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there's loads of times that you get treated worse. like everywhere sometimes people just hate you because they have some presupposition about whatever demographic you're in or because they have some grievance with that demographic. i'm not slagging off people from these places that's something...

saw dazed and confused yesterday. not something i could get much out of, a bit sickly, a bit too glamourised and sexy for my taste, i end up resenting what the director is doing to me with stuff like that. looked absolutely beautiful. was surprised to see how far back that american thing of...

dunno. sometimes it's the exact opposite, you get treated much worse. definitely your race and nationality changes how you're treated. but that's the same almost everywhere. you're probably basically right though

are they? i know a load of people who've been 'into' that part of the world and who've gone and lived there for years. usually jordan and lebanon and egypt or kurdistan (the iraq one). quite a few in the rougher places as well. i don't think you get taken that seriously unless you've done that

i wished it was a bit different, but i liked it all the same. the traumatized war photographer thing didn't go deep enough i thought. i want to see that done in a more nuanced way. it's not much more than a trope. a copy of the copy too far removed from the real thing. thought as well that they...

yeah basically. i'm not american, i've been surprised throughout the last six months to see how visible the support for israel has been on the east coast (stuff like this, roadside billboards saying stupid shit like 'HAMAS IS COMING TO GET YOU NEXT', youtube ads). it's partly the US penchant for...

i don't think they're clashing

dispatches from the nyc symbol street wars: i) a busker next to the marcy ave station in williamsburg had little isreali, puerto rican and US flags on his mic stand ii) one of the main buildings on the nyc skyline, that was lit up in ukranian colours in 2022 and 2023, is now lit up (every night...

the thing i keep coming back to is: how can something so catastrophic continue and the US public be so muted in response? they are murdering tens of thousands of children from the air, and starving the rest. it isn't ambiguous. i think the answer is essentially distance and failures of...

yeah i agree it is crucial. what i was getting at is that the protests are a small thing that could shift public opinion a bit. but its one thing in a larger milieu which is changing a bit, but nowhere near as much as it should be. given the scale of the crimes its mad to me that the US public...

watched nostalghia last night in downtown nyc and there was a noticable frission when it became clear that the ending of the film was going to involve.....someone committing suicide by setting themselves on fire in a public place for political reasons

I mean in the grand scheme of things. Zoomed out. As compared to you know. Decision making in the IDF. What the Egyptian government are thinking. Who wins the US election. I'm not saying that it achieves nothing at all or is a waste of time or anything like that

Could you do it? What would be your strategy?

i think it's lashing out. bringing people down a peg or two. a good excuse if you want to give someone a quick slap.

since i have no respect for staying on the thread topic: i've been thinking about it. not because it's mental particularly but for various reasons including work and visa. england is starting to feel distant now and like i don't get it. when you spend enough time in a place it gets into your...

we've probably had this conversation before but have i got news for you reeks of this. it's almost like its been censored. you can see the boredom and the holding back on their faces. paul merton has retreated into some sort of retro knowing carnival act. ok also they're all old.

there's a kind of impurity to that kind of writing or speaking. some sort of extra layer between the thought and the reality. something else going on rather than description

that message board really changed over time. something happened with writing on the internet at some point where without wanted to sound like i have liked and subscribed to andew tate jordan peterson and steve pinker you started to run the risk of getting into some massive pointless argument coz...

i used to read a message board where a labour MP used to post talking about how he wanted to have a threesome with the sugababes or something and at some point a paper or someone dug up the old posts and used it to get him chucked out the party.

nyc still has loads of jewish people. despite everything there's still synagogues and yeshivas all over the lower east side and the east village too. there's one in dimes square. and brooklyn of course still has a few big and sometimes quite intense jewish enclaves. you get a bit tricked with...