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My wife's lost her floral print midi dress, so now she's persona non Grattan

someone stole my Peters projection map, so now I'm persona non graticule

My lit mag subscription didn't arrive in the post so now I'm persona non Granta

Someone stole my vintage hand-powered rotary Mouli, so now I'm persona non grater

A happy fuck you to the labour party. you love to see it. Please proceed to get it right up you.

Babe come over, we’re melancholiamaxxxing, we’re sadgooning our crypipes

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

turns out the c in charli xcx stands for bloody cello

Proscribe the Labour Party

Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.

Regardless of specific technologies, the venn overlap between 'useful to bosses' and 'evil' is ... not small

In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.

and yet mostly abhors poetry apart from the parochial anecdote

this generation rules the nation with enjambment and lineation

It's telling that for all the talk of sport in this piece, the unbroken & unspoken consensus of government support for Israel is evident in the fact that Hattenstone doesn't ask Nandy a single question about her not insignificant role in the Maccabees fiasco. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The Street Art Mystery is out today 🎉 A story about creativity, courage, friendship – and how art can hold secrets and make us look closer. This is the final outing for the Copseys, and I’m so grateful to everyone who helped bring their journey to life, and to every reader who’s been part of it. 🖤

We’re expanding the Oxford RSE group. The deadline for applications is tomorrow. Any prior experience working with frontend/backend web development, machine learning, or high performance computing would be desirable, as would any experience designing or delivering training courses.

weird phenomenon: pubs in decline, but pub bores on the rise

The Rest Is Actually A Codification of Narrow Attitudes Masquerading As a Broadening of Perspectives

book podcast hosted by a Torystorian and a former assistant to Princess Michael of Kent, no thanks.

this generation rules the nation with enjambment and lineation

Watched I Saw The TV Glow last night, and it was not at all what I expected, and I am also still feeling slightly haunted by it

to be fair, the correct conclusion (that infinite amounts of human language can be produced without any human subjectivity) is a lot more existentially terrifying than the incorrect one (computer is alive)

The non-dairy beverage of human kindness

There should be a statute of limitations on literary adaptations: if it's been 25 years since the text was published, or there have been more than 2 previous adaptations, then you can do whatever you like with it and nobody gets to say anything about the 'original' meaning or characters.

Remind me yet again what everyone's problem with Saltburn was? A lower middle-class pervert exterminates an entire family of aristos and then does a sexy little dance, who could have had a problem with that?

"Citizenship is a privilege" is such a fundamentally racist statement that it's really hard to know where to go from there. So Labour go to "Simply being allowed to be here is a privilege", just make sure you're getting the message. 80 years of international humanitarian law can go whistle.

I've never wanted something to flop harder than this fucking misbegotten television show for transphobic 42-year-olds

Age verification? I used to run a gopher site.

ACAB includes Dean (but not Torvill)

HMRC stop sending "Prepare now for Making Tax Digital" emails before you've built free software for MTD Challenge

There's something particularly nasty and corrupt about not just that all these academics were begging this rich sociopath for research money, but that they all kept (and some keep) insisting that he was some great genius. And then his actual "intellectual" output reads like this total garbage

I don't really think of it as Lancashire, it's more of a sort of pre-Cumbria

What's your sportform, what athletic discipline do you work in, what's your game practice?

one of the problems w theorising fascism in the 2020s is the 1940s idea of an 'afterwards' -- when both moral judgement & legal recourse can be made within a liberal political framework. Sometimes I think that's to the detriment of what needs to be done to prevent what happens before the afterwards.

Who will be the Labour Party's Liz Truss?

Give them statehood 🇵🇷

Israel is going to start hanging Palestinians who are held without charge or conviction by the push of a button. Not a news headline in sight. The world is silent. Fuck the Super Bowl.

I'd hope that Morgan McSweeney is at home crying in his underpants this morning, but he's probably emailing a child abuser to find out how he can get a job at a bank.

Tell me, an immigrant, that a man who referred to my existence in this country responsible for turning it into an “island of strangers”, is decent. Tell my trans friends that their removal from society is at the behest of a “decent” man who believes in “reasonable concerns”.

Ban Jonathan Haidt

well, that's certainly a set of search results

“Keir Starmer to address the nation tomorrow”

In the middle of another MJH and feeling extremely haunted by it

The shit son weddings more like

It's only 20 Pluviôse, 10 more days of this until Ventôse

not sure what I think of this Fortean Times rebrand