I’ve only ever seen a concert performance but it is a quite literally visceral experience given the size of the orchestra needed and the organ going full fffffff
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I’ve only ever seen a concert performance but it is a quite literally visceral experience given the size of the orchestra needed and the organ going full fffffff
They believe the media will insulate them from any consequences if the gamble doesn’t work out. Unfortunately, everything we have seen so far suggests they are probably right.
youtu.be/WSSTS7D6t2g?... and start here and listen for a few minutes
The bit in Rite of Spring that opens up the second movement like the wind howling across the steps and slowly collapses into discordant eeriness.
youtu.be/9aJITLFLM30?...
The fourth and fifth doors in Bartok’s Bluebeards Castle
His mental space of what an organisation is cannot literally not compute how big the US government is, which is why he’s stacked it all with cronies
Of a piece with his view on interest rates (low as possible) and organisational structure (almost everything like construction itself; design; rent collection; maintenance; sales gets outsourced to contractors) so actual RE companies with assets in the few billions are literally a few guys in a room
Trump has spent most of his working life in real estate, I note
And there’s the NTNOCN earworm
That or Berkeley Castle
How the fuck does this guy get a voice in Labour
But… they are also supporting it?
Russia seems to be
Continuation of politics by other means etc but wtf is the politics here?
Libya also has a 10th of the population virtually all living in two cities
An HSBC email warning me about scams has been falsely identified as a scam
it's very low-key funny that Gmail's spam filter identifed this as a scam.
I mean there is quite a bit of understandable and perfectly reasonable defensiveness against racist assumptions and patronising white people as one of the factors thrown into the pot, but, it's not the most dominant factor, even if she may think it is
one enjoyable thing about learning Japanese is realising that Waluigi is an absolutely dreadful pun.
(for the real heads, the shares in question predate s431B elections)
#taxnerdery www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKF... though for anyone who's ever done transaction work, a useful reminder not to fuck about with ERS rules
surprisingly
A similar line, relevant to Trump’s new love of militarism: “America has always been imperialist” and “America has always been pro-war crime.”
All you are doing is normalizing Trump and Hegseth’s abuse of military power.
🎶it's beginning to look a lot like malicious com-pliance🎶
Yes on the former if over a few k in revenue and b) depends on where it is above the vat registration threshold first - on this case, if you’re selling to private customers very potentially - it is the use to which it is put not where that is important
www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKF... #taxnerdery fun VAT one this - do rentable EV charging points count as being a domestic supply of electricity (and there get the lower rate of 5% versus 20%) even if they are not actually made to, like, a house but a charging point in a carpark etc.
it's fundamentally because the people in charge over there can no longer tell simulacra from the desert of the real.
Everything right now mostly feels like trying to cope in the face of 'he pushed the button everyone has been like "do not push that button, it will fuck everyone up" for decades'
It makes perfect sense, you know, given the US data provided to Ukraine, just very much not what the Boss wants to hear right now.
discipline from below, I guess.
