Ben

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

The Trump administration has worked to portray itself as protecting women and girls through their anti-trans policies. Meanwhile, they've worked tirelessly to undermine protections against sexual assault. Wither Title IX, in this exceptional new reported story by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social.

if nothing else this is surely the impact of a multigenerational decline in smoking rates. Fewer smokers -> fewer smoking caused lung cancers -> the proportion of non-smoker lung cancer goes up even if the population rate is the same

I have not yet read the majority opinion in full, but an unstated principle here is, IMO: if a person can be indefinitely detained on the allegation that they are in the country unlawfully, then a CITIZEN can be indefinitely on the erroneous allegation that they’re an alien

It might be true that “Democrats shouldn’t talk about border security.” I don’t think that’s true, but let’s grant it’s true for the sake of the argument. It does not follow from that that ”Democrats shouldn’t talk about ICE shooting people or sending them to foreign gulags“ (paraphrasing)

as a dual national that votes in two places I think there's something to this. UK elections are considered big and complicated when you have to vote for 3 things in one ballot. My recent California ballot had a couple dozen roles and another 10 propositions. This is too much.

this is not in any way The Point, but I really love the lack of an oxford comma directly after Oxford occurs on the list. Somehow feels like a personal attack via grammar

the case for nationalizing SpaceX just keeps making itself

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

This dumb hack has no power to do that. States don't have to listen to anything he says.

This is now the official Presidential portrait for Donald J. Trump. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

With the illusion of UNLIMITED productivity, that forcing function is gone. Now you can just ask Claude to slop up the idea you thought of on the toilet, and feel like you've done something. It's basically the equivalent of thinking that poasting is praxis: a quick dopamine hit mistaken for impact.

A big, albeit of a number, issue with Labour as a whole, but especially Mahmood, is they don't listen to anything which goes against their own rhetoric. Mahmood in particular seems determined to ignore the people whose lives her anti-immigration policies will destroy. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

“Departures from these practices should never be countenanced because they risk allowing prosecutors to impact national elections.” -Todd Blanche on DOJ’s 60-day rule, September 2024

“Oh, there’s a frozen land bridge leading to uncharted territories across the Bering Sea now? Where my horrible family won’t follow me to judge my mammoth spearing technique ever again? Sign me up.”

What's happening in France is hard to justify but easy to understand. In 1981 the UK had riots because 1 in 10 were unemployed and couldn't afford to eat. In 2026, 1 in 5 are IN WORK and can't afford to eat. What happens when AI doubles that number? What levels of policing will control it?

"whats wrong with the younger generation why is no one having kids anymore" like 5 seconds after they cut all the school buses and fired half the teachers because there's no property tax revenue to fund them anymore

New, from me: One way that American elections have gotten better - maybe the only way - is the opportunity to claim some awesome "I voted" stickers. Here are my favorites from this voting season. (And please share yours). 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-best-i...

Some real guy in a hot dog costume meme energy from the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I mean _half_ a Scaramucci is a world class level of incompetence

Aaaand scene: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

honestly the lettuce won this one by a country mile

ah yes, (((not good looking)))

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Zelensky trolling Trump hard at the Warsaw Security Forum: “Why doesn’t America make a diesel deal with Ukraine? It's up to us whether these refineries work or not.”

We still don't talk about the way medically transitioning trans boys and transmasc nonbinary kids are the primary focus of the moral panic over trans kids.

Hey remember when courts started deciding that if you buy your kid a gun and they use it to kill a bunch of people that you are also legally responsible? Anyway just thinking about that for no reason.

Back on my bullshit, trying to convince politicians and famous people to go on X last, if at all. The ask: Until every vote is counted, get your news somewhere other than X. Then ask the people running for office to publish it somewhere else too.

Even though Walz got consultant'd into ditching 'weird' these people are still very weird.

the true moral of this nasa story is this: if you present anything as a choice to management, be it testing or other safety critical work, they will see it as optional, and will default to saying no doing anything more than the minimum best practice means taking more responsibilities for delays

I, too, love to purchase companies older than most nations, with names that are known to multiple generations of people all over the world, and then get rid of the names and replace them with the name of a thing nobody gives a shit about.

It is simply disqualifying of the Greens that this motion was given oxygen, never mind voted through

The Crown was good actually

wild to think that mere weeks ago a bunch of sTAteGiSTs thought you had to back a dodgy dude wtih a nazi tattoo on his chest to defeat this women