Category: General
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two abysses in a staring contest
The title of this post is how I described my experience of one of this week’s Internet Discourses to a friend of the show. I was not referring to the the Gaza discourse, as Sam Kriss is doing in the piece I’m about to excerpt from. But I might as well have been. You people…
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more fool me
The first day of April is traditionally a day to totally avoid the internet, at least in this household, so it feels weird to be writing something on my own blog on that date. But the only fool here is me—and that’s always been the case, I suppose, but particularly so at the moment. In…
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merciful release: navel-gaze blogday blahblahblah
Happy blogday to me! I have owned and written stuff on this domain since 14th March 2006. Eighteen years! It seems quite astonishing to me, that stretch of time. This will come as not surprise to regular readers, of course, who will be accustomed to me writing “it feels like an eternity, and yet like…
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08MAR24 / dockside, springtime
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fyra år i Malmö
I rolled into this town four years ago today. This is a rather less notable or triumphant anniversary than that of Cory Doctorow’s establishment of Pluralistic, which was four years ago yesterday—but I dare say he too ends up saying to people “you know, the week when the Covid pandemic really became a thing?”, or…