621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I wish we were in a world where Orwell's writing style could set agendas but with the ride of academia and now data, I can't see it doing much. Not that your criticisms here are wrong or anything 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Yeah ok. I know a lot about Lennon. Maybe not that much about Hicks 011
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My read is they were more grounded in values than Morrissey or whoever. theonion.com/heat-wave-do... 100
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Wouldn't have had you down as anti John Lennon. Or even Bill Hicks. Guess it shows bunched up the left is in the face of whatever is happening on the right 100
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just like Yoko. She's on Fox News right now in fact 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026He's probably their worst columnist. But the paper is weirdly truthful a lot of the time 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Does this mean Americans are aware that bangs can also be called a fringe? Let me just go and check if 2+2 still equals four 020
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The Trump one with the reporter was surely crafted like a sonnet 001
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans is definitive 0130
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026There are two points he makes here. One, the boomers got rich from the post WW2 boom. Two, that they did their own thing rather than follow the aesthetics the left elite were trying to impose on them. The lesson isn't that they clung to ill-gotten gains but that the riches should have continued. 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Equivalent of the press in Weimar not being defenders of democracy 010
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Isn't that publication basically just a zine in a punk record shop that barely anyone reads? Is it staffed by volunteers? 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Surely they're fake sales thehill.com/opinion/whit... 100
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026She's been that for a while. Something to do with this I think. thenightly.com.au/politics/aus... 010
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Well the OPEC embargo of 1973 plausibly lead to Thatcher and Reagan, which led to where we are now. And the embargo was in response to the Yom Kippur war 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Unfortunately many of these rely on quotation marks which were one of the first features I found that became unreliable 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 21/02/2026BTW your rec for Guy Williams NZ Today was top tier 100
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Is satire the best defence? Isn't it protected political speech? 260
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026At the bottom there's a link to an earlier article with the headline "Writers festival 'crazy' to invite Randa Abdel-Fattah, NSW premier says" so I read it a they're just confirming she will now attend. 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Also, I suspected it already from the young girl the narrator in Sentimental Education has a relationship with 110
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 07/02/2026He also knows about "the arcana of pederasty". I'm surprised one of his correspondents wasn't jeevacation@gmail.com 110
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 31/12/2025My mother did - but not military history, just politics and novels 010
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Since no one has said it. it's right once a dec-milenium 010
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Wait is that calendar year? I like a dumbass dunk as much as the next weirdo but— 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025It looks great, really. But it's the audiobooks that have me 010
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025He used to sign petitions to protect the speech of holocaust deniers. Said free speech the only good thing about US society etc. But now he's also ... another thing 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 09/11/2025In Flaubert's letters he sings the praises of pederasty. F that guy. 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025All of them? Were you up on a mezzanine or something 010
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Does a drill bit spin around? Yes technically but you can see why it would be considered a [redacted] 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Some good lines and a novel approach. But the problems! 1) Oskar Schindler rebuts her natural Nazis 2) The elitism - I only know those people from the media, not my social circle 3) Anti unionism - yet they fought fascists hard in gen. 4) P G Wodehouse a Mr A? He was a fascist. 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 11/09/2025? "The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, and the secrecy of the post and telephone" 010
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Sancho Panza had a memory so good he knew last year's clouds 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Isn't the military too big for Trump's purposes anyway? 000
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Kant and Rousseau should be way higher. Hobbes is okay-ish. Better than Rand for sure 010
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025What are you using? Duck duck go is still worse than enshittified Google unfortunately 100
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Pity it's tainted by him potentially being a domestic abuser 100
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 31/07/2025This sounds like devolution. Wouldn't it mean that a company can threaten to move to a different electorate? And the smaller the electorates, the easier for the company to influence the MP? 010
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Was Kubrick just trying to break the Epstein story (or something similar) two decades too early? 210
621msg.bsky.social @621msg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Opening sentences of new paragraphs that only have pronouns (no nouns or proper nouns) are horrible in non fiction. Worse are opening sentences of entirely new subchapters like this. 000
