Sounds legit. Lucky my wardrobe is kinda full.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 5h ago

watching fashion influencers is basically a nonstop cycle of “oh cool a new brand to check out, let me just hop over to their website. (click click click) haha ok nevermind”

Roughly a month to the next MindFuzz so time to announce our guest DJ from the Birmingham Psych Night. Saw him DJ at Lr Beat Bespoke and can guarantee some floor filling psych bangers. Thomas House basement on 12th September.

I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

monbiot.com

got a text today from an unknown number asking me if I'd seen Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and if I had any thoughts on it ... it turned out to be from a friend's new number, but for a while I really thought it was a devious new scam targeted at heterosexual men

OK, one of the reasons I haven't done a fundraiser since like 2018 is that I don't know the etiquette of it. How many times do you share a thing? How far do you push it? When does one stop? When's the limit? gofund.me/39eb990d3

Donate to I'm not going back: Help Sian access gender-affirming care, organized by Sian Penny

My name is Sian and I am crowdfunding for gender confirming surg… Sian Penny needs your support for I'm not going back: Help Sian access gender-affirming care

gofund.me

Want to read a no-paywall take on the Odyssey by a top-tier film writer with experience of teaching Homer? Of course you do. No paywall on this one (although the page is age-restricted, because we talk about adult things). www.patreon.com/posts/165535...

You were the Sea People? | Room 207 Press

No paywall on this one. But if you're not from round here and want more like this, it's $1US to subscribe and get a ton of writing. If you d

patreon.com

The biggest cost Trump is imposing on us is the cost of doing nothing about three worsening crises that threaten the very survival of America and the world: climate change, AI, and widening inequality.

The Biggest Cost of Trump

It goes far beyond guns vs. butter

robertreich.substack.com

Farage is always pictured drinking beer because it matches his politics. Dark beneath white. Never Guiness, though, he'd have to let that settle.

Shazam is insisting the Beta Band entrance music is the Metallica record that samples Morricone's Ecstasy Of Gold. Au contraire.

Ride on sweet Count

Strictly Kev@djfood.org · 2w ago

Don't know who did this but the original cover will always hold a special place in my heart as it was first issue of the Galaxy's Greatest. Whilst it doesn't cost £9 these days (£3.99 - Earth Money) it's still as good as ever.

Arguable but legitimately a contender.

Jody Rosen@jodyrosen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just struck me that 2026 is the 50th anniversary of (arguably) dub reggae's peak? King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown, Super Ape, Dub in Blood, Tapper Zukie In Dub, Joe Gibbs African Dub All-Mighty (Chapter 2), Garvey's Ghost, Harry Mudie Meet King Tubby's. Etc! Some of greatest music ever recorded.

Having had DR vers repeatedly accuse me of not having lights, while I had lights, this is just another cycle of anti bike bs.

Wait what?? Like HR? @djsoftskills.bsky.social

John Coulthart@johncoulthart.com · 2w ago

#nowplaying I wonder what Alice Coltrane would have thought about Giger using this as a soundtrack for the creation of his erotic nightmares. Probably not what she had in mind.

Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451: "Burning books is terrible." Today: "Yeah, but we can do even worse than burning. Watch."

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

One can only imagine the eventful back story which led to this particular amendment.

The awful terf work colleague sees this as the best thing about the new Burnham cabinet so that makes me think George is on to something here.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w ago

I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory

Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.

Stark analysis from my old friend Caitriona Henry (also quoting Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net). open.substack.com/pub/caitrion...

Your Job Didn’t Go to a Machine. The money did.

AI, capital markets, and what’s actually driving the job cuts

open.substack.com

I know you know this on bluesky, but I posted it on insta so I thought I should post here too. And if it makes someone second guess using AI for these things then maybe it helps.

It's wild how similar terfs and manosphere guys are? Instead of the ideal form being like a jacked chiseled-jawline we-don't-love-no-hoes grindset guy, terfs venerate the snarky know-it-all academic who abhors frivolity of any kind. Incidentally, she also don't love no hoes - weird, that!

I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch

A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.

techcrunch.com

Obvs the Isabelle Adjani gifs are more dramatic but still there this...mmmm colour me hypnotized

Sam Neill in Possession (1981) - Intense Scene

ALT: Sam Neill in Possession (1981) - Intense Scene

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This appears to be the only Reilly Ace of Spies gif we have here

Whats For Dinner Sam Neill

ALT: Whats For Dinner Sam Neill

static.klipy.com

More people need to read this. There is no such thing as a "historically accurate Odyssey," because the 'Odyssey' is not set in a real historical time. It is set in the mythic Age of Heroes, not the real-life Bronze Age. #Odyssey #Homer #classics kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/odys...

History and the <i>Odyssey</i>

The Odyssey is not set in the Bronze Age. It is totally flooded with classical-era motifs, with a smattering of archaic touches.

kiwihellenist.blogspot.com

Also: it’s so much less work.

Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 4w ago

Let your garden grow wild, and your daily life will be infused with ever-changing loveliness and magic, full of butterflies and birdsong.