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It’s become a ritual for me to take a personal inventory on my birthday. I’ve done it in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017. If you follow me on social media and details of my personal and emotional life aren’t interesting to you, please feel free to skip this post. I’m in … Continue reading Birthday Inventory 2025 →

Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has had his phone number leaked after thieves broke into Redeye records and stole their order book. ”I’m not happy about this,” said the PM. ”Not only is my number out in the open, but... Read More ›

Introducing Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America, available at booksellers everywhere.

For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of years.

Again and again, I’d heard from young people who lamented the astronomical and ever-rising cost of art school. For many college-level art programs, the total cost to undergraduates is now over $100,000 a year. I hope we can all agree that charging students $400,000 for a four-year degree in visual art is objectively absurd. And this prohibitive cost has priced tens of thousands of potential students out of even considering undertaking such an education.

For years, I mentioned this issue to friends in and out of the art world, and everyone, without exception, agreed that the system was broken. Even friends I know who teach at art schools agreed that the cost was out of control, and these spiraling costs were contributing to the implosion of many undergraduate and postgraduate art programs.

Anytime you arrive at an event dressed similarly to another guest, things can feel a bit awkward. But the Vatican is notoriously secretive. You had no way of knowing what kind of huge hat the pope would be wearing tonight. Nevertheless, you’re in this mess, here’s what to do:

Try Not to Draw Attention to the Hat
Many times, we think everyone is looking at us, noticing every flaw we have and every piece of clothing we’re wearing. But, in reality, everyone else is busy with their own life, obsessing over their own clothes and flaws. How many people were wearing a Yankees cap on the subway this morning? What about something weirder, like a Mets hat? See? You have no idea. If you act natural and don’t mention it, it’s highly unlikely other guests will even notice two people are wearing enormous pope hats.

The vice president is behind a push to expand Citizens United and gut what remains of federal campaign finance rules.

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Thanks for reaching out.

Yes, I’m interested in your one-week project, which you’ve described as a “sprint”—a fun euphemism for seven days of sheer panic.

When do you need me?

Darn, I’ll actually be on a cruise with my family that week, but I suppose I could find a quiet corner near the soft-serve machine to crack open my laptop.

What’s my day rate, you ask?

It’s steep—but commensurate with my over fifteen years of experience in a highly specialized field.

You don’t have the budget for that?

I see.

Well, in the interest of working together in the future, I will, as a courtesy, cut my rate in half this one time, knowing we’ll likely never work together again.

But it’s still worth it because, as a freelancer, I get to work remotely.

And by “work remotely,” I mean that I will graze the vast breakfast buffet until lunch and take an obnoxiously long and slightly rocky shower before opening a single work-related email.

What’s that?

You need me to come into the office for this project?

Next week, the University and College Union (UCU) will ballot more than 65,000 university workers, asking them to back strike action in a fight for fair pay, better working conditions, and to protect jobs. The vice-chancellors who ‘lead’ our universities have quietly increased their own salaries by £40,000 over the past three years, leaving them […]

Investigations revealed how children disappeared by Bashar al-Assad's regime were transported to facilities run by a global charity

  Although Philippe Aghion’s work presents itself as a refined and progressive departure from crude neoliberalism, a closer examination reveals a framework that — despite its mathematical sophistication — ultimately reinforces and legitimises a conservative, pro-capitalist economic order. His professed ‘pragmatism’ often serves less as a neutral analytic stance than as an ideological device to […]

The number of people in the UK without work that want it

This Tuesday report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for an extended period at Kyoto University in Japan but who over the years of working here has increasingly began to understand the language and local cultural traditions. Farming in urban areas One of the striking things about living…

The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighborhood. Known as ‘Site 81,’ the U.S.-built facility houses a hyper-secretive intelligence base. When Iran struck a series of targets in the heart of north Tel Aviv with ballistic missiles on June 13, Israeli authorities immediately cordoned off the area to prevent journalists from filming the damage. “The building on this compound was just hit,” Trey Yingst of […]

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Sussan Ley’s shadow minister for home affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has demanded that the Albanese Government hold a parliamentary enquiry into adult star, Bonnie Blue’s 1057 men sex stunt. ”We need to get to the bottom of what this Bonnie Blue... Read More ›

Faux disinformation expert Pekka Kallioniemi gained notoriety by smearing critics of the Ukraine proxy war. Since being unmasked for peddling pornographic representations of minors, Kallioniemi has been caught promoting fraudulent KGB documents to slander a journalist as a Russian spy. In October 2024, mainstream Canadian defense journalist David Pugliese suffered “the political equivalent of a drive-by shooting,” according to a local publication called The Walrus. Citing alleged KGB documents, a prominent lawmaker accused Pugliese of being a longstanding Soviet/Russian spy […]

The post Pekka-philia: disgraced porn profiteer turned pro-Ukraine ‘disinfo expert’ could face legal action first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Pekka-philia: disgraced porn profiteer turned pro-Ukraine ‘disinfo expert’ could face legal action appeared first on The Grayzone.

The 2025 Green Party conference was a potent mix of optimism and the mild chaos of an event which wildly exceeded its organisers’ expectations. The word on every staff member’s lips was ‘surprise’. Surprise at the over 2,000 members who descended on the venue; surprise at the unprecedented number of journalists applying for passes (even […]

Did showrunner Russell T Davies secretly end or pause Doctor Who with that regeneration into Billie Piper? One series writer believes so.