Samuel Jole Atkinson

"To ourselves... new paganism... omphalos"

[Samuel Jole Atkinson @SamAtkinson_IOM]

@WillSloanEsq congrats!!

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

Anyone else finding it a bit odd to say the least that Burnham comes from literally nowhere, is quickly engineered into position and there is hardly any oppositional response or comment about this very weird state of affairs from politicians or media.

[Nicholas Guyatt @NicholasGuyatt]

Reminded again this morning of the astonishingly easy ride Starmer received from much of the media in the run-up to the 2024 election - a mediocre and mendacious politician who didn't even last two years in power, let alone a decade

[Ansell Eade @AnsellEade]

Andy Burnham thought he could take over the state, using its power “for us”.

But the ruling class had let him into office.

To win their support and to be allowed to run their state, he had to accept their power and their rules.

All of the things which had doomed Keir Starmer.

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

starmer co-signed war crimes, gave military assistance to a genocidal state, rolled back trans rights, let palantir into nhs, kept hundreds of thousands of kids in poverty, slashed welfare, rolled back rights, courted tech barons etc but you can’t understand the hatred of him?

[Faiza Shaheen @faizashaheen]

Yes, expect a rewrite of history over the next few weeks…
Starmer’s regime stripped the soul out of the Labour Party. From authoritarianism and enabling genocide to pro-rich anti-working class policies, his downfall was entirely self-inflicted and deserved.
The thing is, some of his enablers and supporters will still hold senior positions under Burnham. And they assume we will forget.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

They'll call him a "decent man." He is not.

He oversaw one of the most aggressive assaults on British civil liberties in generations, all to protect Israel's genocide and Britain's participation in the crime of all crimes.

He shouldn't be resigning. He should be in The Hague

[Sean Biggerstaff @Seanchuckle]

Few things in British politics are more dependable than Tories hating the predictable consequences of Toryism.

[respawnedtargaryen @respawnedtarga1]

It went from “porn” to everything like we all predicted

[sam. @suddenxfear]

queer cinema as we know it today would not be the same without the gay pornography that emerged during the 70s and 80s. more people should explore this particular period. the work of someone like arthur j. bressan jr. was groundbreaking and inspiring.

[Jorge of the Wired @saturnine_grace]

I actually think there's something a little "introverted" about clubbing ironically, because it has a central physical activity rather than just sitting around talking, which is why it's more important for the autistic/introspective Germans than for the French or Italians

[Ella Dorn 唐棠 @elladorn_]

I talked about this in my essay re the Glossier Intellectual & think Katherine Dee has too. But Gen Z is v focused on debris, archives, sorting through prev. decades of cultural (over)production, with a view to preserving lost vibes & zeitgeists. This is finally visible in cinema

[lev (sumer is icumen in) @abookofsymbols]

i’m not. like other girls, i enjoy really abrasive instruments but not cool ones that are chic and avant garde but moreso ones that are kinda dumb. such as bagpipes, accordions, banjos etc.

[ℜ𝔞𝔢 @dystopiangf]

You need to get into the habit of quite literally rebuking certain words. Language is the most weakly defended entry point to the mind/soul; it isn’t grounded in reality like our senses. There are phrases that were designed to have power over you upon hearing them; rebuke them!

[BoiltOwl @nealjclark1]

You know that culture is dead because no one successfully reckons with phones in film and literature. It’s like having westerns without the railroad. Phones and phone culture should be what 90% of movies and books are about.

[Michael Haneke Paneke @davo_arid]

My takeaway is a negative one: this tells me that Movies will soon learn the lesson of Music: they will no longer spend the time/money to DEVELOP new stars…they’ll shift that labor over to the creatives themselves, & only fund artists who’ve ALREADY created their own fanbases.

[benjijijijiji 🇵🇸☭ @benjimadness]

A Hard Day's Night is still from the future. That's high modernism. That's the shape of all to come. That's the New Sound for New Heads. You won't get beyond A Hard Day's Night. It's all electric all the time

[Leprechaun in the Hood for Love @ShawtyBrothers]

I need horror movies to get more imaginative. They’re mostly still about curses, demons, and topics you talk to a therapist about. They used to be about an interdimensional old man with flying metal killer balls and dwarf slaves.

[Samuel Jole Atkinson @SamAtkinson_IOM]

@gerrikellmans u ok