Ben Peake

Nineteenth-centuryists (#C19th) - I'm looking for novels in the first half of the century where the rural English poor are racialized as "savage", "dark" etc. I know English rural examples from journalism/non-fiction, and fiction about the urban and "Celtic" poor, but fictional examples useful!

Nobody wake up the Old Empire.

I know it's a broad human tendency, but the fact that American war dead is the chief metric used by advocates against the war on Iran feels like a very small-souled argument.

Really, if you think about it, it's his fault for not being able to drive, by choosing to be a resident in a state that thinks impaired vision is an barrier to driving.

A heritage slur here from Minns.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

It's so cringe but then Trump loves that sort of thing, and they know it.

Werner Herzog’s Moby Dick. Especially if he does a director’s commentary track.

"You realise you didn't have to hunt an actual wh-"

"MY ART DEMANDS NO COMPROMISE!"

The Duffer Brothers' Grapes of Wrath

Rob Zombie’s “Grendel”

Everyone has that mate they've been friends with for decades and you see the title of their post or the account they are sharing and you just let out a sigh so big you can hear it from other rooms in the house ...

* alienate, GD it

Motherfucker has a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton talking about doctors’ “fancy letters and affiliations” like he’s some hayseed hibly from down home parts. He’s the dumbest man alive, not because he’s *actually* stupid, he just needs to pretend to be, b/c he’s dug himself in so deeply.

To alternate two thirds of your voters over the course of a term is astonishing and the tracks that led to this should be studied carefully.

Have a feeling they won't be, though.

"Social Cohesion" is becoming an all-timer euphemism.

A rotating GIF of images from the return of passengers on the first commercial flight from the Middle East to Australia after US-Israel strikes on Iran. Middle East at war ‘My kid’s in a war zone’: David Koch among relieved parents as Sydney private school students return The Australians on the first flight from Dubai included a group from Sydney’s Barker College who were welcomed by parents, including TV personality David Koch. 2 hours ago

Huzzah. The SMH finally found a way to link the Iran War with private schools!

The Halfway-Through-Being-Eaten-By-A-Bear look...

There are no right hands for the wrong weapon.

Love the people who are like,

"oh, no, it it's not apartheid over decades of Occupation, gutting & seizure of homes, restrictions on daily movement, land dispossession, banning protest & orgs, detention w/o trial, torture, murders of activists, or the *Nation State Law*.. but if they ANNEXED...!"

Or more accurately, NOT building the AUKUS subs, at huge expense.

Allan better have some good shots to fire in the budget.

Fascinating. If the industrial base for the US can't handle much more than a first strike...

Don't mind A Winged Victory, but the Sullen really get on my goat.

This is some Vault-Tec level bullshit

Newsom likens Israel to ‘apartheid state,’ questions future military support The California governor’s comments came as he promoted his new memoir in Los Angeles.

It’s Newsom, so he’s only saying this because he thinks it will help him win, which is very interesting www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Malinauskas is really in the position that he can slam MULTIPLE goals into the back of his own net and still be assured he wins the game.

Aaagh, the earworm, get it out get it out

And anti-social. ;)