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"#WalnutTrees are any species of tree in the plant genus Juglans, the type genus of the family #Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts. All species are deciduous trees, 10–40 metres (33–131 ft) tall, with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres (7.9–35.4 in), with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnuts (Pterocarya), but not the hickories (Carya) in the same family.
"The 21 species in the genus range across the north temperate #OldWorld from southeast #Europe east to #Japan, and more widely in the #NewWorld from southeast #Canada west to #California and south to #Argentina.
"Edible walnuts, which are consumed worldwide, are usually harvested from cultivated varieties of the species Juglans regia. China produces half of the world total of walnuts."
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"#WalnutTrees are any species of tree in the plant genus Juglans, the type genus of the family #Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts. All species are deciduous trees, 10–40 metres (33–131 ft) tall, with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres (7.9–35.4 in), with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnuts (Pterocarya), but not the hickories (Carya) in the same family.
"The 21 species in the genus range across the north temperate #OldWorld from southeast #Europe east to #Japan, and more widely in the #NewWorld from southeast #Canada west to #California and south to #Argentina.
"Edible walnuts, which are consumed worldwide, are usually harvested from cultivated varieties of the species Juglans regia. China produces half of the world total of walnuts."
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30 de Julio, DÍA MUNDIAL CONTRA LA TRATA DE PERSONAS. #PrensaFANB #FanbSiempreContigo #MiliciaEsPatria #LealesSiempreTraidoresNunca #30JUL.
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Which Party do you think these leaflets are from?
#greenparty
No.
They are from #conservative MPs.
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Overt evidence of genocidal intent at the highest operational command level and will be presented in court. #justicewillprevail #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #genocide Never stop being shocked. Because otherwise we normalize... te leaflets show a picture of Donald Trump and Netanyahu. "To the people of Gaza: Trump's mandatory plan which will force displacement upon you whether you like it or not...the world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist...no one will feel for you. No one will ask about you...neither America nor Europe care about you..." #news #Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhKLxWEGA70 -
Overt evidence of genocidal intent at the highest operational command level and will be presented in court. #justicewillprevail #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #genocide Never stop being shocked. Because otherwise we normalize... te leaflets show a picture of Donald Trump and Netanyahu. "To the people of Gaza: Trump's mandatory plan which will force displacement upon you whether you like it or not...the world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist...no one will feel for you. No one will ask about you...neither America nor Europe care about you..." #news #Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhKLxWEGA70 -
Overt evidence of genocidal intent at the highest operational command level and will be presented in court. #justicewillprevail #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #genocide Never stop being shocked. Because otherwise we normalize... te leaflets show a picture of Donald Trump and Netanyahu. "To the people of Gaza: Trump's mandatory plan which will force displacement upon you whether you like it or not...the world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist...no one will feel for you. No one will ask about you...neither America nor Europe care about you..." #news #Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhKLxWEGA70 -
Overt evidence of genocidal intent at the highest operational command level and will be presented in court. #justicewillprevail #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #genocide Never stop being shocked. Because otherwise we normalize... te leaflets show a picture of Donald Trump and Netanyahu. "To the people of Gaza: Trump's mandatory plan which will force displacement upon you whether you like it or not...the world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist...no one will feel for you. No one will ask about you...neither America nor Europe care about you..." #news #Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhKLxWEGA70 -
Overt evidence of genocidal intent at the highest operational command level and will be presented in court. #justicewillprevail #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #genocide Never stop being shocked. Because otherwise we normalize... te leaflets show a picture of Donald Trump and Netanyahu. "To the people of Gaza: Trump's mandatory plan which will force displacement upon you whether you like it or not...the world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist...no one will feel for you. No one will ask about you...neither America nor Europe care about you..." #news #Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhKLxWEGA70 -
Eastern Europe on a Zloty – Kraków to the Balkans
