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  1. william_kent

    Cringe sublime

    one of the "mud people" ( as the eastern bloc staff referred to residents of the Hulme crescents, Manchester, UK ) had a friend who visited and everyone derided because they were so obsessed by THE UK SUBS - they had every record in every configuration and as ANARCHO PUNK NEW AGE TRAVELLERS...
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    The Great North Dissensus Pub Session

    I'm afraid to say that this event was interrupted by 4D machine elves who spirited my pouch of tobacco away into another dimension after shifting furniture and patting pockets we made haste to the legendary P3 where they announced "we don't serve rum!" I had to make do with shots of double...
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    Train Stations

    I have to admit I was getting "mixed messages" from this Taiwanese train station:
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    Train Stations

    Taiwanese train stations are the best! see those little lights embedded in the platform? they turn RED when a train is approaching the platform! and this Taiwanese subway station had full on acid visuals on the half hour every hour:
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    what are you reading now?

    my mum told me it was his son, who am I to blame if she is confused, she is past a "certain age" I like the first Jack Reacher film, starring Tom Cruise as Reacher * just because the Mr Big villain who is terrorising the town happens to be: WERNER HERZOG - I laughed out loud * Lee Child...
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    Train Stations

    "Stations of Despair" Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at the end of Tokyo’s Chuo Rapid Line
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    The Elon Musk Thread

    Trump swaps out Resolute Desk in the Oval Office days after Elon Musk’s son X appeared to wipe booger on it
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    J. H. Prynne

    https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/front-obsidian-cobalt-j.h-prynne
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    J. H. Prynne

    new for 2025
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    Psychedelic Fascism

    "featuring a heated cigar terrace with cask-aged whiskies"
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    Alien (1979)

    years ago my parents went to a talk by Brian Wyvill, the guy who did some computer graphics for the original Alien film - he doesn't seem to have much respect for Ridley
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    what are you reading now?

    that Neal Stephenson one is the second volume of the Baroque Cycle - you'll probably have to read "Quicksilver" first for it to make any sense...
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    what are you reading now?

    My mother has all the Jack Reacher novels, including those written by Lee Child's son Was this the article you read? The majority of the people in that article who rate those books are ladies of a certain age - that's probably why you're not getting the appeal...you're not the target audience
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    Alien (1979)

    it wasn't only Giger who deserves credit for design on the original Alien film look at this keyboard ( designed by Simon Deering ) used to initiate the self destruct system: TRIP AGARIC FLY LINGHA YONI SHAKTI EXCESS PRANIC LIFT 777 I've copied these images from this...
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    Alien (1979)

    "Aliens" is all about the mother alien protecting her young
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    What are we like now?

    I haven't watched it yet but I assumed it would be the Christ on Shrooms stuff from the 1970s I suppose eating children is a bit more in line with 21st century thought
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    What are we like now?

    @sus here's ziz on "jailbreaking":
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    What are we like now?

    @sus This google drive has an archive of the ziz blog - the "glossary" page is full of their jargon, some of it derived from video games, some from fantasy fiction - "airlocking" ( for killing people ), "collapsing the timeline ( for killing people ), etc., here's some random sample: here's...
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    Unpopular opinions

    I'd sort of second that "IS THE WORLD AS SAD AS IT SEEMS?" although this is actually my favourite TG album Journey Through A Body
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    Unpopular opinions

    anyway, my unpopular opinion is that that Lee Perry Heart of the Congos album is not all that not even in my top 1000 rubbish album, 2 tunes are OK totally over rated
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