it's a bit fucking late to worry about that, don't you think
02.03.2026 18:50
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it's a bit fucking late to worry about that, don't you think
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The Sleeping Forecast: Drift off with this sleep-inducing soundtrack
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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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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 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?
(and then negotiated another extension)
oh dear yes i have had such a feeling
500 is a good day!
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
fuck off
as a good friend of mine (a literature prof) once put it in a different context: "how much of this shit do i have to read before reasonably deciding it's all garbage?"
lol
