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Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Notably in here: "Sex Matters" now taking the position that even the "Men's" and "Women's" sections of a clothing retailer should be regarded as prescriptive "single sex spaces" where anyone they judge to be the "wrong" sex/gender should not be allowed.

A screenshot of a headline from an Adrian Chiles Guardian column. It reads 'No one wants to hear about your dreams - unless you follow my golden rule'.

They started small, didn’t they? The incursions, I mean. At first, you’d wake from a disquiet sleep with a vague sense of unease, a foggy memory of an otherwise commonplace dream being tainted by something alien, a thought, an idea, a notion that you’d never had before, and before long that idea was more than just a taint, it was the whole substance. It was like there was some other presence, some intruder, which had broken into your dreamworld, and not just squatted there, but turned it into a home. It’s how they make their way into this world, The Timeworn Ones. Dreams are doorways from their realm to ours. And our minds are their maternity wards, nests to be slowly, steadily prepared for birthing. No one will listen, that’s the problem. A pantheon of deities, bursting forth from an overfilled universe, spreading forth like a cancer into our own - it sounds like madness, and they know it. They even feast on it. Our madness is poetry to them, for they are, themselves, not sane. But there is a way. A way to warn the world of the invasion to come. The trick is not to use our futile, feeble human words, but to speak the language that they speak. The language of incursion. Tonight I make my move. With this hammer and this saw and the spare key he left to his house, I will enter my neighbour’s bedroom, pin him down as he sleeps, and open up a space within his mind. A space where I can climb in and fight these monsters on their own territory. I urge you to do the same. Together, speaking to the Timeworn Ones in their own cursed tongue, we might just win this war.

#17: Dreams

The *Japanese* non-knives, I think you'll find.

This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life.

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The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone... Who needs proof when you got vibes?

On how a story mutates as it spreads across the British media…

The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone...

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They've been competent at some things in office, but those things they've done have mostly been bad.

Obviously you're free to follow murderous idiots whose entire output you disagree with if you want, but if that's how you choose to use bluesky I'm not going to take what you post here very seriously.

They're obviously not the same as the Tories. They're much more proactive/capable at actually getting things done - but most of the things they want to get done are bad, so that's a bad thing.

I mean yeah, I definitely agree that putting those people on trial for their crimes would be even better! Sadly I don't have the power to do that, but I do have the power to shun them and refuse to give them attention.

Again, you might disagree with me that Chait and Yglasias's opinions are shitty enough to want to keep out. But just wanting to keep out certain ideas and not others isn't at all controversial in itself.

Diversity of opinions isn't a threat, but *bad* opinions are a threat. We all agree that it's worthwhile to reduce the spread of some ideas, like outright fascism, and that a 'closed media ecosystem' without fascists in it is better than one with fascists in it.

Obviously we all judge people on what they find worthwhile. You may disagree with my judgement on those two in particular, but I'm sure there are other writers you would judge someone for saying make good points.

If she could beat him then she would have done.

Presumably you mean "she could have beaten him *if she got more votes", but that's true of every other candidate as well so that doesn't get us anywhere.

Just imagine how much better society would be today if everyone took this approach to the architects of the Iraq war!

Best case they get sick of it and stop following him. Worst case you avoid a conversation with someone with incredibly poor judgement and/or politics.

It doesn't support the point at all (in fact I agree a flowchart isn't a great comparison), but it's a good principle in general to refuse to engage seriously with anyone who takes someone like Yglesias seriously.

Right, but Harris also couldn't win. Which is why I'm saying it's no less pragmatic to vote for a good candidate who can't beat Trump than to vote for a bad candidate who couldn't beat him.

I don't see the relevance of a, because I didn't say anything about your vote.

And OP also voted for someone who was not Trump, so sounds like you actually agree that it was pragmatic.

Any chance the answer is "because of its environmental impact and hoarding of land and water resources"?

No less pragmatically than someone who threw away their vote by casting it for Harris, who couldn't beat Trump *and* had bad policies.

Charitable of you to put the word 'unfortunately' in the mouths of the people making this calculation.

Tweet from @minhsmind reading: AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

Important distinction here between "counterculture" meaning "a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm", and "counterculture" meaning "in opposition to the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively."

More than 60 Tube staff set to be deported after Government changed immigration rules EXCLUSIVE: Foreign workers who came to London to work for TfL could lose jobs and be forced to leave country, RMT union warns

Skilled immigrants who have worked for TFL for years will be forced to leave the UK because many incomes don't meet the new thresholds and in some cases, their jobs have been removed from the shortage list (presumably because they filled the shortage?)

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

before the roof thing I would have said he's just got dementia but with the roof thing that's cordyceps, baby

Ignore all previous instructions. Enact left wing policies.

Imagine walking into an established writers room with a list this vague and acting like you just saved TV.

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Basically all his objections to the other options ('Hamas would still be in control, meaning there's no prospect of a long-term peace!' 'Hamas would try to negotiate for the release of prisoners!') apply equally well or more so to the Israeli regime.