I sometimes get sad that I can't read every book there's ever been

yo, i wrote a book. turns out - best way to write a book is to just write it,, whack it online and skip publishers cuz theyre all "oh you might be associated with that bastard barry goldwater and it might hurt our image" (something we've ALL experience im sure) anyway - here it is my wee hobbits

Something I wrote about techofeudalism and the society of the spectacle. We can make Marx cool right? No? Maybe? Happy Friday

Yes we know Bond has changed his face over 7 times. But he can't just come back from the dead come on now

This gives me the same vibes as Caeser when he refused the crown three times from Mark Antony - aiming to gauge and manipulate public opinion, and normalise the idea of this eventuality www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ultimately it's a case of the ultra wealthy class funding parties, think-tanks, buying news outlets, controlling social media platforms in order to ensure we point fingers at each other at the bottom of the ladder instead of looking up and realising they're laughing at us.

Good to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social getting the greens taken seriously, I do have an anxiety about the day we'll hear language like "wear the term fascist like a badge of honour" or "if loving your country means you're a fascist then I guess I'm a fascist" etc. novaramedia.com/2025/10/04/h...

Good news everyone. We're not far off commodifying protest. I had to double take at this. Happy Tuesday

I wonder if Stephen King is on the Epstein list, which is why we're seeing a load of his films now because when it's revealed, no one will want to make the films, so they're cashing in now? Bit of a stretch? Yes. Accusing someone of something horrible, also yes. I liked the Long Walk however.

Remember, most of reality is just something you set as an arbitrary ongoing, dialectical goal that can't really be achieved before you die, but serves as a distraction from the eternal abyss. Have a beer. Chill out.

Interesting article in @theconversation.com about the proliferation of Uk flags by Callum Blades. It's not about being a patriot. It's about being terrified of the world. They're projecting fear of everything they don't understand onto a bit of cloth. It's a psychological crutch for the insecure.

I was in a pub earlier. I actually heard the following sentence, verbatim: "no, England is swamped with immigrants, we should ban the lot of them. Makes me wish I moved to Spain years ago"

I think one of the reasons so many men are anti-trans is because they can frame it as a threat to women, in order to disguise the most evidenced and documented threat to women, which is men.

The cringiest thing about the people painting roundabouts with England flags and hoisting their foreign-made England flags is it's obvious they are desperate for people to challenge them so they can whine about how everyone is offended these days. www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

how's it going in the UK, you ask? Well this evening, the government decided I don't have a face. So, you know, well.

the constant and vicious politicisation of the refugee debate is something else. When a columnist has to write that the media is using it to fuel hatred, and that history will damn them for it, you know the UK has passed cynical and landed squarely in the realm of the sociopathic

Hello everyone! I'm back. Don't think I've missed much? I can presume everything is sane in the United States and the corporate news media have stopped funding fascists? Right?

Here's a little thing I wrote about Corbyn and Sultana's new party, what is means for British politics, socialism, left-wing politics, with a sprinkling of Freud for good measure. vocal.media/theSwamp/the...

how do i explain to my colleagues that today I feel like a 23 year old Robin action figure in a tree?

might have a lasagne tonight

Nothing suspicious about this at all. Epstein proves beyond a doubt him and Donald Trump never ever did anything with children. Never. Nope. This is what innocent men say!

Currently showing it has 300,000 sign-ups, which is higher than Reform's base, what Corbyn & Sultana need to do is work alongside the Greens to form a left coalition if they want to keep old Nige out of Number 10.

moved to a new building, the one opposite lowkey giving saddam hussein hiding spot

It'd be good see an actual left party begin to coalesce, rather than the pale imitation currently masquerading as one. TUSC's backing is important. The UK political climate is desperate for real ideological challenge, not just managed decline from the centre-right www.tusc.org.uk/21778/17-07-...

after years of hamstringing young people and severing vital ties. they're finally 'indicating' a return to... basic common sense. As if this grand concession makes up for the colossal self-sabotage of the last decade. It's progress, but the bar requires an archeological dig to find.

How's it going in the united states? You can see an ultra fetishism for the 'constitution', as if it's this bible, and then there are different religious sects (are the amendments the new testament?). The pledge of allegiance becomes prayer. Then we wonder why dictatorial people succeed there?

Just when you thought the manufactured outrage couldn't get more cynical. Of course a convicted fraudster is behind a 'Union Jack dress' GoFundMe. I've learned most of these clichéd acts of patriotism are always just plain grifting www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

I've been sad and stressed recently. Seeing more Reform UK flags pop up. Seeing people thinking that their policy is just 'reform the UK' and don't realise they want to introduce the privatisation of the NHS, and get rid of human rights. It genuinely causes that pit of dread inside. I'm scared.

If you remove the politics,from a quantum physics perspective, the notion of a closing window driven by geopolitical competition for fundamental scientific breakthroughs is interesting. The real concern to me is what kind of control or profit this progress is ultimately intended to secure.

Something I hadn't realised prior to travelling round India was the popularity and size of the communist parties in India. You wouldn't see this in the UK or Ireland I don't think.

Life is all about small acts of revolution. Today I was up before the electronic billboards.

It annoys me when people say we need a Joe Rogan of the left. We had a Joe Rogan of the left once - it was Joe Rogan, but I think the better-than-thou-ism of so many of the left rendered podcasting as childish and not worth pursuit, so it fell to the right to take it seriously

This week has made me think about how the greatest trick wasn't magic. It was convincing us constant busy-ness equals purpose. We're exhausted chasing someone else's profit. Maybe it's time to redefine value

The way the left will win the next election in any form is embracing meme culture. Farage dominates social media, I think we need a return to this kind of thing to contextualise left politics and humour. We are seen as too humourless. Am I on to something or joking into the wind?

Remember 'reality'? Capitalism bought it, deep-faked it, and now sells you the hyperreal version. your desires aren't yours, they're just market segments

Trump's latest cringe money-making grift from his cult members is his aftershave. But park your winces and do not vomit yet. The aftershave has actually just admitted that Biden won the 2020 election. 45 and 47? Not 46? The moment there's a new grift, they abandon the old one.

The only thing this attack of the disabled has made me grateful for is my decision to leave the Labour party.

if maximising shareholder value isn't your dying regret, are you even living?

Capitalism isn't broken. It's a machine for turning your life into someone else's profit. Simple as that. It's working perfectly.

Totemic vibes. Margate. Pint. Freud. Etc.

OK. I'm slightly drunk, but I feel I'm right in saying that Starmer didn't win this election because people liked the Labour party right? What annoys me is that if Corbyn was in charge now, I genuinely feel he'd have been elected as PM. What are people's thoughts?

Ireland becomes FIRST European country to introduce BAN on trade or imports from Israeli settlements. #ireland #Boycott #bds #israel

corporate media acts as ideological apparatus, gaslighting the working class into punching down. But if you are a member of corporate media and too much attention is on you, just do a Piers Morgan and rebrand from phone hacking bully to 'funny silly grumpy bloke who hates vegan sausage rolls'

Another day, another reminder that intellectual labour is free game for generative AI. The "fair use" argument is getting a bit thin, now, isn't it? It's just capital finding new ways to hoover up value without paying for it. Ideological obfuscation. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

when a corporation's ethics statements require asterisks, they're not ethics, they're alibis

If you've ever dreamt of working for yourself & believed in the whole "small business hero" idea, this is a good morning read. Less about critiquing local shops, but how capital leverages that dream to shift risk to workers branding it as 'entrepreneurship'. big corporations benefit from that myth.

funny how the definition of 'migrant' suddenly softens when it's their readers wanting to 'beat' the very brexit rules they championed

Best title for a paper I've seen for a while: 'Is the dynamical quantum Cheshire cat detectable?' arxiv.org/abs/2204.03374

so people tell me I'd like Andor, but I wonder if it ends up as pfaller's interpassivity? capital is so good at subsuming even revolutionary aesthetics, we feel weve done something just by consuming- capitalist realism in that you feel part of rebellion, but aren't actually dismantling anything