This adventure started out with a peace march. The Global Walk for a Liveable World had already crossed America once - LA to New York in ’89 - while I was drifting through Santa Cruz, not quite sure where the thing would begin or end. I drove across the States instead of walking it, then flew back across the Atlantic. Found out about the second stage in the usual sideways way, a line at the bottom of one of my mum’s Ribbon leaflets. In March ’91 I rang the organisers in the States to […]https://hamishcampbell.com/eastern-europe-on-a-zloty-krakow-to-the-balkans/
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Eastern Europe on a Zloty – Kraków to the Balkans
This adventure started out with a peace march. The Global Walk for a Liveable World had already crossed America once - LA to New York in ’89 - while I was drifting through Santa Cruz, not quite sure where the thing would begin or end. I drove across the States instead of walking it, then flew back across the Atlantic. Found out about the second stage in the usual sideways way, a line at the bottom of one of my mum’s Ribbon leaflets. In March ’91 I rang the organisers in the States to […]https://hamishcampbell.com/eastern-europe-on-a-zloty-krakow-to-the-balkans/
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Eastern Europe on a Zloty – Kraków to the Balkans
This adventure started out with a peace march. The Global Walk for a Liveable World had already crossed America once - LA to New York in ’89 - while I was drifting through Santa Cruz, not quite sure where the thing would begin or end. I drove across the States instead of walking it, then flew back across the Atlantic. Found out about the second stage in the usual sideways way, a line at the bottom of one of my mum’s Ribbon leaflets. In March ’91 I rang the organisers in the States to […]https://hamishcampbell.com/eastern-europe-on-a-zloty-krakow-to-the-balkans/
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"och bortglömd" linocut edition of 10, printed on medicine leaflets and on IT-manual paper #linocut #linoleum #linocutprint #linoleumcut
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Grow or Die
For its whole life, Amazon faced a classic capacity planning problem that everyone has. You need to have many machines at the busy time of the year, but they will lie idle the rest of the year.
While growing rapidly, your answer is easy: arrange to buy the needed machines as late as possible, so they came on-line just before Black Friday. The rest of the year they don’t exist, so they don’t cost you anything.
Something changed
But what if you’re not growing at 30% a year? Now you do have idle machines, for 11 out of 12 months a year.
You could arrange to start growing again. Amazon did just that, when they went from running a few data centres just for themselves and started AWS, Amazon web services. Now they were getting business from tons of new customers, and jumped back to their previous solution.
In it, you add as many machines as you can afford, until you are up to the predicted number you needed for the next “Black Friday”. You’re growing like crazy again. You can buy machines and entire data centres again … until business starts to flatten out.
What now?
You’re back to not having to buy extra every year, but you still have to pay for running everything you bought. And your profits have to keep paying back the capital investment you made when you bought those machines.
For a little while you can just coast, profit-taking on your investments.
But that won’t last. Your smaller competitors are still growing as fast as they can get customers., including by taking them from you. When that stops, you’re all in the same boat. Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and all the little guys.
Choose any Two
There are three classic approaches to staying alive in business: maximize growth, maximize revenue, or minimize cost. You did the first, now you need to do the others.
While you’re doing that, let’s pretend you’re Dr. Evil so your solutions don’t have to be ethical (:-))
Start with cost minimization: extend the effective life of your servers. That works because Moore’s Law is coming to an end, and clock speeds have stagnated. That in turn means a three-year-old machine is no longer hugely slower that a new machine. You can keep using your old machines without a cost-benefit crash. Amazon did just that, extending the life of its servers to six years. They claimed a $900m benefit in the first 90 days [Cantrill, 2024].
Then take advantage of some of the smaller advantages:
- Wright’s law [Wright, 2025] gives you the benefit of a roughly 15% improvement when you double the volume of your purchases. Keep your old servers for longer, but replace them in big batches to get the best possible price.
- Sell services on a per-core basis. The CPU speed of new machines isn’t rocketing upwards, but the number of CPU cores is still improving at a reasonable rate. Each time you get a server with twice as many cores, you double your profit from it.
- Reduce your hardware costs. All the big cloud vendors now assemble their own machines, which they call “hyperscalars”. These have the maximum number of CPU cards that will fit a largish rack, but far fewer non-profit-making parts. A normal rack of 32 high-performance 1U machines will have 32 sockets, but 64 power supplies, at least 128 fans and 32 cases. None of the latter produce profit, but they cost money. In the case of power supplies and fans, they suck electricity. A good hyperscaler can save almost half the power and cooling that a rack of normal machines uses, over and above requiring you buy fewer cases, fans and power supplies.
