Ben Litherland

"we are living through unprecedented times". bro these times have so much precedent. these are some of the most precedented times of all time.

It's not good for the billionaires themselves. Taxing them so they're just very rich rather monstrously rich is worth doing just to save them from themselves.

American Jews have been TRYING to tell folks that yes, AIPAC is evil, & fuck them, but Christian Zionists in the US outnumber Jews IN THE WORLD & have risen to power in all areas of our government, & they want to bring the End Times (& kill all the Jews btw), AND THIS IS WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.

I'm more excited about it than I should be.

I think I watched this actually! But yes very useful! Thank you!

I saw a similar lecture recently! The very fused relationship between the Factory crew, the "creative city", and neoliberal labour council is fascinating! I'm hoping to do two weeks on it!

One of the assessments is an interactive map, and, I'm afraid to say, I am calling the assessment Manny on the Map.

I'm doing the initial planning for a module on Manchester, it's creative and cultural past and present, and the broader idea of cities, screens, and other related things. Very literally, I have been training my whole life for this, I'm very excited.

People who have regional accents and say they used to vote Labour, but when pressed really mean their Dad was a trade unionist who probably voted Labour but can't really remember, they've always voted Tory since Thatcher.

Although I suppose it must have similarly been odd in Weimar Germany to think of your little gender-queer revues playing to a room of 50 like-minded freaks and geeks being a part of a historical narrative that ends up with a war that killed 85m people.

"Women Ghostbusters" also works here.

I reckon if you'd struggle to design a psychologically crueler system than one which places immense self-worth on status and then structures it via RG/post-92, teaching/research, junior/senior before blowing the sector up.

They should put Jon Stewart back on the Daily Show, bring back baggy jeans, and create an economic bubble so dangerous that when it pops it will cost us two decades of growth just for a laugh.

I suppose it has been long enough, just about, for anyone who questions the legality and consequences of arbitrary bombing of ME countries to be painted as a supporter of the despots who run them. Why not.

I guess his argument was that it was the first war fought with cable news in mind, but yes point taken!

If the first gulf war, according to Baudrillard, was the first television war this war is probably the first Xbox Live war. Might as well call it Mega Lolz.

I'm fairly comfortable with Labour being a broad church, I understand I skew further left on some issues than other people, but I'm sick of that broad church telling me to fuck off all the time. So I fucked off!

I spent much of yesterday afternoon ranting to a colleague that I was bored of the Labour party being embarrassed or actively hostile to the sorts of values I have around social democracy, cosmopolitanism, social liberalism, and multiculturalism.

a lonely Matt Goodwin texting on his phone

‘hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it’

I, for one, welcome our new eco NIMBY Islamist overlords.

I would say one of the main right-wing projects of the past twenty years has been gaming every web 2.0 platform into thinking the right-wing is much bigger and more influential than it actually is. And the people who have been most taken in by this effort has been the right wing

He's discovered a deep conspiracy of people thinking he's a piece of shit, and he keeps seeing it everywhere.

Speaking to journalists as he arrived at the count, Goodwin blamed his loss on "a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives" he said had "come together to dominate the constituency

Goodwin slagging off people who live here and democracy more broadly before fucking off to wherever he came from never to be seen again feels very On Brand for that nasty piece of shit

Water for goldfish, ideology for bourgeoisie, drizzle for Mancunians.

Shite weather for it. (Just kidding, it's Manchester, it's always shite weather)

The Greens are out in numbers trying to get their vote out. Knock on the door, people with signs on every major intersection on Stockport Road.

The number of gear changes I have to make and different platforms I have to move between is a real killer for this too. The work "fits" in the day (and especially the workload) but it's brutally difficult to move seamlessly between them.

The off topic forum

He destroyed his cage

Yes

The off topic forum is out

When I posted on a wrestling forum c.2001 there was a fella who LOVED Kane, believed the most random conspiracy theories, was libertarian (on drugs) but not on gay marriage, and had been in a three year long feud about the nature of god with a guy who loved Bret Hart. We live in his world now.