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GANDHAAARA GANDHAAAAARA THEY SAY IT WAS IN IIINDIAA Bet you can hear it now, can’t you?

None of *gestures vaguely at world* this would have happened under a Binface government.

She insists on Toploader's Dancing In The Moonlight at parties. I would stake my life on it. #TheArchers

See, I would be going "fair play to Alice for calling out Rex's utterly appalling record collection" were it not for the fact I would put Actual Money on hers being worse. #TheArchers

Fun thing about Reform doing absolutely piss all to contest the Manchester mayoral in favour of focusing on the Clacton by-election is that it makes it explicit that they don't ACTUALLY want to "reform" anything (ie by taking the more important position), and it's all about saving Nigel.

Oh wow.

The worst thing about AI is how nobody trusts anything as being real anymore. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.

Burnham seems so far to be everything I feared- a more likeable Starmer. Same neoliberal bullshit, same pandering to the Right, just less dull so the flimsy Centrists don’t get distracted and get any crazy ideas about voting Green instead.

While everyone’s talking about the Neuromancer trailer, I think we should take a moment to reflect on the epic burn Gibson laid down on Billy Idol’s 1993 album “Cyberpunk”- “Billy just stole the labels. He should have stolen the shirts”.

Sounds ace!

See, I do a 7 nights on/7 off shift pattern, and on my off shifts I just spend the afternoon reading in the pub and on-shifts a couple of hours before I sleep. It’s just been too fucking hot to concentrate lately though, so I’m reading way slower.

All this while I’m already rereading Gormenghast and have decided I need a Pynchon binge…

Red Star, Winter Orbit (with Sterling I think?) is the one I’m most looking forward to. Same here on the Sprawl reread, but there are too many cool books coming out atm- I’m on the new Ellroy now, there’s a new Chuck Tingle, Marlon James on the way and Mieville’s dropping 1200 pages in September…

The really scary thing about AI is that we’ve already passed the point where it’s encouraged people to commit suicide without stopping to figure out who actually bears legal responsibility for that, meaning the tech giants are now officially untouchable.

Was listening to Gibson’s Burning Chrome audiobook while out shopping, not read it in decades, and by jingo Fragments Of A Hologram Rose is a great story. The Atrocity Exhibition’s an obvious influence, but he does such great world building on top with so few strokes.

Sounds like Her Private Hell is gonna be one of those Refn movies like Only God Forgives where the credits roll and I'm like "I either loved that or hated it, and I have no idea which until I watch it again". Which is all I want from the guy really, nobody does that quite like he does.

I wonder what it is about Israel that appeals to celebrity unlawful imprisonment enjoyer Boy George?

Protip- Keep some Disney music on your phone and play it if you ever get approached by one of those gammony “auditor” twats so they can’t use the footage without getting a copyright strike.

Reformers be like “And if young Nigel says it’s migrants It must be migrants It must be migrants It must be migrants from the sea”.

We need a different word for “inciteful” just for when people are talking about (allegedly) inflammatory social media posts on the radio, because hearing it as “insightful” really changes the vibe.