- Charge for extras. If you’re VMware and selling a virtualisation engine, charge one price for a version that makes you shut down a service before moving it, and more for a version that will move the service to a new physical server without interruptions.
- Make it hard to go elsewhere, until moving is seen as difficult and unusual. 37signals exited the cloud back in 2022, and at the time that was seen as something only brave experts could do.
Finally, keep creeping the price upwards. Your cost may be slowly decreasing, but you should always be increasing your prices, now you’ve locked in your customers.
Does this Sound Familiar?
Yup!
Cory Doctorow defines enshittification as
- starting with high-quality offerings to attract users, then
- optionally degrading those offerings to better serve business customers, such as advertisers, and finally
- degrading their services to all their users and customers, to maximize profits for the shareholders.
That’s a good tactic for Dr. Evil. But maybe not for everyone.
What does this do to me?
If you’re in the same pickle as Amazon, leave the Dr. Evil solutions out, and see how many you can apply to your version of the problem.
If your year-end business isn’t hugely greater that your regular business, the capacity planning problem is easier. A customer I know was once was in just that situation. They were able to use the longer life of recent servers and the price advantage of large purchases to solve their problem.
–dave
[Cantrill 2024] Bryan Cantrill, Moore’s Scofflaws, Oxide blog, https://oxide.computer/blog/moores-scofflaws
[Wright 2025] Wikipedia, Experience curve effects, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
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Grow or Die
For its whole life, Amazon faced a classic capacity planning problem that everyone has. You need to have many machines at the busy time of the year, but they will lie idle the rest of the year.
While growing rapidly, your answer is easy: arrange to buy the needed machines as late as possible, so they came on-line just before Black Friday. The rest of the year they don’t exist, so they don’t cost you anything.
Something changed
But what if you’re not growing at 30% a year? Now you do have idle machines, for 11 out of 12 months a year.
You could arrange to start growing again. Amazon did just that, when they went from running a few data centres just for themselves and started AWS, Amazon web services. Now they were getting business from tons of new customers, and jumped back to their previous solution.
In it, you add as many machines as you can afford, until you are up to the predicted number you needed for the next “Black Friday”. You’re growing like crazy again. You can buy machines and entire data centres again … until business starts to flatten out.
What now?
You’re back to not having to buy extra every year, but you still have to pay for running everything you bought. And your profits have to keep paying back the capital investment you made when you bought those machines.
For a little while you can just coast, profit-taking on your investments.
But that won’t last. Your smaller competitors are still growing as fast as they can get customers., including by taking them from you. When that stops, you’re all in the same boat. Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and all the little guys.
Choose any Two
There are three classic approaches to staying alive in business: maximize growth, maximize revenue, or minimize cost. You did the first, now you need to do the others.
While you’re doing that, let’s pretend you’re Dr. Evil so your solutions don’t have to be ethical (:-))
Start with cost minimization: extend the effective life of your servers. That works because Moore’s Law is coming to an end, and clock speeds have stagnated. That in turn means a three-year-old machine is no longer hugely slower that a new machine. You can keep using your old machines without a cost-benefit crash. Amazon did just that, extending the life of its servers to six years. They claimed a $900m benefit in the first 90 days [Cantrill, 2024].
Then take advantage of some of the smaller advantages:
- Wright’s law [Wright, 2025] gives you the benefit of a roughly 15% improvement when you double the volume of your purchases. Keep your old servers for longer, but replace them in big batches to get the best possible price.
- Sell services on a per-core basis. The CPU speed of new machines isn’t rocketing upwards, but the number of CPU cores is still improving at a reasonable rate. Each time you get a server with twice as many cores, you double your profit from it.
