• I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was

• Current mood in AI generated images #114

• “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

• In dark times will there also be singing?

• The newly united Democratic Party is running on vibes but they are excellent vibes

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder

• Current mood in AI generated images #113

• Pandemic trauma as a driver of far-right radicalisation

• Minimalism as a philosophy of post-neoliberalism

• I keep having dreams of things I need to do and waking up and not following through

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #112

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #111

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #110

• We don’t have to be unequal, it doesn’t have to be unfair, poverty isn’t inevitable

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #109

• Live the questions now

• Current mood in AI generated images #108

• 💔 The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this

• I’ve been using WordPress for 17 years

• Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

• The triangulation of centrists emboldens the far-right

• I want the joy of simple colours

• You can’t ban the English Defence League because it doesn’t exist but you can force Telegram to shut down organising groups

• Rest in peace Maggie

• What need do conspiracy theories serve?

• And it’s sick that all these battles are what keeps me satisfied

• If IBM is here to make your dreams come true, you can probably say the same thing about nightmares too

• Current mood in AI generated images (and music) #107

• Stare into the void until the void stares back

• The monster became self-conscious of its size and intoxicated by the belief in its own omnipotence

• You assumin’ I’m a human, what I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman?

• The political economy of hopelessness

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #106

• I see you fading, fading, but you saved me

• Current mood in AI generated images #105

• The stagnation of the UK economy and living standards

• One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #104

• Hatred, even of meanness, makes you ugly

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #103

• I wander through the pet store asking, “What is my true nature?”

• Current mood in AI generated images #102

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #101

• “I love you and that painful decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day”

• Some thoughts on the UK general election 2024

• The street art I saw and the street art which was really there

• Things Stoics say that I want to remember #1

• Nick Cave on becoming a person

• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet be thought an idler by the noisy set

• How did J. L. Austin’s war time experience shape his theory of performativity?

• Gulls are urbanists, as fiercely identified with that status as any bearded gentrifier

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #100

• 🤫 Bury the evidence

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right over the next ten years?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #99

• I made friends with a family of capybaras

• You came on your own, that’s how you’ll leave

• My ten favourite films of 2024 so far

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #98

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #97

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #96

• Claude, write me a Lacanian analysis of Jehnny Beth’s I’m The Man

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #95

• Current mood in AI generated images #94

• Not giving up on your own desire

• I came in here for anecdotes and left with friends I’ll never sing for

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #93

• In late modernity the signposts established by tradition are now blank

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #92

• I had a dream, I got everything I ever wanted. But if I’m really honest it might have been a nightmare

• Current mood in AI generated images #91

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #91

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• Current mood in AI generated images #90

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #89

• don’t blame me

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #88

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #87

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #86

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #85

• The interaction between climate change and antimicrobial resistance

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #84

• The beautiful problem of the value of life

• How to enjoy writing #10: a poetic interlude from Claude

• Current mood in AI generated images #83

• For I move slower and quieter than most

• Adam Tooze on the sweaty muscularity of state power

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #82

• If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a million locks and finally read a book in peace

• And I’m never real, it’s just a sketch of me

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #81

• Celebrity Tory MP Alan Clark on his enthusiasm for sexual predation

• CfP: Post-Pandemic Imaginaries Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #80

• Too focused on the content and not enough on context

• How many politicians see being an MP as membership of the best private club in London?

• The casual antisemitism of leading Conservative politicians in the 1980s

• Current mood in AI generated images #79

• Current mood in AI generated images #78