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Hi my name is Sal and my enthusiasms are heterodox Christianity, the Frankfurt school, anarchist Marxism, Michel Foucault, Herge’s adventures of Tintin, Cockapoo spaniels, and music that makes you boogie.
The archetypal Smiths record would have a photo of Joyce Grenfell on the cover and include songs called ‘Nobody Will Ever Love Me (Except the Vicar in the Public Lavatory)’, ‘Pen Pal Girlfriend In Interlaken, It was Really Nothing’ and ‘Disco Dancer in a Lorry Crash’.
February 11, 2026 at 2:41 PM
The archetypal Smiths record would have a photo of Joyce Grenfell on the cover and include songs called ‘Nobody Will Ever Love Me (Except the Vicar in the Public Lavatory)’, ‘Pen Pal Girlfriend In Interlaken, It was Really Nothing’ and ‘Disco Dancer in a Lorry Crash’.
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Lying Cow - August 1883
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109125
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109125
February 11, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Lying Cow - August 1883
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109125
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109125
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in which this gormless twit reveals himself to be adrift in a sea of received twaddle about ai replacing workers (it won’t because it can’t) that was already hopelessly hackneyed in 2023 right as openai throws in the towel on ‘productivity’ and turns chatgpt into a glorified pornbot
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Right now, “left-wing discourse on A.I. feels like a collection of irritable mental gestures in search of a consistent theme,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes.
Right now, “left-wing discourse on A.I. feels like a collection of irritable mental gestures in search of a consistent theme,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes.
Opinion | The Left Needs a Sharper A.I. Politics
The future may put progressive theories of work and human nature to the test.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
in which this gormless twit reveals himself to be adrift in a sea of received twaddle about ai replacing workers (it won’t because it can’t) that was already hopelessly hackneyed in 2023 right as openai throws in the towel on ‘productivity’ and turns chatgpt into a glorified pornbot
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#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...
February 11, 2026 at 8:48 AM
#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...
The epistemological problem with policing is that the police are supposed to be policing people, who can be bad, but the police are also people, who can be bad. Like Wittgenstein’s rabbit-duck, you can’t see it two ways simultaneously.
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
The epistemological problem with policing is that the police are supposed to be policing people, who can be bad, but the police are also people, who can be bad. Like Wittgenstein’s rabbit-duck, you can’t see it two ways simultaneously.
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We can’t have phossy jaw, endemic child prostitution, and contemporary South Sudanese levels of subsistence poverty BECAUSE OF WOKE!
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
We can’t have phossy jaw, endemic child prostitution, and contemporary South Sudanese levels of subsistence poverty BECAUSE OF WOKE!
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“All I want to do”, a shocked Ashworth-Hayes told the Telegraph, “is melt all fixed, fast-frozen relations - to sweep away ancient and venerable prejudices & opinions”. But woke Marxist feminists stand in the way. “It’s green & pleasant they say” ignoring the people’s demands for satanic mills.
relations.to
February 11, 2026 at 8:53 AM
“All I want to do”, a shocked Ashworth-Hayes told the Telegraph, “is melt all fixed, fast-frozen relations - to sweep away ancient and venerable prejudices & opinions”. But woke Marxist feminists stand in the way. “It’s green & pleasant they say” ignoring the people’s demands for satanic mills.
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These days if you privately own the means of production, you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail
February 11, 2026 at 7:52 AM
These days if you privately own the means of production, you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail
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chuck schumer would have supported segregation as a nice middle ground between slavery and abolition
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
chuck schumer would have supported segregation as a nice middle ground between slavery and abolition
The problem of leisure
What to do for pleasure
Ideal love, a new purchase
A market of the senses
Dream of the perfect life
Economic circumstances
The body is good business
Sell out, maintain the interest
Remember Lot's wife
Renounce all sin and vice
This heaven gives me migraine
What to do for pleasure
Ideal love, a new purchase
A market of the senses
Dream of the perfect life
Economic circumstances
The body is good business
Sell out, maintain the interest
Remember Lot's wife
Renounce all sin and vice
This heaven gives me migraine
February 11, 2026 at 11:35 AM
The problem of leisure
What to do for pleasure
Ideal love, a new purchase
A market of the senses
Dream of the perfect life
Economic circumstances
The body is good business
Sell out, maintain the interest
Remember Lot's wife
Renounce all sin and vice
This heaven gives me migraine
What to do for pleasure
Ideal love, a new purchase
A market of the senses
Dream of the perfect life
Economic circumstances
The body is good business
Sell out, maintain the interest
Remember Lot's wife
Renounce all sin and vice
This heaven gives me migraine
It was dismantled because practically no women made the first move.
Mismatch: Bumble vs the men’s rights activists
The dating app Bumble built its identity on a promise: women make the first move. In this episode, The Observer uncovers a legal campaign by men’s rights activists that helped dismantle that premise.
