We are so fubarred. It is bad enough that people believe what they read on the Internet (other than this site, which should obviously be worshipped unthinkingly). But now people have got so idle/credulous that they accept AI slop, without even looking at any actual pages...
It still shocks me. You have to have a grudging admiration (1) for a system of control that is able to turn ANYTHING into an opportunity to do the most important thing in the modern world - to Sell More Stuff. There's an advert for Ribena on Youtube. There's the usual graphics of Sweet Innocent... Continue Reading →
The plays of Bill will get you used to rhyme Iamb addicted to this form of verse And for the better or the worse (the worse!) Am churning lines about all stately crime. Here it is - drumroll please - They offer motherhood and apple pie They dangle gleaming technofix advances You mustn't probe too... Continue Reading →
Is there a journal about we men and the many manny ways we control bodies, discourses, ecosystems (with less and less success, as the decades role on and the Manthropocene collapses). There should be, anyway. Anyway, in response to a bsky post about shoddy journalists transferring their "knowledge" into the security state, I came up... Continue Reading →
Some spam just popped up in my gmail inbox (1) and it gives me perverse hope. Here's a screengrab. The test works like this: If you are dumb and desperate enough to click on "See My Complete Analysis" then the test results are definitely in - you are a credulous moron. Congratulations. (2) Blah blah... Continue Reading →
A Republican idiot (even by their standards) has just won his second term as President. He has big and radical plans and the opposition is fragmented, disoriented. But then along comes an event - one that could and should have been foreseen and prepared for - and the President's visibly and undeniably terrible response takes... Continue Reading →
Climate change is bad, but for now I can cope (no kids, no expectations, no flooding where I am). Fascism is bad, but for now I can cope, because it is at least another six months until Starmer and Cooper extend the proscription to include the words "genocide" and "Palestine." Technofeudalsim is bad, but for... Continue Reading →
This verse is of t'chap called Jesus There's some say that from death he frees us But by many a priest We're constantly fleeced - With stories of "heaven" they tease us
Just read Ali Smith's "Spring" (number three in her Seasons Quartet - highly recommended). Here's this, from near the end. Useful for reminding yourself with in the cacophony of war cries against peace, stability, happiness that you hear or see all the time... Did you know, Alda says, that the word slogan was a Gaelic... Continue Reading →
Part of my effort to do remedial cultural capital accumulation and get up to speed with all the Shakespeare plays I had low or zero knowledge of.... Year written: 1599 Context of the writing (Shakespeare’s career, political events it was responding to): Just after Love’s Labour’s Lost and Merry Wives of Windsor, and before Julius... Continue Reading →