- Reduce your hardware costs. All the big cloud vendors now assemble their own machines, which they call “hyperscalars”. These have the maximum number of CPU cards that will fit a largish rack, but far fewer non-profit-making parts. A normal rack of 32 high-performance 1U machines will have 32 sockets, but 64 power supplies, at least 128 fans and 32 cases. None of the latter produce profit, but they cost money. In the case of power supplies and fans, they suck electricity. A good hyperscaler can save almost half the power and cooling that a rack of normal machines uses, over and above requiring you buy fewer cases, fans and power supplies.
- Charge for extras. If you’re VMware and selling a virtualisation engine, charge one price for a version that makes you shut down a service before moving it, and more for a version that will move the service to a new physical server without interruptions.
- Make it hard to go elsewhere, until moving is seen as difficult and unusual. 37signals exited the cloud back in 2022, and at the time that was seen as something only brave experts could do.
Finally, keep creeping the price upwards. Your cost may be slowly decreasing, but you should always be increasing your prices, now you’ve locked in your customers.
Does this Sound Familiar?
Yup!
Cory Doctorow defines enshittification as
- starting with high-quality offerings to attract users, then
- optionally degrading those offerings to better serve business customers, such as advertisers, and finally
- degrading their services to all their users and customers, to maximize profits for the shareholders.
That’s a good tactic for Dr. Evil. But maybe not for everyone.
What does this do to me?
If you’re in the same pickle as Amazon, leave the Dr. Evil solutions out, and see how many you can apply to your version of the problem.
If your year-end business isn’t hugely greater that your regular business, the capacity planning problem is easier. A customer I know was once was in just that situation. They were able to use the longer life of recent servers and the price advantage of large purchases to solve their problem.
–dave
[Cantrill 2024] Bryan Cantrill, Moore’s Scofflaws, Oxide blog, https://oxide.computer/blog/moores-scofflaws
[Wright 2025] Wikipedia, Experience curve effects, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
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Grow or Die
For its whole life, Amazon faced a classic capacity planning problem that everyone has. You need to have many machines at the busy time of the year, but they will lie idle the rest of the year.
While growing rapidly, your answer is easy: arrange to buy the needed machines as late as possible, so they came on-line just before Black Friday. The rest of the year they don’t exist, so they don’t cost you anything.
Something changed
But what if you’re not growing at 30% a year? Now you do have idle machines, for 11 out of 12 months a year.
You could arrange to start growing again. Amazon did just that, when they went from running a few data centres just for themselves and started AWS, Amazon web services. Now they were getting business from tons of new customers, and jumped back to their previous solution.
In it, you add as many machines as you can afford, until you are up to the predicted number you needed for the next “Black Friday”. You’re growing like crazy again. You can buy machines and entire data centres again … until business starts to flatten out.
What now?
You’re back to not having to buy extra every year, but you still have to pay for running everything you bought. And your profits have to keep paying back the capital investment you made when you bought those machines.
For a little while you can just coast, profit-taking on your investments.
But that won’t last. Your smaller competitors are still growing as fast as they can get customers., including by taking them from you. When that stops, you’re all in the same boat. Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and all the little guys.
Choose any Two
There are three classic approaches to staying alive in business: maximize growth, maximize revenue, or minimize cost. You did the first, now you need to do the others.
While you’re doing that, let’s pretend you’re Dr. Evil so your solutions don’t have to be ethical (:-))
Start with cost minimization: extend the effective life of your servers. That works because Moore’s Law is coming to an end, and clock speeds have stagnated. That in turn means a three-year-old machine is no longer hugely slower that a new machine. You can keep using your old machines without a cost-benefit crash. Amazon did just that, extending the life of its servers to six years. They claimed a $900m benefit in the first 90 days [Cantrill, 2024].
Then take advantage of some of the smaller advantages:
- Wright’s law [Wright, 2025] gives you the benefit of a roughly 15% improvement when you double the volume of your purchases. Keep your old servers for longer, but replace them in big batches to get the best possible price.
- Sell services on a per-core basis. The CPU speed of new machines isn’t rocketing upwards, but the number of CPU cores is still improving at a reasonable rate. Each time you get a server with twice as many cores, you double your profit from it.
