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I suppose, on the tenth anniversary of the passing of Pterry, I'd be remiss not to share the run of covers I made of all the main Discworld books. I had a lot of fun making them, revisiting the books that kept me sane all through my teens, and early adulthood, and probably all the rest of it.

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Like the Laffer Curve, the idea that adding VAT to private school fees would price out the people who want to pay to make sure their kids don’t get educated with povvos turns out to be bullshit. In a sensible world this news would lead to absolutely rinsing the top 0.1% of earners for 75% income tax

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Why does Chris Martin want more people to hate him?

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Assemble, ties of protest, earrings of resistance, brooches of stern disapproval, shoes of aloof contempt! Adorn your shade-casting accessories! This is the hour! Subtly scornful garments rise up!

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

If only we had UK outlets that would cover this story with this level of technical clarity. Thank you @theverge.com

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There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming 1/

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

A few thoughts on Universal Basic Income.

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

If you love Glasgow you hate the Easdale brothers and that’s all there is to it. Get these greedy shits out of our public services please.

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Glasgow City Council is trialing a 'universal free public transport' pilot for 9 weeks using an all in-one smart card for the bus train & subway. The aim? To see if free public transport helps the city reach its climate goals. But with buses privatised, it'll cost...

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For Arsenal's piece this season, I wanted to study the development of Black Arsenal. The only place to start: by sitting down with Paul Davis and letting him be my guide. We did this: inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

What are you going to trust AI to do for you? Last month I asked Grok a simple question: who was Arsenal football club's second manager? It gave the George Morrell as the answer which is wrong. Morrell was Arsenal's fifth manager, easily verifiable.

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The event that historians have patronised & belittled as 'the peasants' revolt' was actually nothing less than the first English Revolution. Long planned, well thought-out, ideological, meticulously organised, disciplined, country wide, involving all sectors of the working commons, & near victorious

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

When I hear an engine idling:

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So much liberal analysis defaults to the ridiculous assumption that Trump is a stupid pawn of evil gangster Putin, possibly evoking a phantasmagorical pisstape to explain why this should be. Monbiot is bang on here: it’s nice to see people analysing how power works rather than obsessing over optics

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Up to my old nonsense again. Feels good man #manipulate #edinburgh #performanceart #videoart

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Aren't these lads waaayyyy too young to play Krapp? Feels like they read @kieranhurley.bsky.social 's cryptic tweet about his mate a while ago, panicked and fired their shot too early.

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Stop calling it ‘AI Art’. That’s showing it too much respect. If someone posts an image or a piece of text produced by an LLM, say they ‘slopshopped’ it. Make it sound like the shitty thing it is. #slopshop

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Every week I read something which reminds me that a vast number of people have no idea what a graphic designer does

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone recommend great theatre podcasts? More practice based if possible. Ta x

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On a side note from the worrying techno-fascist coup going on in the imperial core rn, it's fun that Trump has gotten so into using ALLCAPS FOR EVERYTHING that he apparently has to use lower case for emphasis now.

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Starmer's own team are briefing that their man is a useless waste of space. The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do. That's why his government is a disaster. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...

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Book burning? If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."

submitted 48 days ago • 28 comments

apropos of nothing, my friend josie and @molleindustria.bsky.social made Casual Games For Protesters which incorporates ways of keeping track of cops and staying vigilant together. a useful model for retaining morale/togetherness whilst doing something important harryjosephine.com/portfolio/pr...

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when the trump crew say ‘DEI’ they mean ‘degenerates’ and the sooner that’s properly acknowledged the better

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

This is the most powerful weapon I have ever discovered when it comes to convincing people why DEI is something we should fight for. It changed my mind years ago and I think about it every time this subject is brought up. Pass it on. ncase.me/polygons/

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