Martin Austwick

I've been working on this miniseries for Amy and Daniel (sound design and writing the theme song) and think you'll enjoy it. I was very please with the intensely masc grunts I do in the theme until I realized it's the same noise I make when I get up out of a chair

Ah so sorry

Beehiiv and Ghost are both good platforms. If you have a Substack, you should try to migrate it to one of those platforms.

I had my issues with it but she’s very young to have written something so complex and fleshed out.

1% of people think we should be allowed an alligator without a licence.

What should we make of the HS2 fiasco? | The Observer Radio 4 airs an unmissable investigation of the high-speed rail network debacle – although ‘debacle’ seems too strong a word for the contained emotions i...

“One-off documentaries are at the heart of Radio 4 and this one was gorgeous…”

Great to see @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social pick up @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social’s documentary Souvenirs in this weekend’s @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

I’ll never forget a few years ago he put his music into the public domain. What an absolute mensch

"People are not used to seeing a UN staff member like me speaking the truth in very normal, undiplomatic language. But the truth can be revolutionary and undiplomatic when diplomacy is used as a cloak for crimes." Francesca Albanese Photo: REU RS/Carlos Jasso

Every time we believe we have found legitimate reasons for shooting ten year olds we must realise that we are promoting a world where such atrocities can always be justified and one day that might be against our own children

A photo of UCL Quad from the Portico, with four ghostly black and white images of Nosferatu, from the 1922 film, painted on the gravel with light

Nearly ten years ago @martinaustwick.bsky.social and I summoned a pod of Nosferatu at the heart of my institution. They're still there, under the vanity landscaping project, and you can make up your own punchline about UKHE.

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!

HELL YEAH IT'S BUDDO

Thinking too about how right-wing authors are always “best sellers” because some rich dude or think tank just buys thousands of copies on release to sit in a warehouse

A great trick of branding, to talk about "an energy corridor" when what they're really talking about is an export corridor. That's what's being discussed here -- poison the air and water in Manitoba so that a few people can get rich off of sending LNG to Europe.

This is literally the definition of a white nationalist police state.

This is exactly what the internet is for.

it's still so fucking crazy that the reason we have death camps is basically bc people got mad about women making video games and the little mermaid being black. i get that there are cultural pendulum swings but have a little bit of proportionality? white people and men are softer than baby shit

getting in a fistfight because me and the boys can't decide if "making your robot talk like Hitler" is a Simpsons Homer & Mr Burns B-plot episode, a Community Pierce & Abed A-plot episode, a 30 Rock Jack & Pete C-plot episode, or a Data & Geordi 2-part cliffhanger TNG episode

The Brits Never Stopped Being On Their Bullshit, New Studies Reveals

I have other banal observations of books I haven’t yet read, ama

Sounds great!

Okay so I heard this story a half dozen times on Twitter about a civil rights activist who became a Marxist after an FBI agent grilled him on Marx so he decided to look the guy up—

I didn't realize until this moment that was Zohran Mamdani's father. Amazing

Three headlines, one on Israel dropping a 500lb bomb on café, one on senior doctor killed, one on UK MPs banning Palestine Action

These three headlines tell you everything you need to know about the state of the liberal order

“Processed” is actually a meaningless term for food, and really just serves to be judgmental about whatever food people wanna look down on. A cracker is just as processed as a loaf of bread from a bakery. Frozen chopped vegetables are processed.

The thing you need to remember about the Tech Broligarchs is that that are deeply, supremely, inhumanly weird. Their riches have surrounded them with yes men and a lot of them literally believe they’re going to create an AI god that will allow their consciousness to live forever. Literal hubris.

"never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence" is a phenomenal way to get continuously duped by malicious people pretending to be incompetent