- Reduce your hardware costs. All the big cloud vendors now assemble their own machines, which they call “hyperscalars”. These have the maximum number of CPU cards that will fit a largish rack, but far fewer non-profit-making parts. A normal rack of 32 high-performance 1U machines will have 32 sockets, but 64 power supplies, at least 128 fans and 32 cases. None of the latter produce profit, but they cost money. In the case of power supplies and fans, they suck electricity. A good hyperscaler can save almost half the power and cooling that a rack of normal machines uses, over and above requiring you buy fewer cases, fans and power supplies.
- Charge for extras. If you’re VMware and selling a virtualisation engine, charge one price for a version that makes you shut down a service before moving it, and more for a version that will move the service to a new physical server without interruptions.
- Make it hard to go elsewhere, until moving is seen as difficult and unusual. 37signals exited the cloud back in 2022, and at the time that was seen as something only brave experts could do.
Finally, keep creeping the price upwards. Your cost may be slowly decreasing, but you should always be increasing your prices, now you’ve locked in your customers.
Does this Sound Familiar?
Yup!
Cory Doctorow defines enshittification as
- starting with high-quality offerings to attract users, then
- optionally degrading those offerings to better serve business customers, such as advertisers, and finally
- degrading their services to all their users and customers, to maximize profits for the shareholders.
That’s a good tactic for Dr. Evil. But maybe not for everyone.
What does this do to me?
If you’re in the same pickle as Amazon, leave the Dr. Evil solutions out, and see how many you can apply to your version of the problem.
If your year-end business isn’t hugely greater that your regular business, the capacity planning problem is easier. A customer I know was once was in just that situation. They were able to use the longer life of recent servers and the price advantage of large purchases to solve their problem.
–dave
[Cantrill 2024] Bryan Cantrill, Moore’s Scofflaws, Oxide blog, https://oxide.computer/blog/moores-scofflaws
[Wright 2025] Wikipedia, Experience curve effects, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
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Grow or Die
For its whole life, Amazon faced a classic capacity planning problem that everyone has. You need to have many machines at the busy time of the year, but they will lie idle the rest of the year.
While growing rapidly, your answer is easy: arrange to buy the needed machines as late as possible, so they came on-line just before Black Friday. The rest of the year they don’t exist, so they don’t cost you anything.
Something changed
But what if you’re not growing at 30% a year? Now you do have idle machines, for 11 out of 12 months a year.
You could arrange to start growing again. Amazon did just that, when they went from running a few data centres just for themselves and started AWS, Amazon web services. Now they were getting business from tons of new customers, and jumped back to their previous solution.
In it, you add as many machines as you can afford, until you are up to the predicted number you needed for the next “Black Friday”. You’re growing like crazy again. You can buy machines and entire data centres again … until business starts to flatten out.
What now?
You’re back to not having to buy extra every year, but you still have to pay for running everything you bought. And your profits have to keep paying back the capital investment you made when you bought those machines.
For a little while you can just coast, profit-taking on your investments.
But that won’t last. Your smaller competitors are still growing as fast as they can get customers., including by taking them from you. When that stops, you’re all in the same boat. Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and all the little guys.
Choose any Two
There are three classic approaches to staying alive in business: maximize growth, maximize revenue, or minimize cost. You did the first, now you need to do the others.
While you’re doing that, let’s pretend you’re Dr. Evil so your solutions don’t have to be ethical (:-))
Start with cost minimization: extend the effective life of your servers. That works because Moore’s Law is coming to an end, and clock speeds have stagnated. That in turn means a three-year-old machine is no longer hugely slower that a new machine. You can keep using your old machines without a cost-benefit crash. Amazon did just that, extending the life of its servers to six years. They claimed a $900m benefit in the first 90 days [Cantrill, 2024].
Then take advantage of some of the smaller advantages:
- Wright’s law [Wright, 2025] gives you the benefit of a roughly 15% improvement when you double the volume of your purchases. Keep your old servers for longer, but replace them in big batches to get the best possible price.
- Sell services on a per-core basis. The CPU speed of new machines isn’t rocketing upwards, but the number of CPU cores is still improving at a reasonable rate. Each time you get a server with twice as many cores, you double your profit from it.
