I wrote for @mekongreview.com about the time Air India gifted Dali a baby elephant, which the artist pledged to ride across the Alps like Hannibal, a plan that was almost immediately abandoned when he realised that owning an elephant sucks mekongreview.com/takeoff-and-...

Transphobia is the greatest lodestone for today's far-right, because it embodies the far-right desire to claim all identities are natural and biological. Today's fascists hate trans people for the same reason interwar fascists hated diasporic Jews - because they hate fluidity and border crossing.

"I typically have great sympathy for Falstaffian types possessed of enormous if messy appetites for pleasure and experience – but only for those who aren’t, as a rule, cruel, boring or self-obsessed." 🤌 martinmckenziemurray.substack.com/p/boy-genius

"Many of these gig workers are paid very little. Some are from countries that have faced attacks from US armed forces. None were told by Appen that they may have been working for the US military." www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

"Hannah Arendt wrote that if the fundamental problem of postwar intellectual life after 1918 was death, then after 1945 it was evil. Today, the fundamental problem is complicity: reckoning with our acquiescence to a political system that suddenly appears criminal." www.equator.org/articles/aft...

"What I’m really worried about is less an active plot than the terminal erosion of those habits of mind and cultural practices that sustain a mass democracy." publiccomment.blog/p/you-ll-nev...

After Hours (1985)

"There is a very real frustration and disillusionment among young people that needs to be addressed and engaged with. Ignoring the monarchists or belittling and dismissing them outright will only allow this movement to grow unfettered." kalamweekly.substack.com/p/what-attra...

it’s extremely funny to show up somewhere with a black eye and then say that you were punched by a baby

Need to befriend a Canadian so I have someone to talk to about how good Shoresy is www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREp...

I had probably too much fun editing this story on a city I love dearly: "The city's skewed demographics prompted its pre-eminent novelist to once quip that while Delhi was for seeking power and Mumbai was for chasing riches, Kolkata was for visiting one's parents." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

"She could only have successfully pivoted into a position where she has a lot of money and a chance at permanent fame because of A) the rapid decay of traditional media, and B) the relatively modern phenomenon of the wide acceptance and praise of bag-chasing nihilism." defector.com/the-hawk-tua...

OK I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna become a Poster again