Danny Birchall

but tell me why there's a fucking empanada shop on every corner in west London now

I don't know what those other things are, but I'm rather partial to an eggslut when I'm feeling flush

🎶 Why don't you ask them what they expect from you?
Why don't you tell them what you're gonna du
You'll get so lonely, maybe it's better that way
It ain't you only, you got something to Xana
Du anything you wanna du
Du anything you wanna du

🎶 Xanadu
Xanadu just duin' the du
And you are through
And there's nothing you can do

this is exactly the level of niche that I am after, thank you!

In a couple of months I'm going to Copenhagen for the sixth time, and therefore I solicit your recommendations on interesting things to do and see that I might not already have seen and done.

Girl chewing gum, John Smith, 1976 YouTube video by Filmman Cine Mix

There are few greater things, as someone who teaches in an art school, than saying to a student, 'Have you seen John Smith's film "The Girl Chewing Gum"?', and then sharing it with them if they haven't.

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of its first screening at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op.

this is a repulsive, inhuman take, and you should be ashamed of yourself

If I was a Cybertruck, I'd want to drive myself off a bridge too.

Batang Kali massacre - Wikipedia

hmmm .... who was prime minister during the Malayan Emergency?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batang_...

We call AI output slop not because it's incapable of regurgitating something beautiful, but because vomiting up chunks of mixed restaurant meals is not the same as being a chef. That some of the upchuck can still be parsed as it was on the plate is not thanks to digestion or emesis, but to cooking.

I think the more likely cause is Anthropic's high-profile last-minute attempt to extricate themselves from the American war machine -- people perceive hypocrisy

I'm told they pickle well too

Did you know that magnolia petals taste of ginger? Tried one for the first time last year - they're delicious! Go for the white ones with a hint of pink, otherwise the flavour is quite strong!

I'm an art professor I made an art

so what's a more accurate assessment of Anthropic's contribution to the war effort?

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

I don't fw the NYT & its genocide-loving columnists in any regard whatsoever, but the hill I will die on is that coffee shops should not sell milkshakes.

forgive me, it was late capitalism, so heartbreaking and so ass

Just came across this release which, like Kosmischer Läufer, spins a great yarn about being lost music from 70's East Germany ufohawaii.bandcamp.com/album/platte...

C̶h̶a̶t̶b̶o̶t̶ Deathbot

I've still not got around to reading M John Harrison's 'Signs of Life', so I didn't realise that one of my old projects was mentioned. The character's critical response is fair, tbh.

I'll be checking that out, thank you!

M John Harrison's Signs of Life -- one of many very specific pieces of period detail

A reference to the Institute of Cultural Anxiety

oh, good afternoon @jeremymillar.bsky.social

just waiting that whole video for someone to walk into the frame with a lit cigarette

Sticking my thumb right into the Israeli ones so they go bad and don't sell

giving the books in the shop a good squeeze to find out which ones are raw and urgent

Officials warn people not to fill plastic bags with gasoline amid panic over gas shortage "We know this sounds simple, but when people get desperate they stop thinking clearly," the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

A reminder that Americans are simply offensively stupid on both a macro and a micro level

www.cbsnews.com/news/gas-sho...

Vaxx and vac -- job done