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Recently I went into hospital for a routine endoscopy, allegedly. I’ve had it done before, so this time I knew what to expect, but the first time was before I’d ever heard of “twilight anaesthesia.” For those who are as unfamiliar with hospital knockout drugs as I was,
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As government embraced the internet as a tool for messaging to its citizens it was only a matter of time before it was infected by a particular kind of cultural rot. Governments and politicians, just like brands, hire savvy young professional influencers to run their social media profiles, and with
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One of the biggest problems with trying to build a career in something creative in a capitalist world is that the tools and platforms you need to use to achieve your goals are all adversarial to those goals. When some service or company insists that their success depends on your
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Last week I saw journalist Matt Taibbi launch himself face-first into the most embarrassingly incorrect and state-sycophantic take I’ve ever seen from him, and it inspired me to pick up a book that had been sitting in a pile next to me for a while now. It was on
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It was bound to happen eventually: The Trump administration have painted themselves into a corner, having gotten elected partially on the promise that the government is in possession of the list of elite pedophiles who the conspiracy cookers all believe control the world. Now the cookers kind of want them
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Can we all agree finally that we will never, ever see such a thing as an “Epstein List?” I phrase it like that because, if it ever did exist, we can say with close to one hundred percent certainty that it has been destroyed. If, the theory goes, that Trump
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Gore, gamers, and goons - early internet geek humor from shock sites to Seanbaby
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A recurring thought that has occurred to me so many times over the past six months about events happening in the USA is just how incredibly American this fascism is. And you know it makes perfect sense that these guys aren’t wearing Hugo Boss. Back in February Ronke Babajide
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If you’d asked me at two particular phases of my life, and my maturity, what my favorite book was, I would have told you either Life of Pi or American Psycho. You might think that’s a hell of a swing in literary taste, but then again, both books
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Deep in conspiracy culture they have this theory about something they call Project Blue Beam. It was proposed by a Canadian conspiracy theorist named Serge Monast back in the 90s, and the general thrust of it is that the shadowy They who exist as the antagonists of all conspiracy theories
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When Twitter was hijacked by a wealthy ideologue back in 2022 to amplify far-right voices and serve as a recruitment tool for the MAGA movement, the market did what the market tends to do and spat out a dozen alternatives for those who weren’t happy with the situation to
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Part of the genesis of this week’s piece came from getting briefly and unfairly chewed out by a prominent jazz historian, which isn’t something most people can say every day. And while this is probably the most important individual who’s ever had a go at me (Freddie