Samuel Thomson

Today, in The Times, there is an attempted hit piece on my employer – Good Law Project.

It is *incredibly* weak, and perhaps the biggest compliment really is just how little they have to accuse us of. But it also promotes the Trans Mission concert – to which you should buy tickets!

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RightWingCope on twitter dot com posts a thumbnail from Kurt Caz wherein various details of a British high street are changed to make them more threatening to racists - shops have their storefronts replaced by writing in Arabic and a random friendly black guy has a mask superimposed on his face as if he is a robber. In the original Caz himself is giving the black bloke a thumbs up but he has removed that from his thumbnail, suggesting he was trying to deceive the man.

Feeling some degree of pessimism about Things

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

Sean Thomas London’s demographic change is unprecedented in peacetime Most of the population has been replaced within a couple of generations

If the entirety of your op/ed compares demographic changes in London to the Khmer Rouge's mass murder of millions of people, you are willingly engaged in stochastic terrorism, and should be held responsible for any and all violent actions committed by fascists against non-white people

Superb. One edit particularly drops out to me as a bit of truly sparkling dialogue: the left is the first draft, the second the shooting script by Stoppard

I'm fascinated by these imprisoned teasels.

Marx's ideas on capital accumulation are imminently readable in these dragon-like assemblages that still show evidence of human labour in their construction - bolts need tightening, iron must be cast. It's a lot harder to see the accretion of labour in contemporary tech.

No it's not, maybe Windows screensaver?

Is this Moraf's Dungeon?

What were they doing with their butlers I wonder.

RIP Tom Stoppard.

Purely as a mark of the man, the way the Epstein Ballroom cuts into the proportional circularity of the White House lawn is burger du turd.

"This is a field execution.. this is a war on occupied people, a war on civilians"

Mustafa Barghouti on the footage that shows Israeli forces executing two unarmed Palestinian men who've just surrendered

I don't like going to stadium gigs though, I'm 5'5 and it's just such a pointless thing for me to go to.

Sonic Youth
Iggy Pop
Mars Volta
Placebo
Quintron

The businessplan is to hide all data retrieval, apps, everything, inside an impenetrable mesh of walled gardens that nobody (perhaps not even engineers - models aren't "engineered" as we've previously understood it) can unpick. Then you're given a slot machine saying "what would you like me to do".

It can always get worse.

I reckon he'd catch any thrown ball with one hand. He just has that look about him.

Garry Kasparov at Halifax Security Forum:

"For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression.

I completely agree, Ukraine is fighting a war for a Europe that it's not allowed to join, and Brexit was a major operation in that war.

Hating Furrys is a red flag.

The thing about companies they are trying to build a industry on customers who are just like this. They will burn out fast and get board as there is nothing to learn and improve and grow on. Just one of the many reasons why it’s a dead end of an industry.

Someone make a European social media site please, everyone's talking about the wrong kinds of pie.

If you're on 30k/pa in London, you pay 5k income tax and NI, then you have minimum 10k/year "tax" on top of that in the form of unavoidable rent that goes straight to someone better off. It's so aggravating when the people receiving that money try and balk at paying some of it on to the government.

Well exactly, the aggrieved middle bracket has balanced the books by farming out houses to the less fortunate, turning housing into a speculative asset. Many of these are now paid-off properties generating 40k+ a year, presumably for the foreseeable future. Why would anyone sell that kind of asset?

Just to add to this I bought a property in Zone 3 in 2001 while earning £30k, which adjusted for inflation is £56k, which is now not buying you a 2-bed flat in E17 unless bank of mum and dad are up for it.

According to a new study from a respected US think tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Britain’s decision to leave the EU has meant that its GDP is between 6 per cent and 8 per cent smaller than it would have been.

I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖

Hint. Fucking. Hint.

I love the myth of the Cumaean Sybil. A prophet shows up with several books of prophecies, offers them to a king. No sale. She burns three and offers them to the king for the same price. When only one book remains, the king relents. www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...