The first few tracks on Revival are a moodier, growlier MMLP2 timeshifted forward half a decade in production style and you'll be like "this isn't that bad!" and then Ed Sheeran starts singing about abortion
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Writer, musician, critic. Honorary Doctorate in Experimental Eminemology from the Pompsomp Hills Hot Take Dept.
Me in 2022: Eminem's album Revival (2017) damaged Eminem's career because of changes in the wider cultural climate that made his act incomprehensible, a fascinating case study for edgy 00s comedy in the age of Woke, Me now: it was literally just he grew a beard and people couldn't recognise him
This is unironically what it's going to be like if even a single DSA backed candidate makes it into the Dem Primaries for 2028
In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 10h agoweb.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"
Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.
Just combining my UK political takes today into 1 post: 1) if Burnham does an Epstein enquiry and uses it as a purge list, it is the single smartest thing he can possibly do in his situation 2) why is there a Nazi called Bonehill Pain. You couldn't get away with that in a videogame let alone a book
What on earth is going on with AI teaching at Uni Newcastle
New old Eminem pic from 1999, taken at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington by Steve Double
The idea that social media users aren't pronounced enough about being pathetic whining losers runs so contrary to all of my lived experience online that I think this counts as gaslighting
New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterdayOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
I saw Odyssey. I am a bit confused as to everyone finding it a principled statement against colonialism or whatever because it's mostly about a serious man frowning, like all Nolan movies. However the violent parts were sick. 6/10
this is kind of driving me nuts because an "era" is basically a rebranded "album cycle" and, I dunno, half of all major musicians since the late 60s have reinvented their image/style to varying degrees from release to release and created "lore" for fans to decode? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Forget Albums—Pop Stars Measure Their Careers in Eras Now
Since the earthshaking success of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, artists from the Weeknd to Ariana Grande have tried to imbue their live shows with a sense of history.
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Obviously there was no way of knowing that none of this was going to happen but I still find it notable how none of this happened
Incredible shit here: the guy Badenoch is defending was sent to prison for sending racist abuse to the MP Luciana Berger. Who then did a whole series of interviews and columns talking about her criminal harassment by Nazis, in a manner intended to make listeners believe it was done by Labour members
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d agoEven I am taken aback at the new and surprising ways these people find to insult the public’s intelligence and make it more clear the only operative professional standard in force is “LOL fuck you”
Super Mario Bros. (1993) Director: Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel Cast: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis Watch Review wp / wd
This is clearly wrong, horrific, and fuck Nick Robinson, but it still bothers me how many of the quote RTs and comments are just like "well the solution should be for the racist patients to be considered to be refusing treatment and to GO AND DIE". Human rights aren't just for good people imo
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2d ago"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
He was the laziest national press stringer I ever worked with. Sat in the pub all day making me do all the work and even coerced me into writing his copy. Then after a full day in the pub he drove back to Manchester from Leicester. I hated working with him.
Finally decided re Ariana Grande that my take on the video is - ironic and sincerely artistic thinspo is still thinspo
I first worked with X at the BBC in the 60s, where he sexually assaulted most of the typing pool and threw a working class YTS boy from a 4th floor window. He went on to be violent, rude, abusive and obnoxious throughout his career. And you have to admire that, so few people dare to be utterly vile.
People tend to forgive others' flaws when they've recently died if they're not *completely* abhorrent. If you have a reputation of just being a bit of a dick, people probably won't mention that, because why be nasty? But if you've devoted your life to pure unmitigated evil, people will say so.
No other love story is going to affect me like their love story ever again
Metal Gear Solid Image Bot@randommetalgear.bsky.social · 2d ago
All nerd hobbies can have the social structure of their communities quantitatively measured with the Q:N (Queer to Nazi) ratio. Pokémon is 8:1. Warhammer is 1:1. Paradox Games are 1:1 but different from Warhammer because the queers and Nazis are the same people.
Menacing 2000 photoshoot of Anthony Worrall Thompson and Melinda Messenger bathing in gore to promote Argos
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.