Quite. Gabriel, did you post with equal vehemence when Charlie Kirk (and the rest of his political bloc) expressed glee and delight at the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi?
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Quite. Gabriel, did you post with equal vehemence when Charlie Kirk (and the rest of his political bloc) expressed glee and delight at the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi?
I didn't say celebrated did I? That's another matter. Though I'd wonder how you feel about, say, Iraqis celebrating Saddam's death.
OK Gabriel - I could say that your insulting me diminishes you. But it doesn't. Emotional responses are valid. They are not always what we'd want, but they are valid and real. So I'll take your "pillock", but also understand and learn from others' emotional responses to current events.
I suggest that BBC Verify should assess the extent of such posting. They will exist anecdotally, but Webb risks loosely and falsely suggesting a platform norm that seems v unlikely
What, exactly, is wrong with people being "satisfied" by the death of someone who wished them dead?
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
Well at least no one's talking about Epstein
the President and everyone around him are terrified that they will be attacked and that's informing the response.
Thinking of the size of the oven in which this baguette was baked. French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France, 1945. (Photo by Branson Decou).
Me singing a couple lines of a song: Alexa find this for me Alexa: playing video “Top 10 Creepiest Animal Sounds”
i think a lot about a guy trying to kill pelosi's husband with a hammer, the GOP making jokes about it, and this was not enough to get her and other senior dems to shut the fuck up about bipartisanship and wanting a strong republican party
particularly gross because Kirk's far-right US views included a lot of stuff beyond the pale of even today's UK politics, like gun advocacy. But Boris is currently in the middle of another corruption/influence scandal and looking for US sugardaddies to keep funding his lifestyle.
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Good thing Trump is too much of a narcissist to let Kirk be turned into a martyr
Good thing Trump retasked over 50% of ATF agents to cracking down on roofers with green cards
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
what if it turns out it was personal?
I doubt it but this is the better statement to make I’m going to bet the culprit was a member of his own party honestly
pronouncing shoegaze like foie gras
Look we all know where I stand on violence, political and otherwise — generally against! — but it sure is telling to see how the Dems react to the shooting of a far right person vs how the GOP reacts to the shooting of even a very middle-of-the-road liberal
Baryon Can't Swim?
I’m sending thoughts and prayers with all the sincerity of the GOP caucus after each and every gun rampage
That cunt Clarkson has won a TV Award. Talks about working hard. Bought it to avoid tax. CUNT!
being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place
me too *winks* what? *winks* no I think it's awful *winks* what are you staring at? *winks*
Having a real Schrodinger's Charlie Kirk moment
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me: you go first dolphin: oh man you are so fucked
Wild isn't it? I haven't actually had a chance to sit down with that one properly yet but what I have heard is IN. TENSE. I wouldn't expect anything less from @hiveminduk.bsky.social label tho.
Well that was popular. I’m going to post in a Matt Berry voice from now on.
Happy 40th anniversary to "Thundercats". Opening animated by Masayuki (who was only 22 years old at the time).
You mean you like it. People get more effect from medicines when they’re certain colours, that doesn’t mean they’re “better” pharmaceuticals.
No. I’ll always be more imprecise than a lossless digital recording from the masters and any claim otherwise is woo. It’s a type of distortion. Now, you may prefer that distorted version of the sound but don’t pretend theres more fidelity to what the artist and protect intended.
Got mine at a tiny tiny little record shack in a rain soaked tunnel under a Tokyo station from an old man who I had to wake up to do the transaction 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Pervert
…before music of the calibre of these babies commences, that is something super powerful that can’t be replaced.
Look I’m not one of those quasi mystical “vinyl sounds better” guys, that’s just unscientific foolishness… but on the other hand the fact of owning those actual sound waves on an object is a magical thing, and the RITUAL, my god the ritual, the sound of the ‘pop’ of the needle onto the plastic…
Today’s act of self care: unsubscribed from all New Statesman emails. Immense relief. It is SO shit now.
oh hey broseph! haven’t seen you in a hot minute. you been keeping it 100 or nah? damn it’s been lit running into you. i gotta go slay this meeting but stay rekt fam. peace up
This happens at the largest university in the U.S. but barely a peep from media outlets yelling at us for years about attacks on free speech on campuses.
I find it interesting how so many people appear to view lunar mining as somehow disrespectful or profane, but mining Earth in general somehow isn't very interesting that some people act like they care more a dead rock than a living world
I do worry about the implicit argument [people know we are anti-racist] as a defence of going mute this August on dehumanising racism, because of anxiety at being unable to differentiate immigration, integration & asylum political challenges from overt racism, violence, vandalism, neo-nazism
Well blow me down. Whoda thunk etc etc.
To be fair other people have to bow to hear what Tommy is saying BECAUSE HE IS LITTLE, HE IS A SHORT MAN, NOT TALL BUT A LITTLE GUY.
Nothing will prepare you for it.... unless you've ever met one of these people or read even the most cursory reporting on them.
Apropos of nothing, but I was rooting around in the archives, a reminder that I can play H O U S E records really well.... yes that's right "I'VE GOT THAT ON VINYL" 🤪
One of those "it's hard to be shocked in 2025, but...." stories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yes, total depravity.
