Stevie Chick

currently ruminating on how much better my mental health/productivity might be if I didn't have four Chrome windows open with about 20 tabs open in each

I'm not sure this is enough for a group, however reputable, whose statement about the by-election has prompted a wave of often evidence-free assertions by politicians about voting in Asian communities, plus some fairly clearly false claims about the Greens winning G&D through cheating.

Middleman, Following the Ghost

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Here’s another thing that never gets adequately talked about. Billy Corgan always is and always has been full of shit. And I say this as someone who loves a couple of his records.

Life comes at you fast

YouTube video by rukiddinbro Company Flow - Patriotism

Side note that Company Flow’s Patriotism, originally off the hella patchy Soundbombing 2 and included here, goes as hard as political rap ever has, each stanza like a punch to the throat youtu.be/6V8-IppQpbs?...

I find this place quite dull in the absence of @jamellebouie.net

Frogmarched from the shop by security, and every subsequent replacement was more incompetent and unpleasant. Awful company. Deserved to die.

I worked at Smiths in the 90s paying my way through university. Made some great friends and some fond memories but the company was vile - they made much of their experienced store management redundant in the mid-90s in the most brutal way - my first manager, a really lovely, competent guy, was

Mr Len, Class-X: Tribute To Company Flow

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I think that Jamelle Bouie is a good person

I need this gutter racist’s name to be mud before the year is out. If we don’t reinstate actual costs for lying and fascism we will never dig ourselves out of this mess.

Happy birthday Ned!

Your wife… is she a theatregoer?

X normalizes Nazi and white supremacist words, memes, language, and ideas. If you're noodling around on that site, that propaganda is worming its way into your brain. That turns you into a danger to yourself and others.

Get the fuck off of X.

The Guardian’s positive action work experience is open for applications! There are (paid) schemes for disabled, BAME, and working class wannabe journalists.

Because the media needs more people like us.

Info here: workwithus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...

Jill Scott, To Whom It May Concern

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Fascist fucks abound

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Edan, Sprain Your Tapedeck

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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I haven’t! Will search it out though

Yeah - it’s a visual feast, isn’t it?

It’s great, isn’t it? So deep, so thick with detail.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

My dad named me after his song “Stephen” after hearing it on the radio driving home from the hospital after I was born.

This is where I’m at too, tbh

I just feel like, ideally, the Labour response to yesterday's result would have tried to talk people *out* of detecting to the Greens, rather than, y'know, the opposite?

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s