This was an enjoyable listen

Recorded some really killer guest episodes of Oddity Roadshow recently. I really love playing Marlin and will miss playing him after the show ends

Personally think you're really good at playing him as someone who knows he's doing the right thing, but is sometimes frustrated about how not 'rewarding' it is compared to his previous life. There's a real sense of psychological push/pull sometimes. Happy to be corrected though if I'm misreading

Listen to @bloodwork.show to learn about how the CIA & ISI created and ran Car Bombing Universities in Pakistan’s frontier provinces during the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan, helping to create a little group called al-Qaeda 👌

I just feel very patronised when I read them. Would rather publishers treat me like an adult and sell a book using descriptive sentences

Protesters from across Scotland have gathered in Edinburgh to join a UK-wide wave of actions around the Judicial Review of the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation

Protests are taking place in 18 towns and cities across every nation in the UK from 18-29 November

You can call him the greatest living director & just about everyone will agree - Coppola, Spielberg, & Lucas say it - but with his teaching, evangelism & film preservation he's probably done more for the cinema than anyone, anywhere, ever.

Congratulations on the PhD! All those guys are miserable negative fucks who'll never have the sense of achievement and joy that radiates from you in your selfie

Center-left parties have persuaded themselves that cruelty is a virtue, rather than the grossly uncivilized vice it is

Then they're shocked to pieces when they lose elections because their constituents don't merely abandon, but actively loathe them

At a table with two books in front of me L: Alice Allan's - Open My Eyes R: Mervyn Peake's - The Gormenghast Trilogy

Made some second hand purchases at the Book Nook in Stirling

I'm terrible at maths but I made an attempt. Is 'yes' a number?

Really important to get behind this call.

Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.

Good music always defeats bad luck Words. Robots II. Andrew & Steven. Fully Automated Luxury Feudalism. The Filth. Unicorns II. J.G. Ballard.

Half our crew is at Thought Bubble this weekend, but issue #32 of our newsletter is out now because we love you!

Ft. More Filth, more robots, JG Ballard, George Richmond, a spell that backfired, Andrew and Steven, Europa Universalis V, the Animatrix, and more!

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Zambies on Instagram: "Making 3d tarot cards using miniatures. The Hanged Man was my first draw. Follow to find out which cards are next! Check out @gravenlystudio ‘s cards as well! #tarot #tarotc... zambiesdecays on October 26, 2025: "Making 3d tarot cards using miniatures. The Hanged Man was my first draw. Follow to find out which cards are next! Check out @gravenlystudio ‘s cards as well! #...

I don't Instagram, but here's a neat video of someone making a 3D Hanged Man tarot card a friend sent me
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Also: the far right is an entertainment franchise to the majority of its base. Labour's strategy would be like telling a generation raised on WWE and AEW that you're going to do *proper* Olympic-style wrestling, with no silly costumes or fake stories. Nobody wants that! They want to be entertained!

Albums I've listened to today

Jane Remover - Revengeseekerz (Currently listening)
Jeremiah Jaye - Raw Money Raps
Throwing Muses - In a Doghouse
My Favorite Color - Elmer
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse

Just remembered about that listening to a fair amount of hip-hop thing. When I listen to other genres like they're sample potential

Fully endorse. Alexander's book on Thatcherism is truly excellent.

The (super)natural worlds of Robert Kirk: Fairies, Beasts, Landscapes and Lychnobious Liminalities - The Bottle Imp On 14 May 1692 Rev. Robert Kirk (1644–1692), an accomplished Gaelic scholar and Episcopalian minister of Aberfoyle, set off for an evening stroll on the Doon Hill behind the manse. When he did not ret...

“These Siths or Fairies… are said to be of middle nature between Man & Angel… somewhat of the nature of a condensed cloud”

Robert Kirk’s SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS & FAIRIES (c.1691) sought to unify the natural & supernatural worlds
#BookWormSat #C17
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/the-...

My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.

#5debutalbums1014
#musicsky

Jeremiah Jae - "Raw Money Raps"
2012

This album was waaaay ahead of it's time. This is definitely the first time I heard that slow, almost lazy sounding style that a lot of current rappers like MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt excel at. Really great stuff if you're open to it.

YouTube video by My Favorite Color - Topic Manifesto

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Doing air-piano to this track

A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.

Free Palestine Reading List for November 29 – December 5, 2024 Publishers are offering more than 20 ebooks from around the world, including several award-winners and many books that are new in 2024, free during READ PALESTINE WEEK (November 29 – December…

And here's a helpful reading list to help you plan ahead.

publishersforpalestine.org/2023/11/29/f...

Hope this does really well

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

Michael Gambon in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective.

Darran Anderson reflects on the work of the great Dennis Potter, an artist who saw the potential of television as medium, and a working class writer so "imaginative in the ways he defied containment"

How #DennisPotter’s TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age

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