Watched the video, he praised the novel and found it profoundly relatable despite being a straight male, which I think is the best part of reading fiction: you can experience a world outside your own and understand that in the end we’re all much alike.
a bus every 6-7 minutes is the entire secret of good transit. no schedule, no app, you just show up. the kids have been screaming the answer at us for over a year. six seveeen. headways. they're talking about headways
Just as a reminder, Egon Schiele did *not * actually paint 25 year old Art School grad bisexual women with BPD in 2013.
He *would have* but the problem was he had been dead for almost a century.
In 1917, Vladimir Lenin learned of revolution in Russia. He immediately left Lake Geneva and traveled to St. Petersburg by sealed train. This map traces his route.
I was listening (loudly) to Abba and like many, many years ago, I thought:
Why is Waterloo a synonym for defeat and not for victory?
And why did they make a song about Waterloo and not Stalingrad?
Like instead:
"Waterloo, knowing my fate is to be with you
Woah, woah, woah, woah, Waterloo, finally facing my Waterloo"
they could sing:
"Stalingrad, knowing my fate is to be with you
Woah, woah, woah, woah, Stalingrad, finally facing my Stalingrad."
year 2027 in Britain your phone detects that you have not voted sufficiently for Israel’s Eurovision entry, which is an AI-enhanced ballad by the handler of one of the IDF prison rape dogs, and administers a moderate electric shock
key thing to understanding this country is that Britpop was a From Hell style occult ritual to reconsecrate Britain to evil for yet another century and it’s going to culminate with Andy Burnham in Downing Street
Alright you can’t visit the emperor’s body in warhammer 40k unless you’re gonna have your soul drained out of you with a straw by him. Now if we could do the same thing for Lenin that would be sick
Do polling addicts deserve prison? It's very possible.
Polls are the reason for many social ills. Eventually will come the "Time of Cruel Awakening" when holy men wield hammers and bust into homes smashing poll aggregators and political analysts. Even Ann Selzer will be smashed.