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Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New Statesman, Tribune, Vulture, MEL, New Socialist. Host of Death Sentence podcast.

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Ah, you saw the video from the official White House account too then.

06.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I assume that this is because their fund is so good that they just couldn't let people not be part of it?

06.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the February Nonfarm Payroll report just says β€œthe car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel” is that good

06.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Damn, never knew John Goodman had a pre-Roseanne career.

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Basically two groups in Labour right now:

-soft left types starting to realise they followed the herd when they probably shouldn't have and are thinking they might have fucked it.

-Blue Labour types, grenade in one hand, pin in the other screaming that if they're going you're going with them

06.03.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Dune/Star Wars crossover we've been craving is here.

06.03.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(Although they got a nice carpet of greenery because they didn't cap their substrate with too much sand like a fucken noob.)

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It's literally the same breeds of fish. Half the plants are exactly the same. Baudrillard laser eyes but they're like from that one alternate X-men universe where Cyclops's eye beams become so intense that they ignite the atmosphere.

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I turned on one of those ten hours of an aquarium YouTube videos to relax then realised what I was doing.

06.03.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Be so for real with me: is The Secret Agent good?

06.03.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"The ideology that has utterly failed is conservatism; the center right has ceased to exist across the world, its institutions taken over by fascists, its voters pledging allegiance to a new flag."
In this essay, @polphilpod.bsky.social helpfully reframes the discussion of "postliberalism."

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yeag (THREAD 2/2)

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hell (THREAD 1/2)

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Blood Work | Patreon A podcast about the economy of violence

I have dived way too deep into the muck for this week's @bloodwork.show newsletter, and now I'm wading knee deep in the DoD and Atlantic Council hiring ex-COD developers and sponsoring streamers.

Hear more this Sunday, only on bloodwork.show

06.03.2026 10:30 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

A High Value Male would not allow himself to be detained.

As a PSL 2 with 0.47 jawline recession, it is Tate's genetic destiny to be mogged by Salafi Gigachads.

He must submit to the inviolable laws of nature.

He must begin taking estrogen and become the bride of a Saudi Border patrol officer.

06.03.2026 11:06 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah yes, a post-literate society where people get their news through highly emotive and addictive pabulum, something that is famously bad for the right.

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I Who Have Never Known Magical Girls - by Adam Smith In which I talk about books and anime that I have enjoyed, and why the world has returned to them now

Dystopian fiction, anime, magical girls, uncertainty, and falling off a cliff

read all about it, the latest Wealth of Notions: wealthofnotions.substack.com/p/i-who-have...

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Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of β€œshould our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but β€œto what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

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how can i concentrate on watching casablanca when there's a cheeto in the casa blanca?!?

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Psycho masculinity From Donald Trump to Clavicular, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman is the blueprint for 21st century masculinity

Psycho masculinity

From Donald Trump to Clavicular, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman is the blueprint for 21st century masculinity

By Henry Begler

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Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately.
And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse.
It's squeezed millennials in service careers.
Which our politics ignores.
β€’ Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC 'lanyard class. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.

Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately. And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse. It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores. β€’ Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC 'lanyard class. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.

Speaking as a lower middle class graduate with an office job and a mortgage, born in the late seventies, I would say: this is half my social circle and most of the people I worked with for years. How in the name of Christ did nobody in politics or media see this coming?

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The R-Word, the Surveillance State, and the Quiet Part Out Loud – Center for Disability Rights I want to address both. Because they’re connected in ways that matter.

So remember when I said that palantir's "neurodivergent fellowship" was bullshit (www.motherjones.com/politics/202...)? Yeah it was bullshit.

"[Alex Karp], The R‑Word, The Surveillance State, and The Quiet Part Out Loud"
cdrnys.org/blog/advocac...

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No.

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Daredevil: Born Again.

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I'm worried when Kristi Noem finds out she's been fired she's going to become America's first obedience school shooter.

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Uh-oh! Worst person you know learned therapy words

Uh-oh! Worst person you know learned therapy words

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BLUESKY EMPLOYEE: I hope our ugly users are hit by a high speed train.

BLUESKY POSTER: Sir, I run a food bank for coma orphans! Why would you say such a thing?

BLUESKY EMPLOYEE: I hope all the endangered animals on earth die. I hope the sky is choked with black smoke forever.

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