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Jun 19 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Cuba finally cracks - situation on ground was a shitshow. Begs the question, if you want to decisively end a regime is it better to bomb it or slowly wind it down with incremental political and economic reforms? You could get Cuban Communism with Chinese Communism characteristics Image Even the Chinese Communist Party says “time to wind it down.” Was genuinely taken aback at the dysfunction when I visited, impressed in a way too that it was still going Image
Jun 19 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The aesthetic for Andy’s Labour to win is ‘The North with Oasis Characteristics’ + ‘Pink Pantheress Britain’. This is rhetorically ‘Lovely’ enough to hold off populism. Then don’t go crazy with migration, drop any ‘woke’ still left and do 90s nostalgia with multicultural elements Image Andy Burnham should hold a 10 year anniversary of the Manchester bombing memorial concert ‘Against Hate’ and invite the best of ‘The North’ + ‘Pink Pantheress Britain’. Oasis, New Order, Arctic Monkeys, Pink Pantheress, Dua Lipa, Skepta etc. ‘Loveliness’ would be off the charts
Jun 19 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Britain has a ‘loveliness’ bias; a kind of normalcy bias where anything outside a stereotypical ‘lovely’ consensus faces an uphill battle for acceptance - don’t assume you’ll win bc your cause is ‘urgent’. Andy tapped into ‘loveliness with northern characteristics’ to win easily Image The ‘energy’ here is sort of the northern equivalent of people from villages in the south that haven’t had any immigration who vote for the Lib Dems Image
Jun 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Britain is more culturally ‘right’ so-called than it used to be but nowhere near ‘right’ enough yet to take for granted populist parties winning. Andy running for PM ofc but still important (for anyone) to not be so online you assume your voter base is bigger than it actually is Image Even if Restore didn’t exist can’t guarantee Reform would win. Another three years of ‘slopulism’ so-called it’s possible you’ll get enough people either inured to or bored by the migration issue plus / or with vote splitting between Cons, Reform and Restore, Reform may not win
Jun 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Britain votes for ‘Yookay with Manchesterist Characteristics’ Andy Burnham’s ideology - if he has one - is something like ‘Keir Starmer but more Northern’. Remains to be seen if he is more pro-immigration but early signs suggest so. To Burnham’s credit the ‘Northern’ aesthetic is probably still an electorally viable aesthetic for Labour
Jun 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Fair to say political culture portrayed eg Arthur, chivalry as more foundational to English-ness in the medieval period but there was continuity with Saxons vis-à-vis liberties, customary rights etc that found greater expression in the hybridised Norman feudal system vs elsewhere Image Though, Norman monarchs would also stress continuity with figures like Edward the Confessor - eg William I, Henry I claimed to uphold Edward’s laws. Also, idea of the Norman Yoke was already being employed by eg the Peasant’s Revolt. Saxon Saint veneration remained common too
Jun 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Literally just sensibly re-invest valuable commodities it’s that easy 100% guaranteed path to wealth imagine not doing this imagine if your country didn’t do this imagine if you were from a country that didn’t do this Image Apparently harder than you think to ‘just sensibly re-invest’
Jun 18 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Becoming a ‘Malay-boo’ Malaysia nerd because Japan is too mainstream Image The Bumiputera (lit. ‘son of the soil’) laws are nativist affirmative action policies preferencing ethnic Malays in Malaysia. These policies are designed to elevate the economic standing of the ‘Bumiputera’ Malay majority - despite Malaysia’s large Chinese and Indian minorities Image
Jun 17 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Growing trend in Morocco to make right wing edits in the exact same way as western right wing edits due to growing Subsaharan migration into Morocco and fears of Moroccan ethno-cultural displacement. Lots of nostalgia videos with titles like ‘Morocco before immigration 🇲🇦’ 🧵 L’Amour Toujours edit
Jun 16 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
“I’m here to learn from your housing model”

“In Singapore all housing has ethnic quotas to prevent ghettoisation”

“Right”

“Foreigners are not eligible for social housing either, we prioritise our citizens”

