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tangentially this has been doing the rounds on twitter recently. are there any chickens here perchance. will they be coming home to roost any time soon. /fin
April 4, 2025 at 8:50 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...
February 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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
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
some context from the other place
January 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
this is the Guardian from 2002 reporting on "chaotic scenes" as Le Pen tried to launch his presidential bid at the European Parliament. my mission that day was to take a day trip to Brussels and foment precisely such scenes.

www.theguardian.com/world/2002/a...
January 7, 2025 at 9:19 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...
January 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
PSA: commutative diagrams in category theory are MUCH easier to read when drawn from right to left.
January 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
there's some recent stuff too, including this one titled Syria from 2018. anyway do go see, it's fascinating and powerful and you get a free newspaper with all his work in it! /fin
December 22, 2024 at 8:20 PM
lots of his posters from the 80s and 90s covering everything from the Gulf War to BT privatisation. oh and check out the OG transformers.
December 22, 2024 at 8:20 PM
there's some old copies of the Guardian featuring his work on show. back in 1990 the Guardian Review on Thursday would lead with an article on Walter Benjamin and commission artwork to go with it, and that was just normal.
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.
December 22, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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
December 8, 2024 at 12:03 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. >>
December 6, 2024 at 1:07 AM
chanced across Amnesty's 2024 xmas bumf catalogue and credit where it's due
November 22, 2024 at 9:34 PM
getting very into Euclid of late my droogs. was always vaguely aware of this stuff but reading it carefully is a revelation. so many subtleties where I can now see he prefigures mathematical breakthroughs that took place centuries later. we are still insufficiently Euclidean.
November 21, 2024 at 9:55 PM
[copypaste of thread I did on the other place – am lurking here mostly for now] >> re From The River To The Sea and the rise of what you might call a one state vision >>
November 5, 2023 at 10:29 PM
look what I just saw out the window at Canary Wharf
October 6, 2023 at 6:27 PM
bought a new wall clock that starts at 0 like all clocks should do.
August 17, 2023 at 10:57 PM
macabre roadside scene.
August 12, 2023 at 11:43 AM