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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

Went to the William Morris exhibition (it was on Islamic art and it’s influence on Morris) but didn’t get many pictures due to baby. That being said it was really interesting to see how much of his work was a fuck you to the Industrial Revolution

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Curious to me why whenever people talk about “comedy that can’t be made anymore” they never really reference Harold & Kumar go to Whitecastle

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Good post if you want to understand most interactions you have in Britain

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Idk if my kids were taken hostage and killed (though actually killed by my own government, a side issue ofc) and my supporters only saw them as Ginger, id be kind of pissed tbh

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

An interesting piece from a perennially fun-but-grumpy writer (www.the-hinternet.com/p/my-kind-of...). He didn't like the "tumblr regime" of yesteryear but hates the "4chan regime" we have now even more. I think he's fundamentally correct that avant-garde internet norms have swept to power in waves

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Do I have any mutuals in Barcelona

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

for the entire time I lived in Britain this guy was always the same boring tedious crybaby. I don't know what he's been up to since 2018 because he blocked me on Twitter for calling him Konstantly Kissin My Dad

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Really funny that Drake is following the pathway of many minor British celebrities by trying to revive his career in Australia

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Imagine how embarrassing it's going to be, having to explain to younger generations decades from now what it was like to have lived through the 'Years of 🤣🤣🤣'. Operation 'You Mad?'-io. The Strategy of Mentions. Humiliating.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

the "can't pass a plan the right way so we do a bunch of ad hoc adjustments nobody likes" thing might be a defining characteristic of 21st century vetocracy and decaying state capacity

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I always thought that seeing Trump talk to Starmer would be very funny but actually it’s going to be even more amusing to see him flogged off and have to negotiate with Elon Musk instead

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Britain by and large operates via a handful of people who all went to the same two universities and oscillate between media and politics jobs , which is testament to its dedication to press freedom, but draws the line at a documentary partially narrated by the son of a bureaucrat

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Feel like most of the popular / ‘viral’ trends have to be understood in their context - namely that their creators have grown up and been conditioned in perpetual austerity

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Any update on this?

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying

submitted 8 days ago • 368 comments

Getting closer

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I am on a train to Essex to watch non-league football, something that seemed a far better idea when I agreed to it last month than it does right now. Presuming you're not set for an afternoon of mediocre sport, why not enjoy some mediocre writing instead? Web Curios!: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-14...

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submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

This is basically every post on r/collapse. I do think you can’t separate them but also that it doesn’t help when we spend quite a lot of time scrolling through all the horrors

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Stormzy is really a good example of a generation who has lose faith in politics being able to change or influence things, and has decided, fairly rationally fwiw, that he may as well just get the bag. Many such cases etc

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

It's basically this: Over the last 15 years, deeply alienated and lonely internet trolls, amplified by influencer grifters and algorithms trained to increase time on metrics by stewing division, convinced huge swathes of American men that every facet of modern life is feminine and, thus, bad.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

I’m looking forward to the revival of wokeness with Chinese characteristics

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Really miss old graffiti artist blogs and magazines. So much of my skill in drawing came from imitating them - Who is doing impressive and interesting street art right now?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 11 days ago • 335 comments

I often think about how my grandparents and parents managed to do so much as refugees who had to rebuild their lives in a much more hostile UK, and yeah a lot of it is about resilience and community etc. but also they didn’t get distracted by so many opinions of freaks and weirdos every day

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing guys to get mad at are being invented on threads

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

The “Stormzy meal”, beyond breaking BDS, is also clearly a recession indicator. There’s nothing even attempting to be new in it, if anything it really just feels like repackaged leftovers

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

£30K! I wonder which two academic books he stole?

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Kind of interesting to me that as much of the West places all their faith in AI to solve its problems, they forget the one thing it can’t do - care for people - is also it’s next great crisis it’s completely unprepared for

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Feels like a good way to understand Elon Musk is as the Drake of tech dipshits

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments