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www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in... one minor thing about this big old piece is, it reminds me of when 'the blogosphere' got less interesting, around the time social media took off, when a flood of younger people started writing 10,000 words every few days, completely impossible to digest!

tate's a fucking terrorist if you ask me

can't tell what's more frightening to me – that DT and co know exactly what they're doing, or that they're fundamentally without a coherent plan

www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa... hmmmm

absolutely not subjecting myself to watching that kayfabe nonsense

Simple mixup

for generations now we've been taught that geopolitics is a finely-balanced dance, where any slip or false move could cause a collapse into nuclear war, and we're now in the process of finding out whether that was all bullshit

jesus wept

UCAS data – 53,780 applications for architecture in 2024, up 2% on last year, steady slow increase since stats started being counted in 2019

I can't imagine for a second that Jordan or Egypt will say "yes" to the ethnic cleansing plan, but I can easily imagine that they are punished heavily (in terms of lost $$$), and that could very easily cause the whole area to collapse, as the US has been propping them up for ever

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

Damning statement from Grenfell United on this decision

not a comment on whether or not Trumpism is fascist: but one thing it absolutely shares with third-reich fascism, even long before its worst, is that horrid celebration of bullying and sadism

DT kicking all this dirt into the air is basically just manipulation, but it's so effective… any old shit he says, the media has to report it, treat it as serious

"Don't be evil" www.wired.com/story/google...

If only he'd just remained that sassy bitch off the telly

It feels as though a long period of ideological hegemony is up against its final test – the textbooks all say that what Trump is doing will fail, but the markets don't seem to think so…

I know one should keep a level head and all that, but I have this sickening sensation that internet brain-rot is entering a new phase and there's so many vulnerable young people out there losing their minds and many more will act on it

the nazis were of course seen as weird and pathetic (did I read somewhere that the word 'nazi' is a pun on Ignatious, a bumpkin name?), ludicrousness + power is a dangerous thing

So..Elon Musk just did a straight-up Hitler salute for the adoring MAGA crowd. Unreal.

Just musing… Stanford White was killed by the husband of his mistress… Eadweard Muybridge killed his wife's lover… any other famous examples of men who killed their wife's bit on the side?

looks like the Eames House might be about to burn down

youtu.be/8Ui4h0J1mIQ well this is entertaining… I'd heard that Musk claims to be one of the world's top gamers, but it's very funny to watch actual gamers dissect his bullshit and how utterly pathetic it is to be the richest guy in the world and still be such a needy freak that you need to fake this

absolutely nuts quotes from this FT piece on a NATO Admiral angry that people have misgivings about investing in death machines etc on.ft.com/3W7WyX6

I know he's a massive bullshitter, I know it's all about bluffing in the service of The Deal (I also know that the stupid fuck made himself bankrupt multiple times back in the day), but it's fucking WILD to see that prick just threatening to help himself to neighbours like this

It is, I think, appropriate that the Grenfell Disaster is the featured image on the wikipedia page for 'value engineering' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_e...

found a channel on youtube that's been posting lots of classic free jazz performances: here's Albert Ayler in 1966, and loads more besides www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HLE...

my god twitter is a cesspit and the shit is leaking

one shitty social development in recent years are those murder cases where the internet searches of the killers are listed… "how to get away with murder" "best way to kill" "how to dispose of a body" etc etc, and they still plead not guilty

re: fall of Assad… Russia too stretched by Ukraine to get involved Hizbollah basically fucked and unable to support Iran not strong enough to get involved Turkey supporting the HTS US & Israel standing by because it suits them Does that sound right to you?

oh GOD I just remembered the Grimes/Azealia Banks convos bleurgh

the new Notre Dame looks a little too clean, needs another century of condensed candle wax to really look itself

Growing wine grapes under solar panels can increase yields by 60%. That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...

A thread to introduce myself to this app. I'm an architectural & urban historian, & my work views many of the profound changes that happened to the state and society in modern Britain through the lens of the built environment. I'm lucky it's both my job & hobby to explore buildings & places.