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Is it getting worse for the actual musicians yet, or just for the people that work there? Not that that's great either, obviously...

This is debatable at best, though. The big thing about HS2 was that it would have basically completely replaced the East Coast and West Coast mainlines for intercity services, which wouldn't just free up X number of slots per hour on those lines, it'd also mean that the local / stopping and...

I keep wondering whether part of the solution would be to essentially de-politicise infrastructure by handing off the specifics of the decision making to an independent public organization, kind of like the Bank of England. That way you at least remove a lot of the tendency to fuck around with...

Canning HS2 means that the trans-Pennine link is fucked too because it was meant to link in to a load of HS2 infrastructure. Also any future infrastructure projects are now going to cost even more as risk gets factored in because we've proved that our governments can't be trusted to actually...

True, the other way to interpret Tory policy is that they've always been fucking cunts. They do seem to have gone into overdrive in the last couple of months, though.

I think the only way to interpret Tory policy at this point is that they know that they're going to lose the next election and they want to leave as big a mess for Labour to clean up as they plausibly can.

I don't think there's a direct link between architectural style and niceness, though. Tentative hypothesis is that it's basically the perceived density of public-oriented activity that makes places feel welcome. Normal shops, coffee shops, pubs, markets etc feel positive. Traffic, car parks, big...

Moving to Sheffield has really made me think more about architecture and what (if any) subconscious impact it has on you. Cambridge is basically psychogeography on easy mode in that respect: it's mostly quite conventionally pretty and it's also very affluent, it's not that there aren't social...

I found out the other day that a friend of mine actually played this out as part of a set at the Iklectik Summer Party this year...

Is it that things like mod, punk, hippy etc implicitly require a lot more commitment of your fundamental values to really identify with them? Like, being a punk is meant to be an expression of who you essentially are and to admit that you could one day move on to something else is to lessen...

It's a level back from that, right? A fandom wants stuff that's specifically within the universe of the thing that they're into. Like you could write something that dovetails perfectly into the aesthetic of Warhammer 40K, but if it hasn't got the Emperor and Chaos Marines and Orks and Necrons...

Have we actually done a thread on the whole internet aesthetics thing - cottagecore, dark academia, cabincore, goblincore etc? I mean, those essentially _are_ attempts to produce overall aesthetic systems, but they seem to be doing it in a more self-conscious way - like, "what would be the most...

Returning briefly to people who (afaik) aren't nazi satanists / satanic nazis, everyone look at the Tove Jansson illustrations for the Hobbit / LotR! I love them as illustrations in their own right, I'm not sure whether they're sort of the wrong look for the source material or whether it's...

There's also an observation on the undeniable comedy genius of charging £50 for a cappuccino while offering free Turkish Tea, but that's drifting off topic.

There was a Vittles piece a while back pitching Salt Bae / Nusr-et as instigating the "Attitude Era of restaurants". The full thing is subscriber only but this is basically the crux:

"I'm shocked at the suggestion that we blew up the plane to kill Prigozhin. When we want to bump people off we do cool shit like sticking polonium in their tea, trying to pin this sort of amateur-hour stuff on us is frankly offensive."

Someone was pointing out on Twitter that it's kinda darkly funny how the conspiracy theories about this are all "he wasn't on the plane" or "he was already dead" - not even the normies believe that it was actually an accident...

There's been a lot of stuff coming out lately - from the sort of general grimness that often comes with heavily male-dominated spaces to specific instances of seriously nasty abuse having apparently been kept quiet by high-profile organizations. I mean, probably similar to many other spaces in...

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