How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world - Carole Cadwalladr
This should be shared far and wide.
I bought one of those cheap Kodak Ektar H35 half frame cameras. It’s years since I did any sort of analog photography. I’m under no illusions about the quality of the camera but I’m looking forward to see what sort of images it can produce.
It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become a time of people saying stuff to each other and none of it actually ever becoming dialogue. It is the end of dialogue.
From Autumn by Ali Smith.
Started to read: Mayday by Jackie Kay. I don’t read a lot of poetry but the blurb on the back cover struck a few emotional chords. 📚
Read: Nobody’s Empire by Stuart Murdoch. Very enjoyable debut by the Belle and Sebastian singer/songwriter. Obviously very autobiographical. Recommended to any fans of the band. 📚
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I don’t usually like the food outlets at big shopping malls but this one place does a great calzone. I’ve had this before and couldn’t finish it but today it was all gone.
Like so many of the tech titans, Mark really does offer an end-to-end service: they make the world worse, then they claim to be leading the escape.
Big Big Train - Last Eleven. One of the highlight songs, amongst many, from Saturday’s show in Edinburgh. I love this band. The combination of music and lyrics here never fails to move me. 🎵
Reading: Neu Klang - The Definitive History Of Krautrock by Christoph Dallach. I really like the oral history style of books like this. You get a better picture of what happened with all of the different memories and viewpoints. 📚