Paul StJohn Mackintosh

YouTube video by Mr.Hover🅥︎ DIVINE - YOU THINK YOU'RE A MAN (DANCE VIDEOMIX CAT MEOW - CUT)

Because everyone needs a little Super Mario pole dancer kitty Oreo love...

youtu.be/YkObLuGiluY?...

It's that time again! Tomorrow will be another installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions and, before you know it, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND will be on bookstore shelves - or in your hands, if you pre-order it from @wordhorde.bsky.social!

This is what happens if you work too hard through lunch...

Did you see Charlie Stross's stonered bovine? 😇

interestingly that's practically the argument that the British Peace Pledge Union appeasers made before World War II

The job of the U.S. fascists is to split the attention of those opposing them into a thousand, factionalizing arguments, when, in actuality, you are facing one issue ONLY:

You are ruled by criminals.

You have no rights.

Your constitution is dead.

Every other consideration is pointless.

here's one reason I wish I could be going to San Francisco

Coming to Tachyon 30th Anniversary shindig this Sun Oct 5 12-5 #SanFrancisco Public Library main branch?

You can hobnob with most of the staff & authors Peter S. Beagle, @joerlansdale.bsky.social, @samtasticbooks.com, and others!

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

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#sfpl #tachyon30

"We are not required to believe that fascist movements can only come to power in an exact replay of the scenario of Mussolini and Hitler. All that is required to fit our model is polarization, deadlock, mass mobilization against internal and external enemies, and complicity by existing elites."

I've already written 1/16th of my next book, "Fin de Siècle to Fascism", about the origins of fascist ideology among the Decadents and aesthetes of fin-de-siècle France. Fascist scum, if you want to stay true to your roots, better start fluttering your wrists and donning your yellow carnations...

"The success which the convergence of elements achieved.. demonstrated the vulnerability of liberal democracy, and served to explain that phenomenon which still manages to amaze us, how a movement led by a man of such stupefying mediocrity could have succeeded in shaking the Republic" Zeev Sternhell

HM Trade Commissioner for North America (US and Canada) and HM Consul General in New York - New York job with Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office | 9541690 As His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner (HMTC) you will be one of nine key leaders of the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) overseas network.

Ironically, HMG is advertising for a new Trade Commissioner and Consul-General in New York. I wonder why? 😇

jobs.theguardian.com/job/9541690/...

For Americans still wondering whether or how they should resist, may I recommend:
Gene Sharp, "From Dictatorship to Democracy"
The Federalist Papers #10, #51
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/...

Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums The order says that "divisive narratives" must be purged from the US museums and research centres.

Americans, why aren't you organizing and resisting? McCarthyism and Watergate were pinpricks compared to this concerted assault upon the very principles of a democratic society and republic.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong. Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.

Well, that explains a lot...

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

With two half-Hungarian daughters, I feel for this one

Where are you, America? The ManBaby-in-Chief's toadies won't protest this illegitimate, unconstitutional, self-maiming putsch: how about the rest of you? Where's the outrage, the denunciations, the resistance?
Democracy is never surrender to group folly. This house of cards can fall.
#trump

Episode 640: Smooth-Fingered Dystopia « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Damn, Ken Hite got a copy of a Lovejoy book, like I've been looking for for ages! 😭

www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/ep...

"Please don't do the most obvious fix to your devices after we neglected to alert you that anything was wrong," says Google

As someone with the dubious privilege of being paid to research the origins of fascism, let me stress that defeatism is giving comfort to the enemy - the worst thing you can do. A despot who exceeds his mandate has no legitimacy, democratic or otherwise. Resist now, so you don't have to later.

I'm embarrassed to even see an adult human being responding like this. Let alone the president of the United States.

Trying to curb my bad habit of outrage scrolling - pointlessly reaming through social media to find something fresh to stoke my ire. There's enough to be angry at right now, without looking to get a buzz off more.

Happy to announce that I've just been contracted to write on the French Decadent movement in the Belle Epoque and its contribution to the ideological foundations of fascism. Tracts for the times...

YouTube video by Steve Earle - Topic The Revolution Starts Now

The revolution starts now
When you rise above your fear
And tear the walls around you down
The revolution starts here
Where you work and where you play
Where you lay your money down
What you do and what you say
The revolution starts now

J.G. Ballard, as brilliantly prescient as ever, on AI and literature...

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"Take care of the many who, for no fault of their own, get the short straws in life. They deserve better." - Warren Buffett, 2025

I can't wait to see whether the US MAGA right dare slag off the Sage of Omaha like they slagged off Bishop Budde