All Watched Over By Machines of Drum and Bass
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In a rave big system warfare. At Swim, Two-Steps. Free Palestine. Trans solidarity.
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Working #5: An Overtness
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New show featuring the likes of Acheron's Reticuli, Sister Irene O'Connor and Mega Bog. www.mixcloud.com/isitworking/...
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
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Oh cool, indentured servitude. Legally recognised throughout the democratic world as a form of unfree labour aka slavery. Also literally how the people traffickers that this legislation is supposedly meant to stop imprison their victims.
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Oh cool, indentured servitude. Legally recognised throughout the democratic world as a form of unfree labour aka slavery. Also literally how the people traffickers that this legislation is supposedly meant to stop imprison their victims.
Anything advertised to me on instagram immediately feels like a scam, even if it's a site I've used many times before.
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Anything advertised to me on instagram immediately feels like a scam, even if it's a site I've used many times before.
Anything advertised to me on instagram immediately feels like a scam, even if it's a site I've used many times before.
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Anything advertised to me on instagram immediately feels like a scam, even if it's a site I've used many times before.
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It’s the same thing as the terfery really: it’s just being an arsehole and a busybody, seething at people who are just quietly going about their business without harming or bothering anyone.
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It’s the same thing as the terfery really: it’s just being an arsehole and a busybody, seething at people who are just quietly going about their business without harming or bothering anyone.
New show featuring the likes of Acheron's Reticuli, Sister Irene O'Connor and Mega Bog. www.mixcloud.com/isitworking/...
Working #5: An Overtness
www.mixcloud.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
New show featuring the likes of Acheron's Reticuli, Sister Irene O'Connor and Mega Bog. www.mixcloud.com/isitworking/...
The end of Stranger Things is a big deal for me, someone who has not seen a second of the show but wore Stranger Things socks for several years after getting an amazing bulk buy clearance deal.
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The end of Stranger Things is a big deal for me, someone who has not seen a second of the show but wore Stranger Things socks for several years after getting an amazing bulk buy clearance deal.
Crucified skin tattoo but it reads "Come Down From the Cross We Could Use the Wood"
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Crucified skin tattoo but it reads "Come Down From the Cross We Could Use the Wood"
Started playing Where the Winds Meet and I lasted like 30 seconds before the voice-acting was so grating that I had to change it to Chinese dialogue so it didn't piss me off.
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Started playing Where the Winds Meet and I lasted like 30 seconds before the voice-acting was so grating that I had to change it to Chinese dialogue so it didn't piss me off.
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This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
Any book where I see this shit on the back in a bookshop I immediately put down never to think about again.
I get why authors are compelled to do it, but few things make me want to read a book/story less than those tropelist pointing to the book marketing banners. I really wish they'd go away, but I guess they Do work as a marketing tactic on more people than they're off-putting to.
November 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Any book where I see this shit on the back in a bookshop I immediately put down never to think about again.
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Again, it would be hugely useful if the lobby hacks could get visibly tattooed with the sigils of their patrons like the familiars in Blade, so we can easily tell who owns which ones,
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Again, it would be hugely useful if the lobby hacks could get visibly tattooed with the sigils of their patrons like the familiars in Blade, so we can easily tell who owns which ones,
Reading Dennis Cooper and watching the sporting event of the year (World Scrabble Finals)
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reading Dennis Cooper and watching the sporting event of the year (World Scrabble Finals)
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At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.
The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
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When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.
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I was gonna be like "haha REVEALED: Maven not very good at wrestling!" and that is in fact about exactly what he says lol
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I was gonna be like "haha REVEALED: Maven not very good at wrestling!" and that is in fact about exactly what he says lol
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AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/
He's built like this
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
He's built like this
As an aging punk who often feels painfully disconnected from the thing that gave my life meaning for so long the new Home Front record's weaponised ruefulness is designed in a lab to make me feel things.
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
As an aging punk who often feels painfully disconnected from the thing that gave my life meaning for so long the new Home Front record's weaponised ruefulness is designed in a lab to make me feel things.
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I truly believe that Wes Streeting has the ideas, the charisma, and the likeability to be an even more historically hated Prime Minister than Keir Starmer
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I truly believe that Wes Streeting has the ideas, the charisma, and the likeability to be an even more historically hated Prime Minister than Keir Starmer
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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Wait no the actual funniest part is that Oates was saying Musk is so obviously miserable and lonely that life's simplest pleasures are beyond him but his greasy, flat brain couldn't understand that point so he just went "if I haven't seen any movies explain why I've seen this movie"
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Wait no the actual funniest part is that Oates was saying Musk is so obviously miserable and lonely that life's simplest pleasures are beyond him but his greasy, flat brain couldn't understand that point so he just went "if I haven't seen any movies explain why I've seen this movie"
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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It is really funny the NY Times has a reporter whose "beat" is college campus cancel culture shit. That's like having a reporter reporting on WWE storylines
He responded to a comment with a nakedly biased take on what's been occurring for the past decade or so on college campuses!
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It is really funny the NY Times has a reporter whose "beat" is college campus cancel culture shit. That's like having a reporter reporting on WWE storylines
There she is.
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
There she is.