it's time

what if you don't own a smartphone, like, you know, a lot of people over 60 (like my dad)

can someone make a variation of the meme of Burn Gorman by a blackboard explaining that at this rate there'll be a Your Party membership portal launch every 7 seconds, thanks

If this applied to me I hope my landlord would make full use of ttrpg horror scenarios based on esoteric 17th century English philosophers

no YOU will regret watching an hour of found footage horror on YouTube late at night just before bed

unity of form and content

looking back through my photos from a family do over the weekend and I discover that I unintentionally took a very ominous photo of a pub security camera

If Boston's Favorite Son has no listeners then I am dead

Robert Paxton: "Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, 1/2

This is what our Prime Minister is selling us out to America for. Lmao

why is it 25° today 🙃🔫

A new article of mine is out now in VAN Magazine! It's about BBC Radio 3 Unwind, ambient music, and the strange ideas imposed on it from the outside by both the wellness industry and the reactionaries of the classical music world.

Many people are saying this

It's that time of year that makes me want to die (doing my appraisal form)

Ghosted! By my GP (Was meant to have a phone appointment and they just... haven't called)

this is where they send me to autism jail

Well that clears that up

UK set to announce closer co-operation on pixie dust and hens' teeth

a colleague at work opens with 'hey king' when messaging me on Teams and NGL it's kind of all that keeps me going sometimes when I'm having a long day

I think looking back on the assassination in the future the most salient point will be that it was a moment when the right seized upon a strategic opening to discipline the wider political and media sphere into reterritorialising upon a foundation made of the right's political will and imaginaries

Solidarity, again, with Diane Abbott The amount of misogynoir directed against Abbott *by her own party* is frankly staggering & tells you everything you need to know about Starmer & his ghoulish, racist political faction that is running the show

Comrade @rafeefz.bsky.social once again showing how to do incisive materialist analysis of Palestine. It's short, but it sharply traces out how accumulation strategies are shaping the future of Gaza, and how these limit and condition any future 'statehood'. theconversation.com/donald-trump...

delivered my magnum opus yesterday

New post: On the need to create state-owned/supported alternatives to supermarkets, as is becoming a typical popular demand across the world in response to price gouging and rising food insecurity. It could also help fix farming systems. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...

the first thing my dad did when he first saw my tattoo was to suggest different grammar for the quote. Never change, dad

It's been about 7 years since I last played Hollow Knight and I'm gonna be real with you, Silksong is kicking my ass

this man is now 30 years old. ahhhhhhhhhhhh

a giant yellow leaf just hit me in the face, hello autumn, I missed you

Deeply bizarre to see the extent of which the UK state and media apparatus has been eulogising a far-right American youtuber.

love 2 have a head of department who is forcing us into the office as usual this week regardless of the strikes 🙃

PUB CAT PUB CAT PUB CAT

having a certified autism moment because I sent this innocous message to the department Teams chat about me moving to another floor when this one runs out of desks and someone behind me laughed at it and someone else has laugh reacted

Finally got round to getting that Disco Elysium tattoo 😎

my attempt to capture the lunar eclipse earlier - annoyingly there was too much cloud cover when the moon was red, but had cleared up enough in time for me to still see the Earth's shadow

me about 17 minutes ago

It isn't policing; it's counterinsurgency.

Trump articulating a distinctly American theology of fascism which combines prosperity gospel and the terror that comes with knowing deep inside that fascism's dreams of national spiritual rebirth and teleological victory over its enemies can never be actually fulfilled, and so they are left to beg

Birds spotted in Zealandia in Wellington 🐦 A whitehead/pōpokotea, North Island saddleback/tīeke, North Island robin/toutouwai, and kākā. #birdsky #ornithology

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - I am at the end of a narrow funnel. Weightless. So light it only feels like *something* to be me. In truth -- perhaps I'm nothing? I certainly do not have a soul. And if I did, it would never ache.

Roland Barthes: "Anti-intellectualism is a historical myth, linked no doubt to the rise of the petite-bourgeoisie... yet its *political* danger must not be overlooked: it is quite simply fascism, whose first objective always and everywhere is to liquidate the intellectual class."

This is exactly the kind of thing we need to be saying. Let's not pretend it's not a war.

Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs" Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"

They did the same thing with the Hillsborough law. They just straight up lied to people in struggle, and no one with any clout will say so, because they think it's good that they lied. The worst people in politics.

Pretty clear case here for schools to get involved via Prevent, which does in fact have a specific remit to address far right radicalisation

ones I took on my actual camera 🌈

met my twin's new cat yesterday, JoJo 🐈

this might seem horrifying on the face of it, but let me be the first to say that if you pay me £20 I will happily shill for West Cornwall Pasty Company when I am dead

filling out a form about wellbeing at work. did I do it right

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