Steven Poole

Stupidology | William Davies The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

Here’s one I prepared earlier www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

There is no funnier train station sign than "Cambridge home of Anglia Ruskin University". Everytime I see it I'm impressed all over again at the level of trolling.

it is definitely led by stupider people!

i mean i agree it is very stupid! But Saddam posed no threat to anyone else in 2003, whereas the Iranian regime has been doing so for decades

how is the present war stupider?

if you don't love WAR MACHINE then you hate cinema; sorry, i don't make the rules

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You Will Walk Where Others Fear To

it's a bit fucking late to worry about that, don't you think

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Cloudhunting

I'm at an event at the LRB bookshop which hasn't even started yet and I've already overheard a man telling a woman that he's a writer

so as i understand it the Greens are against nuclear power, Caesarean sections, and the State of Israel, but in favour of hypnotic breast augmentation. Do they have any other policies?

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In Silent Circles

it's not unintentional though: he really does have a gift for comedy

An open letter to all the children who celebrated the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977: come on, you knew. When will you apologise??

"Eye of the Tiger"

i feel like a lot of "smart" people decided a long time ago that Michael Lewis was kind of mid, but his 2018 book The Fifth Risk is in retrospect a brilliantly prescient explanation of why the second Trump term is such a disaster for the US

and Audacity (free) to record on the computer

this will be fine: amzn.eu/d/0iAYpmPc

this is excellent

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

nothing is easier than to write a genre novel that withholds the pleasures of the genre

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

"vaccine hesitancy" is a peculiar term of liberal Unspeak that manages to be more patronising to its targets ("ah they're *hesitating*, but surely they'll eventually do the right thing") than a correct description such as "uneducated anti-vaccine kill-other-people's-childrenism"

this seems like a weirdly sexist headline: none of the women quoted in the article is "furious"; they are simply making reasoned arguments

if i were the prime minister i would simply not resign just because Chris Mason has a weirdo boner for my defenestration

omfg 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

surely it's finally time to try chaos with Ed Miliband

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

i feel like the bar for calling something a "craze" might now be unreasonably low

what would happen if you asked them to turn the terrible music down/off?