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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 19:00:45 JST Charlie Stross

   "The Luton-based Christian charity Azalea, which offers “practical, emotional and spiritual support to women sexually exploited through prostitution” turn out to be more Screaming Jeezus People ranting about witchcraft.

   This happened before, in the early 90s during the Orkney Satanic Ritual Abuse scandal. 30 years is long enough for institutional amnesia to set in. Luckily they seem to have caught it in time this time round ...
   https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/11/scottish-sex-work-strategy-a-mess-as-charity-ditched-after-occult-claim

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 19:02:50 JST Charlie Stross

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     Oh boy, THIS again: Azalea "offers a checklist of “examples of occult activity” that includes yoga and playing Dungeons & Dragons."

     https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/11/scottish-sex-work-strategy-a-mess-as-charity-ditched-after-occult-claim

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     Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer (princejvstin@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 19:06:40 JST Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer

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     @cstross I didn't like this the first time it went around

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:35:49 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)

     @AntonPNym This isn't recent, in this form it goes back to the early 1980s (and has roots going much deeper—1830s, I believe).

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     Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) (antonpnym@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:35:50 JST Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)

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     @cstross With this and with recent American political antics I am beginning to wish that we were persecuting certain noxious stripes of Christianity the way they claim we are. (Perhaps not in the hashtag-Nero-was-right sense, but perhaps in the exclusion-from-public-office and denial-of-government-funding senses.)

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     Nemo (iinavpov@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:42:40 JST Nemo

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     @cstross
     Seriously? Again? Can't they at least wait a generation?

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:42:40 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Nemo

     @iinavpov It's been 30 years since the last go-around!

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:50:53 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Nemo

     @iinavpov It's still available—out of stock but they'll reprint if you order 10,000 and up. Here's the full comic on their web page so you don't have to pay for it:

     https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046

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     Nemo (iinavpov@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:50:54 JST Nemo

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     @cstross
     I'm oooold. I still remember *that* Chick tract...

     (Still makes me laugh)

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 17:53:51 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Atomic Orbitals

     @geoglyphentropy Not when they're running the White House

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     Atomic Orbitals (geoglyphentropy@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 17:53:52 JST Atomic Orbitals

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     @cstross Screaming Jesus People would make a great band name...

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 18:51:54 JST Charlie Stross

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     • compassDoesWhat

     @compassDoesWhat W40K emerged around 1988-90 in the UK. The Satanic Panic had peaked by then, and was predominantly in the USA; the UK didn't really get it bad.

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     compassDoesWhat (compassdoeswhat@discuss.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 18:51:55 JST compassDoesWhat

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     @cstross why is it always dnd? I keep waiting for them to go after warhammer 40k and there is nothing.