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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · 4h

About 12 months ago I was on a flight that was delayed that Omid Djalili was also on. He was a right prick to the airline staff and performatively stomped around departures like a brat. I'm sure he's a cracking feller with great values.

Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · 4h

wherefore the acid analgypta of yesteryear, though? DMT vapes in private-equity-owned student rabbit-hutches just doesn't land the same way

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · 4h

genuinely batshit how much traction he has for a handful of addled essays that aggressively misread the already demented wing of european philosophy, followed up by exile in china and a pivot to racism in some blogposts.

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offalindustries.bsky.social @offalindustries.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Sep 11

Daily reminder that you are simply living inside a mass hallucination in which reality is subject to spasmodic fevers: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites

BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Sep 10

A focus group of Bartlebys.

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Róisín Lanigan @roisinlanigan.bsky.social · Aug 29

column this week is about flegs

David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Aug 29

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Watch out, England – you’re being Ulsterised | The Observer

Flag-waving, patriotic spray-painting and men shimmying up lamp-posts. Why do I feel like I’ve been here before?

observer.co.uk

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 28

Being interviewed by the Creative Review is not something I ever anticipated happening (although they seem to have saved my bons mots for subscribers) www.creativereview.co.uk/good-reads-o...

Good Reads: Offal journal offers up a literary feast

Designed by Richard Turley and Julia Schäfer, Offal celebrates artistic offcuts and serves up disparate text-based leftovers from a range of sources

www.creativereview.co.uk

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’d like to set up an SF prophecy index. Anyone got the coding skills? Which writer gets the most predictive hits. I mean obviously I’m biased but the premise of Ballard’s Kingdom Come is essentially the “soft fascist” flag proliferation seen in the UK over the last week.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 27

Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?

“She painted a very clear picture about survival.”

www.motherjones.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Aug 25

Castle Bromwich Über Alles

Viz Top Tips John Constant.
[photo of a white mini roundabout with a red cross painted over the top by a radicalised nationalist fool of a Brummie. Except there are some additional lines added for the joke]]

Adding two well placed, straight red lines to "patriots"; graffiti already on traffic islands creates your very own Dead Kennedys tribute.

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 26

As Victor Lewis-Smith said of Chris Morris (somewhat unfairly): "Imitation is the sincerest form of being an unoriginal thieving bastard"

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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · Aug 26

You know what, I’m really glad I subscribed to @thefence.bsky.social earlier this year

It does feel somewhat tailor made for my demographic - millennials of a certain age - and in that it reminds me of what made Vice so fresh in its early days, but without the bullshit (I say this as a compliment)

Cover of the latest edition of The Fence

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 26

Saw these up in York, then taken down the following day. Seems like a pretty straightforwardly stalking horse strategy, designed to intensify division and further blur the lines between patriotism and xenophobia.

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 26

Had a lot fun talking about OFFAL #2 with my co-editor on the Monocle Stack podcast (from 24:40): monocle.com/radio/shows/...

The Stack Archives - Monocle

We speak with legendary photographer Bruce Weber on his new publication with Taschen, ‘My Education’. Plus: Roderick Stanley and Mark...

monocle.com

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 21

Amazing. That's like the Phoebe Gloeckner illustrations for the Re/Search Atrocity. Wonder if she got the style from Magritte? I'm currently researching in Civil War surgery text books - feels like doing 17thC Ballard Crash Injuries!

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 21

Love this thread. Been meaning to get to the Magritte museum for ages. Magritte is the total boss. And yes on moules frites and strong beer. Quality.

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Pub Is Finally Open!

With writing from @seamas.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @anakinsella.bsky.social, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, @charlotteivers.bsky.social, John Banville and @vizcomic.bsky.social.

Available at all bookstores & the link below 🍺

www.penguin.co.uk/books/462310...

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our Tarot – Origins & Afterlives podcast series brings you talks from our recent symposium, held alongside the our exhibition on the history of tarot

Explore:
• Eliphas Levi & the Occult Tarot
• Surrealism & the Tarot
• The Visconti Tarocchi
+ more

warburg.sas.ac.uk/search-podca... #Tarot

Tarot - Origins & Afterlives Podcasts

These talks took place as part of Tarot – Origins & Afterlives: A Symposium

warburg.sas.ac.uk

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 15

Features properly niche gags, such as disgraced It's a Knockout host Stuart Hall reading Birmingham School cultural theorist Stuart Hall, one of the Chuckle Brothers reading youporn video titles, and an ad for DON JUNIOR'S NEW ENERGY DRINK FOR MEN

Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 15

Back from hols and chuckling to myself as I listen to the most recent episode of OFFAL, free to air at our Steady page: steady.page/en/offal/pos... (one of my daughters recently told someone that if she sees me laughing, she knows I'm listening to my own stuff - oh god, that's bad - but this is ACE)

Offal #27

Gasconade / We Provide… / Video Titles / Steppenwolf (Extract) / Stuart Hall reads Stuart Hall / The Rapture of Tony Blair / A Message from Offal Industries Season…

steady.page

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Aug 1

@thefence.bsky.social goes to Provence to be next to Leicester Square (after Monet). I trust that this offering will not be out-pretentioned this month.

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Jul 25

Stone added that the team decided to put eyes on the penis, which would make it a character: “If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.”

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump

Speaking at Comic-Con on Thursday, Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed they spent days negotiating with producers to show the US president’s genitals

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thinking of doing a sandpaper cover for issue 3 of Offal - issue 2 available here - offaloffaloffal.com/publication in tribute to Jorn and Debord's Memoires. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9...

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Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social · Jul 16

great piece - important read www.the-fence.com/the-send-sch... @thefence.bsky.social

The SEND School

Jack Beaumont is becoming a teacher, at a critical juncture for Britain’s most vulnerable students.

www.the-fence.com

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davidedgarwolf.bsky.social @davidedgarwolf.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

The shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron | Emmanuel Carrère

The long read: Deeply unpopular in France, President Macron relishes the international stage, where he projects himself as the leader best placed to handle Trump. Seven years after our last encounter,...

www.theguardian.com

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