Adam Curtis retire, bitch

I’m on a train in rural Virginia, and absolutely loving the John Bunyan-ass place names around here

'Whenever all of this ends ⁠– whenever we find ourselves ready to survey what’s left of Gaza and its people and ask whether we could have done more to prevent the use of our weapons and our money in their destruction ⁠– what will we have to say for ourselves?'

put a fried egg on my croque monsieur to make it a croque madame and now jk rowling is outside my house yelling

England's answer to Theo Baker visits a university protest: archive.ph/vdhVG

Jerry Seinfeld not only offered unconditional support for Israel’s attacks on Gaza, his wife not only donated to create counter protests against ceasefire, but they visited illegal West Bank settlements for “fantasy camp” romanticizing killing Palestinians as a family adventure

This from Ross Douthat just isn’t true. The Iraq War, with a much higher body count than in Gaza so far, was very widely described by leftists as being unjust without being called a genocide. The war on Gaza is called genocidal because of its different—genocidal—character.

Nobody ever has anything on their 2024 bingo card

one time my US students said their favorite part of reading Orientalism was when Edward Said says he’s Palestinian because up until that point they thought the author was a racist white guy who was explaining how he was about to do Orientalism

There should be a Kevin Shields Station in the middle of Dublin where there is no schedule and you can basically never get a train from there, but once in a while you can, and they’re easily the greatest trains ever

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New paperback! Publishes 6/6

One thing I kind of love about social media is that when an important artist dies, there is this moment where their work sort of explodes through the system, almost like a biological process of some kind, like a release of spores. It’s especially true of musicians I think

Albini I can’t allow, sorry

Punk’s not dead