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you're waking up before dawn and having breakfast right?

I've worked in a lot of offices where 100% of the staff are doing Ramadan. Basically nothing happens for the whole.month. People can maybe do a few hours in the morning but then nothing happens. No one gets anything done. Actually offices in Muslim countries close early at like 2pm during Ramadan.

he followed us into the popcorn queue and eventually security came over which was quite amazing because, i don't know how well this translates to the UK, i mean you are in NYC in the lower east side wearing a MAGA hat, you ar enot going to find much sympathy, and the security were this massive...

in the big corporate multistory cinema with massive chairs that lean back electronically last night there was a guy in a maga hat walking around trying to get in confrontations with people, i think it started coz someone gave him the finger and he followed them shouting at them. anyway obviously...

i don't have a better suggestion, someone else should make one up.

we need to do a preemptive strike just in case

I'm writing bars on my phone in a file called Mr Tea War Dub

this is a totally new configuration of power that is rapidly right now over the past month becoming the dominant force in the world I don’t think I’m exaggerating

yeah maybe. but surely you misdescribe it when you use a word that describes something from the 1930s. it’s new it needs new vocabulary. does the historical parallel get us any closer to understanding. or is it tied into internet debates where everyone uses it to de-normalize what’s going on now...

not the same as what you’re saying jungle/d&b have become folk music in the England. in the sense that it’s a long lived music accompanied by a set of practices and is country-specific and subset specific. in the summer where I’m from every now and then there’s a soundsysten set up in a pub...

who are you going to slaughter for eid?

it's a dramatic turn for the worse. probably most of us came up talking about neoliberalism talking shit about blair talking shit about thatcher. but this isn't part of all that.

the 'facism' thing is misleading i think. it's something else that's emerging. a new thing that we don't have a name for yet.

the closer they get to prose than poetry, the better they are

big fan of this one. the mumbling delivery and the mundanity. never heard another tune like it. first heard it on a bus from phoenix to appropriately los angeles

rip spaceape. this one i've been listening to for years, it's great. still feels a bit too poemy

slam poetry put to music. half the stuff i find sounds like this and it's not what i'm after

this has a more than a tinge of the midwest about it in every sense. this gets closer to the right way of speaking. storytelling works better for this kind of thing than anything abstract. musically it's too cheesy. but it's closer to what i'm looking for. there's a couple of bits where he...

kind of ok. some good moments. i don't know why even for something like this they speak so unnaturally