James Alistair Henry

god yes, this drives me insane, I may as well have a JOB

I didn't know that, how brilliant!

All in service for one last desperate mission to get a team of misfit satirical cross stitchers over enemy lines.

Crack squads of watercolour artists setting up hundred foot canvases to fuck up search algorithms.

Literary professors being drafted to teach hardened infantry regiments how to use trochaic pentameter in short controlled bursts. Slam poets on mad suicide missions to take out central command nodes. Gentle folk singers firing off melodies from the back of Toyota Hiluxes.

Reading about AI being subverted by adversarial poetry and Russian drones' navigation systems jammed by Ukranian folk anthems, which suggests the opening future 'human rebels' scenes of Terminator may now have to be revised.

Thank you!

I had it on cassette and used to listen on long train journeys.

I can respect that.

Kate Bush dressed as a lion.

Yup, Bat Kate Bush = good, but Lionheart Kate Bush = better.

I like seeing Kate Bush dressed as a bat, but tbh I'm always going to prefer seeing her dressed as a lion, that's just how I feel.

I always assumed it was pronounced 'swee-generous', so I'm doubly glad he asked.

I think there are going to be character illustrations, so I'll put here if they're okay with it.

Well, I suppose not the *innermost* of the innermost thoughts.

We're doing a session zero this afternoon to set out the characters: a version of Daredevil who made a deal with an actual devil, a butch lesbian bouncer/legal investigator called Wolf-Spider and a telepathic alien called Fleep disguised as a midtown student.

This is important background reading ACTUALLY, not an excuse to buy anything from a charity shop/second hand online with Marvel' in the title.

No danger of ever *not* knowing the innermost thoughts of posh RWers, is there?

Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles Deal likely to trigger indepth investigation after agreement between Lord Rothermere’s DMGT and Redbird IMI

The consolidation of Right Wing power in the UK.

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Instagram now showing me two images from people I follow then fifteen clips of films I've never heard of and have no desire to ever watch.

Cheers - bear in mind the paperback's coming out end of Jan!

I've thought this ever since the recorded announcements at train stations started saying "I'm sorry for the delay."

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself

it is also free to read

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I mean providing safe routes and then telling the racist press to fuck off we’ve got a massive majority is pretty straight forward tbh

It was a special moment.

Oh yes, I'd almost forgotten about him boasting he'd been shaking hands with patients. *mind boggles all over again*

(no, never finished it)

... until she murders me, anyway.