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Won the famous Prince George pub quiz for the first time in ages, with @bat020.bsky.social and others
August 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Won the famous Prince George pub quiz for the first time in ages, with @bat020.bsky.social and others
hullo hullo, looks like one of JLM's senior cadre has just politically evaporated overnight in very mysterious circumstances.
barnetpost.co.uk/2025/04/02/t...
barnetpost.co.uk/2025/04/02/t...
Tories slam Labour after Barnet councillor resigns "under a cloud of darkness"
Liron Velleman quit as a councillor this morning having left the Labour group yesterday reports David Floyd
barnetpost.co.uk
April 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
hullo hullo, looks like one of JLM's senior cadre has just politically evaporated overnight in very mysterious circumstances.
barnetpost.co.uk/2025/04/02/t...
barnetpost.co.uk/2025/04/02/t...
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Tesla is hanging by a thread. With collapse in resale market they are toast.
March 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Tesla is hanging by a thread. With collapse in resale market they are toast.
coming soon:
'Starmerism without Starmer'
'Starmerism without Starmer'
February 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
coming soon:
'Starmerism without Starmer'
'Starmerism without Starmer'
some of the details in this BBC investigation of Reeves at HBOS are jaw dropping. this is a regulated retail finance company. every employee has to take a compliance test once a year that covers exactly why this sort of behaviour is a big fat nope. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
some of the details in this BBC investigation of Reeves at HBOS are jaw dropping. this is a regulated retail finance company. every employee has to take a compliance test once a year that covers exactly why this sort of behaviour is a big fat nope. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
quick thread on how Trump's manner is gonna intensify the crises within the US's Western allies. all imho and who the f am I ofc.
February 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
quick thread on how Trump's manner is gonna intensify the crises within the US's Western allies. all imho and who the f am I ofc.
went to see The Man Who Fell To Earth on the big screen last night and while the shots of New Mexico are amazing and Bowie is a treat, I'd kinda forgotten that pretty much nothing happens in the final third of the film.
February 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
went to see The Man Who Fell To Earth on the big screen last night and while the shots of New Mexico are amazing and Bowie is a treat, I'd kinda forgotten that pretty much nothing happens in the final third of the film.
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the 1976 bbc horror series BEASTS: specifically this episode (= "Baby")
(@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)
(@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)
January 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
the 1976 bbc horror series BEASTS: specifically this episode (= "Baby")
(@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)
(@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)
thumbs up for Nosferatu, an atmospheric and original take on classic material. tips over into the hammy at times but hey it is a vampire movie. ending worked well I thought.
January 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
thumbs up for Nosferatu, an atmospheric and original take on classic material. tips over into the hammy at times but hey it is a vampire movie. ending worked well I thought.
seeing as the body of an enemy is floating by – here's a snap of the Anti Nazi League website in April 2003, hand coded by me in HTML using Windows Notepad.
wayback machine link:
web.archive.org/web/20030601...
wayback machine link:
web.archive.org/web/20030601...
January 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
seeing as the body of an enemy is floating by – here's a snap of the Anti Nazi League website in April 2003, hand coded by me in HTML using Windows Notepad.
wayback machine link:
web.archive.org/web/20030601...
wayback machine link:
web.archive.org/web/20030601...
PSA: commutative diagrams in category theory are MUCH easier to read when drawn from right to left.
January 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
PSA: commutative diagrams in category theory are MUCH easier to read when drawn from right to left.
if you want something GOOD and FREE to do in London for an hour or so do check out the Peter Kennard exhibition Archive of Dissent which is on at the Whitechapel Gallery until 19 Jan.
December 22, 2024 at 8:20 PM
if you want something GOOD and FREE to do in London for an hour or so do check out the Peter Kennard exhibition Archive of Dissent which is on at the Whitechapel Gallery until 19 Jan.
TIL >> Quine's "From A Logical Point Of View" was named after a Harry Belafonte calypso track he heard in Greenwich Village on a nite out
December 17, 2024 at 12:31 AM
TIL >> Quine's "From A Logical Point Of View" was named after a Harry Belafonte calypso track he heard in Greenwich Village on a nite out
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These are hard times for lots of people - sometimes too hard. Just heard my mum’s oldest friend has lost her son to suicide. I remember him from when we were kids. It feels so wrong that I’m here but he is not.