“So you’re saying put more Somalis in central London social housing?” Image
Image Sadiq doing the Tony Blair routine where he gushes about how much he likes Singapore then does the exact opposite of what Singapore does
Jun 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
>disinformation about london spreading online that the city is rapidly diversifying
>they keep posting my own quotes and messaging back at me as proof
>need to combat this disinformation fast
>launch new £7million anti-disinformation campaign with exact same messaging as before Image The argument now is because the ‘Croydon Waterpark’ genre became popular since it depicts some parts of London as grimy and is AI all content that sometimes depicts London as grimy must be AI therefore all Yookay content is AI therefore anything that depicts London as changing that is not explicitly ‘And That’s A Good Thing’ in tone is disinformationImage
Jun 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The concept of the sectarian murals in Northern Ireland getting repainted in a Studio Ghibli style because that is the aesthetic preference the new zoomer generation has Image Real BEFORE and AFTER Image
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Jun 10 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Littering is one of my biggest personal bugbears, cannot stand it. Triggers PTSD from travel in the third world where, apart from being unpleasant, garbage everywhere is an indicator that there is some state or social breakdown in a country. Big visual marker of enshittification Part of the ‘Drukpa Kunley’ ‘Origin Story’ is being radicalised in India by, among other experiences, the amount of litter everywhere
Jun 9 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
THE 2026 NORTHERN IRELAND RIOTS

A Picture Compilation Thread 🧵 Image Image
Jun 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Spotted by Peter Thiel” Image POV: You are Clavicular
Jun 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Concept of ‘Nerd Escorts’ that tech people pay a premium for because they know the word ‘Ethereum’ is just Silicon Valley re-inventing Geishas from first principles Image Classical Geishas were expected to be pleasant and entertaining conversationalists knowledgeable in poetry, literature, traditional music etc. Silicon Valley ‘Nerd Escort’ Geishas are expected to be know about crypto, AI and the latest TPOT discourse. Different elite priorities Image
Jun 8 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
WATCHING ‘FIXATED ON THINGS BEING SLIGHTLY OFF’ EXPLORATION OF THE ZOOMER PSYCHE ‘BACKROOMS’ (2026) WITH A LATINA WOMAN

Had seen a lot of hype for Backrooms online that made me curious to see it. Asked Latina friend if she wanted to go too

Asked her, “have you heard of the backrooms before?”

She hadn’t

“Do you know what a ‘liminal space’ is?”

She didn’t know. Translated it for her. She still didn’t know

“Do you know what 4chan is?”

She didn’t know

“It’s a famous internet forum”

“I see”

“Well… this concept of the backrooms started when a 4chan user posted a picture of an empty furniture store in Wisconsin. Lots of people found it spooky and it spiralled from there and became a big meme”

“Ok”

“There was a teenage YouTuber called Kane Parsons who made lots of videos about it and as a ‘wot if we made a zoomer into a film director’ gimmick a film studio gave him $10 million to make a movie about it. He’s one of the first zoomers to direct a major film”

Her eyes were glazing over as I explained this

First half of movie is exposition. Drags a little. Plot is Chiwetel Ejiofor gave up his dream of being an architect for his nagging bitch wife and then she divorced him anyway so now he sells furniture nobody buys. He has therapy sessions where he speaks dialogue that sounds like it’s from a Mr. Beast video because Parsons is an autistic zoomer who doesn’t know how to write proper human emotion yet. One day he discovers the BACKROOMS (2026) in his basement. He goes to his therapist and says “oi there’s a liminal space in me basement” and she say “you are mentally ill”. In a fit of seethe he heads off on an expedition into the Backrooms where he gets chased by creatures that all look like 2022-era generative AI prompt outputs and enjoy leaning slightly out from behind a wall in the distance. Don’t know if early AI allusion was deliberate or not but the movie really pushes the ‘everything is slight off’ motif. Zoomers find things being ‘slightly off’ spooky

