Alistair Maxwell
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Lefty writey arty type
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this other one from that "The Cost of Living" series. really complicated image. those guys back there. full three dimensional space with two apertures playing against each other. that rainbow sweater, the flowers, forlorn young parents and look out here comes a baby head
December 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
this other one from that "The Cost of Living" series. really complicated image. those guys back there. full three dimensional space with two apertures playing against each other. that rainbow sweater, the flowers, forlorn young parents and look out here comes a baby head
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
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This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
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*youth pastor voice*
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
*youth pastor voice*
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
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Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
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As a journalist you’re always looking for ways to sum up the now, but the story is really often more incremental. This is from a Derbyshire county council paper. I was, inevitably, looking for “library to close” or “doge identified £Xm”, but the starting point is at least as important
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
As a journalist you’re always looking for ways to sum up the now, but the story is really often more incremental. This is from a Derbyshire county council paper. I was, inevitably, looking for “library to close” or “doge identified £Xm”, but the starting point is at least as important
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Tom Stoppard is dead. I could wax lyrical about his words, his work, how much it has inspired me. But I'd rather play the hits. Before I'd even been to a play this moved me. Great writing is not only timeless but medium-less. Enjoy: youtu.be/7NM_LgjNj4k?...
father–son relationship Henry and INDIANA JONES
YouTube video by Ognjen Zajsek
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Tom Stoppard is dead. I could wax lyrical about his words, his work, how much it has inspired me. But I'd rather play the hits. Before I'd even been to a play this moved me. Great writing is not only timeless but medium-less. Enjoy: youtu.be/7NM_LgjNj4k?...
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trump won two elections because he convinced a shitload of people to vote for him.
believing anything else is willful ignorance that will only hurt you.
believing anything else is willful ignorance that will only hurt you.
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
trump won two elections because he convinced a shitload of people to vote for him.
believing anything else is willful ignorance that will only hurt you.
believing anything else is willful ignorance that will only hurt you.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Join us at the Tron to celebrate all the amazing theatre work of the past year! 🎈🎭✨
📍 The Vic Bar, Tron Theatre (Glasgow)
⏰ 7:30pm-9:30pm
📆 Wednesday 10th December 2025
🔗 We can't wait to see you there! Link to book your free ticket:
📍 The Vic Bar, Tron Theatre (Glasgow)
⏰ 7:30pm-9:30pm
📆 Wednesday 10th December 2025
🔗 We can't wait to see you there! Link to book your free ticket:
Scottish Emerging Theatre-Makers Celebration 2025
Join us at the Tron to celebrate all the amazing theatre work of the past year!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Join us at the Tron to celebrate all the amazing theatre work of the past year! 🎈🎭✨
📍 The Vic Bar, Tron Theatre (Glasgow)
⏰ 7:30pm-9:30pm
📆 Wednesday 10th December 2025
🔗 We can't wait to see you there! Link to book your free ticket:
📍 The Vic Bar, Tron Theatre (Glasgow)
⏰ 7:30pm-9:30pm
📆 Wednesday 10th December 2025
🔗 We can't wait to see you there! Link to book your free ticket:
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[repeating myself louder in the haunted house attraction] did the dracula throw water on anyone else’s pants??
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
[repeating myself louder in the haunted house attraction] did the dracula throw water on anyone else’s pants??
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art by Patrice Killoffer
March 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
art by Patrice Killoffer
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Migrant barracks
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Migrant barracks
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Wow. Pope Leo XIV with one of the most eloquent and profound statements about algorithms, art and cinema you are likely to read.
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Wow. Pope Leo XIV with one of the most eloquent and profound statements about algorithms, art and cinema you are likely to read.
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BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!
October 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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You’re free to share that cynical little meme, of course, but just remember that cynicism is a friend to dictators, autocrats and grifters everywhere.
Making you stop caring, shrug off outrage, and accept corruption is how they win. You’re not being knowing or arch, you’re giving up.
Making you stop caring, shrug off outrage, and accept corruption is how they win. You’re not being knowing or arch, you’re giving up.
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
You’re free to share that cynical little meme, of course, but just remember that cynicism is a friend to dictators, autocrats and grifters everywhere.
Making you stop caring, shrug off outrage, and accept corruption is how they win. You’re not being knowing or arch, you’re giving up.
Making you stop caring, shrug off outrage, and accept corruption is how they win. You’re not being knowing or arch, you’re giving up.
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 11,1951
November 11,1951
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 11,1951
November 11,1951
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
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“Worldbuilding” has become synonymous with the creation of endlessly exploitable IP. This doesn’t resemble what’s going on with Elysium, which is both too expansive in scale and too scathing in its analysis of our own reality to be so reduced.
The World’s Memory of the World | Gabriel Winslow-Yost
The world of Disco Elysium evokes both postrevolutionary melancholy and communist fervor for a more just world.
thebaffler.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“Worldbuilding” has become synonymous with the creation of endlessly exploitable IP. This doesn’t resemble what’s going on with Elysium, which is both too expansive in scale and too scathing in its analysis of our own reality to be so reduced.
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I went to the land of the ice and snow from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I went to the land of the ice and snow from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow and all I got was this lousy t-shirt