knew two lads who went to see Sunn O))) play live. one lad got a nosebleed at the gig and the other fell off his bike on the way home.

the people running the show are just rabid

guy I used know a bit writes films up for a high-profile outlet. pure unironic on cinema at the cinema. 'you'll laugh you'll cry your jaw will hit the floor, hail mary is a great day out at the movies'

space launches = reddit

oh man, definitely. I've only heard two of his songs (seems like his style is pretty consistent, from what I've read), but they're instant classics: American Tterroristt www.youtube.com/watch?v=nign... Slither Conspiracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQRN...

wee while since I've heard rap that made me think hmm, this sounds new. RXKNephew, been enjoying

this is a different pankaj mishra, but he still gets comments like 'as someone who truly admires your writings on imperialism, please stop using GPT'

Blue Alien gf: What is "kush blasting"? I want to learn..

couple of GPT artifacts in tooze's st. patrick's day episode imo

On this week's episode of The Pitt: 1882 Robby discovers Langdon has been stealing ether. McKay performs another amputation on a child from the steel mill. Whitaker is tasked with curing a female patient's hysteria. Abbott invents washing your hands before surgery

I find it horrific that everyone on this site is swooning over Artemis when Pete Hegseth is talking about bombing Iran to Stone Age. It is like living in an alternate universe.

here we are on a planet teeming with countless species of life and billions of dollars are being spent to get back to a lifeless rock, spewing toxic waste everywhere in the process. suicidal society

twitter felt v comfortable making fun of things, here the vibe still feel like I've stumbled in too drunk to a formalish occasion, knocked something over

never miss a chance

Here are the possible market-moving catalysts this morning, choose your fighter:

Amusing wee line on Eurotrash podcast: Merz is so thick the two things he took from his China trip is i) green energy is impossible ii) Germans take too many sick days

There's no upwardly directed mechanism anymore, a politician is more of a parachuted in big three contractor, their aim isn't returning to office but pumping up the private sector or global blob sinecures

As a people, I don’t get to decide. My employer gets to decide, and apparently it’s critical I sit in an office looking at the same screen I can look at at home

Bush blew up global economy, killed 00s of thousands, and he had 30% approval leaving office. You cannot get rid of DTs hard floor, it is going nowhere

no one in The Blob or among our elites generally wants to admit that an iranian strike on dc, assuming it hit like the white house or capitol or OEOB or some odious fed agency or whatever would probably have like, 40% u.s. approval lol

WIFE: Ok, I'm off to work… ME: Mhm. WIFE: Don't worry about the Mad Killer in town, I'm sure the news is just exaggerating for ratings. ME: Mm. Yeh. (wife leaves) WIFE: (back in the door) Oh, I almost forgot to say… I love you… ME: Look, this is a live multiplayer game, I can't really pause.

lol

Gosford Park (2001) Gosford World (2015) Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Been trying to think of one as ex-literary critic. Everything is worth paying attention to? Maeve Brennan is a modernist? Not sure if the discipline could be said to assert anything really

Odd lots having guest after guest in different markets go "hey i dont want to worry anyone but its looking pretty fucked" and then the general markets people are like "probably will fade it"

A major Israeli invasion of Lebanon underway and it hardly makes the news headlines.

TRUMP (an idiot): (draws bad map for stupid idiots) RFK (an idiot): (not in the room to see it happen) (was behind the white house dumpster fucking an overflowing hefty bag of sun-warmed trash) (the map thing also never happened)

Political scientists (I once pretended to be one): the median voter theorem‘s just a thought experiment. It’s a parsimonious formal model whose predictions hold only w/ very strong assumptions. The empirical evidence that politicians respond to median preferences in electoral democracies isn’t great

Oxbridge podcaster sez 30s intellectuals in the Popular Front were cult members cos they used abstract language to justify real human suffering, by putting it in the context of a utopia to be achieved on a longer time horizon. This qualifies the German debt brake as Jim Jones imo

The earliest written use of the term 'tankie' to describe a supporter of the Soviet Union that I can find comes from an article in the New Statesman in November 1977 on the battles inside the Communist Party of Great Britain. Anecdotally, it was used in British circles from the early 1970s onwards.

Read some Melinda Cooper / Quinn Slobodian

The difference between these two is racism

Israel just moved its northern border 30 miles into Lebanon, annexing 10% of the country, displacing over a million people who have been told they won't be allowed to return, while Jewish settlers plan on moving in. The international community, and the UN does sweet fuck all. WTAF ?

If you're authentically of the view that the Troubles kicking off again (initiated in the first place by the English government arming & encouraging its proxies) is more likely than a democratic government coming to the region for the 1st time youre ignorant. otherwise this is vacuous scaremongering

would like to experience haptic feedback arising from banging my wedding band off a pokéball. Whatever alloy is in play there would have a mad satisfying clack off it id say

Dreamt I had a Houthis football jersey. Houthis FC merch would go so hard

The state making the focus of all these announcements of cuts to fuel duties that theyre temporary wouldn't fill you with confidence re: a plan

Love the replies which are: uhh maybe there's something else you should be focusing on? A certain tattoo maybe???

Houthis in

Nightmare blunt rotation

Lmao

SUAS SUAS SUAS

Soaring into the week’s end

Not disputing, LLMs as currently produced and consumed anti-social, but reminds me of R.D. Laing saying most things people say are justifications of past actions

Fig. 1 for the ages