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the very same.
So anyway: where’s Captain Kirk?
Just finished the audiobook, read by Jeremy Irons. superb.
As it’s #IWD26 seems appropriate this message should be heard loud and clear
I’ve been thinking about the Pragmatic Sanction a lot today.
Been talking about the joy of the first Beatles film 🎥 A Hard Day’s Night- subject of my new book on The Word… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
W*O*L*D is a really great record. Carry on.
ICYMI over the weekend: My colleagues and I reviewed 15,000 documents to put together a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein leveraged medical care to manipulate and control victims, and how some doctors enabled that. Gift link:
I had huge amounts of fun recording this with @gregjenner.bsky.social and Catherine Bohart. So you should listen!
oh good an American who could not find Gorton on a map has done a take on Labour political strategy in the by-election in order to draw conclusions about Democrat strategy for the mid-terms.
Meta tells Ireland to use its EU presidency to advocate scrapping a law to crack down on addictive social media features.
They also want landmark EU legislation on artificial intelligence (AI) to be "paused and rethought."
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
You are an inefficient, fungible unit. You have no dignity, only a price. But don’t be sad, if that’s true of you, it’s true of him too. Don’t be sad, but do be angry.
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
If “all art is political”, why not save time and just do the politics?
Finally we can emotionally understand what it was like to live in an absolutist monarchy, where everyone had to constantly obsess over the emotional state of fundamentally flawed, narcissistic individuals, because they decided the fate of the world.
This comes on top of the absolute devastation of the arts in secondary school teaching. Why is it that the people who scream loudest about the value of our culture are trying their hardest to destroy the cultural sector?! Soulless philistines.
I think England should just have a rest from sport for a year or two, then think about whether it really wants to do it or not, maybe look for another hobby.
We are never going to enjoy equality because the moment we start to catch up, they move the goal posts.
What do Theodore Sturgeon, M John Harrison, David Hayden, Maureen F McHugh, John Updike, Thomas M Disch, Claire Keegan, John Crowley, Ted Chiang, Tom Waits, Kelly Link and Joanna Russ have in common?
apersonalanthology.substack.com/p/a-personal...
Long lyve ai;dr!
Post a banger that isn’t in English: youtu.be/02Sg9H2T_TQ?...
Ten glorious years. I’ve been with you in spirit since Ep.1, and am with you in Patreon still. Go well, and f*** the begrudgers.
Sorry for laughing/there’s too much happening
I have never liked Withering Blights. (The book, films, coach tours, tea towels etc, though I will allow Kate’s record, I’m not a monster you know).
LP cover of Cupid & Psyche 85, by Scritti Politti.
Times are tough. You’re still entitled to beauty. Try this.
Introduce yourself with 5 songs:
September Song, Lotte Lenya
Shipbuilding, Robert Wyatt
Psychedelic Warlords, Hawkwind
Never Understand, JAMC
Jacques Derrida, Scritti Politti
