Gareth Watkins
@garethwatkins.bsky.social
Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New Statesman, Tribune, Vulture, MEL, New Socialist. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Well that's a relief!
Newsmax's Greg Kelly on US strikes on alleged drug boats: “It's totally legal. It's pure, it's good. And it has nothing to do with transgender.”
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Well that's a relief!
What the hell was happening in the full thread?
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
What the hell was happening in the full thread?
Finally: Guys, a podcast about Guys.
In which men talk about men.
Specifically, Mamdani and Platner in the “masculine” age.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/283...
Specifically, Mamdani and Platner in the “masculine” age.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/283...
283: Guys — Conspirituality
Zohran Mamdani and Graham Platner present very differently as masculine role models, but share the same economic populism, but also a deep challenge in the long shadow of patriarchy: how do men become...
www.conspirituality.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Finally: Guys, a podcast about Guys.
Evri: couldn't deliver the package today bestie door was in the way 😔
Me: If you knock on the door I will open it.
Evri: yr house is made of bricks and I'm worried one might fall on me 😨
Me: The bricks are held together by cement. Try delivering tomorrow.
Evri: door was closed again 🤷
Me: If you knock on the door I will open it.
Evri: yr house is made of bricks and I'm worried one might fall on me 😨
Me: The bricks are held together by cement. Try delivering tomorrow.
Evri: door was closed again 🤷
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Evri: couldn't deliver the package today bestie door was in the way 😔
Me: If you knock on the door I will open it.
Evri: yr house is made of bricks and I'm worried one might fall on me 😨
Me: The bricks are held together by cement. Try delivering tomorrow.
Evri: door was closed again 🤷
Me: If you knock on the door I will open it.
Evri: yr house is made of bricks and I'm worried one might fall on me 😨
Me: The bricks are held together by cement. Try delivering tomorrow.
Evri: door was closed again 🤷
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For the Ideas Letter, i tried to understand what's going on with the constant summoning forth of an immanent civil war on the British right. Featuring ethnic determinism, remigration, and the strange radicalisation of conservative intellectuals
www.theideasletter.org/essay/all-be...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/all-be...
All Betz Are Off - The Ideas Letter
Once solely the language of the far-right fringe, warnings of an impending “civil war” in Britain have gone mainstream, carried by figures like David Betz, a professor at King’s College…
www.theideasletter.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
For the Ideas Letter, i tried to understand what's going on with the constant summoning forth of an immanent civil war on the British right. Featuring ethnic determinism, remigration, and the strange radicalisation of conservative intellectuals
www.theideasletter.org/essay/all-be...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/all-be...
Reposted by Gareth Watkins
Reposted by Gareth Watkins
HOLY SHIT THE FALL OF CIVILISATIONS PODCAST HAS OVER FIVE HOURS ON PERSIA christmas has come EARLY oh my GOD
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
HOLY SHIT THE FALL OF CIVILISATIONS PODCAST HAS OVER FIVE HOURS ON PERSIA christmas has come EARLY oh my GOD
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"What if none of this was a good idea to begin with?"
I reviewed Enshittification, and the internet, for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
I reviewed Enshittification, and the internet, for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?
Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification” is premised on the idea that we created a technological marvel and then corporate greed ruined it. But what if that is not the case?
newrepublic.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"What if none of this was a good idea to begin with?"
I reviewed Enshittification, and the internet, for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
I reviewed Enshittification, and the internet, for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Sorry boss, can't come to work today. I need to think through my relationship to Chat Pile, Nu Metal and hegemonic whiteness.
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sorry boss, can't come to work today. I need to think through my relationship to Chat Pile, Nu Metal and hegemonic whiteness.
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I've kind of fallen off in terms of keeping up with good music: if you're somebody who is broadly aware of what I'm in to, please recommend me something that I could listen to this morning.
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I've kind of fallen off in terms of keeping up with good music: if you're somebody who is broadly aware of what I'm in to, please recommend me something that I could listen to this morning.
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Reposted by Gareth Watkins
TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY is back on cursedmedia.net! In this episode we discuss fertility: giving God your womb, birthrates anxiety, childless cat ladies, and why everyone on the Girl Internet is telling you to get off the Pill all of a sudden:
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY is back on cursedmedia.net! In this episode we discuss fertility: giving God your womb, birthrates anxiety, childless cat ladies, and why everyone on the Girl Internet is telling you to get off the Pill all of a sudden:
Reposted by Gareth Watkins
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
My boss signs her Teams chats. Every single one.
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My boss signs her Teams chats. Every single one.
Reposted by Gareth Watkins
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Reposted by Gareth Watkins
Zack Polanski will be the most powerful man on the left. And Your Party only have themselves to blame.
🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social
🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social
Zack Polanski will be the most powerful man on the left
And Your Party only have themselves to blame
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Zack Polanski will be the most powerful man on the left. And Your Party only have themselves to blame.
🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social
🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social
President Vance is preferable in the way a kick in the shins is preferable to a kick in the balls. A *lot* of Trump voters experience him as an entertainer first and foremost, and Vance definitely can't fill that role. It makes the overall right project weaker in the long run.
Well, it looks like we're rapidly heading towards one of two outcomes:
1. Trump faces absolutely no consequences for his Epstein Island adventures.
2. President Vance.
Pick your poison.
1. Trump faces absolutely no consequences for his Epstein Island adventures.
2. President Vance.
Pick your poison.
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
President Vance is preferable in the way a kick in the shins is preferable to a kick in the balls. A *lot* of Trump voters experience him as an entertainer first and foremost, and Vance definitely can't fill that role. It makes the overall right project weaker in the long run.
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Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
From jeffrey e. [[email protected]]
To: Peter Thiel
petterer ,,, you havvvvee to ,, watch a shew caled ,one pece, youed love it its aboud ,, the antichristt .
To: Peter Thiel
petterer ,,, you havvvvee to ,, watch a shew caled ,one pece, youed love it its aboud ,, the antichristt .
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
From jeffrey e. [[email protected]]
To: Peter Thiel
petterer ,,, you havvvvee to ,, watch a shew caled ,one pece, youed love it its aboud ,, the antichristt .
To: Peter Thiel
petterer ,,, you havvvvee to ,, watch a shew caled ,one pece, youed love it its aboud ,, the antichristt .
As always, the Bluesky team could just act normal and they'd be making a lot of money by operating the world's second biggest microblogging site. They do not want to be normal.
Bluesky finally gave her an explanation for the suspension and it’s bullshit
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
As always, the Bluesky team could just act normal and they'd be making a lot of money by operating the world's second biggest microblogging site. They do not want to be normal.
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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
Conservatives are going to start posting like this in an act of solidarity, like how in the first Trump presidency they all started saying 'bigly'.
From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
To: [email protected]
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Conservatives are going to start posting like this in an act of solidarity, like how in the first Trump presidency they all started saying 'bigly'.