Watching 'The Decline of Western Civilisation' for the first time, and it's really stark how, having grown up with him as a kind of scene myth, Darby Crash on film is just a scared kid falling apart in front of you.

Honestly, I sincerely do not understand bouncing ideas for narrative off something that can only tell you what has come before in the most generic and median way possible.

I studied the Diggers/Seekers/Fifth Monarchists for my dissertation on The Ranters at uni - the execution of the king in January 1649 led to all these radical sects who perceived that social hierarchy had been smashed. What Cromwell and the army grandees had unleashed completely terrified them

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

Me faking ADHD...

How long till Streeting reckons cancer patients cost a bit much so accuses them of faking too?

please for the love of god don't let these people put you off trying to get help if you're struggling, even if it isn't ADHD or autism getting seen and heard is really really good and useful, and no one needs to have a formal diagnosis for all the informal support out there

You won’t find another group of people who are statistically high to be abused and neglected but discussed so little.

Care kids let down again. Left cold, dirty and hungry. Groomed. But yet racists don’t care this time.

And god help you if you're a working class person & have the sheer audacity to call out the hypocrisy, prejudice or double standards of people who view themselves as inherently superior to you. They will drop all pretense of solidarity & compassion & do everything they can to silence & villify you.

YOU MUST SATE YOUR THIRST TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

Remembering the great Ronnie Lane on his birthday

Trump’s Easter message of hope The new Private Eye is out now.

It's 3 days after payday, which can only mean one thing: filling baskets with bootleg tees for long defunct bands, then closing the tab.

This walking chip pan has got allies and vassal states confused.

“Why won’t NATO bail us out after we started an illegal war that’s goal seems to be imperialism and my desire to hurt people?!”

I know it's a radical view, and that I'm both stunning and brave, but I'd really like it if the Labour party could represent the interests of labour. Just for a bit.

Can we please have a Hellfire Gala without a death? Where the principle action is driven by Havok getting anxious in a roomful of his exes, or Paige and Jono getting drunk and snogging?

Sometimes it's fun to put your internal monologue outside and talk to yourself at length in a small room. Try it yourself. Make a new friend.

Hyacinth seeing all the trans people when she's only got enough fine china to accommodate 5 guests. RICHAAAAAARD! #transdayofvisibility #candlelitsupper

Not just a disturbing development in terms of library book-banning/anti-progressive censorship but the rancid cherry on top of this particularly stale cake is that the decision of which books to be removed from the shelves was taken by using AI. www.thebookseller.com/news/schools...

Between the conversion therapy ruling and the efforts to ban kids from the internet to “protect them” from “transgender influence,” we’re right back in a culture of violently enforced closeting. And the data around self-identifying as trans and queer already reflects this

As a related example: "AI is useful for note taking" obfuscates the fact that we had non-LLM based speech to text for a very long time, and the LLM ones are considerably worse

It's just so depressing seeing my own words and perceptive analysis presented verbatim in a Google AI search summary at the top of the page (without attribution) and knowing it means we are losing visitors to this thieving shittery.

I wrote him for one panel and understood the assignment.

At least it's Green Arrow trade week.

they also want to do this with supermarkets. they think the role of government is something similar to Martin Lewis.

Comic book artist search post: Looking for a Black British artist, preferably from the West Midlands (not essential but would be a big plus), who has a naturalistic style and comfortable with slice of life drama/comedy. If they're familiar with the 1980s and 90s, that's a big plus, too.

"Be nice to the people fucking over your country" is not a sentiment I have a lot of patience for.

It's not quite the spelling chaos here, but a church near my old house had a sign that read: TRY OUR HEALING SERVICES - you won't get better

OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.

for a long time i have felt kind of bad about how, in my youth i was a really aggressive elitist about heavy music, the kind of guy who would be mean to people for liking stuff i didn't-mostly metalcore i heard the band Emmure for the first time today i regret nothing i was right about everything

Might have gone a bit extreme on this

Never trust a hippy.

The problem isn't the billionaires that buy politicians. It's the politic economy that creates billionaires.

Everyone else randomly, enthusiastically, periodically, and uncontrollably exclaims "Margarita Pracatan!" in an Australian accent too, right? I mean, it's not just me?

Anyone else self medicating ADHD with an ungodly amount of caffeine? I'll quite happily gun 3 cans of white monster on an average weekday.

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

CD quality has much much much better audio fidelity than vinyl.

Second East Midlands train I've booked to be cancelled in 4 days. On a latter train in the declassified First Class seats. They're no comfier or less grubby than the standard ones, which is gratifying at least.

Y’all are talking about some writer’s take on whether Trek is good or not. I am talking about how Trek ruined itself by making Kirk the emotion to Spock’s logic when that is McCoy’s role but the overall desire for a duo/ship eroded McCoy out of the picture and led to misplacing Kirk into it.

It's telling that they still went with the name "No Kings" in the middle of a war of imperialist aggression. Could have pivoted to a straight up anti-war message, but I guess all the merch was printed.

Stonehenge is basically “pay up, follow the path, take your photos, then fuck off”, Avebury is SO much more interesting

Poor people can't go on strike is such a deeply ahistorical take that it makes my eyes bleed. The American left not only drank the Kool-Aid but theres 8 pints of it running round their veins.

Can’t even have Spurs appoint Jermain Defoe as their interim manager. Because of Woking.

"Alexa, do the lumpen proletariat have any history in mining?!?"

Batman: No Man's Land. Smart, humane, wildly entertaining, and crucially coherent.