The US and Israel are deliberately attacking Iran's civilian infrastructure. They are bombing schools and hospitals. They are murderous monsters on a blood crazed rampage. Another blood crazed rampage. truthout.org/articles/us-...

For the bleary-eyed, early Sunday morning crowd: A deep dive into a fathomless abyss. @timescarcass.bsky.social, @elliotchapman.bsky.social and myself discuss the work of sublime genius that is the original Alien. youtu.be/J9ETKZJRyYA?...

The Nuremberg tribunals called starting a war, launching an unprovoked attack, the supreme war crime because it necessarily entails all other war crimes that inevitably follow. That's what the US, Israel, and their allies have done. We are not the good guys no matter what we do because we are white.

'Boots on the ground' means INVASION. It means attack and slaughter. It is not a debateable policy proposal. It is a war crime.

You have no idea how intimidated we - @timescarcass.bsky.social, @elliotchapman.bsky.social and myself- were to tackle this one (even though I've spoken about it before on the channel): youtu.be/J9ETKZJRyYA?...

🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19

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I wonder if we can think of an ironically apt punishment... poetic justice of some kind... a Dantean contrapasso of some variety... I dunno, there must be something... give me time, I'll get this...

I imagine being forced to run for bomb shelters every night is awful but 1) Those people actually have shelters, unlike Israel’s huge underclass of subhumans who have no rights, and 2) the Israeli government started the war by attacking Iran. The solution to this problem is pretty obvious, is it not

The sad truth is... any country that allows President Donald Trump... deserves President Donald Trump.

The Haunted Palace (1963). Underrated lesser Corman, based on Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. The wizard in question is Joseph Curwen, who returns from the dead by possessing his ancestor.

One of the most powerful and profound articles we have published "We dehumanise -and, indeed, demonise- our young as a projectionist salve to our own unspoken, sublimated sins: The very same they stand as living testaments to, and therefore become the vessels of." @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social

This is the fruit of the poisonous tree of evangelical christian fascism. This is the result of America permitting that cancer to grow inside it for decades. This is the result of a society feeding and coddling its own deadly parasite.

It looks like it was made specifically for people who grew up with the books AND the movies and are still annoyed about the movies leaving stuff out. They just want the movies again but longer and with all of the irrelevant padding left in this time.

For the rest of time, in every context, Donald Trump should be referred to as "rapist and murderer of children, Donald Trump". An objectively true statement and description. That should be his legacy, his reputation, forever.

And then imagine if Guernica was also... crap.

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

You don’t get much more vulnerable than trans children. This famous phrase by James Baldwin always seems to come up in the context of Deadly Wesley; “I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.”

Another great video from Dr @caelan.bsky.social. About a lot more than it seems to be about. youtu.be/JNCeO7whnW4?...

If you want someone to catch typhus, you recommend Typhoid Mary to be their new cook.

Reform UK's poll score is now heading downwards very quickly. Turns out that being really unpleasant, remaining disorganised, having loads of skeletons in their closet, being reliant on a very unpopular leader and hating almost everything the public thinks doesn't work for long. Who knew eh.

New Same Log: Alien (1979). Exclusive advance access for my patrons. @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social, @elliotchapman.bsky.social & myself continue our series on SF/Horror with a discussion of... the big one. www.patreon.com/posts/same-l...

New Same Log: Alien (1979). Exclusive advance access for my patrons. @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social, @elliotchapman.bsky.social & myself continue our series on SF/Horror with a discussion of... the big one. www.patreon.com/posts/same-l...

New Same Log podcast episode coming soon...

Countries do not start wars without war aims. They just don't. That doesn't happen. Until now. Unless you count making Donald Trump feel good as a war aim.

I resent that the world war I will have live through will be fucking stupid

I think otherwise fairly sensible people can be cranks and crackpots on one subject. Tonight, @elliotchapman.bsky.social, @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social, & I are discussing Alien (1979). On this film, I am a crank and a crackpot.

One of the things about starting to lose your hearing is that you constantly imagine you can hear the phone ringing in the next room out of pure paranoia.

With all the veneration going on, it's worth remembering that Robert Mueller was complicit in fabricating the fake rationale for the criminal war crime that was the invasion of Iraq by the Bush II administration.

What the European Union opposes when Russia does it in Ukraine the European Union supports when Israel or the United States does it in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela etc. Cuba will be no different.

once again I am compelled to mention that Bush v. Gore likely went down the way it did because Sandra Day O'Connor cooked her brain on talk radio scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The layers of irony here defy numeration.

Alfred Sohn-Rethel, The Economic and Class Structure of German Fascism:

I suspect this will turn out to be very significant. The tactical alliance in Trumpism between right-wing Catholics and evangelicals is breaking down over governmental MAGA's alliance with Israel. A classic example of an ideological split expressing deep material divisions within a coalition.

Nige can complain until he’s blue in the face, but the polls concur on one thing - his latest party is losing its lustre. theconversation.com/nigel-farage...

Don't post angry, folks ❤️

When you finally wonder if maybe you’ve contributed to a moral panic that has led to the most extreme assault on minority rights since Jim Crow

No. Scholarship requires people to engage with source materials, craft their arguments, and participate in a dialogue. Stop treating AI models like they possess consciousness or can create new knowledge. They cannot.

This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught by an underwater robot during an expedition off the Phoenix Islands.

Bram Stoker's Clavicula

Modern Britain is squarely built on slavery, violent rapacious imperialism, racialised hierarchies and grotesque inequalities of power and wealth. A less Christian heritage is hard to envisage

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

Public shaming works, folks.

Trump is at the 'in the bunker, hunched over a map, surrounded by terrified generals, hands trembling, furiously demanding that Berlin be relieved by non-existent fresh armies' stage.

And needless to say, they are completely and totally historically illiterate about any form of Christianity that existed before around 1800. Nothing but Lindsey/La Haye premillennial dispensationalist horse shit, and bullshit neo-gnostic Prosperity Gospel grift. Stupid, stupid people.

Tommy Robinson's visit to the State Dept was hosted by Special Advisor to the Bureau of Consular Affairs Joe Rittenhouse, an actor / activist from PA who appears to be entirely unqualified for his senior State Dept role. He casts Tommy as a "free speech warrior" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The American broadcaster Tucker Carlson is seeking to denigrate Churchill and to elevate the fascist leader Oswald Mosley, as if he led the Opposition to the government. The only obvious reason to do this would seem to be to dissolve contemporary norms against fascism www.thejc.com/news/world/t...

THE MONSTER

Ages ago I wrote that Rowling's magical world looked even more banal in light of the rise of smart phones, streets and shops full of animated digital adverts, 3D printing, etc. The rise of GenAI makes her look prophetic.