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Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

Daily reminder that you are simply living inside a mass hallucination in which reality is subject to spasmodic fevers: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A focus group of Bartlebys.

column this week is about flegs

Good Reads: Offal journal offers up a literary feast Designed by Richard Turley and Julia Schäfer, Offal celebrates artistic offcuts and serves up disparate text-based leftovers from a range of sources

Being interviewed by the Creative Review is not something I ever anticipated happening (although they seem to have saved my bons mots for subscribers) www.creativereview.co.uk/good-reads-o...

I’d like to set up an SF prophecy index. Anyone got the coding skills? Which writer gets the most predictive hits. I mean obviously I’m biased but the premise of Ballard’s Kingdom Come is essentially the “soft fascist” flag proliferation seen in the UK over the last week.

Viz Top Tips John Constant. [photo of a white mini roundabout with a red cross painted over the top by a radicalised nationalist fool of a Brummie. Except there are some additional lines added for the joke]] Adding two well placed, straight red lines to "patriots"; graffiti already on traffic islands creates your very own Dead Kennedys tribute. Liked by You and 2.9K others

Castle Bromwich Über Alles

As Victor Lewis-Smith said of Chris Morris (somewhat unfairly): "Imitation is the sincerest form of being an unoriginal thieving bastard"

Cover of the latest edition of The Fence

You know what, I’m really glad I subscribed to @thefence.bsky.social earlier this year

It does feel somewhat tailor made for my demographic - millennials of a certain age - and in that it reminds me of what made Vice so fresh in its early days, but without the bullshit (I say this as a compliment)

Saw these up in York, then taken down the following day. Seems like a pretty straightforwardly stalking horse strategy, designed to intensify division and further blur the lines between patriotism and xenophobia.

Had a lot fun talking about OFFAL #2 with my co-editor on the Monocle Stack podcast (from 24:40): monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Amazing. That's like the Phoebe Gloeckner illustrations for the Re/Search Atrocity. Wonder if she got the style from Magritte? I'm currently researching in Civil War surgery text books - feels like doing 17thC Ballard Crash Injuries!

Love this thread. Been meaning to get to the Magritte museum for ages. Magritte is the total boss. And yes on moules frites and strong beer. Quality.

The Pub Is Finally Open!

With writing from @seamas.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @anakinsella.bsky.social, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, @charlotteivers.bsky.social, John Banville and @vizcomic.bsky.social.

Available at all bookstores & the link below 🍺

www.penguin.co.uk/books/462310...

Tarot - Origins & Afterlives Podcasts These talks took place as part of Tarot – Origins & Afterlives: A Symposium

Our Tarot – Origins & Afterlives podcast series brings you talks from our recent symposium, held alongside the our exhibition on the history of tarot

Explore:
• Eliphas Levi & the Occult Tarot
• Surrealism & the Tarot
• The Visconti Tarocchi
+ more

warburg.sas.ac.uk/search-podca... #Tarot

Features properly niche gags, such as disgraced It's a Knockout host Stuart Hall reading Birmingham School cultural theorist Stuart Hall, one of the Chuckle Brothers reading youporn video titles, and an ad for DON JUNIOR'S NEW ENERGY DRINK FOR MEN

Offal #27 Gasconade / We Provide… / Video Titles / Steppenwolf (Extract) / Stuart Hall reads Stuart Hall / The Rapture of Tony Blair / A Message from Offal Industries Season…

Back from hols and chuckling to myself as I listen to the most recent episode of OFFAL, free to air at our Steady page: steady.page/en/offal/pos... (one of my daughters recently told someone that if she sees me laughing, she knows I'm listening to my own stuff - oh god, that's bad - but this is ACE)

@thefence.bsky.social goes to Provence to be next to Leicester Square (after Monet). I trust that this offering will not be out-pretentioned this month.

‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump Speaking at Comic-Con on Thursday, Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed they spent days negotiating with producers to show the US president’s genitals

Stone added that the team decided to put eyes on the penis, which would make it a character: “If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.”

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Thinking of doing a sandpaper cover for issue 3 of Offal - issue 2 available here - offaloffaloffal.com/publication in tribute to Jorn and Debord's Memoires. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9...

The SEND School Jack Beaumont is becoming a teacher, at a critical juncture for Britain’s most vulnerable students.

great piece - important read www.the-fence.com/the-send-sch... @thefence.bsky.social

The shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron | Emmanuel Carrère The long read: Deeply unpopular in France, President Macron relishes the international stage, where he projects himself as the leader best placed to handle Trump. Seven years after our last encounter,...

🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

No President review – surreal Trump satire with ballet shoes and boners New York company Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s take on the US president is an ideas-packed, dance-adjacent comedy inspiring whoops and walkouts

I am intrigued, even as I know that I would hate the reality of this: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Latest episode of Offal, including an extract from the upcoming Offal #2 book.

Conference Call Small Talk / Search History / The Only Way to Change Things is to Shoot Men Who Curate Things (by Iain Aitch) / A Message from Fleisch Smart Prosthetics

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This evening we did an Offal Industries experimental writing workshop at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Goldsmiths and it was triumphant. The texts produced were awesome. We may publish some. And our AI puppets produced reliably weird readings. If anyone wants this experience hit us up.

Off The Fence: THE PUB The biggest announcement, and the best thing, that we've ever made.

You guys probably already subscribe to Off the Fence, but there's a big announcement in the new one, and a little squib from your ever-so-humble correspondent

thefence.substack.com/p/off-the-fe...

“Private jets are like the canary in the coal mine here for a hyper unequal warming world,” Rutherford said.”

Sounds intriguing. Don’t know that one but the Grass Arena is absolutely brilliant and not as well known as it should be. Sarah moss, on the other hand, I can’t get along with.

Think they’re playing the Avalon stage this afternoon

Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure I groaned​ my way through The Emperor of Gladness. I writhed. I felt real despair every time I forced myself to open...

LRB hatchet job klaxon! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Some absolute zingers in here, among which my fave: “It’s hard to believe that, in the history of literature, an episode of rimming has ever been presented in such gauzy terms, made quite so desperately sentimental.”