Creature from the Jack Lagoon

Resurrecting my band tees thread which is now consigned to dust on my old account. Starting with the new ones I picked up at London Desertfest this weekend. Band of the weekend, band of the year so far, and always have amazing artwork thanks to @slipperyjack.bsky.social

I may have shared this you before. Fucking infuriating.

This is genuinely horrible to look at, I think it's going to be a slog to get through. A lot of early 2000s stuff hasn't aged well visually, but I can't remember the last time I saw one quite this ugly.

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

Second headline act announced is Russian Circles. That's one I can safely ignore, they were bollocks last time they were there lol

This was pretty horrible. Felt like it hadn't been rehearsed, the script and acting was terrible. If you want to watch something about Dennis Nilsen, the David Tennant one is miles better.

Completely off the Guardian and BBC news front pages. And, yeah, other news has happened, sure. But, again, I invite the reader to consider what sort of news would be bumped off the top spot if this had been, say, Seamus Milne working with the IRA.

China’s first AI-generated theatrical film, ‘Sanxingdui: Future Past’, has bombed at their domestic box office, only making $121,000 USD against a budget of $1.5M USD. In contrast, the crudely animated ‘Niu Lai’ made nearly $10M USD against a budget of $200-500 USD.

I did enjoy it a bit more this time, without fully loving it. Definitely worth slightly bumping up my previous score of 3 to a 3.5 out of 5. It's a bit derivative and predictable story-wise, but the cast are mostly very good (Charlie Hunnam aside) and it looks gorgeous.

Almost like having a spine and working with rather than throwing marginalized communities under the bus is a winning strategy and always has been...

Centrists will still fall for it next time

This is indeed very silly but entertaining. Really good cast.

Seeing as I got tagged in the next post (and these are only my opinions): 1. We need people at all levels of organising to accept that antifascism inherently involves risk. Fascism is an ideology with violence built into it ideologically. Fascists will do violence, whether you choose it or not.

Very specifically, on this point, this means if you are part of SUTR and don't want to be part of a black bloc, discuss it with your comrades, but DON'T WRITE PUBLIC STATEMENTS ABOUT IT. Likewise, if you're a militant antifascist and think SUTR's tactics suck DON'T WRITE PUBLIC STATEMENTS ABOUT IT.

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

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Congratulations to everybody in Brazil and Serbia today who organised the respective campaigns for Lula and Student List. Western European/North American/Anglosphere communists/anarchists should look to theae movements as inspiration, and anyone saying these are not genuine victories is an idiot.

Don't worry, Labour are going to take care of it for you Jeremy

People in Belgrade celebrated following Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic speech conceding defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election that ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country. reut.rs/4zkXvww

[Dems strategy meeting for the next presidential election] "We need someone like Lula" "Or... Hear me out... We stick with Newsome, but strengthen his appeal to disillusioned Republicans by doing a podcast where he has brunch with George W Bush."

'Burnham insists he's every bit as racist as Starmer was'

This is real wallet-inspector stuff. The MoD asked *Palantir* to tell them how to buy tech. And Palantir, which has done very well out of non-competitive procurement, said: ‘yes, more of that please’.

And This is exactly why Burnham will fail- he does not want to confront these people. HeMs terrified of them, and he thinks he can accommodate them. He’s deeply, deeply wrong.

Do people who hate kids know that you can just choose to not have them?

Enjoyed this one a lot more than I was expected. A really good emotional core, strong performances and a solid story.