign used: "thwack on the desk". It echoed a notorious cover story used by police after the 1987 torture death of student activist Park Jong-chul. Authorities at the time initially claimed Park died because an officer had used his fist to "hit the desk with a thwack".
A large pile of old books by author Danielle Steel (bestselling living author and the fourth-best-selling fiction author of all time, I've just discovered) put out for sale at knockdown prices at the enterprising kiosk near Oval tube that sells snacks that have just reached their sell-by date and anything the proprietor comes across for free that he might be able to shift, i.e. bits of old furniture, broken toys, the occasional tux, on one occasion an old-timey diving suit, etc etc
Bring a friend. Bring a neighbor. Bring that cousin who's "thinking about getting more involved".
Wes "sculpture of Keir Starmer made out of butter" Streeting* pulling a slight odd face, alarmed and wistfully nostalgic all at once * © Alexei Sayle
This latest version of the “Trump arranges fake assassination attempt to become more popular” theory goes something like this: Donald Trump and his people planned the shoo— Okay, let me stop you right there. Donald Trump doesn’t plan things. That’s thinking, which is strike one, and thinking ahead, which is strike two. Strike three is the idea that a lifetime coward would want to put himself in even fake danger and further normalize trying to whack him.
Three ministerial aides quit and demand Keir Starmer's resignation as speech fails to quell rebellion
Strawberry says he needs to talk more about how Labour is acting on behalf of working people
Farage has done a huge amount to highlight these issues. Just not at all in the way that Yusuf suggests. To take just a few examples, over recent years the Reform leader has: Suggested that the “Jewish lobby” has too much power in the United States Pushed what Jewish groups described as anti-semitic “dog whistles” about the Jewish billionaire George Soros Engaged in conspiracy theories rooted in anti-semitism about “cultural marxism”, the “new world order”, “great replacement”, “globalists” and the “global government” Repeatedly dismissed allegations of anti-semitism against other Reform politicians
Facebook post by Stoke Poges Village on 4 May: "Liz Truss was captured taking on Conservative Party peer Lord Dominic Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg's son Peter on Bank Holiday Monday at the Buckinghamshire country estate." For anyone unable to see the accompanying picture, I hasten to add that this is referring to a game of golf.
Tweet by @juliaioffe on 13 Apr: Sorry, what is...that? (Picture shows detail from the infamous AI slop picture of Trump as Jesus healing a suspiciously Epsteinesque figure lying prone in bed. Over Trump's shoulder, one of the vague shapes that the AI peopled the clouds with looks a little sinister) Reply by @Ernie030609: I had grok enhance it, looks like a demon walking away. (Picture shows the vague shape from the previous tweet now "enhanced" by Grok and distinctly resembling a demonic - or possibly samurai-inspired Transformers - figure with armour, wings and a three-spiked helmet. Literally finding shapes in clouds)
Guardian headline: Starmer’s failure to demonstrate strong values ‘driving away progressive voters’ Report using research from senior Blair and Clinton pollster comes as Labour braces for dismal election results
An ad on the side of a phone booth for a company called Artisan, with a picture of an unamused AI-generated woman looking like Morticia Addams after reluctantly being given a glow-up and the tagline "STOP HIRING HUMANS - Hire Ava, the AI BDR" Maybe, like me, you don't do the kind of job that requires you to know what a BDR is. It's a "business development representative", a sales role (it says here) focused on generating new business, qualifying leads, and scheduling meetings via cold outreach. If there's one thing we know, it's that chatbots can do all these things, and if there are two things we know, it's that chatbots will reliably fuck this up a fair amount of the time because they're not actually sentient. Still, good luck!
Washington Post Editorial Board opinion piece: To help America, tech companies belatedly stand up to activist workers Google picked staff over country in 2018. Not this time.
Washington Post Editorial Board opinion piece: To help America, tech companies belatedly stand up to activist workers Google picked staff over country in 2018. Not this time.
Post on Threads by hassenebrahim: The lack of news on Gaza isn't because the genocide is over. It's because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there's a ceasefire.
Poster saying "GET RACE READY"
A sinister grinning young man who in all probability is AI-generated but is clearly modelled on generations of young Tory serial killers
Tweet by @ben_rosen on 23 July 2020: REPUBLICANS: we're having the military throw protesters in unmarked vans DEMOCRATS: mark 👏 the 👏 vans 👏
New Yorker cartoon by Robert Leighton: Man and woman on the stoop of a house. The woman is saying "This will never work, Tom. We're from opposite ends of the same wing of the same political party."
Temu Oswald Mosley (a dangerous but fundamentally risible character who himself was a bargain-bin Hitler) Nigel Farage receiving a milkshake directly to the face. Milkshaking Farage was a short-lived but cherished British tradition that deserves a revival in this local election season.
Travis Bickle, in his driving around muttering stuff like "Someday a rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets" era, resentfully muttering "Once immigration is fixed"
Garfield cartoon from 1987: ARLENE (also a cat) (apologies if you already know this or can see for yourself; *I* don't know why you're using a screenreader) Garfield, I just don't know what I see in you GARFIELD: It is a bit overwhelming, isn't it? ARLENE: You're rude, obnoxious, fat, selfish, egotistical, and totally devoid of any charm GARFIELD: I AM NOT EGOTISTICAL
Tweet by @webofevil on 6/8/24: Oakeshott, a bottomless well of seething, privileged far-right spite and resentment. As if Unity Mitford had a miscarriage but sent it to boarding school anyway.
A page from Alan Moore & Garry Leach's "Miracleman". Panel 1: the original 1950s character smiling. Caption: "Behold!" Panel 2: Same picture, zoomed in slightly. Panel 3: Same picture, zoomed in more. Now has the effect of a freezeframe and the smile now resembles a rictus grin. Caption: "I teach you the superman!" Panel 4: Same picture, now zoomed in on the eyes. Getting quite unsettling now. Panel 5: Now zoomed in on only one eye. Caption: "He is this lightning..." Panel 6: Zoomed in on the eye even more. Panel 7: Zoomed in on so much on the pupil that you can only see the outline of the eyelid and a dash of the white of the eye. Caption: "He is this madness!" Panel 8: Total zoom in. Only black is visible, with the glint of the pupil in the middle. Caption: "Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'" Gritty reminded me of this, is my point.
Tweet by @webofevil on 30/11/21: Probably the most common answer to "Do you have a printer at home?" is "Yes, so no."
Martin Rowson cartoon from the 2014 Budget, titled "Cause and Effect" 1. At dawn, George Osborne stands on a beach where the tide is fully out. He begins to piss on the sand. 2. The sun is higher in the sky. The sea is, if anything, further out. Osborne continues to piss. 3. Late afternoon. Osborne still pissing. No sign of the sea. 4. As the sun sets, the tide has begun to come in and is lapping around Osborne's ankles. He flings his hands out victoriously and yells to the sky, "BEHOLD! BEHOLD MY ACHIEVEMENT!!" (NB Osborne's Lib Dem coalition junior Danny Alexander is also in the cartoon, basically portrayed as Beaker the Muppet, but no-one cared about him then nor do they now, and he's not integral to this description) (so feel free to ignore it)