I'm off to the Cottage for the East Anglian derby Saturday ( or trying to get in!). Come down!

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher | The Quietus Tim Burrows talks about how a conversation on a park bench led to an experimental film about the philosophy of Mark Fisher

thequietus.com/opinion-and-... ‘Connection was key. He was never a solo figure scaling the heights, on the kind of macho solo mission many male writers fall into.’

To which I attribute M’Lud @luketurner.bsky.social’s way of greeting Quietus writers.

Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher | The Quietus Tim Burrows talks about how a conversation on a park bench led to an experimental film about the philosophy of Mark Fisher

Had no idea until @timburrows.bsky.social wrote this reflection on Mark Fisher, and the new film responding to his life and work, that Capitalist Realism has sold over a quarter of a million copies. A great read on how Fisher's work might lead to hope in our awful now

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And how his invective (that had a practical, analytical purpose) is often mistaken for miserablism. As he once told me: "I don't object to change, it's just everyone's change is shit!"

I've tried to draw out what he meant to those of us that felt emancipated by reading Kpunk: "His writing was fearless, scathing of the double-crossing nature of capitalism during an era when neoliberal promises were still generally believed."

Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher | The Quietus Tim Burrows talks about how a conversation on a park bench led to an experimental film about the philosophy of Mark Fisher

I wrote this essay for @thequietus.com about Mark Fisher and the film inspired by him, We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher, which I helped birth. Flashbacks to early noughties computer room scrolling through @simonreynolds.bsky.social's Blissblog >>> thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Lead story on Bloomberg: Stocks bounce from lows on hopes for US-Iran talks.
Second story: Gulf states weigh military options to counter Iran’s escalation,
Third story: Israel presses on with Iran strikes at ‘full intensity’.

Entirely in keeping with the Murdoch dynasty. I remember reading when visiting Australia a decade ago about Rupert's dad, Keith Murdoch, who made up a hoax about Germans turning enemy soldiers into margarine in order to force Australia into the first world war www.independent.co.uk/news/media/k...

‘Armageddon scenario’ for gas markets as Qatar hit by missiles Traders and analysts warn of lasting disruption after damage to facility that supplies a fifth of the world’s LNG

“I woke up this morning and thought: ‘No, please no…this has always been my Armageddon scenario, the one I didn’t want to happen.”

Scotland’s serial radical nationalist protester Sean Clerkin and his comrades evaded tight security at Reform UK’s Scottish manifesto launch to urge people to vote SNP instead #Holyrood2026 #ReformUK

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims fought in the world wars. The armies that fought+won the second world war against fascism had an ethnic + faith mix that matches the Britain of 2025 more than that of 1939-45, so arrival of Windrush is the story of black RAF servicemen returning to Britain in 1948

Morrissey is such a mad old ham. I love it. He’s like a Victorian- on those posts he does he always sounds like a consumptive aunt in 1896 writing back from travels ‘they presented me with an entirely indigestible mess of stewed aubergine and a wine so rough as to be vinegar….the train was vile’ etc

With talk of oil hitting $100 a barrel, let's remember a pre Radio 2 Rylan getting confused by the concept

Narrator: The Straits, in fact, were in Dire shape.

Kinell, it feels like Igor Tudor's team selection vs Atletico Madrid away will be the subject of the next Moral Maze at this rate

Every U.K. job ad is like “we seek a dynamic, world-leading expert to care for priceless, load-bearing activities. Salary: £28,000 p.a.”

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Frederik Pleitgen © @fpleitgenCNN X.com It is raining oil in Tehran this morning after major airstrikes on oil facilities in the South and West of the Iranian capital. @CNN @cnni 1:12 12:11 AM • 3/8/26 • 3.8M Views

Tehran is covered with thick dark clouds, and the rain is saturated with oil, per CNN.

The city exists surrounded by a mountain range, creating kind of a bowl that is holding in toxic materials that emerged after the US-Israeli bombing of oil facilities.

Middle East war live: Israel expands attacks to Iranian oil storage facilities [FREE TO READ] Iran targets infrastructure in Bahrain and Kuwait as Middle East conflict enters ninth day

Our live blog on this shit show is up and running again. Just a mounting nightmare - as.ft.com/r/bbc5b47c-1...

Electioneering isn't what it used to be

'Watching Hegseth rant about limitless killing, I remembered anticolonial poet and leader Aimé Césaire. “The hour of the barbarian is at hand,” he wrote in 1950. “The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”'

I've had just about enough of this.

It's not up to me to prosecute the US 'fascism debate', but now that ICE has answered the "but there is no armed militia loyal to the leader" objection, Hegseth is now answering the "but there's no glorification of war for its own sake" objection.

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Soundtrack to Trump's apocalypse: no surprise the bass work absolutely sucks

TFW you're coming up hard in the Fabric queue

Hegseth: "We are only four days into this and the results have been incredible."

- Middle East engulfed in regional war
- 11 countries attacked by Iran
- Oil & gas prices skyrocketing
- Strait of Hormuz now a conflict zone
- Terrorism threat raised across the world
- No sign of Iran regime collapse

Rhetoric so evil I almost feel like I'm hallucinating.