- Reduce your hardware costs. All the big cloud vendors now assemble their own machines, which they call “hyperscalars”. These have the maximum number of CPU cards that will fit a largish rack, but far fewer non-profit-making parts. A normal rack of 32 high-performance 1U machines will have 32 sockets, but 64 power supplies, at least 128 fans and 32 cases. None of the latter produce profit, but they cost money. In the case of power supplies and fans, they suck electricity. A good hyperscaler can save almost half the power and cooling that a rack of normal machines uses, over and above requiring you buy fewer cases, fans and power supplies.
- Charge for extras. If you’re VMware and selling a virtualisation engine, charge one price for a version that makes you shut down a service before moving it, and more for a version that will move the service to a new physical server without interruptions.
- Make it hard to go elsewhere, until moving is seen as difficult and unusual. 37signals exited the cloud back in 2022, and at the time that was seen as something only brave experts could do.
Finally, keep creeping the price upwards. Your cost may be slowly decreasing, but you should always be increasing your prices, now you’ve locked in your customers.
Does this Sound Familiar?
Yup!
Cory Doctorow defines enshittification as
- starting with high-quality offerings to attract users, then
- optionally degrading those offerings to better serve business customers, such as advertisers, and finally
- degrading their services to all their users and customers, to maximize profits for the shareholders.
That’s a good tactic for Dr. Evil. But maybe not for everyone.
What does this do to me?
If you’re in the same pickle as Amazon, leave the Dr. Evil solutions out, and see how many you can apply to your version of the problem.
If your year-end business isn’t hugely greater that your regular business, the capacity planning problem is easier. A customer I know was once was in just that situation. They were able to use the longer life of recent servers and the price advantage of large purchases to solve their problem.
–dave
[Cantrill 2024] Bryan Cantrill, Moore’s Scofflaws, Oxide blog, https://oxide.computer/blog/moores-scofflaws
[Wright 2025] Wikipedia, Experience curve effects, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
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Theatre Review: Avenue Q
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/theatre-review-avenue-q/I'll admit, I was a little sceptical about returning to Avenue Q. I saw it on its original West End run back in… OH MY GOD I AM SO OLD! FUCK! Where did the time go?
It's always hard to know how much to update a show. Does it need constant reinvention to stay in the zeitgeist or can it be pickled forever as a classic?
"I wish I had taken more pictures" was something that utterly resonated with me about my university experience. Photos were a rare commodity back when film still cost a couple of quid to develop. Perhaps today's uni students will sing "I wish I had posted less on Instagram"?
The show has been sympathetically updated. Some of the references have been modernised, a transphobic joke given the boot, and the lyrics tweaked to sometimes devastating effect. The song "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" seems to have the most changes - and all for the better.
Parts of the show are adapted for a UK audience. Barely anyone here knows who Gary Coleman was so his intro is changed (although I guess part of the metajoke is that we all watched foreign celebrities on Sesame Street when we were growing up - so what's one more obscure cultural reference?). In the American show, the Bad Idea Bears proffer Long Island Ice Teas - that was a bit tame for UK audiences, so in the original UK run they guzzled absinthe daiquiris - a change inexplicably reverted for this limited run.
As a piece of pure entertainment it is spectacular. The laughs are genuinely non-stop and the whole auditorium rose to give the performers a well-deserved ovation. It is a tender and beautiful show which shows off the power of live theatre.
The songs are still stuck in my head and the puppetry is still amazing. Absolutely hilarious, genuinely shocking in places, utterly filthy - an excellent night out.
Pre- and Post-Show
I've written before about The art of the Pre-Show and Post-Show. With West End prices higher than ever, it is incumbent on theatres to make their shows a memorable and spectacular evening out. That can be as simple as a bit of set dressing in the foyer, or as extravagant as they can get away with.
The offering is pretty reasonable here. You can buy the T-shirt, hoodie, and commemorative socks at exorbitant prices. The souvenir programme is £8 and, while lush with photos, is pretty sparse. The original West End programme from the early 2000s had a pin-up calendar of Lucy The Slut, a bunch more funny photos, and fake autographs of the puppets.
