Tag: Shit
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The Age of Enshittenment – Israel vs Gaza
I mostly gave up on talking politics here…and anywhere, because it’s like shouting into a particularly disinterested (or sometimes scarily dangerous and stalky) void. No-one reads blogs anymore, anyway, grandpa? And trying to SEO the shit out of them is particularly depressing to hope a few scraps of audience escape the giant prisons of Facebook,…
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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How Do I Look?
Michael Henry does it again, prodding the gay psyche and revealing the nasties within with this haunting wordless video on bad self-image and body fascism in the scene. As people get ready to go out and socialist after the Great Gay Pause, this is a good reminder of what the bad mental self-image spirals look…
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No-one is coming for me
I haven’t been avoiding COVID-19 stuff, just what can you say? We lost a year of our lives to idiocy, mismanagement, a virus. This video from Caitlin Doughty aka Ask A Mortician sums up the desperation for parts of the world that are hardest hit and government doesn’t seem to care. Nowhere to be found.…
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How Do You Feel?
I am starting to dread this question ‘How are you?’ because I have two choices: lie and I feel like shit, or answer truthfully and I feel like shit. This video by Michael Henry sums up the dilemma and loneliness of lockdown, and that dilemma. This time of year always has these thorny issues of…
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This is how mindfulness should be
Let’s breathe slowly, meditate and drift away into calmer skies and all say: fuck that shit.