Please, if you’re feeling very down, ring Samaritans first: 116 123
www.samaritans.org
Please, if you’re feeling very down, ring Samaritans first: 116 123
www.samaritans.org
December 10, 2024 at 5:43 PM
These are hard times for lots of people - sometimes too hard. Just heard my mum’s oldest friend has lost her son to suicide. I remember him from when we were kids. It feels so wrong that I’m here but he is not.
Please, if you’re feeling very down, ring Samaritans first: 116 123
www.samaritans.org
Please, if you’re feeling very down, ring Samaritans first: 116 123
www.samaritans.org
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Excellent interview with Syrian-Swiss writer/activist Joseph Daher. Detail of events on the ground - for example regarding the rebellion and the politics of HTS - with sharp analysis about international politics and how the British and American left should respond.
tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...
tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...
Understanding the rebellion in Syria
Tempest asks Swiss-Syrian socialist Joseph Daher about the process that led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad's rule.
tempestmag.org
December 9, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Excellent interview with Syrian-Swiss writer/activist Joseph Daher. Detail of events on the ground - for example regarding the rebellion and the politics of HTS - with sharp analysis about international politics and how the British and American left should respond.
tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...
tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...
v detailed account of what has happened in Syria in the last few days drawn from multiple sources. theirantiimperialismandours.com/2024/12/07/t...
The Syrian revolution returns with a bang: Extraordinary collapse of the genocidal regime
Regions of control as of December 6, 2024: red – Assad regime; yellow – Kurdish/SDF-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria; light green in north – Turkish-backed SNA-led Syrian Inter…
theirantiimperialismandours.com
December 9, 2024 at 1:31 PM
v detailed account of what has happened in Syria in the last few days drawn from multiple sources. theirantiimperialismandours.com/2024/12/07/t...
archive of today's Bloomberg article on Labour shitting it at Starmer's political incompetence. it's a hoot. one thing to note: everyone quoted burbles on about "messaging", "boldness", "imagination": questions of political ~direction~ are still off limits. archive.is/80bIO
archive.is
December 7, 2024 at 2:35 PM
archive of today's Bloomberg article on Labour shitting it at Starmer's political incompetence. it's a hoot. one thing to note: everyone quoted burbles on about "messaging", "boldness", "imagination": questions of political ~direction~ are still off limits. archive.is/80bIO
absolutely glorious reading all these news reports about how the motive is Unknown and everyone is Baffled by how it could have happened, do keep it up chaps.
December 7, 2024 at 1:51 AM
absolutely glorious reading all these news reports about how the motive is Unknown and everyone is Baffled by how it could have happened, do keep it up chaps.
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Agence France-Press, the French news agency, reports that Assad's troops have left Homs. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory confirms it. I think that's it. If true, and I think it's true, it's all over for Assad
December 6, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Agence France-Press, the French news agency, reports that Assad's troops have left Homs. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory confirms it. I think that's it. If true, and I think it's true, it's all over for Assad
late nite spitballing here: senior cadre of today's British r/c were university students in the late 80s/90s (my generation), ie *after* the critical class battles of the period had been fought and won by the ascendent neoliberal order. >>
December 6, 2024 at 1:07 AM
late nite spitballing here: senior cadre of today's British r/c were university students in the late 80s/90s (my generation), ie *after* the critical class battles of the period had been fought and won by the ascendent neoliberal order. >>
must-read piece on Syria from David Hearst here: detailed, well informed and clear eyed. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...
How the Syria crisis could reshape the Middle East
As Israel attempts to impose its will on the region, the lightning assault by rebels on Aleppo could have far-reaching implications
www.middleeasteye.net
December 5, 2024 at 2:51 PM
must-read piece on Syria from David Hearst here: detailed, well informed and clear eyed. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...
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Found a translation of Le Petit Prince into Piemontese dialect, assumed that with a mix of French and Italian I'd be able to make most of it, proved to be badly wrong
December 1, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Found a translation of Le Petit Prince into Piemontese dialect, assumed that with a mix of French and Italian I'd be able to make most of it, proved to be badly wrong
sorry to be a cynic but circa 80% of the Oxford students voting to condemn Israel tonight will ditch and bury their "principles" within five years, ie the moment it becomes inconvenient to their precious careers.,
November 29, 2024 at 11:02 PM
sorry to be a cynic but circa 80% of the Oxford students voting to condemn Israel tonight will ditch and bury their "principles" within five years, ie the moment it becomes inconvenient to their precious careers.,
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