There's a photo-booth for taking selfies, but it appeared to be broken.
It might been nice to have a few puppets placed around for people to take photos with.
One of the simplest things a venue can do is put on a themed cocktail menu. I'm surprised more shows don't do that. Who is going to turn down a glass of "The Internet Is For Pornstar Martini"?
The Shaftesbury Theatre itself isn't too cramped, even in the cheap seats. Although, at the back of the stalls, the overhang cuts off the top of the set which means you will miss a bit of action in some scenes.
While we were waiting for the show to start, the auditorium was filled with soundscape of subway cars rattling and distorted announcements. Again, fairly cheap and simple, but a nice way to build the mood.
As we exited, we were handed leaflets encouraging us to come back and bring our friends. Even better was the £10 discount on our next booking!
Considering this is a limited run, the production has done a fair job of getting the audience in the mood and rewarding them for their patronage.
Well done to all involved!
#comedy #TheatreReview -
Been researching the 43 Group today; a London-based militant anti-fascist organisation, founded in March 1946 by 43 Jewish ex-servicemen to combat fascist and anti-semitic organisations.
We have some of their papers that include alphabetical lists and car registration plate numbers of suspected fascists, and a few leaflets and agendas of meetings.
#AntiSemitism #43Group #fascism #antifa #histodons @histodons #fascist
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Been researching the 43 Group today; a London-based militant anti-fascist organisation, founded in March 1946 by 43 Jewish ex-servicemen to combat fascist and anti-semitic organisations.
We have some of their papers that include alphabetical lists and car registration plate numbers of suspected fascists, and a few leaflets and agendas of meetings.
#AntiSemitism #43Group #fascism #antifa #histodons @histodons #fascist
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Been researching the 43 Group today; a London-based militant anti-fascist organisation, founded in March 1946 by 43 Jewish ex-servicemen to combat fascist and anti-semitic organisations.
We have some of their papers that include alphabetical lists and car registration plate numbers of suspected fascists, and a few leaflets and agendas of meetings.
#AntiSemitism #43Group #fascism #antifa #histodons @histodons #fascist
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Been researching the 43 Group today; a London-based militant anti-fascist organisation, founded in March 1946 by 43 Jewish ex-servicemen to combat fascist and anti-semitic organisations.
We have some of their papers that include alphabetical lists and car registration plate numbers of suspected fascists, and a few leaflets and agendas of meetings.
#AntiSemitism #43Group #fascism #antifa #histodons @histodons #fascist
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Gracias a los esfuerzos del Gobierno Bolivariano de nuestro Pdte Obrero @NicolasMaduro seguimos con firmeza los pasos y el legado de nuestro Cmdte Eterno Hugo Chávez.
@ACoronadoVzla
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Gracias a los esfuerzos del Gobierno Bolivariano de nuestro Pdte Obrero @NicolasMaduro seguimos con firmeza los pasos y el legado de nuestro Cmdte Eterno Hugo Chávez.
@ACoronadoVzla
@CISPresidencia -
@EjercitoFanb #LealesSiempreTraidoresNunca En Honor a Nuestro Lider Inmortal..Su Legado Vivira en Nuestros Corazones.. #ChavezVive #PatriaOMuerte "VENCEREMOS"
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🇻🇪 Desde el Centro de Procesamiento de Fluidos de Petroindependencia, nuestros trabajadores continúan laborando por el país y dando el respaldo absoluto al Presidente @Nicolas_Maduro #SomosFuriaBolivariana #LealesSiempreTraidoresNunca #VenezuelaSeRespeta
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@wdlindsy
It’s of utmost importance that the coming tsunami of the “reconciliation bill damage
be explained #neighborToneighbor in terms they can grasp.In August rather than only WTP marches, ALL #DemocraticPartyofficials must be AVAILABLE
ACTIVELY working
online/offline:
leaflets
postcards
DoorToDoor
Inperson
townhalls
instagram
explain critical ramifications to constituents or we will be doomed.We must become an ever expanding real #democracyfirst
#UnitedCommunity
