Gareth Watkins

It's so nice to read a book written 25 years ago featuring a truly flawed and reprehensible protagonist knowing the author never had to come online and spoon feed the story to readers incapable of not treating fiction like a book of manners

Dad's dad: Labour organiser (corrupt) who got half the village pregnant. Also Lancaster navigator shot down over France and spent the war doing Inglorious Basterds shit.

Mum's dad: No idea because my grandma lied about who he was.

Don't ask me to justify this, but Single Allied Pilot is the Alyssa Liu of Maverick.

Single allied pilot INNOCENT!

Read 'Just Plain Evil', Gareth Watkins, 2027

gotta say, "the modern right is built entirely around vice signalling" seems like a theory with legs

Iran has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Kevin Shields: Britpop was pushed by Mi5
Me: Aww, you're sweet!

Billy Corgan: The CIA suppressed rock music
Me: Uh, Human Resources!

My sympathies lie with those suffering under the capitalist oppression of the US and Britain.

Has anyone here had any experience with post-viral fatigue? Will anything work for making it so I don't stare blankly at my fish tank all day and want to go to bed at 3pm?

The bonus track on this album is a better song than most bands will write in their entire careers.

This formula was super popular in indie comics in the 1980s: Ninjas, but they're turtles! Conan the Barbarian, but he's an Aardvark! Anthropomorphic Milk and Cheese but they drink and cuss!

I bought a poker set about 20 years ago and haven't expressed any interest in poker since and it *still* recommends me additional poker sets and books on when to fold 'em or whatever.

Wow, the Amazon algorithm is so good guys. It's like it knows me.

Well my idea has anime.

PFC Braydenn-oniisan, your cortisol has spiked! Have you been lethalitymaxxing?

Somebody else can have this idea if they want, I'm too busy.

I had an idea for a short story in which a US soldier goes to war with an AI anime waifu in his heads up display giving him constant bad advice and Warfighter bromides until it gets him killed, but I dismissed it as being a mid-season Black Mirror episode at best. HOWEVER-

Seriously though, what are the actual odds that Enya is aware of hardcore as a genre? Like I don't expect her to know who SPY or Age of Ruin are, but is she aware that there is a genre that's like punk but more metal and faster?

Enya go on Hate5six.

Remembering @leninology.bsky.social saying something to the effect of 'is AI fascist? Well AI is stupid, and stupid things tend to be fascist'.

Thinking about all the artists, writers, philosophers and scientists trapped in Dubai right now.

Greg Dolezal taking some broad swings in his ad for Lt. Gov. of Georgia. Holy shit…

www.facebook.com/share/v/18TM...

(Only including the link for people who even after watching it can’t believe this is real.)

At Sarah Everard’s five-year vigil, women see a “backlash” against them Mourners at the fifth anniversary vigil are worried progress is falling backwards

How have things changed since Sarah Everard's murder five years ago? My report:

The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder

Extremely good profile of this obnoxious failure who has somehow become one of the most important people in defense contracting. Hope John Carmack is proud of himself.

"Well, ChatGPT is telling me that I'm a starseed and can escape the Matrix by killing myself, but perhaps I'm having a mental health crisis so I better add some trusted contacts just in case."

God, sometimes I wish that this country would just rip the band-aid off and make us all live in tent cities on a cup of rice a day while somehow also continuing to do our pointless email jobs.

Reform UK is too weird to win From Matthew Goodwin to Restore Britain, the online right isn’t radical – it’s cringe

Many attractive people are saying this!

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Arendt was absolutely right about how reactionaries promote mediocre but loyal people, but there's still a minimum competence level needed, and Goodwin demonstrably doesn't meet it.