I DONT CARE THAT A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIE AS LONG AS THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY IN DANGER ARE SAFE HERE, SORRY

Amoc, am i ok? Amoc amok?

Come on Radio 4 - you just let a Reform spokesperson claim that the asylum system was being defrauded “on an industrial scale” on the basis of a BBC investigation. Surely you could have actually given context - fraudulent claims vs legit claims based on persecution for being gay?

Rogue one of course, with a sideline in Night at the Museum (thanks @dannybirchall.bsky.social )

night at the museum, obvs

actually bog standard cold war propaganda tactics, as anyone with a memory longer than a goldfish knows

the real pros are the ones using agentic AI to automatically fulfil their corporate daily quotas for using Copilot

Péter Magyar, Charles de Gaulle (and even Mendès France) -- what other countries have been autotoponymically led (ie by people with the same name as the country they lead)?

friends, set your calendars for 12 on Friday, the Cosmic House is opening again and tickets go fast www.thecosmichouse.org/visit

"I'm mad as hell and I guess I'm just going to stay mad as hell for the clicks"

A confusing day for people using the word 'sanction' in either of its diametrically opposed meanings

Scottish Greens manifesto is out, compare and contrast

history tends to repeat itself

Kill the Copilot Inside Your Head

guy whose says "liminal" too much found dead at the end of a normal hallway

Seems a good day to remember that, in his book An Intelligent Person's Guide To Modern Culture, Hungary's favourite right-wing thinker Roger Scruton implied that the Pet Shop Boys made a 'minimal contribution' to their own records. They successfully sued him for libel. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enterta...

Jeers to Viktor Orbán, and cheers to the Tisza Party, whose political ideology I will not be looking into further 👍

there will in fact be plenty of worries if not

The day after Gavin Newsom is elected president, the US will still be a failing empire

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

The US government is now that guy outside applebees who deliberately shits his own pants theorizing cops wont arrest him because they dont want to touch him

Brimful of cheers!

Seeing more & more @brentgreens.bsky.social placards and posters round the borough, and pretty much fuck all labour ones.

Imagining a Scottish post-punk band called Transient Schemie Attack

Can't believe someone's getting punched out here tonight & it's not Daniel Levy

AIncient Regime

everybody wants to make it efficient, nobody wants to make it good

All of these guys sitting around having a tea party with their dolls.

all social sciences are fake disciplines

Today is the official release day for my "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History." I have been deeply gratified by the early response to the book. If you order from the publisher, use code UCPSAVE30 to get 30 percent off the list price. Info here: www.ucpress.edu/books/slaver...

Spoiler: it's class war

well, good luck fellas when the only people left in Your Party are the old 'labour left', the only group of people in British leftwing politics more annoying than the trots.

Computer mice used to have balls

who's the highest-ranking US politician ever to have been assassinated on foreign soil?

Hello! Are you someone in London who's interested in weird playful experiments and commercially implausible games? I've written up some of the stuff happening as part of this year's London Games Festival that I think you should check out buttondown.com/holly/archiv...

good evening, GY!BE

good evening, Lankum side-project

People in comics & the British fantasy scene! If you were around in the 80s-90s & are willing to speak on or off the record about Gaiman, please DM me or reach out on email. I will put you in touch with someone working on a longform piece. They are wondering why no one, so far, is willing to talk.

This is a very thoughtful and helpful contribution to the Trump/fascism debate in light of the Iran war:

going to see my favourite band from Montreal tonight

You can hear the bones humming You can hear the bones humming

starting to understand why Martin Creed's day job is visual art

Going to a concert to celebrate the 21st anniversary of this album en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You'...

I literally threw pint glasses of pish at belle and sebastian in strathclyde student uni student disco. Spent years plotting to murder them. Then one day driving through Canada my ex wife put on a lovly album that was beautiful we were in love. It was fucking B+S. I finally forgave the twee cunts.

happy Racists Surrendering Day to all that celebrate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ https://theonion.com/chuck-schumer-the-american-people-deserve-a-president-1835697625/