I feel like "no political leanings" is a bit naive. He *said* he dislikes Trump but he murdered people detained by ICE and tried to get the left blamed. This kind of infantile, reaction baiting nihilism is a strong ally and recruiting tool of fascism even if the people caught in it don't think so

I am always very very cautious about falling into conspiratorial thought in the wake of terrible events like this but come ON

Rubbish. It's barely sexy at all

Oh COME ON

I could say...Tolkien. Lord of the Rings is very interested in social hierarchies - the restoration of a true monarchy and people happily serving their betters.

I struggle with this because...what does Tory coded even mean? A friend has suggested the National Trust but...that's explicitly a charity that turns aristocratic private property into public land and museums. I think turning politics into aesthetics just cuts you off from stuff

I didn't actually learn until today that The Rapture isn't just a kooky Bible thing that sensible Christians ignore, it's a kooky American thing made up in the 1830s. And yet...of course it is.

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

Tylenol was always one of those American things you didn't know what it was. Like Twinkies and Pottery Barn and Ted Koppel and whatever the hell a caucus is.

The cat caught a mouse in the night and didn't bring it to me. I feel somehow hurt

Ok, so you did, in fact, have them on the ropes

Aiolian Tones: The beautiful sound of mayonnaise

Read quite a lot about Joe McCarthy last night, which I influenced the way I just chased my cat off a full block of cheese shouting "Have you no shame, sir, have you no shame?"

This is just there and you can watch it. It's so good youtu.be/wB1G1Sddh8g?...

I'm not saying boycotting is useless, but very specifically looking at a zoomed in graph of 2 days of Disney share prices and thinking "we've got them on the ropes" is...optimistic

I fucken knew it

This is The Truth

I don't know why I stayed up till 1am watching David Blaine videos. It doesn't seem sensible.

A rancid night's sleep. Thank goodness it's only the weekend and nothing business critical.

[Withnail, close to tears] “I have become vulnerable in the night-time economy”.

Thought I might do a bit of the Green Chain Walk this weekend but looking at a map, it's irritatingly mad

Breadmix and Tastybix

I guess "don't be a dickhead like this dumb piece of shit"?

I've become someone who enjoys piddling around in Excel making graphs. What is this?

Paradise Killer is 75% off on Steam. An incredible weird detective game set on an island outside time built by an apocalyptic cult. Absolutely one of a kind, and for £4.18 you must

The cat's just done the world's foulest shit. I've lit a candle but really it needs a book and a bell as well

Renowned Symbologist Robert Langdon in...The Dan Brown Disappointment

For sale: baby shoes which fit precisely the footprints left by the murderer

Yes, I'm reading the new Dan Brown. Renowned Symbologist Robert Langdon has only solved one puzzle in the first hundred pages but the reader level shell game of hinted betrayal is really good and the prose takes as long to read as it did to write.

Renowned Chrimbologist Robert Langdon looked at the square. Tbd four statuesque lion statues crouched around the column commemorating the memory of a long fought battle. And of course the tree. What did it mean? What could it mean? And who could mean it? He had only 24 hours to find out.

Finding it quite difficult to deal with another murderer who did for internet irony 'because lol' reasons. The sheer dumb emptiness of the whole situation makes me want to start screaming and not stop

Really enjoying my whiskey and soda era

I've come to the pub for an hour to enjoy the new Dan Brown. It is precisely as ludicrous as you'd expect. Muscular, proper noun studded prose. A phantom world of celebrity ontologists and renowned semioticians and hulking henchmen with A Thing.

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

It's so shit. I read a lot of shit, and it's much worse than that. It's not even good shit. The Da Vinci Code is junk food. It doesn't nourish, but my god it tastes good. If it's all you ate you'd die, but for a treat? Gimme. This is...Huel. It's story shaped emptiness.

Candles lit, whiskey and soda mixed, popcorn popped. Only Murders placed in the Building

Renowned reader Alex Watts downloaded the renowned new book by renowned author Dan Brown to his renowned eReading device

Well, I suppose it's worth a try

What a weekend. I've had a little walk around and a coffee in the park. I've cleaned and tidied like a madman. I've had a soak in the bath. I've made a really nice soup. I'm so ready for the soft and gentle darkness of the year.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that-" SQUEAK? NO, I DON'T THINK THEY MEANT YOU

Terry Pratchett and Frank Herbert's The Wee Fremen

Seven o'clock on a Saturday night and I'm descaling the espresso machine

Flirting with further charges of threatening people, albeit with a good time

September it may be, but it is *not* walking up the hill in long sleeves and a jacket weather

"So that's my whip. And the horses are over there, and the bulls come in on that side? Great, thanks. I really appreciate all the advice, it's the first time I've ever been to one of these events"

"The nights are drawing in" "And it's getting colder" "No you fool, the Black Prince's men are upon us!"

I feel like sometime in the last week or ten days we've tipped over some kind of threshold of horror and lost some elusive last chance of things being reasonable and making sense

Watching Alien: Earth and being unbearably pissed off with the crew of the Notstromo for being a bunch of Space Frank Spencers

Genuinely impressed aty cat's devotion to his chosen cause, that being not giving me a single evening off from his bullshit ever in my life

"Thank you Dragons. I'm asking for one billion pounds to design a little car my cat can drive around in annoying people"