Sort of obvious one, but as a BBC-accented southerner gentrifying Manchester Mark E. Smith would hate me.

there's definitely an essay in this, about how this entire generation of right wingers have spent their entire career smashing the drywall and kicking the legs out from under polite society, seemingly so sheltered that they honestly never considered that it might end up affecting them too

Nick Fuentes says people better be careful about calling him a Nazi "because if I'm a Nazi, then there's millions of young people that are following a fucking Nazi." Um, yeah, that's exactly what we've been warning about!

"And why at the next election it won't be Conservatives Vs Labour but Reform Vs The Green Party." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I initially assumed that the 56% referred to murder-fetishists like Axel Rudakubana and the teenagers who killed Brianna Ghey, but it doesn't seem to refer to anything at all. Over four thousand people are being referred to Prevent for bad vibes.

Did somebody cure autism or something?

Bring back book covers like this.

Let me tell you what Madonna's Like a Virgin is about. It's not about some nice cis-het she/her. Tell that to the fucking tourists. It's about he/they/it agender system in a kitchen-table relationship anarchy arrangement. In Portland.

This is so Absolutely My Shit that I'll have to open the book with a long pole to make sure that it's not a trap designed for me specifically.

It's actually really normal for a billionaire to run a secret private school, something that combines a Ranch with Neverland from J.M Barrie's Peter Pan books. It's also normal to call it 'Bicken Ben', a normal set of words that regular people use.

listen to @bloodwork.show

Andrew Cuomo's campaign embraced AI — and it made him a toxic laughingstock, while Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory.

There is an argument to be made how stereotypical men, by not being able to control their base instincts, vice-signalling, performative cruelty ('we're firing everyone but 10x devs!') and conformity ('we NEED to be an AI-first company!') ruined the workplace and produced nothing in the process.

In another brilliant sketch @willdunn.bsky.social nails the weird folk-public-school vernacular of Reform and the Reform-curious:

'If I finish Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism I'll be able to listen to the Warhammer 40k Dropsite Massacre book and learn new Lore' is something that I have thought today.

Watch how absolutely nothing happens.

The problem here is essentialism - Giuliani believes that even though in reality Mamdani is a secular, probably atheist liberal he still has the essence of all Muslims. To be Muslim is to be responsible for 9-11 in the way that to be a square is to have four equal sides.

The King is Basilisk-pilled and we are so cooked. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Obviously huge news for bisexual culture (and we deserve a win after a decade of jokes about not being able to drive), but I am deeply sceptical of a 'filmmaking duo' with a name like a band. Just use regular names.

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in talks to return for a new 'Mummy' movie. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the filmmaking duo known as Radio Silence, are set to direct the movie for Universal. (via The Hollywood Reporter)

I had a great conversation with Chad Gray of Mudvayne. We talk a lot about positivity, finding yourself, helping others, and creating art that can mean so many different things to so many people. Even if you don't like the band, it's an awesome listen. #metalsky #numetal

There's been fireworks going off by my house for the past five minutes - hundreds and hundreds of pounds of pyrotechnics at 4pm on a Wednesday.

INVISIBLES MENTIONED. Will Josie and Becca read it on the show so we can finally discover whether it's Genius or Problematic or Both?

This can't goon

Send me money and/or naked pictures and I will watch this.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Lots of great things about it, but Mamdani’s victory is also an encouraging win over the evil AI hate slop that Cuomo was tossing at the virtual wall at the end there. Deepfakes are dangerous but they are also a sign of despotic desperation.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

uk labour lost **half** their coalition playing to racist fears & attacking trans people us dems just won big without any of that

I've said it before and I'll say it again: you can absolutely still be taken seriously as a centrist pundit if you believe in a conspiracy against humanity formed of the Islamic far right and the secular soft-left. Fartlow here is alleging Zohran Mamdani was bankrolled by the House of Saud.

LET'S GO 🫧💥 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

me @ Labour politicians re: Zohran Mamdani

You’d think it would be a major scandal at least in certain circles that the CEO of America’s most valuable defense contractor gets absolutely blasted on heroic amounts of cocaine before going on TV and screaming about his stock being down 5%

BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 6 THE LEPER IN THE CITY w/ SERENE RICHARDS We talk to the author of ‘Biopolitics as a System of Thought’ about Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of bare life & the state of exception, and how our techno-capitalist present limits how we think and approach life & politics.

I think this is the take: believing what Cuomo, Ackman et al. are saying *requires* people to either be stupid or, something I think is more common, play-act that they believe stupid things, like that he's going to be enforcing burquas, and there are a lot of people who feel that's undignified.

Friends are worried that he's regressed to the point where he's listening to Radiohead's OK Computer like he's 15 again.

groyperfication/BAPization of conservative youth and next generation GOP is the logical endpoint of nihilist creep on the right they willfully, gleefully made 'triggering the libs' their core ethos, denigrating all expressions of empathy, sincerity, and integrity with slurs like 'sjw,' 'woke,' etc

I want JD Vance to be excommunicated so bad that I'm convulsing in cold sweats like Renton in Trainspotting while a baby JD Vance crawls across the ceiling.

We need at least a year of education spent drilling kids on the concept that it's okay to say that you don't follow politics the same way that you'd say that you don't follow sports.

The founder of No Lives Matter, a violent nihlistic violent extremist group, faces multiple charges including child abuse and terrorism in the Netherlands. via @globalextremism.bsky.social globalextremism.org/post/founder...

Shorting OpenAI/Nvidia et al. is just good financial common sense at this point. Palantir might be a big premature because I'm sure they'll go up more before they come down and I don't see that happening without, you know, global communist cat-boy revolution, but it'll still happen one day.

Dick Cheney: Huh? Where am I? Hulk Hogan: Heaven brother, hell yeah Charlie Kirk: Glad to see you pal! Shunsaku Tamiya: You can help me apply Extra Thin Liquid Cement to a 1/24 scale Audi Quatro

Oh man, if Zohran Mamdani's wife was to act really aloof and dismissive towards me I would HATE THAT!

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 is a paradigm example of Anton Jäger’s concept of ‘hyperpolitics’: a heightened emotional response to momentary moral panics, fads, ‘a form of politicisation without any clear political consequences.’" www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...

A major podcast is making me tap the sign.

Dependent. Detached. Trauma Bonded. The Incest Lobby. Revolution Against Romance. Reading for Love and Labor. Surrealist Bedfellows. Mad Love. Essays by Nadia Bou Ali, hannah baer, Moon Charania, Davey Davis, Kaleem Hawa, Anna Kornbluh, Thomas Ogden, and more. Issue 07: Romance

Okay, I've seen all the Dick Cheney jokes now.

It will be very funny if nobody gets banned for insulting one of the main architects of modern conservatism when dozens of people did for defaming America's 38th most popular podcaster. It'll really show where postmodern conservatism is at as a movement.