Actually, felt like a lot of the concepts were a bit ‘sort of thing that makes you go woahhh in your first year philosophy class’ ‘-with zoomer characteristics’ concepts. Don’t want to sound zoomerphobic I’m not a zoomerphobe but there is a lot of very zoomerish dialogue like “oi wot if you were describing a dog to a bloke who had never seen a dog before and then he had to draw that dog from your description wouldn’t he draw it ‘slightly off’ don’t ya reckon oi wot if there was a dog that was ‘slightly off’ spooky stuff mate”. Or, “fuckkk everytime I go in this room the furniture is arranged in a slightly different way than I remember”. In that way would say what makes this especially zoomer rather than millennial is a millennial fixation would be something like “dude, wot if the world wasn’t real and we were in the matrix” or “dude, wot if you could rate everyone you met on an app and your rating determined your socioeconomic status”. Zoomer fixation is more things being ‘slightly-off’, ‘mis-rismembered’, ‘uncanny valley’, ‘liminal spaces’ etc. Also there’s often a horror element

Ghost of Wittgenstein really looms large over this movie then. Don’t want to give impression I disliked BACKROOMS (2026). Last 45 minutes where they don’t have to do character exposition anymore and can get properly into the ‘oooh liminal spaces oooh’ concept is fun. The main reason I am being so catty about it is because I think I could make a better movie than Kane Parsons if I got given $10 million

“What was that place they kept going to? Was it a dream?”

“What?”

“The offices they were in”

“The Backrooms?”

“Yes”

“No it wasn’t a dream”

“Can you explain what it was?”

“It was a sort of… mirror or substrate dimension that reflects the real world, but it does it in a ‘slightly off’ way. Everything in the backrooms is a ‘slightly off’ version of real life”

“I thought it was a dream”

“How did you get that from what you saw onscreen?”

“I just assumed it was a dream”

She is a zillenialImage
Image Has been noted how ‘liminal spaces’ have evolved aesthetically over time. The sterile and slightly off BACKROOMS (2026) are a very aesthetically zoomer ‘liminal space’. Movie also has lots of VHS camera shots. Use of flickering VHS aesthetics for added spookiness feels zoomer too
Jun 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Nothing Europeans love more than sneering at Americans so if you are an American politician like Vance who wants to critique immigration policy the only way to get them to listen is to trick them by leaning so into your Americanness they find it endearing and let their guard down Image This works along same principle as ‘Orientalism-maxing’ where if you lean into your (good) eccentricities more people find you more endearing and tolerable. Could call it ‘Occidentalism-maxxing’ in the case of Americans. Vance must dress up as Davy Crochet on visits to Europe
Jun 7 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Sad how much our liminal infinite subspaces beneath reality have declined in recent years - we used to have impossibly-sized libraries or glimpses of the divine. Imagine remaking Dante’s Inferno today except because it’s for zoomers he traverses the backrooms instead of purgatory Image If you ever try to read The Divine Comedy typically you will to have refer to the index of names at the back of the book because there are lot of obscure early Renaissance Italian figures Dante throws in that you’re not going to know unless you really really like Late Medieval to Renaissance Italian history. Classical figures like Homer, Plato, Brutus etc you will know to be sure but you get to the Italians and it’s Farinata degli Uberti, Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti, Venedico Caccianemico etc. etc. Who? This is obviously what 20 year old zoomer director of BACKROOMS (2026) Kane Parsons was directly referencing when he said that he was sick and tired of ‘lorebloat’ and ‘having to know all the lore’ before being able to enjoy a piece of media. If there’s one thing zoomers really hate it’s ‘lore’ - hence the decline of our liminal spacesImage
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Jun 7 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
‘Bodega’ appears to be word used only in New York to describe a type of store that is called everywhere else something like ‘convenience store’. Amazing New York exceptionalism - esp. since it romanticises corner stores that are often surprisingly shabby vs equivalents elsewhere Image Which ramp is found in which city? Deduce the answers based on each ramp’s respective ‘strange beauty’ and leave them below
Jun 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Pulling silly faces is an incredibly powerful technique in political debates. The sillier the faces you pull the less you have to refute your opponent’s arguments. If you ever have to debate someone just pull silly faces whenever they are speaking and you will win easily Image If you were in a political debate and your opponent kept making these faces whenever you spoke which face would cause you to ‘crash out’ the most?