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wait til they figure out she was also a tankie; she’ll be double-cancelled

moving back to dublin?

bob dylan’s first ever appearance on record was playing harmonica on a harry belafonte record as an unknown 20-year-old kid. the story is great:

let reddit name it, they’ll come up with something reliably stupid. Booky McReady-Pants or El Librario Brutalitastico or something

apparently mao decided that the soviets naming cities after people was the height of cringe, so he decreed that nowhere in china would ever be named after a person, and they’ve basically stuck to that ever since.

suit + rucksack = prick don’t fight it, the masses have spoken

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n08/james-meek/that-s-my-tank-on-fire

I played thunderstruck to my friend’s baby kid today and we danced around. she loved it. I partly felt like I was undertaking some kind of sacred ritual of initiation into the ways of rock. partly it’s just a fun song.

I’m also old enough to remember this... though it was the army at the border, not the RUC, right? I don’t know. anyway I associate it with ice cream, because dealing with the army at the border was always preceded by the most dire warnings from my mother not to get fidgety in the back, with...

I basically agree, I suppose the thing that profoundly irritates is the idea that there are any simple answers to refereeing the world’s opinions. but as a PR move the guy would have had an easier day if he had just said “no racists,” even though we know that’s basically impossible at scale

everything is simple until you’re a substack employee who is suddenly required to make racism decisions in an argument between an abkhazian and a mingrelian about a massacre that happened in 1836

yeah but they should also just say it as a practical decision, instead of this always turning into a morality-play performance about free speech. the substack guy could easily say something like “no racists, it’s bad for business, if you don’t like it, go start your own social media platform.”...

irish state secrets must be so boring by comparison. gossip about who does rishi sunak’s hairdcuts or something

my dc hardcore jokes are wasted on you people

secret pentagon records getting leaked and then sitting online on a discord server for a month before anyone even noticed? clearly discord records means something different to kids these days

this is a really, really stoopid essay like in fifteen different directions this guy is a comic nerd, and his instinct to defend what he perceives as his corner of culture results in him deciding that lichtenstein is now his enemy. what a stupid hill to want to die on. it’s just dumb, it hurt...

that’s a useful read, even though it comes off as, let’s say, slightly-highbrow smug centrist, or something like that... and then, close to the end of that article there’s this innocuous little line: ...which seems to be doing an awful lot of heavy lifting — the “good reasons” aren’t...

now — if you’re attempting to be consistent — generalise this principle to, y’know, all images ever created... how does that work