An entire lifetime late to this, but Mary Renault is a helluva writer

Jaffa

By the way anyone who imagines this all goes *poof* the day It Happens is in for a nasty surprise

Statement: "Keep me posted." Translation: "I never want to hear about it again."

Neo-fascism is not a materialist response to anything. It is a revolt of the privileged, so bored by their prosperity that they are reigniting world-historical ideological struggle just to feel something for once in their miserable, empty lives.

It costs a LOT of money to look this cheap

SJÄMSÅRA

relevant to an email i just got

AI might infect a particular subset of human knowledge, but we have lost far more than we'll ever know and the wonderful thing about humans is we keep remaking it over and over again.

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

Like St Paul said "Converts are the fuckin worst"

Seriously, I use "in five billion years when the Sun engulfs the Earth we will have long since ceased to exist and this doesn't matter" as a personal perspective mantra, what am I going to do now

I don't think people realized the extent to which the current push for age-verification everywhere has been powered by the for-profit age-verification industry. At every legislative hearing. Partnerships with censors. Wild, unsubstantiated claims of efficacy and ease. All to create a market.

The Virgin Spielberg “Everything Is Fated” vs. Chad Scorsese “Jesus Could Have Fucked If He Wanted”

embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world

Johnny Carson was a skeptic; he was a member of CSICOP (now CSI) along with people like James Randi, Carl Sagan, and Martin Gardner. He was as close to the exact opposite of Rogan, intellectually and socially, as it is possible to be. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committ...

Johnny Carson could do octagon interviews but Joe Rogan could never be Carnac the Magnificent

Medical science:

This from a Guardian profile of Laverne Cox, and it strikes me that it's true for writing, as well. "Cox’s acting career was ignited by studying under Susan Batson . . . who told her: 'Work is at its highest level when the character’s unfulfilled need is infused into every beat.'”

It Was Carbon Monoxide All Along

I went here and they said they were outta you.

Trans people even drink COFFEE, which hardly speaks of the mean streets of Detroit, would you not say

Back on Bluesky and within 5 minutes blocked someone for an incorrect Jeremy Irons opinion. Business as usual, then.

I now live in a Reform ward. Might spend the next couple of years complaining weekly about potholes, dog shit & bin collections. May as well get my money's worth.

I give it six months max before every single one of these people crashes out.

In a pub toilet in Belfast and a guy just dried his hands by shadow boxing.

Delighted to report my incredibly racist PhD supervisor, who has been running unsuccessfully for Newcastle city council for several cycles now, has been unsuccessful again. Suck it Martin

The way I *screamed* when I got to "Allow yourself to sink into the warm opiate of computational ease" inpreparation.substack.com/p/go-ahead-a...

DON DRAPER: how many lokos should a man be? one is pathetic. two: still not enough. three, maybe you’ll impress someone lying on the street outside the bodega. but four… four loko.., [unveils art of watermelon camo tallboy] four is all will you ever need

[REPO MAN] A movie like this, with nothing positive in it, can make you feel good. (1984)

Every economic headline right now is like "Ohio farmers discover you can eat tree bark if you boil it long enough, markets close at all time high."

I shouldn't ever have to hear about the head of trust and safety of this web site but i frequently do and every time it's because he's behaving in a way that reduces trust and makes people feel unsafe

at this point I'm not even asking for things to improve, I'd love it if they just stopped getting exponentially worse every day

Have I done this right

It's quite something to see Wings Over Scotland salivating at the thought of a Tory/Reform team-up in Scotland seizing power by uniting their vote. His thing used to be Scottish Independence. Transphobia as the gateway drug to the far-right strikes again.

Fuck yeah Tom of Finland

Teaching husband how to make roux. How do we reckon he did for a first time?

you do not need to wake me when Rudy dies

Saying this now, just in case - - New Yorkers hated Giuliani on 9/10, couldn't wait to get rid of him - Giuliani was in the street on 9/11 bc the Command Center at 7WTC was destroyed (he put it there to be near Judi Nathan) - Giuliani killed 343 firemen by forcing cheap radios on them

I think my eyes just rolled out of my head, across the floor, and under the stairs

*Did anybody ever write sci-fi about "mifepristone," yeah, way back in, like, 1992 medium.com/@bruces/are-...

When I was on Cambridge City Council I went to the funeral of a Tory colleague from the Fens who had sat on the Cambridgeshire Health Committee with me. His, also Tory (although they're probably all Reform now) colleagues gave the eulogy. And they used it to settle scores decades old.

you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories

Wake up babe a new Internet's Most Divorced Guy just dropped

Have a belting Beltane, everyone. I'm indulging in a bit of traditional celebration

See Wicker Man, repost Wicker Man. I don't make the rules

Video of the Day: One way to celebrate May Day which both pagans and anarchists can respect: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRKa...

Happy May Day!

Remember to invite a cop to your BBQ this May Day!