Alex Rhys-Taylor

the state of the nation, the void in progressive imaginations and cultural innovation is captured perfectly in EVERY CHRISTMAS ADVERT

this fresh hell

“sentenced to death for crimes against humanity” is a bit of a discursive mess.

how is anybody supposed develop a sense of home and belonging, when it can all be taken away with the click of a button in 20 years’ time? that’s not asylum.

underwhelming experience at the fragrance counter of a well known cooperatively owned department store.

“i don’t know really. it’s all
just a matter of personal taste isn’t it?”

only an issue when i’m wearing contacts. but yes. if i carry on reading poorly edited 90s po-mo prose, i’ll at least need reading glasses within a year.

i’ve also recently found myself struggling with smaller fonts. pretty sure in this instance, it’s because of entropy.

still fond of a solid serif font though. bookman old style.

🇬🇧 addicted to having its cortisol glands tickled by the algorithm.

earlier this year, meloni’s italy held a referendum on halving the length of time required for settled status from 10 to 5 years. turnout was poor, so no change, despite a majority of votes for the change.

but you see the direction the referendum was nudging towards. and yet 🇬🇧 🤦‍♂️.

aldi shoreditch (actually spitalfields!) landed in an affordable-grocery-desert. the scenes 😧.

things i wasn’t expecting from popbitch this week: incisive critique of zizek’s butchering of a gramsci quote.

his analysis of state terror is nothing more than i would expect.

hats off to the team of faceless chemical engineers and corporate tastebud donors who came up with dr pepper blackberry

a visitor to london yesterday pointed out to me that the pigeons seemed absent. she was right! on my walk to work this morning, this park (former quaker burial ground btw) is normally full of pigeons. not a rock dove in sight. just the crows. what does this augur?

angles. not angels.

half way through alan moore’s jerusalem which i had assumed was merely a bible-length ode to northhampton. it’s not. it’s a whole metaphysical treatise.

*spoiler alert* it turns out that, according to his proletarian metaphysics, all life on earth is decided by a bunch of builders playing snooker.

i’ve got a book somewhere on occult milton keynes.

i’ll work on it. i sort of promised a paper on aspects of this by march.

also notable, the purple yam rumi-from-k-pop-demon-hunters bun from bun house disco.

the assortment of various types of custard filled asian bun i can buy around brick lane, and E1 in general, has increased significantly in the last 12 months. this is a delicious and fascinating thing.

‘History won’t forgive us’ if UK falls behind in quantum computing race, says Tony Blair Exclusive: Former PM and ex-Tory leader William Hague warn UK lacks high-risk capital and infrastructure to harness benefits of powerful technology

‘History won’t forgive us’ if UK falls behind in quantum computing race, says Tony Blair. He actually gets himself to sleep at night by listing the things that history will, and will not, forgive us (and him specifically) for. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

i’ve been looking for research looking at correlations, or lack thereof, between sensory tolerance and liberalism! if you find any data in this, let us know.

some new fonts would really help refresh the left in the uk. placards laden with ‘impact’, ‘arial black’ and ‘helvetica bold’ aren’t helping.

miss the days when people said ‘overly demonstrative’ or ‘disingenuous’ rather than performative.

Hand Greenwich Foot Tunnel to TfL, lift campaigners demand in petition - The Greenwich Wire Campaigners have launched a petition calling for control of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to be transferred from Greenwich Council to Transport for London.

Campaigners have launched a petition calling for control of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to be transferred from Greenwich Council to Transport for London.

The tunnel was originally run by London-wide government, but control was handed to Greenwich in the 1980s.

those esrc data make me feel a bit better.

labour weren’t counting on a green insurgence when they lowered the voting age were they?

“dad… what do you think of the green party? you know i get to vote next time around!?” (a 13 year old)

heads up!

apart from CKOne… marketed as an refreshing exception to the rule.

i’ve got a folder full of these. mid-80s Coty Wild Musk is a classic.

thanks city hall for the extra funding x