Listen now:
lnk.to/NtMX9c
The dating app Bumble built its identity on a promise: women make the first move. In this episode, The Observer uncovers a legal campaign by men’s rights activists that helped dismantle that premise.
Listen now:
lnk.to/NtMX9c
February 11, 2026 at 11:30 AM
It was dismantled because practically no women made the first move.
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Searching for one message, I found another - a declaration of undying love from a few years ago.
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Searching for one message, I found another - a declaration of undying love from a few years ago.
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I had several Bluebirds show up today. I was glad to be home to grab the camera and get a few shots.....these little birds are so vibrant against the snow on a sunny day. I have only just started to see them the last three years or so.
February 11, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I had several Bluebirds show up today. I was glad to be home to grab the camera and get a few shots.....these little birds are so vibrant against the snow on a sunny day. I have only just started to see them the last three years or so.
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#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
February 11): A song that sounds unlike anything else.
Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
Like a preacher, a prophet, and a groove machine collided.
Same as it ever was.
youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?...
#MusicSky
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
February 11): A song that sounds unlike anything else.
Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
Like a preacher, a prophet, and a groove machine collided.
Same as it ever was.
youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?...
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Official Video)
YouTube video by Talking Heads
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
February 11): A song that sounds unlike anything else.
Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
Like a preacher, a prophet, and a groove machine collided.
Same as it ever was.
youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?...
#MusicSky
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
February 11): A song that sounds unlike anything else.
Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
Like a preacher, a prophet, and a groove machine collided.
Same as it ever was.
youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?...
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Well, I note things like: Epstein and Peter Thiel agreeing that the real money is made in monetising collapse and decay. Then, I look at what’s been happening in Britain for decades. And then, I ask myself: what exactly would people like Mandelson and Co. have to offer these predatory zillionaires?
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Well, I note things like: Epstein and Peter Thiel agreeing that the real money is made in monetising collapse and decay. Then, I look at what’s been happening in Britain for decades. And then, I ask myself: what exactly would people like Mandelson and Co. have to offer these predatory zillionaires?
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The problem with MeToo was that it was animated by a salacious investment in gratifying fairy tale stories of ugly ogres like Weinstein abusing innocent princesses. Then once there’s an imperfect victim and a hunky actor, ‘feminists’ like Natalie Shure and Mara Wilson become Depp stans..
How Amber Heard became a #MeToo poster girl until Johnny Depp turned the tables by convincing a jury his violent ex was the one betraying women
in the final part of our gripping series, we chart how Amber's transformation into a #MeToo icon would set the stage for one of the most explosive...
in the final part of our gripping series, we chart how Amber's transformation into a #MeToo icon would set the stage for one of the most explosive...
Amber Heard became a #MeToo poster girl until Depp turned the tables
in the final part of our gripping series, we chart how Amber's transformation into a #MeToo icon would set the stage for one of the most explosive celebrity trials of the decade.
www.dailymail.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 9:18 AM
The problem with MeToo was that it was animated by a salacious investment in gratifying fairy tale stories of ugly ogres like Weinstein abusing innocent princesses. Then once there’s an imperfect victim and a hunky actor, ‘feminists’ like Natalie Shure and Mara Wilson become Depp stans..
They always complain vegans are pushing their veganism down their throats but, while no doubt instances of such vegans do exist, I’ve never met one! What they’ll do is actively find a vegan making an argument for veganism online then complain it’s been forced on them.
Why are vegans, drivers of electric vehicles, peaceniks etc hated so much by reactionaries? Because their mere existence is a (justified) criticism of the behaviour of those who would prefer just to carry on unthinkingly.
February 11, 2026 at 8:39 AM
They always complain vegans are pushing their veganism down their throats but, while no doubt instances of such vegans do exist, I’ve never met one! What they’ll do is actively find a vegan making an argument for veganism online then complain it’s been forced on them.
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I refer to Foucault, but WFH is more Deleuzean. Deleuze wrote this essay on ‘Societies of Control’ in which he updated Foucault’s critique of disciplinary societies with a new form of power. In the disciplinary society you are confined to the building, temporospatial boundaries, doing..
February 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
I refer to Foucault, but WFH is more Deleuzean. Deleuze wrote this essay on ‘Societies of Control’ in which he updated Foucault’s critique of disciplinary societies with a new form of power. In the disciplinary society you are confined to the building, temporospatial boundaries, doing..
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Matched Couple, 1490 #davinci #leonardodavinci
February 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Matched Couple, 1490 #davinci #leonardodavinci
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Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement.
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...
Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino praised agent after shooting Marimar Martinez in Chicago, evidence shows
A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camer…
www.chicagotribune.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement.
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...