Haven't finished a novel since June but anyway..
December 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Haven't finished a novel since June but anyway..
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If anyone would like to put on an exhibition supporting the people of Gaza, my friend Mohamed has hundreds of photos of the farm he is growing in the sands of the al-Mawasi camp after his land was stolen from him
'Palestine is different. Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. Instead, the opposite'
How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
www.equator.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
If anyone would like to put on an exhibition supporting the people of Gaza, my friend Mohamed has hundreds of photos of the farm he is growing in the sands of the al-Mawasi camp after his land was stolen from him
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He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
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Answers were mainly:
1. Collective bargaining
2. Nationalised them all, shut useless ones
3. 🤷 Some did, went into private practice, built the odd private hospital.
4. Didn't cost that much. In US you already pay more in taxes for healthcare than Brits, even before spending a $ on insurance
1. Collective bargaining
2. Nationalised them all, shut useless ones
3. 🤷 Some did, went into private practice, built the odd private hospital.
4. Didn't cost that much. In US you already pay more in taxes for healthcare than Brits, even before spending a $ on insurance
December 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Answers were mainly:
1. Collective bargaining
2. Nationalised them all, shut useless ones
3. 🤷 Some did, went into private practice, built the odd private hospital.
4. Didn't cost that much. In US you already pay more in taxes for healthcare than Brits, even before spending a $ on insurance
1. Collective bargaining
2. Nationalised them all, shut useless ones
3. 🤷 Some did, went into private practice, built the odd private hospital.
4. Didn't cost that much. In US you already pay more in taxes for healthcare than Brits, even before spending a $ on insurance
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December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
Was listening to this podcast from an Ashtanga Yoga teacher with Rupert Spira, who practice Advaita Vedanta (a form of metaphysical non dual philosophy).
I found out he studied pottery with Cornelius Cardew's dad!!
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I found out he studied pottery with Cornelius Cardew's dad!!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Rupert Spira - The Essence of Advaita Vedanta
Podcast Episode · Keen on Yoga Podcast · 25/06/2021 · 1h 15m
podcasts.apple.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Was listening to this podcast from an Ashtanga Yoga teacher with Rupert Spira, who practice Advaita Vedanta (a form of metaphysical non dual philosophy).
I found out he studied pottery with Cornelius Cardew's dad!!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
I found out he studied pottery with Cornelius Cardew's dad!!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
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When I arrived in the UK 25 years ago I had a job at a university that paid £21k. I could barely make ends meet but I worked hard and eventually I succeeded. I guess this Labour government considers young broke hardworking me a “taker”?
Fuck this.
Fuck this.
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
When I arrived in the UK 25 years ago I had a job at a university that paid £21k. I could barely make ends meet but I worked hard and eventually I succeeded. I guess this Labour government considers young broke hardworking me a “taker”?
Fuck this.
Fuck this.
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my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch
Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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In November an 18 month investigation into ADHD concluded.
It found ADHD is massively underdiagnosed with less than 1 in 20 people over 40 receiving treatment.
It said GPs need to be diagnosing it.
Instead a review has been launched looking into it being 'overdiagnosed'
It found ADHD is massively underdiagnosed with less than 1 in 20 people over 40 receiving treatment.
It said GPs need to be diagnosing it.
Instead a review has been launched looking into it being 'overdiagnosed'
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In November an 18 month investigation into ADHD concluded.
It found ADHD is massively underdiagnosed with less than 1 in 20 people over 40 receiving treatment.
It said GPs need to be diagnosing it.
Instead a review has been launched looking into it being 'overdiagnosed'
It found ADHD is massively underdiagnosed with less than 1 in 20 people over 40 receiving treatment.
It said GPs need to be diagnosing it.
Instead a review has been launched looking into it being 'overdiagnosed'
Don't mind me I am listening to six hours of Haino shredding. Its mostly 10-20 min tracks, with a few that are shorter and longer
music.youtube.com/watch?v=I3eG...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=I3eG...
Fushitsusha - Secret Black Box VI
YouTube video by assfuck machine
music.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Don't mind me I am listening to six hours of Haino shredding. Its mostly 10-20 min tracks, with a few that are shorter and longer
music.youtube.com/watch?v=I3eG...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=I3eG...
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This is hella cool. a 19 year old memorized and recited the entire Shukla Yajurveda over 50 days completely from memory, in the insanely difficult method of Danda Krama, which i'll explain in the next post - economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-upd...
Who is Vedamurti Devavrat Mahesh Rekhe, the Kashi teen who completed the Dandakrama Parayanam in 50 days after 200 years?
A 19-year-old Vedic scholar from Kashi has achieved a rare feat. Vedamurti Devavrat Mahesh Rekhe completed a 50-day continuous recitation of Shukla Yajurveda mantras. This tradition has not been witne...
economictimes.indiatimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is hella cool. a 19 year old memorized and recited the entire Shukla Yajurveda over 50 days completely from memory, in the insanely difficult method of Danda Krama, which i'll explain in the next post - economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-upd...
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When people talk about "student politics" I don't think about demanding rich people pay taxes or opposing genocide, I think about those weird smug guys at uni who had zero empathy and a copy of sun tzu and dedicated their time to making sure they volunteered themselves to be in charge of everything.
A 19-year-old Tory kid, still living off mummy’s Wi-Fi, is giving parental advice.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
When people talk about "student politics" I don't think about demanding rich people pay taxes or opposing genocide, I think about those weird smug guys at uni who had zero empathy and a copy of sun tzu and dedicated their time to making sure they volunteered themselves to be in charge of everything.
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Live scenes from the Your Party Conference:
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Live scenes from the Your Party Conference:
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We're at a point where reducing prosecutions and incarceration isn't a principled leftist stance, it's the only pragmatic way to keep the system functioning at all. This is an unpalatable reality for carceral ideologues so they have to grope around for magical fixes.
this ongoing crisis of the carceral state is such an infuriatingly blatant opportunity for a public conversation that the carceral state absolutely cannot permit to happen
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We're at a point where reducing prosecutions and incarceration isn't a principled leftist stance, it's the only pragmatic way to keep the system functioning at all. This is an unpalatable reality for carceral ideologues so they have to grope around for magical fixes.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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this is an absolute steal for the AI companies. I've made this much selling my book to one department of one company. huge tech companies should be paying orders of magnitude more than this for the work they've stolen bsky.app/profile/ther...
AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
this is an absolute steal for the AI companies. I've made this much selling my book to one department of one company. huge tech companies should be paying orders of magnitude more than this for the work they've stolen bsky.app/profile/ther...
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best ending of all time, let's be real
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
best ending of all time, let's be real
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Everyone is hope scrolling now
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The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.