I wrote for @mekongreview.com about the time Air India gifted Dali a baby elephant, which the artist pledged to ride across the Alps like Hannibal, a plan that was almost immediately abandoned when he realised that owning an elephant sucks
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"Hannah Arendt wrote that if the fundamental problem of postwar intellectual life after 1918 was death, then after 1945 it was evil. Today, the fundamental problem is complicity: reckoning with our acquiescence to a political system that suddenly appears criminal." www.equator.org/articles/aft...
Transphobia is the greatest lodestone for today's far-right, because it embodies the far-right desire to claim all identities are natural and biological. Today's fascists hate trans people for the same reason interwar fascists hated diasporic Jews - because they hate fluidity and border crossing.
Sean Gleeson
it’s extremely funny to show up somewhere with a black eye and then say that you were punched by a baby
"What I’m really worried about is less an active plot than the terminal erosion of those habits of mind and cultural practices that sustain a mass democracy."
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Sean Gleeson
"I typically have great sympathy for Falstaffian types possessed of enormous if messy appetites for pleasure and experience – but only for those who aren’t, as a rule, cruel, boring or self-obsessed." 🤌 martinmckenziemurray.substack.com/p/boy-genius
"There is a very real frustration and disillusionment among young people that needs to be addressed and engaged with. Ignoring the monarchists or belittling and dismissing them outright will only allow this movement to grow unfettered."
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"Many of these gig workers are paid very little. Some are from countries that have faced attacks from US armed forces. None were told by Appen that they may have been working for the US military." www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
After Hours (1985)
utopia deferred
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The fundamental problem of the present is complicity
our second times have never been more farcical, you're hearing it more and more
Elon says he has a black eye because he asked his five-year-old son X Æ A-12 to punch him in the face.
ryan cooper
The people you can most reliably track as "anti-Zionist who is also antisemitic" are the folks who have also been openly transphobic.
Kasparian, Greenwald, Carlson.
Left and right, this is the common thread for many.
Nikki McCann Ramírez
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I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs
