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barely stopped thinking about this since i saw it. stream of consciousness like "jeffrey epstein's 87-year-old lawyer... charismatic... argues for lowering the age of consent... reflects where americans actually are... epstein bought him a lexus..." etc

yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal

God what if Rachel reeves actually does commit seppuku

Look, I’m sure you can get GDP up a couple of .1’s if you increase the number of right wing media outlets

Look all I’m saying is that I don’t need a fancy economics degree to tell you the UK is a basket case

oh no did somebody undermine the grand theatre of the budget reveal

This is what I will think of whenever someone uses the term “Florida man”

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

Just got fired from Zohrans transition team because I kept trying to make him do a video where he says “my fellow Gooners”

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

No idea! He said something about being kind of annoyed because he wanted to be a theatre actor and not on TV, but that’s as far as it’s gone in terms of his own negative feelings on the show

I used to also think this but listening to Josh Radnors podcast reflecting on the show, he seems a lot more considered and thoughtful about the character and the ways he really did try to separate Ted from Ross

Yeah Zohran absolutely did listen to cum town

Remembering when every professional pundit overplayed the significance of Charlie Kirk’s death. It didn’t even make things better or worse, it was just something that kind of happened? He should have dropped the politics and hooped!

So much of the discussion about the harms of social media on children really refuse to recognise how little effort has been made to make their offline lives any better, and it’s telling that the largest advocates are anti-porn religious groups or Pro Israel lobbyists

Every so often I get really annoyed that “Tall Girl 2” wasn’t about a girl who was even taller than the original Tall Girl, therefore forcing the latter to question her own sense of self

Probably also something to be said about the British political media's complete lack of interest in this, which I suppose some reporter from the Times will "notice" the moment it's no longer expedient for them

Perhaps the way to achieve real leftist politics in UK & Europe might be to just pay a few guys in Sri Lanka to constantly and continually post extracts from Kapital

God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group

This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.

Hello, is anyone here part of a remote writers group that has a spot or, alternatively, would potentially be interested in starting one? I like the workshop format of writing, and it’d be cool to have people who can read the fiction I am currently trying to write

Maybe we should hang out in the park next weekend with some field recorders

Hanging out with other dads in the playground on the weekend is so cool because the group always consists of one guy who has a podcast (me), one who really wants to do a podcast, and the other who is probably a few steps away from [redacted]

american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts

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BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 8

CROCK OF SCHMITT

Come join us, won’t you, for a deep dive into one of the twentieth century’s biggest assholes. Say hello to Carl Schmitt: Jurist, legal scholar, political philosopher… Nazi? Look: We’re only showing you him so you know how to get away from him.

Unfortunately X, in elevating those not truly invested in the art of racism but rather exploring the system and taking advantage of racist boomers, has rejected meritocracy in favour of woke.

Convinced Elon shut it down because it was too embarrassing to admit that non white people are better at being racist than their white counterparts

Men will log on and say they are physically superior to all women and that if they could find a way to harm us they would, but blame trans people for that. It's simply acceptable misogyny and it's not even particularly clever or well hidden.

Really good to see how obvious a lot of this stuff is and how our media class are either oblivious out of stupidity and ignorance, or just know they can’t actually directly say what’s going on because they know what the backlash will be