Martin Austwick

Such a nice bunch of friends spectating my intense hyperfocus

I played the original :)

It will break my 100+h Balatro bullshit

SH2 remake or Blue Prince? I have both on ps+

It’s very on brand that you break your bluesky omertà for THIS. I guess Daniel Eck hadn’t punched any babies for a while

I know every corporation has its thorns and there's no ethical consumption under capitalism etc: but just dump Spotify. do it now.

Apple Music is great, I've heard Tidal is solid, Deezer, whatever. you can transfer your playlists. it'll be ok. they can rot.

The Jane Schoenbrun/Black Hole news is very exciting

"How do you expect to win back men...?"

We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

Because so much debate around the Farage restoration a lot of debate including Hyde's piece doesn't grapple with how Reform's ceiling at the moment is around just below 30% even as public frustration mounts. That leaves a lot of F U voters that can be picked up by others like the Greens. * Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.soc... • 30m Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... But what Cameron was actually doing was giving the British public a fuck-you button, and asking: "Do you want to press it?" Personally, I didn't at the time, but it has since become abundantly clear why a lot of people did. Pressing it has not, it must be conceded, made anything any better, although many espouse the view that it is only not better yet. In any case, things have developed significantly since then. Fuck-you has become the fastest growing and currently biggest tribe in British politics. And instead of being simply adjacent to the fuck-you button, Farage has now fused himself with it. Go on, press him. You know you want to. © 25 亡… Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Follow In some ways the current media-political complex panic over Reform and maybe even the AfD resembles the hype cycle inflating the Al bubble

I’d urge people to ask whether, if push comes to shove, the British press are likely to go full hate-jihad against Reform to save us all, particularly if doing so might be very helpful to the Green Party.

At #COP30 next month in Brazil, the animal ag (and broader ag) industry is likely to be as active as the fossil fuel guys obstructing commitments to emissions reductions. I got a crash course on how they work from the great @profsecchi.bsky.social and Kathrin Lauber and terrific new @cssn.org book

it wouldn't fix everything but you could do a lot to improve journalism by simply straight out banning the passive voice

I had missed the "national" part tbf, and hadn't assumed it was the US, for some reason? Maybe because it makes zero sense

I don’t get it

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South America tho

Also Leadbelly’s birthday. Coincidence?!??

:(

Interview from the Titan submarine investigation. The witness name is blacked out. The first line is "Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Great moments in redaction history.

(I should be clear that I think arts degree are good, actually. I did a bunch of STEM degrees and now I'm a podcaster, who's laughing now? Anyone? I hope someone is laughing, somewhere)

I anticipate most CEOs will be subscribed by the end of the day, why not potentiate and be an early adopter too?

I found this headline especially weird given that university participation rates are over 50%. Presumably different samples.

I had this very conversation in the context of making a case for the arts vs STEM. "Arts education creates critical people whose economic contributions can be harder to directly link to their degrees" feels like a tough sell.

Ello! Top lad @jeffemtman.com just published a new episode of Neutrinowatch! "Best of the Manosphere" is a daily distillation of all the best bits of your favourite manpods into a wonderful piece of art. It's the idea-summarizing, trailblazing, time-saving game-changer! pod.link/1567632084/e...

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

The Word for World: an exhibition presenting the maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is now open at the AA Gallery! It's free and on until 6 Dec. Here are some photos from opening evening 🌀 www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

17 hours left - every hour for 10 months, an original post for six families & a camp. But I can’t type so please forgive me for copy/pasting.

We’re matching 185 for their URGENT:

- Food - still famine !
- Shelter / tents
- Winter items
- Newborn supplies
- Transport north

Last check 273/1000

I’ve found mine really hard to get used to, but if it does this I am going to persevere

Ah I really like that one too. Also partially about Winona Ryder

10,000 Letters of Love Video for the song "10,000 Letters of Love" by The Sound of The Ladies from their latest album "The City of Gold and Lead" - available as a…

The """""lead single""""" from this album, "10,000 letters of love", featured this paper cut/back projection video vimeo.com/66058110

(this was back when I was calling myself "The Sound of The Ladies", a phase that has passed)

The City of Gold and Lead [REMASTERED], by Pale Bird 11 track album

The City of Gold and Lead

Inspired by the John Christopher book and living in London. The original CD came with a lovely paper cut sleeve.

Listen if you like: the sadboi stuff

Favorite songs: 10,000 Letters of Love, My Sensitive Feelings, Retrospectively

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