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Performing desirable behaviour and "virtue signalling" is also absolutely core to human society.
It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law.
Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.
It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law.
Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Performing desirable behaviour and "virtue signalling" is also absolutely core to human society.
It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law.
Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.
It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law.
Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.
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The UK is world class at three things, higher education, cultural media and money laundering, and Labour are deliberately fucking up the good two and accelerating the criminal one. No-one, not even the briefcase dickheads still sticking up for them because of the sunk cost, voted for this shit.
October 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The UK is world class at three things, higher education, cultural media and money laundering, and Labour are deliberately fucking up the good two and accelerating the criminal one. No-one, not even the briefcase dickheads still sticking up for them because of the sunk cost, voted for this shit.
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The problem with our current leaders is they are all chasing votes and confusing the loudest voices with the majority. That is populism.
They are not setting out what they believe in and selling that to the electorate. We need leaders who attract voters and not chase after them.
They are not setting out what they believe in and selling that to the electorate. We need leaders who attract voters and not chase after them.
September 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The problem with our current leaders is they are all chasing votes and confusing the loudest voices with the majority. That is populism.
They are not setting out what they believe in and selling that to the electorate. We need leaders who attract voters and not chase after them.
They are not setting out what they believe in and selling that to the electorate. We need leaders who attract voters and not chase after them.
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I miss the days when it was socially unacceptable to talk like a Nazi
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
August 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I miss the days when it was socially unacceptable to talk like a Nazi
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Books are there to be read.
To be loved.
To be enjoyed.
To learn from.
To reflect your interests.
To act as an external repository of offloaded information to not have to keep inside your brain 24 / 7.
What books aren't :
decoration.
if I'm in your house, you bet I evaluate the bookshelf.
To be loved.
To be enjoyed.
To learn from.
To reflect your interests.
To act as an external repository of offloaded information to not have to keep inside your brain 24 / 7.
What books aren't :
decoration.
if I'm in your house, you bet I evaluate the bookshelf.
Having grown up in a house where there were always far too many books for shelf space, (and having continued that trend myself) having to buy books by the metre to fill your shelf space amazes me
‘Look how well-read I am!’ How ‘books by the metre’ add the final touch to your home – or your image
It’s never been easier to build an impressive-looking library, especially if you’re mostly interested in the colour and size of your books. Is this necessarily a bad thing?
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Books are there to be read.
To be loved.
To be enjoyed.
To learn from.
To reflect your interests.
To act as an external repository of offloaded information to not have to keep inside your brain 24 / 7.
What books aren't :
decoration.
if I'm in your house, you bet I evaluate the bookshelf.
To be loved.
To be enjoyed.
To learn from.
To reflect your interests.
To act as an external repository of offloaded information to not have to keep inside your brain 24 / 7.
What books aren't :
decoration.
if I'm in your house, you bet I evaluate the bookshelf.
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This is 'Brontë Country' - the middle of Keighley, barely a couple of miles from Haworth in living memory.
Coal-fired factories, quarries, worked out clay pits, gas works, engineering companies...
Coal-fired factories, quarries, worked out clay pits, gas works, engineering companies...
July 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This is 'Brontë Country' - the middle of Keighley, barely a couple of miles from Haworth in living memory.
Coal-fired factories, quarries, worked out clay pits, gas works, engineering companies...
Coal-fired factories, quarries, worked out clay pits, gas works, engineering companies...
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I bow to nobody in my appreciation of the Brontës but fuck this. The area is already disfigured by the omnipresent commercialism of the Brontë tourist industry. Meanwhile climate change is literally *making the planet uninhabitable*. This is conservative culture-baiting to oppose energy transition.
Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins
Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins
Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I bow to nobody in my appreciation of the Brontës but fuck this. The area is already disfigured by the omnipresent commercialism of the Brontë tourist industry. Meanwhile climate change is literally *making the planet uninhabitable*. This is conservative culture-baiting to oppose energy transition.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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When Labour took power last year Starmer stood on the steps of 10 Downing Street and said “your government should treat every single person in the country with respect”.
Naively I didn’t notice his use of ‘should’ instead of ‘will’. Should, but won’t.
Starmer’s Labour is rotten with transphobia.
Naively I didn’t notice his use of ‘should’ instead of ‘will’. Should, but won’t.
Starmer’s Labour is rotten with transphobia.
March 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
When Labour took power last year Starmer stood on the steps of 10 Downing Street and said “your government should treat every single person in the country with respect”.
Naively I didn’t notice his use of ‘should’ instead of ‘will’. Should, but won’t.
Starmer’s Labour is rotten with transphobia.
Naively I didn’t notice his use of ‘should’ instead of ‘will’. Should, but won’t.
Starmer’s Labour is rotten with transphobia.
Most of the gigs I go to see folk musicians, so an intimate setting is the default. You usually get to chat with them at the merch stalls after the gig too.
