And to the orange Stalin, a rubble-voiced Lysenko.

Oh History, you tease

idk if this will be useful to anyone at this moment, but just fyi: "lonely tylenol" is a palindrome

It’s sort of funny how in the conservative “intellectual” mind the 2019-21 “peak woke” period was just the lower orders getting uppity and not itself a reaction to elite resistance to punishing sex crimes and a corpus of footage of police killings generated by smartphone adoption

The thing about faces is how they change over the course of a lifetime, but remain the same face.

Sölicitör has to be the corniest band name I've encountered in a while, but this Seattle based band play a catchy, balls-to-the-wall brand of speed metal that's hard not to like. Definitely repays a couple of listens. solicitor-speedmetal.bandcamp.com/album/enemy-...

It would be nice if my biological clock chose to reset to be in sync with the day/night cycle any time soon.

I finally watched Sinners. I loved the music in it, thought the first half was very promising, but eventually felt it didn't really work for me. It took some big swings and I respect that, but in the end it felt like a stew to which someone had tried to add too many ingredients.

Blackadder Mr Bean Fawlty Towers Citizen Khan Superstore Cheers Red Dwarf Community Seinfeld Black Books

A constant leftist fuck up on social media is not getting mad about art bans on websites when the art getting banned grosses us the fuck out and we don't want people to think we're bad. I'm guilty of this too. We fucked up for bsky artists back in 2023 or whenever

At this point, every festival in india has been turned into diwali except possibly holi.

Revisiting Clutch's 2005 album, Robot Hive/Exodus, or as I like to call it, The Encyclopedia of Groove. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

And yet… Modi and Hindu nationalists in this country will continue to bend over backwards for Trump

Those Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan collaborative albums are so good.

Yes, Financial Times, we know. We told you this shit from the start.

Some see ww2 as a face-off between fascism and its opposite. I see it more as a war between kinds of imperialism. Until this becomes a commonly discussed perspective we will keep using the 20th century as an excuse to repeat itself.

Something for #WhiskersWednesday #Mammals #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #ClassicMono #SciArt #Prints available on Darkroom: lucidillusions.darkroom.com/products/bir... #BSNM

I now have a new reason to live. Just to outlive this longevity idiot who's the same age as me.

I sometimes write lyrics for bands far outside my genre. This song, by a funk/pop band features lyrics I wrote to their concept. music.youtube.com/watch?v=jGeN...

Thoughts on that horror: 1. Whose lives matter (over 200,000 genocided in Palestine) & whose violence can be ignored? Which lives are worthy of life & of being mourned? 2. We inhabit a world of zero-accountability whiteness. Were it one Muslim or Black man, their communities would be held to ransom.

Cracking down on the "terrorist left" is ironic because by and large the left has abandoned terror and chosen pacifism for the last fifty years.

We're less than two months away from BLACK FLAME by Gretchen Felker-Martin hitting shelves! From the bestselling author of Manhunt and Cuckoo comes a horror novella about cult cinema, the occult and queer desires. 🔥 Out in the UK November 4th! https://tinyurl.com/2j9pmtax

I hope we get to a point in history where western liberals are able to fully recognise their willing debasement of themselves during these years, and wither in utter humiliation because of it.

"The typical normie Republican doesn’t particularly dislike Indians. But the online Right does, and it produces an endless stream of propaganda re-framing anti-Indian sentiment as economic populism...Regular Republicans encounter these ideas in Fox News clips etc.." unherd.com/2025/09/why-...

My goal is to have a smaller-than-life personality.

When I say AI is a fascist technology, this is what I mean: a spectacular assault on the idea that true things can be known

Today is Cannonball Adderley’s birthday. He was a jazz alto saxophonist.

Race wasn't discovered. It was invented using "science" to justify everything from slavery to white supremacy. And those lies?

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

What a decade this year has been.

5 years in prison without bail or trial, for completely legal protest, while all the actual perpetrators of the pogrom that was used as an excuse to target them are free to spread hate and violence as they wish.

Hivemind: are there any good leftist analyses of the limits of Stross' enshittification concept? Links pls?

Why Umar Khalid's imprisonment matters to every Indian. youtu.be/S_trJA0tWdc?...

Who after Modi? Is Amit Shah the eternal bridesmaid? Who else are the contenders to succeed Modi? Where Hartosh and I discuss what this reveals about power, succession and democracy in today's India. In The Caravan Long View

you share the same human substance that nazis possess. the thing that separates you from each other is not some capacity for empathy but the fact that they choose to be monsters and you do not

it's the 'white man's burden.' If a white man commits violence against someone less white, it's an unfortunate necessity to maintain civil order(re:whiteness). And so their violence is justice. And violence committed against whiteness is committed against civility and order, it's savagery.

I'm the sort of middle-aged person who doesn't understand the youth, but I also don't understand my own generation, so it's probably just a me thing.

I don't remember which of you mentioned G.F. Green, but I'm relishing IN THE MAKING. A portrait of a developing personality looking for something to focus its passions on and finding it in the hothouse atmosphere of boarding school, but this is high modernism. You cannot reduce the book to plot.

Bill Knott

Defeating fascists through debate is about as useful as painting road signs with water.

An investigation of 200 booths in Bihar found 77,454 voters deleted, often without ground checks. BLOs admitted they relied on hearsay, guesswork & even family members. Elderly voters who voted for decades, are now erased from the rolls. Read here: scroll.in/article/1086...

'Yet only he was helpless, whilst Aunt Grace and the outside world lived untroubled without God or stories. All his life he must conceal this sin, his hopeless beliefs and love of joy.' - G.F. Green, 'In The Making'

In the 1950s-60s, British fascists, such as Oswald Mosley, were invited to speak at various university campuses. They used these invitations to portray themselves as part of a legitimate debate (while also courting infamy), but their speeches were often opposed. hatfulofhistory.com/2021/06/06/w...

Victims of capitalism. Hell before death. 1908. archive.org/details/hell...

'...the stillness in the tangled brambles and the bare trunks of the trees was a relic of Hansel and Gretel, of ships which he had never seen, a power of transience and regret.' - G.F. Green, 'In The Making'

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Blows my mind that there are so many public domain image resource sites out there, that will happily let you use some incredible imagery for absolutely nothing, yet some bands and artists persist with real dogshit looking AI bollocks. Bleak.

Roundabout the same time the news broke about Charlie Kirk, it was being reported that Israel had dropped a bomb on Rafah and murdered another 11 people. Where was the omnipresent hand-wringing? Where was the avalanche of anguished moralising?