HardToBeAGod

HardToBeAGod

@hardtobeagod.bsky.social

Art history theatre occulture 🇨🇦 London based manticore Mostly a writer, procrastinating.

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I came here. To express for no reason whatsoever just exactly how much I hate adults who buy things like Labubus. I would like to see them all spontaneously fall into the mouth of an active volcano. It’s a cretinous decadence that I have no time for and I don’t care if anybody disagrees with me

Today I saw a guy actually skateboarding in the sea. I didn’t know there was such a thing. Instead of wheels i t has fins. (Apparently it’s an electric 🏄 but it’s skateboard size). It freaked me out to see!

Helping disabled people who don’t ask for help? What is the protocol? I tried to help a guy on the bus and was told off. I don’t want to embarrass disabled people. Most people pretend they don’t see. What to do?

Ten writers by whom I’ve read than more than five books: Naguib Mahfouz Dostoyevsky CSLewis (Narnia, obv) Chas Dickens Laird Barron Atwood Bulgakov Silvia Moreno-Garcia Tracy Chevalier Muriel Spark

My 77 story - my partner was supposed to get up and take exactly the number 30 bus that got blown up, to a job that he’d been offered doing some kind of artist workshop and then the night before they cancelled with very short notice and not particularly apologetically and he was really angry

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So I called my partner who was still annoyed about missing out on the job and I said look we both escaped getting blown up especially you so you know we got to understand that we were really really lucky. And I have no forgiveness for and I have nothing but curses for the basterds that did it.

My 77 story - my partner was supposed to get up and take exactly the number 30 bus that got blown up, to a job that he’d been offered doing some kind of artist workshop and then the night before they cancelled with very short notice and not particularly apologetically and he was really angry

And then I was hanging out at home and my flatmate said hey did you see what’s on the news and I said no what but I have to get ready to go to work and they said you’re not going to work anytime today

I’ve just been to see an absolutely bizarre film which all I can say is it was a cross between the fabulous furry freak brothers and Samuel Beckett waiting for Godoy with maybe a bit of endgame as well. It was absolutely bizarre. It’s called Perfumed with Mint and I saw it at the ICA in London.

Every place I have ever worked, things tick along well and morale is high then management changes and the new manager has to restructure everything. I left my last job as I saw it coming and now it’s happening in my present job. The restructuring is always bogus and crappy.

I felt the group morale go through the floor today. Work is going to become depressing. I work in education which is perhaps the most hypocritical sector there is. Education management just doesn’t care about students nor teachers. I wonder if this new manager plans to redecorate their office

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Still true: *Britain is a success story *Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well *Multiculturalism is popular *Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration *Nostalgia is increasingly weird *Britain is incredibly safe *Levels of social cohesion are high Don't let them gaslight you.

Yes. It’s an absolute shitshow.

‘Most of the opprobrium aimed at universities is fantastical. I only wish that academic life was as radical and subversive as its detractors believe.’ Ed Kiely on the dismantling of Britain’s higher education sector: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#ai is not the problem, lazy gormless humans are. Friend just sent me a translation done for a big well known client. She’s a proofreader, they “translated” it with AI and sent her a mess of gobbledygook. None of the language characters were correct (it’s Turkish) rendering the words meaningless.

They did have a human supposed to be responsible but as with the Chicago Sun Times that human isn’t doing their job. Friend refused to correct it, sent it back Pathetic. Don’t blame the tool.

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To add to @jessemlocker.bsky.social's post, here's a lovely video about the restoration of the rediscovered "Susanna & the Elders" by Artemisia Gentileschi. Conservation videos are my go-to when I'm looking for a soothing watch youtu.be/luipgtA3u90?...

youtu.beA lost Artemisia Gentileschi painting rediscoveredYouTube video by Royal Collection Trust
Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social

Artemisia Gentileschi's "Susanna and the Elders," recently rediscovered and restored, on display at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh www.rct.uk/event/artemi...

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I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.

Its so obvious yet why do people like its not true?

Supertanskiii@supertanskiiii.bsky.social

The reality is, Britain economically benefits from immigration and illegal migration is too small to impact most. The communities that blame immigration for decline are actually suffering the effects of 15 yrs of Tory austerity, under-investment in public infrastructure and the reality of Brexit.

The contrast between the dignity of Swift and Springsteen , and the President, is vast.

lindsay berger sacks@lindsaybergersacks.bsky.social

Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This is why I’m afraid to see any fun feel-good live shows. I like shows that would put you off your popcorn.

Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social

I try to be chill about noise at Broadway shows because we are all human. But tonight at Purpose, which is amazing, it was just an endless parade of people eating popcorn and m&ms and crinkling bags endlessly and squeezing water bottles and phones going off. It was really terrible. Frustrating.

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I remember when Labour won and there was all that "finally the adults are in charge again" stuff. It's been a real surprise to learn they were the adults from the A Series of Unfortunate Events books, though

And now she is dead. I never want to see that guys face in public again. Filthy.

Gillian Martin@gillmartin.bsky.social

Virginia Giuffre/Roberts - sex trafficking & abuse victim, accuser of Prince Andrew of the British royal family - is dead at the age of 41,apparently by suicide. For her sake & for truth's sake, calls for release of the Epstein files should be repeated over & over again. #epsteinfiles #epstein