Goodbye to Cormac McCarthy, a fucking real one. Some of the final pages of The Passenger: “Travel light. A few ideas are enough. Every remedy for loneliness only postpones it. And that day is coming in which there will be no remedy at all. I wish you calm waters, Squire.”

Noam Chomsky is one of the most important and ground-breaking intellectuals of the last century. His insights have enabled millions of people to better understand the oligarchic world in which we live. Jane and I wish Noam a strong recovery from his current health setbacks.

Dostoevsky understood people so well, it's ridiculous:

14 facts for 14 years.

Sylvia Plath, yeah

If you wrote this in Guardian U.K. you would never write another word for them again

I've been quiet on here because my life has been turned upside down. My daughter Zoe is in prison 💔 She's being treated like a terrorist for taking action against an Israeli arms firm Read the petition or this 🧵 1/ Bit.ly/Filton10Petiti…

Please stop acting surprised. A right-wing populist being elected when the people of a country are barely living paycheck to paycheck is, historically speaking, the most predictable thing that could have happened.

Lots of lenses through which to view the election result, but this is the one which I think best explains the popular vote loss.

The torturer of Algerians who founded a party with Nazi collaborators, was convicted for Holocaust denial and welcomed the spread of ebola across Africa as a solution to Europe's 'immigration problem' - "divisive and difficult"!

Rest in peace, David Lynch ♥️ (January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025)

I will miss him

Green Paper: "Behind every one of these numbers is someone whose potential isn’t realised, whose ambitions aren’t fulfilled." → This infantilises disabled people by assuming that we are are all “unfulfilled” and “wasting their potential” if we are not working.

Maybe the greatest disgrace of the neoliberal “free trade” revolution was introducing large scale human slavery back into our supply chains (cobalt, cocoa, shrimp etc). What finally upends this wretched consensus? A genuine and widespread belief that the slaves are ripping us off

Unless security concerns require otherwise, all prison cells should meet this standard. People need a sense of normality if they’re going to successfully reintegrate into society.

Watch what’s happening: money meant for talking therapies would be siphoned off to fund 10,000 DWP employment coaches—while PIP cuts mean many couldn’t afford the psychotherapy they now need because of the NHS collapse. In effect: no therapy, only neoliberal behavioural shaping.

One of the main takeaways from the new Adam Curtis is that, in the late 80’s and early 90’s, the BBC was paying twenty of the best camera operators in the world to go out every day and record everything

“…all horrors are dulled by routine.” (Bolaño, By Night in Chile)

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Another example of encroaching Americanisation: bathing criminal defendants with certain socio-demographic characteristics in the warm glow of right wing media spin in order to turn them into mythologised right-wing folk heroes. Kyle Rittenhousisation.