Nothing Happening (Twice)

Another outpost of a failing internet brand. 

[thebrokenbottleboy]

A map of British media 'nepo babies'/connections.

There's a zoomable/downloadable PDF version here

[thebrokenbottleboy]

Peanuts as The Velvet Underground Les Inrockuptibles (1990) by Stephen Altobello & Bill Cawley

[tiktoks-we-like]

[gunsandfireandshit]

This is what I see when rich guys post overly dramatic videos of their statement piece cars

[thebrokenbottleboy]

Look at the spoiler on that.

[thebrokenbottleboy]

Just barely OK computer.

[thebrokenbottleboy]

I went through coverage of the teachers' strike and broke down just how much bullshit there is from broadcasters and newspapers alike, including the BBC

"That twist is followed by this chart:

You can’t teach a lesson without planning a lesson; without marking you can’t tell how students are responding to and learning from teaching; your school can’t have data on pupil performance or function as an organisation without management and admin; interacting with pupils and parents is also an intrinsic part of teaching. ‘Other’ likely includes things like assisting with extra-curricular activities and taking part in professional development. All the chart demonstrates is that The Daily Telegraph is either ignorant about what teachers do or playing at ignorance in service of its ideology (I lean heavily towards the latter)..."

Read the rest here.

[thebrokenbottleboy]

I think Corecore is basically just people doing passive Adam Curtis without necessarily knowing they're doing passive Adam Curtis (or Nam June Paik). I like it. But then... I'm a wizard of loneliness.

[thebrokenbottleboy]

"To have a paper owned by a hereditary tax avoider tell millions of people who work hard for diminishing rewards that they are indolent makes 'let them eat cake'. sound like the height of empathy. 

The Daily Mail front page is a spit in the face and a kick in the groin. You can expect the columnists to join in and the broadcasters to rush to have “the debate” about our laziness. They are taxing our intelligence and presuming our patience has an infinite overdraft.

I think Lord Rothermere, Rupert Murdoch and the rest are too confident in the height of their walls and the fierceness of their guard dogs..."

Read more:

Lord Rothermere in Marie Antoinette drag

[everydaylouie]

i say i say

[thejugheadparadox]

[thebrokenbottleboy]

What if Hieronymus Bosch's The Last Judgment but filled with many Nicholas Witchells.

Why? Read my latest newsletter which breaks down a single piece of BBC coverage about Prince Harry's memoir Spare.

[thebrokenbottleboy]

On strike coverage…

“The Sun styles itself “the people’s paper” but who are those people? They are not the people in unions. They are not nurses, beyond the Florence Nightmares of columnist imaginations, nor are they ambulance drivers, railways workers, or teachers. The Sun told its readers to clap for key workers at the height of the pandemic but it wants to jeer them now. The Sun exists to divide while pretending to unite a working class of its own patronising imagination, one that is whiter, tighter, and shiter than one that exists in reality. Whenever The Sun dissolves into raptures for the white van man, emphasis rests most on the first word.”

Read more here.

[depsidase]

[thebrokenbottleboy]

"Imagine if the dog from the “this is fine” meme was hired as a fire marshall — that’s IPSO. If it smells smoke, it comments on the lovely scent. It exists as a place to channel rage and dissipate it. You can complain to IPSO and feel that you’ve “done something” and the newspapers can be confident of experiencing no consequences..."

I've written about Jeremy Clarkson's non-apology and why the UK only has a pretend press regulator.

[thebrokenbottleboy]

"Being made 'royal correspondent' is not a promotion but a demotion; it is being condemned to act as an unholy melding of gossip columnist and stenographer, stuck in a dusty corner where real acts of journalism do not occur."

I've reviewed the reviews of 'Harry & Meghan' in the latest edition of my newsletter. Read more here.

[lombardoink]

Quote from Dan Sheehan

[never-obsolete]

Day of the Tentacle (1993)

[selinkamayer]

Throwback with the lovely Penelope Machine in NYC, 2014.

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I love @selinkamayer’s photography so much.