Dave Andress
@davidandress
Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Cf., and note, presented as a LOL... economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/pa...
Elon Musk wants to take some kind of weird genetic elite to Mars, while the rest of us are kept off his ships at gunpoint...
Since our uni "updated" to MS 365, we get spam like this, which is a) absolutely structurally indistinguishable from someone someone might actually send out on the system, and b) apparently completely impossible for state-of-the-art spam filters to recognise... Gmail did not do this...
Louis XVI had himself sculpted greeting Ben Franklin in a suit of armour...
Like, guys, this is my “How To Do History” shelf, and I haven’t even been keeping up with new stuff for over a decade…
Actual flowerbeds: “Gasp, gasp, swoon, argh…” A crack between two paving slabs: this…
Like, 80%-opposed unpopular... migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
Some might say this is another way of saying "additional layer of unelected bureaucrats"...
And if you're a council-house tenant, the man who buys multiple houses with cash is your man...
The poorer you are, the more likely you are to vote for multi-millionaire grifter Nigel Farage...
Meanwhile, amongst men, the bastards, REFUK have an 11-pt lead over any other party . [With women they're tied for 1st place with the Tories on 21%, which ain't great either].
This chart is staggeringly grim. The old are determined to ruin the world the young are being forced to grow up in. A substantial majority of all over-60s would vote for parties that are objectively reactionary. yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
Love the bit where "transgender" is defined as "transsexual". Such clarity, much logic. www.gov.uk/government/p...
He actually says, out loud, "a full trans inclusive ban on conversion practices", when the wording of the legislation, in black & white, exempts any "medical" practitioner from the said "ban".
"Why not reduce your future state pension even further by being forced to draw on it instead of receiving unemployment benefits?" Why don't you go fuck yourself, Tony Blair Institute?
Home Office press-release announces policy that isn't in the legislation...
Google AI develops a summary of the book which is... not wrong... but is different every time you reload it... There's a metaphor there...
Straightening, tidying, etc, is the primary meaning of "dress" as a verb... www.etymonline.com/word/dress As to what particular elements of hairdressing applied in any particular period, that would be down to historians of fashion? This is no doubt very carefully dressed hair...
I return, over & over, to Orwell's argument that, if people are sold politics in purely material terms, they may well choose their own prosperity over justice, even while calling themselves socialists... orwell.ru/library/arti...
Such absolute SHITE from Labour. STILL less than half of 18-yr-olds go to university. STILL a majority don't. STILL the politicians want to blame universities for... something...
Jesus Fucking Christ they won’t shut up. “Just cut a hole in the wall”. We don’t all live in matchboxes.
The answer is a despatch from another moral world, when in 2017 Wes Streeting - yes - could praise Ed on Twitter for his dialogue with actual trans people…
North Walsham church: a terrible cautionary tale of the perils of over-enthusiastic bell-ringing…
Absolute TOP ad targeting on the Guardian front page. (NB I am currently staying about 3 miles from the small Norfolk town named…)