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Following on from the point about British political journalists having no interest in contemporary culture or social science, the most elevated still use the same bits from the same references, and then patronise people if they don't 'get it'

Look idc about vape shops but I will hear no slander about phone repair stores. The people working in them are the only front we have against the tyranny of Apple and by extension, big tech, who insist that any kind of minor water damage is unrepairable

Only a matter of time before Bari Weiss hires Konstantin Kisin to be a senior editor at 60 minutes, but the funniest part would really be Francis Foster being ignored once again

Cannot emphasise enough that a decade ago he was a normal guy. I went to interview for him once when he was editing city am, and if anything he was just kind of dull. Now whenever I see his face he’s screeching about the apocalypse or welcoming the death cult

Only thing worse than this phenomena are AI-loving parents who exclusively use LLMs to make 'personalised' storybooks with characters resembling their kids

Apathetic response from the balding community

I’d love to be one of those guys that gets to hang around the dj at a tasteful natural wines store opening. Imagine it must be the best feeling in the world when he lets you turn one of the dials slightly up or down

I know this is anecdotal but in my time working in British newsrooms one thing that was very clear was that outside of books and perhaps some culture desks, there was basically no interest in ideas or intellectual thought. If anything they were quite hostile to anything related to social science

Walking into the cinema to go see The Odyssey while carrying an LRB tote bag and a highlighted copy of Emily Wilson’s review. It impresses all the staff, and they offer me a free bag of popcorn. I refuse, as I pull out my container of Kimchi. Everyone stops what they’re doing and applauds

So you’re telling me that the guy who sent a box of animal semen to Margot Robbie is a creep

Been trying to articulate this on the show for years and he just comes out and says it

Actually really funny that the only song that I can hum to get my kid to sleep is Purple Lamborghini by Rick Ross

Honour to be a guest on BLOOD WORK, to talk about Eddington, suburban weirdness, and of course i sandwich in a Serial Experiments Lain reference

One of my son's favourite books is about an elephant that goes to a museum to visit his ancestors who have all been captured, put in zoos and then taxidermied. Always thought it was kind of fucked up, especially at the end when the elephant goes to the gift shop

Reminds me of a time in school when a friend of mine was really hungry, so he bought a hot lunch and a sandwich, only to over-estimate his appetite. He still ate both lunches anyway and had a really bad stomach ache for the rest of the day. People still call him "two lunches"

Woken up to see a load of people on instagram mad at me, forgetting I’d posted a comment under someone’s post saying “Bear had a point” despite having not see Obsession or really know what it’s about. The price one pays for just wanting to be part of something.

Emily Wilson beefing with Christopher Nolan just days after Julian Casablancas fires shots at Anthony Fantano. Huge summer for precariously employed millennials

Wide pockets also a much needed cultural shift

Kind of convinced that we have to start shooting video in landscape

There's a lot more to this clip too. The guy she's confronting is one of the most well-known Muslim content creators in the UK, and they've gone to Speaker's Corner specifically for this very online confrontation.