Alex Maskill

Just overhead a kid pull off a "smells like updog" on the adult he was with. Clean as anything.

Hell yeah man, if you're up for it Greens Organise might be a good fit for you

Traitors is wild, the most melodramatic production design in the world over some business consultant in the middle of a game of werewolf doing a really banal confession cam

The neighbourhood cats have figured out where our apartment is and have started meowing at the window to get my flatmate to come outside

Ah but you see the US President, the Russian President and the CCP General Secretary are the only official leadership positions, everyone else is a dupe on a leash of variable length

Oh man we're not pretending "it's way more boring and full of scolds and hall monitors" isn't *true* are we, given that the odds on that still being worth a full switch have never been better

So glad these people migrated over from Twitter only to find that nobody over here respects them either

Oh sweet, always nice to have a travelled-all-day-no-thought chain to rely on (usually I just beeline for MOS Burger)

Where is this from?

See I'd go in the opposite direction. It's banal. Pinterest -> pre-sorted bundle sold at markup -> decoration, all basically frictionless and fed to you algorithmically.

Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...

‘Psychoanalysis can help us better understand how the world, including our oppressors, works, and so what we might do about it, and them; and what wishes we might have for collective life, and which of these the reality principle demands we set aside.’

Amia Srinivasan:
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Well if there was anything more to him he'd be able to mask it with that but alas

Also making my Switch my Japanese reading homework machine made gaming less appealing than reading a novel and getting a Switch 2 unblocked that whole thing and gave me full gamer relapse

Part of the problem here may also be that back-half In Search Of Lost Time is hard work, who's to say

Since I left my old fully on-site job, where I would read on my lunch break for a full hour, I have finished one (1) book having finished 47 books up to that point

My new years resolution is to get way better at reading when I'm not in the office now that I'm not in an office five days a week because jesus christ there has been a falloff

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US:
Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

It’s insane to talk through this shit out loud. “Children should starve because it might make their moms less likely to sleep around in the future.”

Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner looking neutral overlaid with the same character looking furious

Amazon delivery got hit with the "still arriving today"

How ‘APWOT’, The Most Beautiful Gaming Journal, Made Its Annual Release An Event 'A Profound Waste of Time' has set an incredibly high bar for printed gaming media, even if only four issues have been produced in ten years.

It was a real pleasure to interview @apwot.bsky.social's @cazwis.bsky.social for Forbes this month, especially ahead of A Profound Waste of Time issue 5!

Check it out here:

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

(more intrigued than I've been in my life) apparently the new Luca Guadagnino film fucking sucks

Anyway, my stance remains the same - never trust anyone in statement glasses

The annoying part is that Jewish-American conservative thinkers, drawing on their specific experiences as Jews in early-mid 20th century New York, absolutely were crucial to the development of neoconservatism, it just isn't reducible to that. The Know Your Enemy podcast covers this well and often.

Am I reading this right or is this senior party figure saying "the promise was to be Continuity Toryism but competent" AND "but now nobody buys competent part"

The Triumph of the American Moron Clarence Thomas's anti-trans concurrence is the culmination of right-wing anti-intellectualism

I wrote about Clarence Thomas's anti-intellectual, anti-trans concurrence in United States v. Skrmetti, and what it says about how far the right has fallen into conspiratorialism

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

A great episode on a great book from one of my favourite incredibly niche podcasts

Birthday in Tokyo is such a good move, had a great time on mine in 2024 - glad mine is earlier in the year though!

Some of those Claremont Institutr guys have got to be so mad this far more obvious pseud got the spot over them