Bear in mind who else you hear this language coming from.

The reduction of local elections to a kind of mid-term evaluation of national government is itself a pretty stark symptom of the hollowing out of local democracy in this country.

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

A difficult time to be one of the people who knows that St. Augustine is Bad, Actually but not for the reasons the most prominent person who thinks he is bad thinks he is bad.

anyway I feel like we've driven around this particular block looking for suckers enough times to know it doesn't go anywhere good.

like most slang, Mogging and Maxxing are, as terms, in an early ironic phase of usage which will no doubt sediment into a more direct sincerity and eventual cringe as they fade from use.

The thing is I'm not even sure he's 'popular' in the way Tate is (was). Only a small subcultural fragment of people seem to think he is cool, I think the rest of the internet treats him either as a strange fascination or an outright 'lolcow'. (Which is to say we haven't learned a lot of lessons)

Not right now, Boards of Canada

a man in a suit and tie says " serious people " Alt: Logan Roy in a suit and tie says " you are not serious people "

You're asking everyone to internalize the threat of a horrific mass disabling event that would invariably tank the economy, and at the same time cutting support for people with disabilities or who may be unemployed.

Can't stress enough how much cutting the welfare bill to pay for armament a) puts tax money directly into the pockets of private arms suppliers of dubious allegiance b) erodes public morale in defending the country. It undermines any real or practical national defence.

I have...many questions.

And, for the love of god, try to understand that if we take the money we should be spending on climate mitigation, and spend it on weapons, then we are guaranteeing the extinction of the "national way of life" we declare ourselves ready to die to protect.

Matrix Podcast: Julien Migozzi: "Algorithms of Distinction: Class, Credit Scores, and Property in South Africa" Recorded on March 18, 2026, this podcast features a lecture by Julien Migozzi, an economic geographer and Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. Dr Migozzi’s…

South Africa’s digitized housing market entrenches apartheid’s racial inequalities under the guise of neutrality. This conversation examines how credit scores now gatekeep access to homeownership with “color-blind” algorithms.

With @jmigozzi.bsky.social

Wonder if there's a 17th century lad Sidling up to Republicans like "Psst. Kid. Hast thou heard of the fifth monarchy?"

“Losing one glove is certainly painful,
but nothing compared to the pain,
of losing one, throwing away the other,
and finding the first one again.”

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

in the UK 20 years ago one could make the case in terms of individual standards of living and housing that the market would sort it out, a rising tide lifts all boats, etc. etc. Today a politician who says policies on the left 'won't work' should explain their solution to a problem.

A central Labour problem: A case can be made that RCs are incompatible with the PRS. But that implies a next step: offer an alternative or confront commodification in a meaningful way. They struggle to do that, so their politics reduce to giving up hope on housing. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

how it's going

Speak for yourselves

Ah, well, nevertheless...

Frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan but with a view of a naked man, viewed from behind, in place of the sovereign

I wrote up some thoughts on a question I've been thinking about lately: was Hobbes gay? itself.blog/2026/04/07/w...

Again, Simply Massive Byzantine Empire in the 600s Vibes. How could this possibly not go wrong?

If the tweet isn't using the Oxford Comma, then you only know it's British: When the unstoppable force of misinformation meets the immovable object of perfidy, which shall you choose?

Joseph de la Vega - Wikipedia

TIL the first written description of the operations of a modern Stock Market was by a Sephardic scholar whose family were conversos from Córdoba, and he had studied Averroes so named his work in homage to the Incoherence of the Incoherence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...

Me, arriving in Van Diemens Land after a poaching mishap: Glad there's no one I care about here, it'd be pretty bad for them I guess.

Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution by Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston NEW IN Colonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history and contemporary politics across the island of Ireland. In this exhaustive analysis, England s oldest colony is considered in the co...

UK/US ppl looking for a start on Ireland: best book I've read so far from a radical left republican perspective remains this. You'll need a little background first tho. www.connollybooks.net/customurl.as...

Followers? My impression here is that this varies (outside of loyalist circles) on the political (FF/FG/SF/other) alignments of the historian but mostly hinges on whether bad, competent, did genocide, or bad, less competent, didn't do genocide? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp7Z...

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead.

Me: Can it talk to my printer yet?

They: haha no

You can go back to 'The Closing of the American Mind' for takes like this and probably further. It's an old old angle and the marks fall for it because they want to.