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Young people want to know whether they’ve perpetrated a sexual assault. A non-profit made a tool for them

A more ethically substantive expression of mutuality would require a (progressively revised) informal norm governed social context, which has all but disappeared — leaving only formal rules that bypass deep moral deliberation (Taylor’s ‘Strong Evaluation’). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Vibe Check, a free and anonymous automated alternative to AI and online forums, talks teens through consent, apologies and behavior change

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Consent is a legalistic not moral concept that sets the bar at a formal, verbal agreement. Moreover, it places the ‘gate-keeping’ onus on the woman (an ostensibly liberal concept into which reactionary assumptions are baked). To consent is to concede, to acquiesce, to grant access..

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This is to infer nothing of what those norms should be, nor that we should not be critical of them, but only to point out for example that no bureaucratic authority instructs us to queue, we just queue. Take sexual ‘consent’, which is taken to be synonymous with enthusiastic mutuality but is not..

Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 27/09/2026

One idea of more sophisticated conservative thinkers (if you want to call someone like Charles Taylor a conservative) that I have some time for is the more informal ethical norms are eroded in atomised market societies the more bureaucratic regulation & surveillance has to operate in its place.

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A joyful watch - 1979: The New Sound of Music with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Peter Zinovieff, David Vorhaus and Rick Wakeman and the techniques used to make this music youtu.be/dPonomCew5M?...

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1979: The New Sound of Music With Michael Rodd | BBC Archive

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 3h

Roger Sterling in Mad Men pouring himself a drink

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19h

Philip Seymour Hoffman in his dorm room at NYU in the 80’s.

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I would take a pay cut to not have an email address.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 3h

Probably the best produced album ever. Can’t think of another that tops it.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 3h

A masterpiece. ‘Seen and Not Seen’ is my favourite track — a spoken word poem satirising the vanity and insanity of western self-fashioning atop a gorgeous shimmering soundscape.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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“Is it propaganda to acknowledge an atrocity, to grieve its victims, even if there are also other atrocities worthy of our attention? Is that a bar we set for other massacres? For, whatever came after it, this *was* a massacre.” www.newstatesman.com/culture/2026...

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Cy Twombly @cytwombly.bsky.social · 3h

Wilder Shores of Love www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/wilder

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“One paradox of our time is that whilst the educational attainment of the population has increased, there has been a decline in public intellectual standards”

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 17h

Love to see this but man the Story of the Walkman was an Open University textbook written towards the end of Stuart’s 18 year tenure there. He taught 10000s of OU students & that seems kind of airbrushed out of his legacy www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Rembrandt @rembrandtrijn.bsky.social · 3h

Samson And Delilah www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt/samson…

This artwork, often attributed to Rembrandt, depicts the dramatic biblical scene of Samson and Delilah, capturing the moment when Delilah deceitfully cuts Samson's hair, robbing him of his strength. The use of chiaroscuro highlights the tension and emotion in the characters, a hallmark of Rembrandt's masterful use of light and shadow.

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 3h

I dunno....maybe because anyone not fitting the perfect family model were demonised for years? This is from 1998.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 3h

I kinda agree with him just on the dating tbh. 😀 If you’re like me the level of mind-reading and unspoken rule negotiation required is the equivalent of an Everest ascent. I’ve accepted that I am incapable of dating, in the same way a paraplegic is incapable of walking.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 4h

Went to see a Kevin Bridges gig recently in which he related a similar experience of meeting a Texan when on holiday in the US who was convinced Birmingham was under Sharia Law.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 4h

I remember once, in New York, a fella in a bar told me that the bit of London I live in was under Sharia Law. I assured him he had been misinformed but the small detail of my actual lived experience was no match for his faith in Fox News. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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‘I feel perfectly safe’: white Lutonians on the town’s supposed no-go zones

Little if any sign Bury Park is a place where any group might fear to tread, despite Tory MP’s comments to the contrary

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gloria Swanson publicity for Don’t Change Your Husband (1919).