What musical act did you get to see in an intimate setting? Because it was before they got big or after they had their huge moment?
March 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Most of the gigs I go to see folk musicians, so an intimate setting is the default. You usually get to chat with them at the merch stalls after the gig too.
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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
The tradition my wife and I have developed for celebrating Valentine’s Day together is pizza enjoyed with a Bollywood movie.
February 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The tradition my wife and I have developed for celebrating Valentine’s Day together is pizza enjoyed with a Bollywood movie.
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I need to put this out there. There is no monomyth. The "hero's journey" is not a universal thing, and never was. Its creation relied on cherry picked stories and ignoring everything in them and any context about them or the cultures they were from to work. It was literature level colonialism. 1/4
February 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I need to put this out there. There is no monomyth. The "hero's journey" is not a universal thing, and never was. Its creation relied on cherry picked stories and ignoring everything in them and any context about them or the cultures they were from to work. It was literature level colonialism. 1/4
Yes, I wonder what the difference is between the two sets of writers that leads them the prefer the one other the other? And I love that “or even Delany”. A queer, black writer whose work draws on post structuralism. Why might reactionary techbros not be interested in his work?!
And it is fascinating to me that the techbros would always be able to quote Asimov or Heinlein or maybe Stirling or Brin but never LeGuin or Butler or even Delaney.
February 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yes, I wonder what the difference is between the two sets of writers that leads them the prefer the one other the other? And I love that “or even Delany”. A queer, black writer whose work draws on post structuralism. Why might reactionary techbros not be interested in his work?!
While I knew this existed, I don’t think I realised it was an actual pen you can actually draw with. My son is going love this when I show it to him tomorrow!
no thoughts just Jim Woodring and his big drawing pen
February 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
While I knew this existed, I don’t think I realised it was an actual pen you can actually draw with. My son is going love this when I show it to him tomorrow!
In the charity shop where I volunteer, in one of the back rooms where we sort out and price books, there is now a pile of Neil Gaiman’s books and comics which have been removed from the shelves, next to a post it note asking if we should sell these any more.
February 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In the charity shop where I volunteer, in one of the back rooms where we sort out and price books, there is now a pile of Neil Gaiman’s books and comics which have been removed from the shelves, next to a post it note asking if we should sell these any more.
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Here's the short film Derek Jarman made with Marianne Faithfull for Broken English, it's not a music video, it's art and it is what the song and the singer deserved. RIP.
youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...
youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Short Film by Derek Jarman) [1979]
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Here's the short film Derek Jarman made with Marianne Faithfull for Broken English, it's not a music video, it's art and it is what the song and the singer deserved. RIP.
youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...
youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...
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David Lynch was a true realist documenting a haunted world. His work was a great act of empathy with all the humans living bewildered on an alien planet called Earth.
January 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
David Lynch was a true realist documenting a haunted world. His work was a great act of empathy with all the humans living bewildered on an alien planet called Earth.
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So, welcome to 2025, where everything is true, and nothing will be permitted.
January 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
So, welcome to 2025, where everything is true, and nothing will be permitted.
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If you just believe in the fiscal rules hard enough - and leave out some discarded minority rights besides your fireplace - then Economy Santa will visit and fill your stocking with Economic Growth.
December 24, 2024 at 12:44 PM
If you just believe in the fiscal rules hard enough - and leave out some discarded minority rights besides your fireplace - then Economy Santa will visit and fill your stocking with Economic Growth.
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The British symbols tend to be less about the biological superiority or mechanical might and more so bound to an *intellectual* superiority and cunning--Holmes and so on.
But this is perhaps best embodied by a Thomas Carnacki.
The Cunning Shaman--thus both Constantine and Doctor Who.
But this is perhaps best embodied by a Thomas Carnacki.
The Cunning Shaman--thus both Constantine and Doctor Who.
December 21, 2024 at 7:32 PM
The British symbols tend to be less about the biological superiority or mechanical might and more so bound to an *intellectual* superiority and cunning--Holmes and so on.
But this is perhaps best embodied by a Thomas Carnacki.
The Cunning Shaman--thus both Constantine and Doctor Who.
But this is perhaps best embodied by a Thomas Carnacki.
The Cunning Shaman--thus both Constantine and Doctor Who.
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Man if only someone could make a movie of Roadside Picnic and also be one of the canonical great Soviet directors that would be nice
December 18, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Man if only someone could make a movie of Roadside Picnic and also be one of the canonical great Soviet directors that would be nice
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You can measure an economy's actual, real life, concrete health by: are people able to do their own weird shit?
Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit?
Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers
Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit?
Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers
December 16, 2024 at 12:22 PM
You can measure an economy's actual, real life, concrete health by: are people able to do their own weird shit?
Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit?
Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers
Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit?
Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers