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Mayo CHECK, Diastolic REDACTED, White bap CHECK, Systolic REDACTED, Large Cod CHECK, Blood Pressure REDACTED, Chips CHECK, for 'tis carbo 'pon carbo again, avert thine eyes all ye squeamish and gerrin that chip oyl, aversion therapie tyme for ye awl: Gaze 'pon the happy face of Mr Codchips-Death.

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There aren't painful enough deaths invented for Trump and Vance, it takes me to some horribly fantastical territory in my head. I guess this is why people in myths have their livers torn out for all eternity on a rock by an eagle. Actually that'll do, only all eternity means all eternity.

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If things were done on a purely moral basis the UK would be sanctioning America too.

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Incomprehensible works in gouache from now on.

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The 'fears of irreconcilable rift.' Why don't we just name the irreconcilable rift? We could call it an irreconcilable rift.

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Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

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I want some of what Bernie is on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This book is great. And Andrew deserves this prize so much. One of his translations of a section of Sachs is at the front of my Shaken Bible, which will be out in a 10-year-ish edition with another publisher at some point.

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GET OFFICIAL STEVE HANSON RINGTONES

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OK, back to business. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJR...

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I interrupt this serious monologue with a rubbish picture of a massive vegan trifle, Magic Sprinkles on top.

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I’m just here to see how we end.

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8/8 What all this does to philosophy is quite wonderful tho'. What it does to the tripping on 'multitudes' by Hardt and Negri, the Habermasian turn of the Frankfurt School and Fukuyama, the chaff blows away, Dialectic of Enlightenment remains a steely core: only scry in the embers of the world.

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7/8 Trump is no longer a man but an 'it', Frankensteinian anatomics dropping from its forming and reforming amoebic corpus, it is now made of toxic multitudes and is called MAGA. Crapulinski pops up to add his two blond pennorth, a Hogarth or Gillray made flesh - but I am so glad Johnson is not PM.

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6/8 You don't beg THIS Russia to be at the table, you take it a cigarette paper shy of Defcon One, and then find yourself at the table, or dead. Why do I get this reality and the neolibs don't? They don't appear to have even started to understand it.

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5/8 Why is Europe reacting at all? Adam Tooze said Vance performed 'the elementary political function of drawing lines, of provoking antagonism' finding ' who is friend and who is enemy.' If Europe isn't at the negotiating table it should provide more long-range missiles to fire at Lavrov's house.

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4/8 Those people will go off and use a version of reason with a small-r anyway. Like the hardcore atheists who still essentially behave as small-c christian subjects. Remember everyone said they would respond with everything they have when the times comes... and then... and then the times comes. Hi.

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3/8 Enlightenment sceptic intellectuals see europeans dozing on their Voltaire, you know, 'if you can't create ethical consensus through reason as it leads to tyranny give us contestation', or 'agonism' as Chantelle Mouffe says, so start contestating for our lives, or our children's [deep silence].

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2/8 He isn't dealing with reason or the law. If he suddenly re-strategises in light of the MAGA fratboys and Trump - Wilbur Cobb from Ren & Stimpy as a real person - then I will have both my own legs put on a vertical rotisserie and eat them as doner kebabs. With hot sauce and salad.

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1/8 Starmer, shiny shoes and neat hair, soaked in 'reason' and law, can't think any other way. Why does he think he can 'be a bridge'? It's like watching a lamb totter out of the farm enclosure as two wolves salivate in the woods. Why is everyone so shocked in all these media articles? I'm not.

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'Man (sic) should be unburdened of the trouser at least twice a day' - St Augustine. THIS POST HAS BEEN FACT CHECKED

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I put on The Troggs' EP Collection (See For Miles). She said 'are these demos?' I said no, some of these were No. 1's as they are. I flicked ahead a couple of tracks, 'the ones where the bass sounds like it only has one string are best.'

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Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid

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I said it before and...

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My annual Happy Valentine's Day picture of Freud & his Mom.

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Let us not forget that other Stupid Americans have been in Yurp before.

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Russia literally bombed a nuclear facility on European soil. Last night.

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Always admired Dave Beer's work, a very good academic and I've just been catching up on his blog: halfthoughts.blog

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Composing a tweet for the other site, for the future: 'Home flooded? Been affected by summer fires? Voted Reform too? Then suck it up, idiot.' There, filed.

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Tree outside Co-op, Chorlton. I'm going out like that. See below re 'future vibe.' 'Rage against the dying of the light' etc. Did you know that Dylan Thomas edited out a line that said 'and throw your walker in a tree', his redacted MS is in the archives at Swansea. THIS POST HAS BEEN FACT-CHECKED

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When/if Trump hands Putin parts of Ukraine what will our left do? Will they march? I'd join them. Will there be an unidiotic article in Tribune? I reckon no. Will our Labour government give an unidiotic response? I reckon also no. Let's see. Soon.

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I'll say it again, we can have the vibes of '25 in full right here: the end of war = a precedent-setting deeply mendacious peace.

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