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 4h

Songs I’ve been repeat playing lately: Diddley Daddy - Bo Diddley Colony - Joy Division Raver - Burial Sex Drive - The Embarrassment Twelve Great Minds - Florence Dore Jack & Diane - John Mellencamp New Age Trojan Horse - Blondeshell Triad - The Byrds #MusicSky

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 14h

Poster for Bobbed Hair (1922), starring Wanda Hawley.

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 14h

Edgar Degas, Study of a Ballet Dancer (recto); Two Studies of Dancers (verso), ca. 1873 #metmuseum #edgardegas

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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 14h

Deeply, fundamentally unserious people.

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 18h

Milf M Milfs United States, Census, 1950

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Flight hijacked, forced landing at Luton, but managed to escape.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 5h

In other words, there is the danger of a class interest in people being sick. Or you might be a ‘Homelessness Support Officer.” Great. Not saying that’s a bad thing. But if there are no homeless people you no longer have a job. This is a problem.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t doubt that there are lots of such caring people. But there is a danger of parasitism. There’s no doubt that if everyone was housed and had secure meaningful employment mental distress would be much reduced, yes? That could mean as a MH expert you are out of a job…

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 5h

..was bloody awful; loads of people dying from horrendous diseases. But it’s pretty hard to imagine an OCD germaphobe serf compulsively washing their hands, to whom an analyst could say “Zis neurotic compulsion is an unconscious manifestation of your repressed unconscious fears of sex and death.”

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I’m not saying they shouldn’t have access to mental health treatment of course. The danger as I say is purely viewing the person as the problem to the exclusion of addressing what is seriously exacerbating or even causing their distress (the economic context)

In a way, psychoanalysis has always been a thing of bourgeois modernity. Hard to imagine a neurotic in the modern sense medieval peasant. They would have grown up seeing dead bodies, urinating and defecating publicly, their parents having sex feet away. And it’s good all that is gone because it..

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We can all too easily get to say “you’re not struggling to get a job because there are aren’t any good jobs but because you have a psychological or neurological disorder.”

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Of course, I’m just saying that we can feel we are doing something good by diagnosing them with conditions while not addressing their material deprivations rooted in political economy…

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Absolutely, and I’m obviously not opposed to that. But it can be gotten back to front. That is, the diagnosis can be used to explain a suffering which has a material cause. Instead of relieving suffering by housing people, we can diagnose them as mentally ill, making therapists rich.

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Surely true, but in general to access therapy one needs money. Plus, when you don’t have shelter or enough to eat a neurodevelopmental or mental health diagnosis will probably not be a priority.

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Once, under social democracy, the homeless man could rise up to become virtually middle-class. Now he can’t, and now the Zoomer / Alpha graduate can no longer see a route to the middle-class security her parents and grandparents enjoyed, haunted by the fear she might one day slide down to join him.

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One could cynically say typical TikTok Zoomer girl with Complex PTSD, ADHD and autism is not suffering like the man I’ve just had to give £10 to get home. But maybe she is still genuinely suffering, her place in the world and path into meaningful adulthood no longer assured..4/

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 7h

The lower rungs of the PMC (Professional Managerial Class) are being precariatised, even semi-proletarianised. For many culturally middle-class young people a degree is no longer an initiatory route into a life cycle of career development and home ownership underwritten by the social contract..3/

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There is definitely something to this, which goes right back to the neurasthenic rich of the 19th century. But I feel she maybe overstates the case to the point of denying a very real bourgeois angst at a moment when middle-class status is precarious and downward mobility an ever-present fear..2/

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 7h

It’s a great piece. I’ve been engaging with Catherine Liu’s critique of hyper-diagnosticism as bourgeois (basically middle-class people launder their individual trauma as an identity to be managed via costly therapy while systemic working-class exploitation is obscured)…1/

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 7h

What I’m saying is ‘the person themselves’ is becoming less a concern of mental health practitioners as liberal humanism fades from the social sciences. Neurology is replacing psychology, ‘wellbeing’ happiness.