Wooferendum Black Bloc

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Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· 27d

I've got you covered - I'm thinking two per platoon

A picture of one of those portable tire inflators you find at gas stations

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· 29d

A box cover of the 1980s Dino Riders cartoon

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jul 11

A zoom in of the quoted @, showing his very bald head

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jul 5

Keir starmer standing like a weird robot in a school doorway while kids play inside

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jul 4

A close up of a pile of multi coloured lego bricks

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jul 4

I just need to know what book in the Unhinged section is gone already

A detail zoom in from the posted picture, showing a card saying "out of stock"

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jul 4

The weird goofy of the "and I'd do it again" meme

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jul 2

This is about as critical as it gets lol

From the FT article:

He denies engineering Gray’s downfall or being the “political brain” behind the famously unpolitical Starmer. “I certainly didn’t see myself as his brain,” he says. “I was an organiser trying to get him elected. He was my candidate.” When Gray left, the prime minister turned to McSweeney to replace her.

He says the “boys’ club” tag is disrespectful to the many senior women who worked in the building, adding: “It wasn’t a place where people shouted at each other. It was a place where people respected each other. I miss the camaraderie we had there.” Other former staffers in Number 10 have different recollections and speak of a depressed workplace

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jul 2

That is certainly one way to write that period in time and McSweeney's role, yes.

From the FT:

Corbyn unexpectedly won the Labour leadership in 2015 and stayed in charge until the party was trounced by Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in 2019. Labour by now was mired in allegations of entrenched antisemitism.

In the wake of that defeat — Labour’s heaviest for almost 100 years — McSweeney looked for someone who could save the party. He met Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions, a few times, and thought: “I could kind of trust him, if he became prime minister.”

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 30

"Muesli hour superstar" is maybe not the set of words I would use to describe Nick Ferrari ...

from the guardian article:

Then came morning television and other national radio news shows – first from the more informal 5 Live Breakfast and then the London-based LBC spreading UK-wide and finding a muesli hour superstar in Nick Ferrari.

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 29

Long day sleepy dog is a great place to be for dog

A picture of a brown mini poodle lying sideways on the sofa, fast asleep

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 29

A bubble, you say?

A graham by the ft showing a bigger boom in AI investment vs other mania like dotcom, the roaring 20s, and the railway mania

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 23

Politico headline:

Europe must choose between AI and Climate goals, data center lobby says

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 22

Incredible, and yet this is the foundation of a truly terrifying amount of line go up "growth"

From the mcsweeneys article:

2. Laura drives a taxi. Instead of charging her customers a fee for every ride, she charges them a $20/month subscription. Laura has 40 million paying customers, totaling roughly $13 billion in annual revenue. Laura spends $25 billion/year on gas. In a fit of late-capitalist bloodlust, hordes of tech and finance bros riot in the streets, firebombing every rideshare, bus, and pedicab they can find, declaring the transportation business officially “over.” Also, Laura’s taxi cost her $1 trillion to attain, and she’ll have to replace it in four to eight years.

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 21

How is this not some Andy Kaufman level bit of anti-podcasting?

Curtis Yarvin steps aboard the KC-3 to argue that Britain should exploit America’s imperial exhaustion to become the new leader of the West, starting with dismantling the cathedral of unaccountable bureaucrats that has replaced genuine sovereignty. It’s a path that runs through Oxbridge, extraterritorial Chinese Oakland, and possibly some Ayahuasca for Elon Musk.

Tom, Calum, and Curtis on:

* Why the Deliveroo economy is more dehumanizing than Victorian servitude - with social distance replacing the personal bonds that once connected masters and servants,

* How Elizabeth I’s delegation to the Cecils created Britain’s first “deep state” of Platonic guardians, leading directly to today’s unaccountable oligarchy of Sir Humphrey Applebys

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 21

None of this is real. This is some kind of anti podcast comedy. I am refusing the call to adventure.

Pod description from a recent "anglofuturism"

Submit to the British Cræft Prize. £60,000. Deadline: 31 August 2026. [link]

The episode explores:

* The boxer shorts to national prize pipeline, via Saint Pantalone

* Why Irish linen is grown in Flanders

* The 16 Dreams of Britain and whether they can coexist

* Calum’s objection: competing aesthetic universes cannot be synthesised by goodwill

* Kenneth Frampton’s critical regionalism and Paul Ricœur’s defining question

* Hiroki Azuma’s database animals and the collapse of the grand narrative

* The Magdalen College library debate: homage or imposition?

* Why the Anglofuturist typeface has borrowed from five traditions and still doesn’t have a full alphabet

* The Peter Thiel two-by-two and why definite pessimism has no joy

* Sprezzatura as the missing ingredient in British national renewal

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 21

I am so glad the whole "lets fix the burning planet" thing got shoved aside in favour of Europe-wide rearmament and the glorious benefits of the slop machine Meanwhile, at home:

A weather forecast for the next 7 days showing 34+ degree temperatures every day

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 21

"From the left and the right" *proceeds to make long list of right wing dangers and groups, absolutely nothing from the left*

FroDunne, who was announced as an unpaid government adviser on youth justice this week, said many young men were “falling through the cracks of society”, attracted to extremism from both the left and right, predominantly due to a lack of community and belonging they feel in their lives.

“They’re finding digital forms of belonging and there are people online who are exploiting that lack of community and providing community online. Which is why you have ‘incels’, which is why you have far-right nationalist groups and any other actors like that who create a space for belonging and identity that soothes the void young men feel in their lives,” he said.

Belfast was the latest flashpoint, after a video of a brutal knife attack in the north of the city was shared online. Hours later, demonstrations against the attack and immigration descended into public disorder and racially motivated violence, with people forced to leave their homes and cars set alight.

For Dunne, the attraction of young men to outbursts of violence is not a new phenomenon. He described the football hooliganism of the 1960s and postcode gang culture which he was surrounded by when he was younger. m the guardian article:

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 19

that's Ken Bone with a bad toupee

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 19

a picture of a scrawled note saying

Do you like me
[ ] yes [ ] no

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 15

Still teaching myself to groom the doggo at home, it's getting better but also he's not pleased with me rn

A before, fluffy shot of a brown mini poodle

An after, shorter haired, shot of a brown mini poodle

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 14

Stick is very important

A picture of my brown mini poodle gino holding a big stick in his mouth

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 13

Ok, hear me out: we get the whole population military ready by buying them bikes in camo colours. It's defense spending, preventative medicine, AND good for the climate Call me, Wes

A wwii picture of us soldiers riding bicycles on an airfield

Wooferendum Black Bloc@trufflehog· Jun 13

I see Mars has gone from "oh yeah we are all moving there real soon" to "the planet we might houseflip to the Alpha Centaurians for a quick spacebuck"