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Two pages of Gutter Magazine showing the poem "Holes" by Ewan Downie
My first poem in print. "Holes" in Gutter 32.
So proud.
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amazing q&a with paul krugman
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The substantive point here is important too: underestimating the benefits of public spending should be considered an equally serious error as underestimating the costs.
06.06.2025 22:37 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
As I’ve said before, the problem with “government efficiency” isn’t that it’s a bad idea per se, it’s that almost always, the cost of doing something is so much less important than the thing that’s getting done. And yet, I have never in my life seen anyone trying to “fully benefit” the things that they are always “fully costing”. Somebody should set up a Department of Government Effectiveness; there are all too many areas of public policy where the cost/benefit ratio is not a number, because the benefits never arrived.
Dan Davies is the Dorothy Parker of economics writing. A few people (not many) might offer comparable insight. But nobody does it as quotably. open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
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a cover by artist Pseudonym Jones depicting a transfem and a transmasc solving a puzzle, which reads "a trans person made your puzzle." the subtitle reads "trans puzzles in support of U.S. charities, edited by Ada Nicolle and Sara Cantor, cover art by Pseudonym Jones"
A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!!
donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors
edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social
beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social
happy pride :)
tinyurl.com/transxwords
New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Spumorous hoonerisms
22.05.2025 07:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Europe now has:
20,500 brown bears (a 17% increase since 2016)
9,400 Eurasian lynx (12% increase)
1,300 wolverines (16% increase)
23,000 wild wolves (34% increase)
150,000 golden jackals (46% increase)
- but none of those in the UK!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Campop blog #29: It's commonly thought that the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) was characterised by an increase in people working in industry. In today's blog Leigh Shaw-Taylor demonstrates this was not the case. 1/3
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www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...
is this a good time to repost my theory that, when the coalition decided to suppress public sector wages, they accidentally suppressed everyone else's wages and thus private sector investment, too
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And which auto-driver has not felt the temptation, in the power of the motor, to run over the vermin of the street – passersby, children, bicyclists? In the movements which machines demand from their operators, lies already that which is violent, crashing, propulsively unceasing in Fascist mistreatment.
Adorno did talk about how cars condition drivers into fascist thought and behaviour...
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