Simon Brunning, He/him

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

I told my wife I didn't want another dog after the grief from our last one dying. Truthfully I just can't be arsed with the other dog walkers anymore. Why is a dog an invitation for an inane chat? And no, I'm not his "dad".

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

You don’t fight fascists by pretending their ‘concerns’ are ‘legitimate’.

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

I would have gone with hanging rather than a £100 fine, but still, better than nothing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dear BBC, may I as a trans + person be invited to take part in your documentary for balance. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Exactly this. When people complained about us removing the non-dom status, they predicted a mass exodus. This of course never came because things like enforcement of contract law and a lack of gulags is actually quite attractive.

"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey quote poster spotted in Carlton, Victoria

Absolute trash, by trash people who are not scientists

Ultima V styled Middle-earth map jtauber.github.io/u5me/ Initially generated from Tolkien's maps but I've made various manual corrections. Let me know if you notice anything off. Scale is one tile/mile.

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in

I always see this cute little factoid going round and having checked the numbers... it's just not true? Games Workshop's revenue last year was £660m while the UK fishing fleet's was £1.15bn

The lengths some authors will go to to plug their new books... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

The BBC does genuinely seem to be trying to save money where it can; they scrapped an undercover investigation where Amol Rajan went out clubbing with a view to exposing the easy access to poppers because they didn't want to pay for the Amol night rate

Someone at work once asked me what my guilty pleasure was and I immediately shot back “pleasure never makes me feel guilty.” I’ve seldom felt cooler than I did in that moment. Literally one minute later I tripped on an extension cord and hit my head on a whiteboard in front of the entire office

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

(chef's kiss)

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Happy 100th birthday, #ColliersWood station!

I like that, and I can not lie.

"I don't know the answer myself, but I asked a blowhard I know and he took a wild guess, here's what he said: " How I interpret pasted replies from an LLM in online conversations

I do quite like "Nonce Goggles".

Politicians all love growth, but hate the things that create it: being in the EU, immigration, higher education and London.

I'm delighted to announce the two courses I'll be teaching here next semester: 1. Digital Tolkien 2. Applying Python for DH

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

AI is certainly unpopular but I think the “fascism! it’s great!” thing has a whole lot to do with this

Nothing Donald Trump says is any more indicative of what he's going to do than anything else. We're at the heat death of communication. It's just background noise now.

Reporting on Trump saying he's going to claim the Strait of Hormuz as American territory as if it's newsworthy feels dirty. He's a demented old man, he has no idea what he's saying.

Nigel Farage, not content with battling against a bin, has opened up a second front and is now also arguing with some toilets.

Hercules: Wow, that’s a lot of dung! Looks like they haven’t been cleaned in decades. Hmmm… Oh, hang on. What if I…? OK, am I allowed to reroute nearby rivers to clean the stables? Alex: All the information is on the task.

oh my god!!!! there's an actual answer!!!! Google Maps does hide Brighton!!!!!!! bsky.app/profile/robi...

I an willing to help with the washing up but without using my hands. Or soap. Or water www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.