It was only reading an aside in Andy Weir’s book, Project Hail Mary, about how wars destabilise food production, leading to orders of magnitude more deaths from starvation, that the modern agriculture revolution really hit home. So much energy was expended in producing basic calories for survival

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case:

As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

Honestly i got into bands because of friends—a friend that OD’d years ago passed along a burned copy of Evanescence’s first album, plus ripped copies of their demos. That got me sold enough to see them live just as they made it big, for example

Funny thing is I was never into MM—saw him at Ozzfest one year but I had gone to see someone else perform. And yes, Lostprophets were also headlining (?!)

Huuuuuuh

I genuinely didn’t know them for DeGrassi; I knew them because of Dave Ogilvie, like how I got into Rasputina because of Chris Vrenna. I know, it’s weird

Well I remember Jakalope and their cool website, which no longer exists online
:’(

Also nobody remembers Jakalope

I have not! And I suddenly had a reverie of seeing Skinny Puppy and tweaker in DC in what I want to say in 2004?

YouTube started recommending me Atticus Ross videos this afternoon and yeah that would be amazing youtu.be/cDIGsVWtnFY?...

They should have done some real fan service. Four words: NIN feat. Wendy Carlos

Most expensive NIN music video ever.

At least we got a handful of good NIN songs and a whole lot of good Trent and Ross soundtrack songs out of it

Sure, why not

I just had a run in with a neighbour that I’m usually on reasonably good terms with. My kids play with her granddaughter. She has some odd views, and a number of things I disagree with but usually I bite my tongue and make nice. But today she started on about the boats

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

I think it’s good because the fascists hate it—they see that it brings lots of different people together in a public space and recoil in disgust

Complex system cascading failure analysis.
The video is 10 mins long, so I had to break it up into pieces.

Part 1.

… followed by five minutes of us praising Charli XCX and her casually dropping in she was a lesbian, but I’m sorry, you’ve got a tie on and knew why we were listening to brat

Been a difficult few weeks but there was one bright spot: out with husband and mentioned to the shopkeeper we spent the morning listening to brat. She knew we heard the new Taylor Swift song and are immense haters, because she is also a hater and had done the same

I just got to Peacehaven mosque. It’s a small place. Forensics are here, half a dozen police cars, a few ppl left bouquets of flowers

There were two ppl inside the mosque when the attackers tried to get in. They got out in time thankfully and no one was injured

These cases of extreme, far-right racist violence targeting Muslims and people seeking asylum are being blithely ignored by most media and politicians because they see no political capital in addressing them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Arson attack at Sussex mosque.