Evolution (abridged)
It's not that deep: she's funny, insouciant, has a distinctive look and voice, caught a trend wave (the US and world getting heavily into UK late 90s / turn of the millennium dance styles) and sings catchy songs. Plus she's v v good at networking and does the modern thing of "collabbing" widely.
and here
Talked about it here.
Yep. And again, I've said it before, but so much "dance music criticism" is uncomfortable about that, for the reasons that house doesn't fit pseudo-academic narratives about progress, transgression, yadda yadda. It's too happily HUMAN for the dorks. But that is also its power, depth, complexity.
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Said it before and I’ll say it again as infinitum, if your critical framework has no room for H O U S E, I’ve got no room for you. If I see another breathless piece about “Double Cup” from someone who has very clearly never danced to straight up house in their life I’m going to vomit.
Had a terrifying dream last night, I was offered the chance to be part of a really amazing international multimedia festival but I had to sing “Sit Down” by James.
Recently read an interesting critique of fiction that leans on historical archetypes like Game of Thrones, in completely misportraying the required maturity of civilization itself to actually field armies remotely that large. You're quicy hitting hard productivity/population density constraints.
making a lousy cashgrab sequel is quintessential michael caine behavior and you love to see it
Today’s act of self care: unsubscribed from all New Statesman emails. Immense relief. It is SO shit now.
Obviously I am not the first person to coin this term but it’s a thing right? Just recently without being conscious of it I found I’d started emailing old friends. LONG email. Cos we’re old and busy, replies come weeks or months later, they’re a nice surprise, I have to put aside time to read them!!
Bad people don't always meet bad ends. We're camped out at the gates of hell, subsisting on costco hot dogs, tequila, and anger. We watch the world getting sucked into the infinite void.
Apropos of nothing, but I was rooting around in the archives, a reminder that I can play H O U S E records really well.... yes that's right "I'VE GOT THAT ON VINYL" 🤪
Absolute serial killer behaviour.
You can’t have boobs that go “HONK HONK” any more because of health and safety.
Satanic Pedocon trutherism starts here
Wes is DEFENDiNG ARE WomNE AND GiRLs again I see
Nepal's Federal Parliament Building is now on fire & the government has been overthrown!
Go to North Wales, you'll see why that doesn't make sense.
Why join the Daily Mail in blaming judges then?
No, duh, Geordies are basically Norwegian.
You see a lot of bonkers theories about the origins of the Liverpudlian accent, which only make sense when you realise they’re just in denial about basically being Welsh.
It's important to remember that fascists work to foster a dog-eat-dog atmosphere where people look out for themselves and throw others under the bus. We don't have to live this way or think this way, no matter what the fascists say. Through all of this, it's important to help others when we're able.
This NYT story on Nvidia opposing AI regulations informs me that the debate over AI is between people who want to "unlock trillions of dollars in economic value" and "doomers" no room for people just generally worried about environmental impact, fuzzy numbers or broad product misrepresentation
the biggest and most powerful wireless phone company on the planet had to pull their AI headline automation systems offline because the system routinely just made shit up!
Fun fact: one of London’s most successful DJs of modern West African beats - in fact he has a credible claim to have popularised the term “Afrobeats” - is of Vietnamese heritage.
Everybody who fell for the Harper's Letter or all the hand-wringing about "uncivil" students on the left, congratulations. You built this. You own this. And fuck you for being the useful idiots these fascists needed to launder their dismantling of academic freedom.
It's mechanical Turks all the way down
There's an important thing to note here, which is that when someone says "Actually [person who is notoriously an absolute prick] has a point", they really WANT to go into bat for that person, because otherwise they'd find a way of making the same point without even mentioning them.
that’s really not what I remember the public health people saying about the Floyd protests
Reform UK Councillor, Sam Journet has been arrested for stalking, harassment and public disorder in the council offices. ‼️
The people arguing that Hamas cannot be militarily defeated are wrong to the extent of being unhelpful to the Palestinian cause. As a strategic threat to Israel both Hamas and Hezbollah were crushed last year. There is not even a non-moral military justification for IDF campaigns
Part of this though is the IDF neutralised Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran as existential threats to Israel, the first two a year ago. Everything that follows in Gaza is reminiscent of Assad militias destroying and expelling a community after conquering it, like in Ghouta or Daraya.
oh yeah that one is really special!
No but this is. Not Fascist obviously, but Populist. It’s a misrepresentation in a way that speaks to base suspicion of all institutions. The judiciary do not make unfair laws, they do not assault protestors. Why is he making them a target?
People are always like we didn’t solve the school shooting problem, but actually we did by making dead kids really profitable.
MattY will say anything, at any point, if he thinks it will get clicks. He is the evil of banality incarnate.
Racism always has a price. Always.
Mild take: The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.
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show me a song that doesn't sound like anything else
One of the points of confusion that I am seeing in the Anthropic AI case is that people are confusing statutory damages with damages in general, so here's a brief explainer on what is meant by statutory damages.
