Stephenjohn Holgate

Go write a book or draw or something or go play music

Slopocalypse Now Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.

"It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person, who can’t spend all day online weighing up competing claims about robots or pedophilia or Iran."

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Watched 50 cent’s Puffy documentary. Blasting Hit ‘em up on the way to yoga

Trump receiving his Jim’ll fix it badge

A comic strip featuring two characters discussing how to deal with negative comments on posts, with four panels: 1. The first character, standing, asks, "How do you deal with negative comments on your posts?" The second character, sitting at a laptop, responds, "I used to argue." 2. The first character continues, "But it's much simpler to just block somebody if you detect any kind of negative energy." 3. The first character, now with arms crossed and eyes closed, says, "That's a pretty stupid way to deal wi-" before being cut off. 4. The second character, now alone and smiling, continues working on the laptop. At the bottom right corner, there is a small text: ©JimBenton.com.

*block*

this is stalin shit

50 Cent is a world class, hall of fame hater. This is a compliment.

Welcome to antifa, Sabrina Carpenter.

I hope Craig Mack’s spirit haunts Puffy.

Subscribe your loved ones to literary magazines for the holidays

Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes X.com I'm being called a National Socialist because I want an immigration moratorium and more efficient public services. I just want the populist Right and Left to work together to put America First instead of the center Right and Left working together for the oligarchy. 8:09 AM • 11/21/25 • 1.7M Views

Nick Fuentes has been working overtime to sanitize his image and present himself as a uniter of the left and right. Very clearly using language often associated with the left.

This is part of a larger effort by the anti-Zionist antisemitic far right to recruit people on the left.

The word "essay" comes from the French "essayer" which means "to show your ass."

I think it's really telling that there's never been a hot person who's into AI

The thing is: “remigration” is already happening. Far from the comments sections underneath pieces of writing like these, where people exchange anguished or angry words about the future of Germany and the country’s soul, people are already leaving. Foreigners out, cry the protesters, and in some sense they are getting their wish. Every few weeks, I go to check in on a friend or acquaintance and find that they are either in the process of packing their bags or they are gone, gone, gone. In general the white ones are staying in Europe and the non-white ones are putting an entire ocean between themselves and here. Germany’s problem isn’t the loud migrants like me. It’s the ones who right now are leaving silently, never to return.

Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.

With respect to the poor essay - Overland literary journal Once, many years ago, I was on a panel discussing something for a new redundant culture publication with a few different writers of my cohort concerning the topic of “Fake News” — a panel which I glad...

'A technically proficient columnist, this person had, in their work, begun to embody a sort of living breathing algorithm.' On the difference between pattern recognition and intelligence, between typing, writing and thinking in an algorithmic world.
overland.org.au/2025/12/with...

2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets ($9000) - Overland literary journal About the prize Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks poetry by writers who have published no ...

Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.

Imagine ruining whatever little credibility you have left by supporting the SWP. Imagine choosing that hill to die on rather than all the other bullshit that has come from Your Barely Nascent Party

Errrrrrrr….. SWP are not the one, gotta say

Batshit country. So glad to be going back for a visit

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On Farage—who is surprised by the accusations levelled at Farage are those who have never had to understand what he has always been saying.

Lmao

This episode is excellent

Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS

"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus"

Slow clap to the anti-immigrant rhetoric

lmao

crying howling struggling to breathe

With the climate catastrophe things are going to get a lot more racist a lot more quickly.

Fuckssake, I could write more but I absolutely cannot be bothered. I’m only visiting again because I have family there.