Gareth Watkins

Industry is so brilliantly on the nose about the political moment. Where else would you hear phrases such as this? This a media proprietors & donors aligning behind a new ‘populist’ party.

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UNCLE JOE’S INSURANCE POLICY: THE HISTORY OF THE AK-47, PART TWO

It’s time to tell the story of Mikhail Kalashnikov, his eponymous gun, the horrors of the Eastern Front, and one of the biggest fumbles in US military history.

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

We are the consequences We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable.

I have a new essay out today. For Welcome To Hellworld I wrote about my home, Minneapolis, again; I worked through some thoughts on why the concept of "victory" feels so hollow right now but why it might signal something far more important in the future.
www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

Close up of someone whispering “Amazon data center bombed in UAE”. Bottom panel shows goosebumps.

Death to AI.

The vibes are immaculate. My chest have grown three cup sizes today alone. Zack Polanski has the juice. The golden path now lays before us. And we will walk that path together, breasting boobily as we go.

AI bros are COOKED!

I created this entire sequence with my camera, using human skills. Something like this would have cost dozens of dollars in prompting, but for me it was completely free.

Executing Operation Call Of Duty to exfiltrate Ian Miles Cheong from an Emirati Applebees as the hypersonic missiles hit but he won’t leave until his molten cheese plate burger comes out.

And the dumb answer is to increase the suffering and cruelty in the world until it starts producing Hard Men again, while the smart answer is removing the political blocks that stop us from collectively solving problems that actually matter.

Like imagine you've lifted a billion people out of poverty, built renewable energy infrastructure and high-speed rail and are peacefully investing in other countries and every week you've got to deal with a country that wants to lethalitymaxx to mog Iran for the Baby Jesus.

I’ve have made a video so powerful that anyone who read pitchfork in the 2000s will be listening to @bloodwork.show tonight.

Vampiristic. Fascists rarely make art. Instead, the fascist aesthete’s job is to appropriate existing art for the purpose of aestheticizing a political goal. Because fascism relies on the fetishization of the past—whether real or imaginary—nothing truly new can come from fascist art. Violent. Dehumanization, augmented by technological abstraction—the sublimation of man into machine—creates under fascism an extreme predilection for violence. In Italian Fascism, this role was played by the automobile, as evidenced by the fascination of Futurist artists like Marinetti with car crashes. (Today, AI deepfakes play a similar role.) Fascist aesthetics are ruthlessly hierarchical and their satisfaction is derived from the maintenance of that hierarchy. They are antisocial and rely on shock value.

Good one by new @flaminghydra.com @katewagner.wehwalt.net

flaminghydra.com/issue-513/

Smoking that shit that make me feel like an incarnation of the Eternal Champion. On that shit that make the world very tasty.

I will never not repost this if I see it.

Quick question: do Americans use the term 'pay at the pump' for paying for gas at the pump itself instead of going into a gas station?

Final offer: £129 for a shopping bag. Not even a nice one.

I'll do you a deal: leave NATO and shopping bags will cost £83.

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

It's like what I argued here: Reform work as a political temper tantrum, but when people actually get to know them they find them weird and off-putting:

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

Green/Lib Dem coalition:

🟢Decriminalised drugs
🟢 Nationalised utilities
🟢 Pulling out of NATO
🟠 £57 plastic shopping bags

Who is voting Lib Dem and why?

I don't know if I would trust those people to do the important work of Philosophy (creating wise sayings about how to live with Intent and generate Success-Wins in lean startups).

This Spec-Ops The Line prequel is looking LIT 🔥

Between Brewdog, Labour and Dubai eating it, a very specific type of guy is having the worst time and they absolutely deserve it.

Oh man, we've all been there right? 4.30 on a Friday, you're itching to start pounding some #gronies and you end up giving the paedo-fascist regime an AI model.

There have been 22 seasons of American Dad.

None of this is real so you don't need to report it.

The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

This is an excellent summary of the looming Alberta Crisis. Probably not much much new information if you’ve been following the issue, but it’s one that neatly lays out the pieces on the board

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

New from me in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: Reform lost in Manchester not just because voters want to be able to hope again, but because Reform's activists and Matt Goodwin in particular are offputting and weird.

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