Makes me think of Benjamin on romantic art criticism as completing the art it contemplates, but this film solicits that by just giving us an outline and trying to get us to fill in the blanks with our own desire for content. This is because backrooms is just the form of a limitless universe.

It showed rather than told but it only showed enough provoke an inquisitiveness into the internet lore which would lead me to tell others that this film had more depth than it actually had. It relies on outsourcing its depth to a digital commons which you memorise back into the film, a cinematic LLM

Watched Backrooms. Everything is presented as hinting at a wider lore like it wants my imagination to tell the story on behalf of the film; as opposed to intensifying the mystery beyond a swiftly satisfying explanation e.g. Lovecraft/Lynch. 1/

and the marshals just picked up the tate boys. this should be a fun diversion.

The weak thinnly sheets off, normal duvets gonna be so nice

I wish this one didn’t have a paywall. Here’s the opening:

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

reading early reviews of Nolan’s Odyssey like of course the message at the end is conservative. He’s a Tory. If they wanted a real woke Odyssey they needed a real visionary. A real Marxist who knew only real Marxists could read Homer right. Who could show the viewers the tragedy of bourgeois coldn

The most a single Dude has ever Rocked. One of my favourite things to do as a passenger on a long drive is to just read the maddest Wikipedia pages I know of out loud, and Terry Peck's is one of my immediate go-tos.

Cool mentor you have there

BBC News just aired a discussion about “far-left political violence”. Within that discussion, a right-wing contributor included the murder of Ann Widdecombe in a list of examples of left-wing political violence. The BBC anchors did not interrupt or correct this at any point. Zero credibility.

Apparently the parents of Mumford and Sons are massive evangelical Christians who basically own the largest music radio conglomerate in the US. This explains why so many 'rock' stations play shit like Mumford and Sons and Imagine Dragons. It has to be 'inspiring' or 'uplifting'.

So there’s this whole strand of Marxist psychology from the 60s-70s I’ve been reading called Critical Psychology, which is odd because I spent 3 years studying Critical Educational Psychology to doctoral level and Marxism wasn’t mentioned once. Curious. We should probably do something about that

Important🧵from Cal at the coal face. “the school staff cried” doesn’t move me any more, it angers me, as they proceed to act on govt policy and cause harm. Streeting told me, meeting the trans youth whose medication he’d removed was “really upsetting for me, really hard”. We need more than tears.

Shit like this is at the heart of at least 70% of the UK's problems: twats trying to be aggrieved over nothing getting indulged rather than being told to fuck off.

Patrick Pencil

Outrageous.

I think it's safe to say that result is entirely Keir Starmer's fault

So many tears falling into bags right now

Timothée Mallette

Gonna watch The Odyssey on this bad boy.

A mate of mine told me he'd done some building work at Kenny Dalglishs house, where he he also met Hansen, Lawrenson, all lovely guys. When he first met Lawro tho, he was shocked at how tall he was irl, and said he appeared much shorter on Tv, to which Lawro replied "Shut up nobhead" lol

Can it make them explode

Discarded cannabis? Glad the dogs fine like but maybe it was too hot up there? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this idea, of a commemorative artwork marking the sale of another artwork, began during Frieze 2014, when I made a photocopy of a 1989 Cady Noland photocopy at Christie's. Which, if you cut off all the greg.org parts, would leave a perfect [sic] replica of Noland's version greg.org/archive/2014...

Heard the words "I'm in love with the future" spoken very solemnly by a twenty-ish yr old guy to a woman sat next to him on the bus, and it's been on my mind all day.

Wasp still lasted longer than Conor McGregor.

Caught a wasp and took it into the tiny toilet, opened window to release it, but ofc It attacked me stinging me in the neck.

BREAKING: Deadly bacteria found in major US city's water system traced to Mark Zuckerberg's $800 million, META, data center, per TechRadar

If that's a satellite image the shituation is worse than I thought

dumbass nazi getting a boot up his ass

I don't usually whine or whinge, not really my thing, but fkin hell this heat

The outside wall of my bedroom is as warm to touch inside as my forehead, basically sucks up heat all day and acts as a radiator, and only cools down around 5-6am, horrible

Such a good idea to be reading Hegel at this hr, and in this heat.

My patience with bullshit has reached a limit

Doing some housekeeping on here

Never mind.

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They could fkin start by helping witt the heat by installing oft insulation, I've been asking it to be done for two years.

Fkin raging

Both sets of neigbours have brought this on, because they can't stand the fact it's not been cut down up to now, and the fact they get leaves on their cars and driveways.

It's bad enough in my bedrooms as it is, this is just gonna make it uninhabitable for 5-6 months of the year.

Housing associations been round, said they're gonna have to take the green down. "We'll work with you and talk to the arborist". I mentioned the fact that it provides shade, that I've got heat intolerance, that there will be possible foundational damage when the roots die back etc, cba

So, like, are they pulling the plug on Farage to give Reform a new leader or because they want Restore? Which way, Modern Media?

Oooooo remembers

Five years gone today. I think of Dawn so often and wish she was still here, bit giving our enemies a second's peace artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/dawn-fo...

Boring but important question - Do I know any UK soliciter or lawer with knowledge of contract law who would consider looking at a lease contract pro bono for a radical bookshop?