INLAND EMPIRE - The encroaching doom is golden red. It is inside you, but also outside, on the horizon, by the water's edge. Innermost but yet to happen -- things make sense from that angle...
INLAND EMPIRE - You're *Tequila Sunset*. You have been Tequila Sunset for a long time now.
One of the greatest games ever made in my opinion.
Factorio
Ashes of the Singularity
Hades
Dyson Sphere Programme
Disco Elysium
shut up, pope donny, you're out of your element
Last time Labour’s most successful London mayor commented on a by-election loss, the party responded by explaining that people vandalizing ULEZ cameras probably had a point actually, so I can’t wait to see what kind of normal & proportionate responses ensue this time
Following the price surge, the British right are pedalling a fantasy of self-sufficiency through North Sea oil. This has no serious basis in reality. Britain has been a net energy importer for 20 years. It has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with decades of declining production🧵
If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.
But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
They are terrible terrible people full stop.
Nobody gives a shit about my music recommendations but one day you should give Mwng by the Super Furry Animals a listen. You won't regret it #nottotp
First 2 from Starmer's "Email to MPs", 3rd from Starmer's "Email to all members" : Starmer starts saying Greens are "sectarian", "extreme", as bad as Reform, but now downgrades it to Greens merely "wrong headed". His instincts are always wrong, rigidly right wing, and quickly u-turned.
"Labour is unsuited and unprepared for a challenge from its left flank, and there's no sign, at least under this leadership and its heirs apparent, that it ever will be."
The only way I can square this rhetorical whiplash, is that whatever the current party line is goes, even if it completely contradicts several years of doing and saying the exact opposite.
I have seen the scale of the mountain Labour has to climb in Gorton and Denton - but also the way it can do it Polly Toynbee In focus groups, people are clear they want to stop Farage at all costs. Labour must now reach out to the progressives it has disappointed Tue 24 Feb 2026 07.00 GMT
Labour has been getting this near-catastrophically wrong in the past 18 months, pursuing voters who will never support the party, while at the same time chasing away its own supporters. The architect of this blunder, Morgan McSweeney, is gone, though the leader is responsible for where his party is led - or misled. No more of that hippy-punching strategy that avoided anything sounding too leftwing. It was designed to attract the right but, of course, it didn't.
Turns out that if you spend years roaring endless abuse at your own supporters while fighting to impress people who hate you, then you wind up very unpopular. Shouldn’t professional politicians and commentators have been able to recognise this *immediately*, and not *six years later*?
We don’t even have to go to Disco Elysium for cultural works about fascism springing from virulent, septic hatred of women. People were saying it back then too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastik...
"Labour is unsuited and unprepared for a challenge from its left flank, and there's no sign, at least under this leadership and its heirs apparent, that it ever will be."
Breaking out a beer for this moment
The Grownups are back in charge.
Why is "temporary accommodation" more profitable? What decisions, large and small, have produced this state of affairs? Why has the state crashed the conditions where precarity is desirable because of the money it makes for landlords?
By far the funniest outcome of the Greens trouncing Labour next week would be Streeting getting sacked
Framing systems of power in terms of personal cabals, rather than institutions, structures and classes, is typical right-wing framing that frequently leads down the antisemitic rabbit hole. It's popular among red-brown types on the "left."
I genuinely hate how many Trumpisms have worked their way into my daily speech. He operates at the perfect level of buffoonery.
(NB - the term 'libertarian' was used exclusively to refer to *left-wing* anti-authoritarian thought - eg anarchism, mutualism, some communist strains etc - from the 19th century until the 1970s, when the New Right chuds stole it and couched their cryptofascism in the language of personal freedoms.
Brother, you already *were* a ghost. Up there, screaming — along with all of them. Scaring each other. Haunting each other. It's the living who are ghosts. The dead are silent. They don't rattle windows or write letters in blood. The living do. Leave them behind. Rest.
Compared to some European peers, it was, and still is, heresy to argue that education benefits the whole society, not just the beneficiary. And from there, all the hypothecation policy choices have flowed naturally
Why do people think that things aren’t working? Drive anywhere and it’s obvious. This is excellent on how austerity and the squeeze on local government finances has damaged the fabric of the nation and how the current government has done little to address it open.substack.com/pub/cllrdrna...
