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Neil Transpontine December 28, 2025December 30, 2025 0 Comments Association of Autonomous Astronauts, Dead By Dawn, MayDay Rooms

Autonomous Astronauts at MayDay Rooms

The Association of Autonomous Astronauts (AAA), founded in 1995 with a symbolic balloon launch near Windsor Castle, was a radical, community-based experiment in space exploration and cultural resistance. Its 30th anniversary was marked in April 2025 at London’s MayDay Rooms, reflecting on the AAA’s legacy as an outernational network blending art, politics, music, and play. Through raves, three-sided football, and space-themed actions, the AAA critiqued corporate, military, and elite control of space—concerns that feel strikingly relevant amid today’s commercialization and militarization of space travel. Report by Neil Transpontine

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The Reverend December 14, 2025December 29, 2025 0 Comments Blackmass Plastics, Drum'n'Bass, Dubstep, Hekate Sound System, Rave

Ian Miley Obituary

A deeply personal tribute to Ian Miley, aka Blackmass Plastics—an uncompromising underground artist, DJ, and friend. Tracing his life from his teens through rave culture, free parties, Teknivals, and decades of fiercely original music-making, it portrays a restless, curious, and principled figure. Despite severe illness and physical decline, Ian’s creative drive never dimmed, expanding into synthesisers, sculpture, and design. His music—dark, stripped-back, and purposeful—remained rooted in the original rave spirit. He lived and created without compromise: a true underground soldier. Obituary by The Reverend

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Christoph Fringeli October 29, 2025October 31, 2025 0 Comments 2025, antifa, Far Right, fascism, Germany, Media, repression

Compact Magazine Wins in Court – Ban Lifted

Compact is a far right magazine which appears in print on a monthly basis since 2010. They also produce daily online and video content. By summer 2024 Compact was the far right medium with the largest reach in Germany. It was founded and is edited by former leftist activist and journalist Jürgen Elsässer. In June 2024 the Interior Minister took the unusual step to ban the media organisation. A year later the highest court has decided to lift the ban.

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datacide January 18, 2025January 27, 2025 0 Comments Fiction, Stewart Home, Yoga

Stewart Home Interview Part Three

Starting with Come Before Christ and Murder Love, Stewart Home’s books saw quite a departure from his skinhead-influenced early novels. He started experimenting with different approaches to forms of anti-novels in books such as 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess, Memphis Underground, The Nine Lives of Ray the Cat Jones and most recently Art School Orgy. In this last part of our interview we talk about these different approaches and how they undermine literature as we know it.