The Government is ashamed of the voting coalition that brought it to power and would rather have other voters voting for it. Hence why it is where it is.

(Keikaku means plan)

At political cabinet today, Morgan McSweeney gave a presentation on “three Es” on how the government can connect with voters - emotion, empathy and evidence. Am told he said the government currently has a “deficit in emotion”

www.amazon.co.uk/Male-Fantasi... Anyways, the current moment really reminds me that this book is both more than slightly batshit, but also remains an essential tool for understanding the current moment in the right wing.

"Hey Yakko, where has the U.S. engaged in imperialism?"

One of the few redeeming qualities of Bertran de Born - who was perhaps history's most sincere and unapologetic warmonger - is that he absolutely hated Richard I and much of his warmongering was downstream of his desire to fuck up "Lord Yes-and-No"

It’s so unfair that so many terrible things happen to so many innocent people when they *should* be happening to Stephen Miller.

Joint Statement of major EU/NATO countries on Greenland, together with Denmark:

A few feeble flakes in the City #uksnow

Jedi Knight then; now Goldeneye.

The most profound insight in Disco Elysium is that fascism is not about racism or authoritarianism or anti-communism…it is about wömen.

1. The Bolsheviks had overthrown a democratic government, not the Czar 2. The 75 in French 75 is the field gun caliber, not the year 3. Electric cars appeared long before the petrol ones 4. Stegosauruses never saw flowers 5. In the first 90% of human history there was next to no tech/social progress

Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?

Christ, Electric Six are still going

“Here we go again.”

Him and moot.

In competitive authoritarian regimes, the government deters and undermines opposition by using its powers to inflict costs on those who challenge it rather than recognizing their legitimacy as democratic opponents

Literally Liz Truss

An early argument of the Popular Anger Understanders that we were told to take seriously, was that at least Trump understood the US public had had enough of adventurous wars FFWD>> the Afghanistan withdrawal was the top tick of Biden's tenure, and all of MAGA is screaming for Operation Lebensraum

So, other than all the dead people, and the Number Two getting the US to bundle Number One away, what exactly has changed so far?

"...as is China"

Three way: Thief, Half Life and Grand Prix Legends even if I could never finish a lap in the latter

Then: Alpha Centauri Now: Planescape Torment.

www.helion.co.uk/military-his... for people who enjoy descriptions of army and navy structures and institutions only in this volume (vol 2 will cover the actual war) but this filled a big gap in my knowledge particularly from the Chinese side of things about the Sino-Japanese War

Happy new year; happy inevitable signalling fault

Two things about this table are noticeable 1) the amount of pointlessself-inflicted deaths caused by feeding your soldiers white rice 2) where exactly did they book the STDs?

Not quite sure why someone picking up The Big Sleep would need this tbh

Thief II then, Baldur’s Gate 2 now.

Anyway, took advantage of the perineum to reread John Biggins’ Sailor of Austria series - a sadly abortive attempt to do a Flashman but with the chosen Zelig a Polish/Czech Astro-Hungarian naval officer; not so much novels as a collection of anecdotes and comic scenes; but the lurking dread of>

So the overarching theme of Trump this time round is that everyone around him gets that this is their one chance in their lifetimes to get their passion project over the line, hang the consequences, right? Pretty much like a granny on the timeshare mailing lists

Reminded by following up a reference in a novel I’m reading that the author of Bambi’s other best known work is this (CW for about everything tbh) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephi...

Hah, answering my own question by noting that here we have the missing link between British 70s fantasy and Final Fantasy…

Ah ffs

This is the first time in history that a County Clare hotelier has kidnapped the leader of another country

Wasn’t this one supposed to be the most independent one

Some good Kindle daily deals today - JG Farrell’s Siege of Krishnapur and Jason Burke’s The Revolutionists cheap www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Daily...

what orders "the US military" will or won't follow is situational dependent and never a blanket answer But JSOC (specifically DEVGRU, a certain TF at Bragg, and associated hangers-on) will *absolutely* follow orders to detain/otherwise do something to Dem pols, with the right made up predicate

The fuck

Man Spends Whole Day Dreading Fun Activity He Signed Up For https://theonion.com/man-spends-whole-day-dreading-fun-activity-he-signed-up-1819579571/

Took a little misstep on the walk thinking I could get through the cemetery, but it’s fascinating how syncretic London’s in-use graveyards are now

Took me ages to find the dragon shown Google maps in some local woods

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... obviously Treasury brain has infected me indirectly but the absence of numbers in this until the last para or so is kind of typical Guardian

Then: Max Payne now: Phoenix Wright

If you read twitter backwards it's about nazi pedophiles trapping Stephen fry in a lift

Klarna at the vets, is it?

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. I’m My Bloody Valentine’s seminal 1991 album Loveless (And my appendix, I guess)

dai.ly/x464x97 for reasons, if you've never seen the first ever live performance of Purple Rain, which was basically then used as the album version, enjoy.

And a happy new year to everyone but Apple iTunes developers making it a pain in the arse to remove lots of spurious duplicates from your library

Just paused the Stranger Things finale thinking it was wrapping up nicely to see it has another 27 mins

Wait, that’s what his offense was?