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  1. shakahislop

    getting pounded

    some tunes do this deliberately. do you like it? i don't. someone must like it
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    Train Stations

    what do we have to say about train stations?
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    things you've noticed on your social media feeds

    so that we can compare notes about what the cloud machines are doing to us my linkedin has recently started feeding me para after para of negativity about the jobs market and how hard it is to get a job and so on. it never used to show me anything like that and now it's this relentless...
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    the festival crowd

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    the normie DJ

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    the sound of bands playing

    weird isn't it how at some point you get to a point where it's the last thing you want to hear, all the lads in a studio, limited by their instruments, it sounds as ancient as elvis by this point a kind of thing of the past
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    in another life i'm in a polycule in spokane

    i'm riding around on my bike and going to dive bars
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    Restaurants

    Good or shit do you think
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    VERSION'S FAVOURITE TEN SECOND BITS OF ORTECKKER

    post the orteckker moments that made version fall in love i think this is in his top three "
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    austerity tunes

    uk music has been shite for a while now and the timing corresponds almost exactly to the tory gov. there hasn't been a dry spell as long as this one. contrary to everyone else i think that's a uk-specific thing. there's a load of confounding factors that we go on about on here all the time ie...
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    Decolonisation

    people on the internet keep going on about it. is this something that we need to worry about. will the resident nazis shit up this thread if we try to talk about it. in the international humanitarian business from what i can see basically no-one actually doing it seems to mention the idea or be...
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    B R I G H T O N

    used to loom large now doesn't loom at all. what happened? in the mid-00s people were always on about it. fatboy slim. big beach boutique. you could meet australians there. going to clubs on the beach. moving out of london going down to brighton
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    the world of our forefathers

    one retromanic cultural thread that's been on my mind, submitted to the public intellectuals of dissensus for a sanity check. saw mirror last night. running through all kinds of discussions in the public realm now is the idea that things used to be better. it's in every new york discussion (if...
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    KICKING WILLIAM KENT IN THE GROIN A THOUSAND TIMES

    Could you do it? What would be your strategy?
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    reels AKA the shittorrent

    is anyone else dealing with this at the moment? obviously i'm not on tiktok but i do have a facebook and i have an insta. they've changed things up over the last i don't know six months or whatever and now without really trying every time i go on them they push shortform video at me. its all...
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    A F R I C A

    I'm in kinshasa for my work doing psyops and I'm going to write about it here, and we can have the thread to talk about Africa as well. europe and america (ie us) have at this point a mostly imaginary relationship with africa I think. almost no one ever goes there unless you've got roots there...
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    the STEM elite

    spent a night in a brewery in long island city with a load of of Americans with with PhDs in chemistry and that kind of thing. it's been a recurring theme in my life that I'm around people in this kind of work and as I get older these are the people with the most money and the most comfortable...
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    Lana

    this week we are going to keep reducing the IQ of dissensus. i want to talk about lana del rey. i am going to start by saying that she is the inheritor of the artistic and cultural space that kanye created.
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    CRANER CAN I PHOTOGRAPH YOU NAKED FOR AN ART PROJECT PLEASE

    i'm
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