For every £1 you earn on UC, your benefit gets docked by 55p, meaning if you get a min. wage job (£12.21), your real hourly earnings would be £5.49. This is supposed to incentivise pursuit of full-time employment, at which point your earnings pass a threshold effectively canceling out the deduction.

Starting this weekend!

I remember when Nigel Warburton wrote a fawning review of Pluckrose and Lindsay’s book attacking universities for the Spectator back in 2020 and said ‘they have done their homework’ when the book was repackaging antisemitic conspiracy theories. Didn’t age well. Looks like he’s failed up since then!

“The wretchedness of his material and *sexual* situation is so overshadowed by the exalting idea of belonging to a master race and having a brilliant führer that, as time goes on, he ceases to realize how completely he has sunk to a position of insignificant, blind allegiance.”

Boards of Canada are (finally) back! Craig sits down with author and music writer Jack Chuter and BoC archivist Tonx Konecny to go deep on 'Inferno', perhaps the most personal, ambitious, and haunting record the Sandison brothers have ever made. www.patreon.com/posts/boards...

A group of researchers are working on Bataille in various contexts, and Thursday night they will host a public roundtable discussion on Bataille's work. Bookmark for the link.

Listen to @bloodwork.show

Written an article for The Aftershock on the Filton25 trial, and what this moment means for us. aftershock.media/the-great-br...

bright normal center right people whose austerity policies contributed to the social murder of millions

Manuscript drafted for this. Publishing is in a right state and I think self-publishing might be worth the money. Took out a lot of crypto-Deleuzian anarcho wobble, put more in on Stirner's approach to labour time.

May was a fun month musically. My review of Desertfest should be out soon.

Amidst a total Gooner cultural victory, a Blochian Spirit of Utopia sweeps across North East London.

This summer AHRC is hosting free public philosophy panels. First up: a roundtable on Georges Bataille hosted by members of our 'Formless' seminar, which concluded in May. Join us on Zoom — June 4, 7PM ET. Free access via free Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/summer...

Happening now. The Met Police & Blackthorne Utilities Ltd are trying to remove the electricity Palestine House -

I have cynicism'd myself into a less consequentialist ethical position as I've gotten older. Sadly this has cashed out in an Ethical Idealism where I see organising as a moral duty but, given how much there is to be done, low capacity/living puts me into a quasi-Kantian shame/stress burnout spiral.

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The AHRC is happy to announce that the AHRC Agora returns this summer with three free public philosophy panels, running in tandem with our course series. Bataille, life in communes, Fanon & Anders. Bookmark this post; Zoom links and info drop soon.

The national anthem of the reserve army of labour. open.spotify.com/track/1zLCRp...

Got you mate (we're boycotting the publisher so free link to ePub) we.tl/t-A2nDmv3irP...

Now that WS is back and people maybe remember who I am, just a brief reminder - things I can do: - Write/research (fiction, arts, social sciences etc.) - Edit (text, podcasts, whatever) - Technically sound design Things I cannot: Become gainfully employed via routes available to normal people

We're fuckin back doing Power Industrial lads. thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/track/new-mi...

The Pope did not start a war on so-called AI. He got his Rerum Novarum moment because Anthropic gave him a chance to feel new and in return he took part in their reification of bullshit. It's the liberal collaborationist version of that Thiel-funded Mark Wahlberg rosary app for fucks sake.

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STEM: You have to be RIGOROUS and METHODICAL in your research and every result must be VERIFIABLE and PRECISELY REPORTED and REPRODUCABLE Also STEM: yes I have it from (Smith et al. 1998), a 872 page text book good luck finding it lol ;)

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My author copies have arrived! To celebrate, I'm offering a free copy sent directly to your front door. This is your chance to bag what will surely be the beach read of the summer! Just share this post and in two weeks (28 May) I'll choose a name from a hat and pop it in the mail.

Such philosopher is truly an AI philosopher, in that they are a capital investment designed to present an image of intelligence–synthesised from a data bank of canonical arguments and analytical tropes–in order to tell billionnaires exactly what they want to hear.

NEW: When Pope Leo drops his new encyclical focused on AI next week, a co-founder of Anthropic will be there to help promote it. Why? Turns out, there was a decade-long effort by the Vatican and the tech world to forge a relationship — w/Anthropic at the center. religionnews.com/2026/05/22/w...

As far as I can tell no one in power has any idea why it's generally good for a society to produce well educated people. I look forward to using my PhD for podcasting.

I love my city 🫡🫡

It is too hot and humid to read or write anything intensive. I am free.

Podcasting about a future in which the oppressed will be magnanimous and even former oppressors will go free... www.patreon.com/posts/158934...

Last days to enroll in 'Worlds Without Us' led by Nicolas de Warren, the AHRC's first course bringing together philosophy and an exploration of the science fiction genre. Click here: www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses...

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Have some solidarity art xx

GB News cameraman took swings at us (clocked me right in the back one time). Best option: blast music, use anything at hand to cover camera lens (umbrellas, flags), no comment, redirect them away from the demo, do not let up until they leave

Trans liberation protest in Parliament Square had the best practice in handling with hostile media I've seen, solid numbers too.

Tangentially but related, if someone says ‘diversity of thought’ to you they fully intend to put you in a death camp

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

Missed World Goth Day. Shit. Anyway listen to Fields of the Nephilim open.spotify.com/track/3G6UYw...

‼️ *EMERGENCY TRANS DEMO* 🏳️‍⚧️ 📍Parliament Square 📆 Saturday 23 May 2026 ⏰ 11AM 🚝 Nearest tube Westminster (step free access) Join us tomorrow, Saturday 23 May at 11AM in Parliament Square. Bring sunscreen, water and your rage! *One struggle, one fight* ✊🏳️‍⚧️

this Labour Government has largely presided over the sharpest uptick in racial, religious, and LGBT+ violence in my lifetime and it's hard to really stress just how much Labour actively chose this

Gonna be on a panel about the digital and its (dis)contents at this year's Festival Of The Oppressed! The full programme is now live over at revsoc21.uk/foto-2026/ , check it out and grab a ticket!

“Providing” me with a separate gender neutral toilet is not respectful or dignified, it is humiliating, degrading, discriminating and denies my very being. I am a woman and forcing me to pretend i’m not for bigotry’s sake is fucking egregious

Earlier in April, I spoke to Emma from @acidhorizon.bsky.social about my @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded project on non-reciprocity -- running until the end of August 2026 and coming out in book form(at) hopefully not too long after that!

Favourite outtakes from the occasion, cheers to Tom and the Lions lads for the shirt and the Triptykon corpsepaint do.

Shoutout to @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social for taking the tube in corpse paint on a Tuesday night.