All Watched Over By Machines of Drum and Bass
@bartlebooth45.bsky.social
In a rave big system warfare. At Swim, Two-Steps. Free Palestine. Trans solidarity.
Pinned
Working #5: An Overtness
www.mixcloud.com
New show featuring the likes of Acheron's Reticuli, Sister Irene O'Connor and Mega Bog. www.mixcloud.com/isitworking/...
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Couldn't ask for a better illustration of my point. Also the links to donate to everyone are in the thread.
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
January 26, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Couldn't ask for a better illustration of my point. Also the links to donate to everyone are in the thread.
I agree it rocks.
ESPN treating WWE as an actual sport is very silly.
January 27, 2026 at 10:38 AM
I agree it rocks.
Found him
January 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Found him
Baby
January 23, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Baby
This week I have mostly been listening to
January 23, 2026 at 6:35 PM
This week I have mostly been listening to
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It did occur to me that "medieval romance featuring werewolf" might be a quite different thing from a "werewolf romance" but I am amused to reassure you that I have checked the plot summary on Wikipedia and it is indeed a proper werewolf romance.
January 21, 2026 at 1:12 AM
It did occur to me that "medieval romance featuring werewolf" might be a quite different thing from a "werewolf romance" but I am amused to reassure you that I have checked the plot summary on Wikipedia and it is indeed a proper werewolf romance.
Pure psycho shit.
“On multiple occasions, he used it to draft condolence notes to city employees and residents who'd lost loved ones, in one case asking it to
‘give me a few words from Mayor Danny Avula to the family of a 24-year-old woman who was killed.’”
‘give me a few words from Mayor Danny Avula to the family of a 24-year-old woman who was killed.’”
‘Make this sound more like Danny Avula’: here’s how the mayor used ChatGPT in 2025
Records show that, in addition to discussing the city’s six-day water crisis, Avula routinely used OpenAI’s popular chatbot to help write speeches and letters, prepare for interviews and develop polic...
richmond.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Pure psycho shit.
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Personally, one of the most egregious AI hallucinations I've ever unintentionally generated.
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Personally, one of the most egregious AI hallucinations I've ever unintentionally generated.
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imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago
January 20, 2026 at 7:15 PM
imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago
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ted cruz leaving is our most credible severe weather alert
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 21, 2026 at 5:58 AM
ted cruz leaving is our most credible severe weather alert
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I see we’ve moved from “Only hateful extremist lunatics say Britain is cravenly obedient to the White House” to “Of course we have been cravenly obedient to the White House, now we must focus on the future and not ask questions about whose fault this was”, somehow without anyone having been wrong.
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 AM
I see we’ve moved from “Only hateful extremist lunatics say Britain is cravenly obedient to the White House” to “Of course we have been cravenly obedient to the White House, now we must focus on the future and not ask questions about whose fault this was”, somehow without anyone having been wrong.
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in my youth I dreamed of building the Torment Vortex
Shabana Mahmood here, whose “ultimate vision” is to turn the world into a prison
January 20, 2026 at 10:00 PM
in my youth I dreamed of building the Torment Vortex
Is this lad implying that's a slur in any way equivalent to the n-word?
January 20, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Is this lad implying that's a slur in any way equivalent to the n-word?
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
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Right: I already read the other two books with McSweeney and Reed bragging to journos about how excellent their campaigns of lying and wrecking were, so I’m not expecting revelations here: details, basically. So I’ll try to avoid doing 😲😲😲 every time there’s some new piece of despicable bastardry.
January 19, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Right: I already read the other two books with McSweeney and Reed bragging to journos about how excellent their campaigns of lying and wrecking were, so I’m not expecting revelations here: details, basically. So I’ll try to avoid doing 😲😲😲 every time there’s some new piece of despicable bastardry.
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WANDA is such a wonderful and unsettling movie. It's also based in part on the strange life of Alma Malone, whom I wrote about for Topic (RIP) several years ago (and reprinted in UNSPEAKABLE ACTS because you know, editor's discretion.)
Here's an archived link to that 2017 story:
Here's an archived link to that 2017 story:
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
WANDA is such a wonderful and unsettling movie. It's also based in part on the strange life of Alma Malone, whom I wrote about for Topic (RIP) several years ago (and reprinted in UNSPEAKABLE ACTS because you know, editor's discretion.)
Here's an archived link to that 2017 story:
Here's an archived link to that 2017 story:
They're planning on powering the city by attaching a turbine to Alasdair Gray spinning in his grave.
NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre.
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
January 20, 2026 at 4:16 PM
They're planning on powering the city by attaching a turbine to Alasdair Gray spinning in his grave.
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Meta trying to understand British humour will never not be funny.
January 19, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Meta trying to understand British humour will never not be funny.
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COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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"time is a flat circle" no dude youre thinking of a clock
January 18, 2026 at 8:39 PM
"time is a flat circle" no dude youre thinking of a clock
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We live in a world where Life Without Buildings are back together so maybe everything is going to be ok after all.
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
We live in a world where Life Without Buildings are back together so maybe everything is going to be ok after all.
If you genuinely believed that Bari Weiss was building a free speech university you would lose at chess to a dog.
this is a rollicking great read
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:36 PM
If you genuinely believed that Bari Weiss was building a free speech university you would lose at chess to a dog.
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I read an interview today where Alison Bechdel talked about using chatGPT for a panel of her recent comic -- she prompted it and copied the results -- and I still don't know what to do with that. It genuinely feels in moments like this like so many of our art elders are failing us.
Catching up with what James Gurney, the Dinotopia artist, is up to these days. Pathetic.
January 16, 2026 at 1:32 AM
I read an interview today where Alison Bechdel talked about using chatGPT for a panel of her recent comic -- she prompted it and copied the results -- and I still don't know what to do with that. It genuinely feels in moments like this like so many of our art elders are failing us.
The other day @upthetwerx.bsky.social was brainstorming ways to annoy me and she came up with "Take out all your records and mix em all up" as if getting to resort my record collection wouldn't be the highlight of my year.
January 16, 2026 at 6:33 PM
The other day @upthetwerx.bsky.social was brainstorming ways to annoy me and she came up with "Take out all your records and mix em all up" as if getting to resort my record collection wouldn't be the highlight of my year.