Keep having nightmares about robots and androids.

Sky King, Killdozer, even Herzog's penguin seem fascinating to the American right. All people who lived an invisible life then did something to go out in a blaze of glory. I'm sure someone cleverer than me has analysed this. Probably should be seen with some concern.

The two elderly regulars at the pub diverging from their usual drunken rambles to conclude "fuck Donald Trump... We need a return to 1812 and burn down the White House."

It's my opinion that watching videos of people dying will mess you up in ways you don't realise at the time. I really believe that it's a psychological poison.

Today I am thinking of Rev. Jonathan Myrick Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian who was shot and killed protecting a 17-year old Black girl from a shotgun blast in Alabama. I took this photo of an icon of him at an Episcopal retreat I went on last year. The deputy sheriff who murdered him was acquitted

Something I've learned is that the pop-psychology conception of "introversion" is more often than not a cover for antisociality; I believed sincerely as a teenager that I was fine on my own. If you've met me, you know I'm shy and awkward. But in fact social meetings always make me feel better.

#OtD 25 Jan 1911 Kanno Sugako, Japanese writer and anarchist feminist, was executed for her part in a plot to assassinate the Emperor. Radicalised at 14 after being raped, she remains the only woman to be executed in Japan for treason stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9739...

This is unusual but not extraordinary for Reddit, what'll be most interesting is if it spreads to capital-N Normie spaces

What options does Walz actually have?

Again the response to the ICE shooting will be lots of people saying "well they probably deserved it!" and when it turns out they didn't deserve it they'll say "well it's based anyway!" You don't have to respect those people or treat them like normal political actors.

I have immense respect for the people protesting and monitoring ICE at this time.

“For a while, people thought I was dead.” In the first week of protests in Madagascar, at least 22 people were killed. 1843 speaks to the youngsters behind the movement that toppled the island’s leader

Bringing back this banger because ppl need some hope-core #paleoart

Film people: Can you recommend any films based on ancient Greece? It can be literal or abstracted. This is for a film night.

Was thinking of upgrading the CPU on my computer. In order to do that I'd need to upgrade my motherboard. In order to upgrade my motherboard, I'd need to upgrade my RAM.

Whenever someone complains about poor job prospects with humanities degrees, someone else comes along and says "well you knew that when you applied for it so why are you complaining??" No!! The explicit advice for various humanities degrees was "this is flexible and employers love it!"

Enjoyed this video of the Pope trying not to laugh at a lamb

The Private Eye description of American soldiers in Greenland

One thing that could really use improvement is the trending list. Every time I open it, the top is something like "Nuclear Warhead Crisis" and the rest are "Mr. Gasoline" "The Fronk" and "Jibbers Sign Bonzalez"

Very grim. www.ft.com/content/c894...

Trust in the you of now

I've read several accounts of Austria-Hungary now in which the writer says something like "jailer of nations, this bureaucratic absolutist monster lumbered into an inevitable demise. And honestly that was a bad thing, we need it back."

Accidentally did something to the HD AUDIO lead when reconfiguring my computer and now if I use the headphone jack everything sounds extremely deep fried

The Telegraph has followers who think it's still 1997 and they're a quiet, thoughtful, well-read conservative elite seeing the long view from Burke to Major. And then you see what they're sharing on social media and its stuff like "Woke Colouring Books Threaten Civilisation"

American conservatives online have a real fascination with seeing children be hurt and bullied. They're obsessed with the "reality check" video where a child trying something foolish inevitably hurts themself. They like videos where children are "put in their place" and threatened with violence.

We're closer in time relatively to the Apollo 11 mission than we are to the coronavirus pandemic. Let the sink in

Gotta do a massssssssive push on phone noise on buses. Has to have big top down element. Expecting individuals to do it alone won’t work

This victory lap Zack and supporters are doing would be earned if he’d been derided for saying the US should be kicked out of NATO, but what he was actually derided for was calling for the UK to leave NATO

Adam Ramsay trying to defend himself against having a family castle by insisting it's a "castle-like house" and "a fortified tower with non-castle features" is a beautiful sight. I love British journalism. Never change.

We should just weather it. Nobody GAF any more

Lauren Laverne sobbing into her hands as I pick "The Boys are Back in Town" for every single disc

Someone who is chronically offline recommended I read the Bright Ages today and I immediately had a frightening flashback to something I hadn't thought about in years

"unleash my inner entrepreneur"

In positive news, my car insurance has halved this year for some reason

Learning that a group of anarchist fighters in Myanmar have developed the 21st century’s coolest new flag

I'm going to be perfectly honest and say I didn't really understand the loan and lots of Sensible people both at school and in the media were telling me to not worry about it and it'd just be a small tax for a few years. And the alternative was not going to uni.

Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. 🏺

The scraping of Spotify by the shadow library, Anna's Archive, has made it into Private Eye, where the hypocrisy of Spotify - which originally was a pirate scraper site - is brought to light.

Beast mode

It seems everyone assumes the "annoying people blasting stupid nonsense on their phones in public" phenomenon is limited to their own country when it is, in fact, a global annoyance.

If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+

I knew it was the Kaiser! Even when it was Putin, I knew it was him!

This is actually 100% real, they're sending Rishi Sunak through the Torment Nexus. Every day he's either at death's door, being emotionally involved in some ongoing tragedy, or speaking to Laura Kuenssberg.

Ominous

Make a sudden, destructive, unpredictable action; incorporate

The DAX did fine until Stalingrad.

Was reading a "the year ahead" 2025 report from a British financial institution and it was saying things like "DOGE might fix the deficit... Or it might not... It's all very hard to say... Best to just get on with things."