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Yes, everyone uses his repo, he is not some unknown, he is a load-bearing part of the internet.

Democracy works!

Inflation is out of control...

it’s just great marketing

When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important

🎶 Glaciers melting at the dead of night 🎶

You've been hearing the story about how Dolly Parton turned down Elvis when his people demanded a chunk of her royalty rights in exchange for recording "I Will Always Love You". That reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long time. The guy who actually put the ask on Dolly was a ...

The Great Impotence Myth? Scientists seek to determine whether erectile dysfunction is real or a social construct, and speculate that the older generation may be turning to pills simply because they're too lazy to google big jiggly butts any more. Channel 4 asks: how hard can it be?

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

there is no good faith anti-trans sports lobby and never has been it’s been a cynical wedge issue from day one for a group of people looking to replace gay marriage as a cultural weapon none of them have ever cared about women, women’s sports, or even sports

Bus conductor, before he died of his WW1 wounds

“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say

One of the very few positives of the Empire was that a lot of people who looked like this died of malaria, or while cavalry-charging a volcano.

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A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

I’ve been listening to papers’ and magazines’ politics podcasts for years and I can confirm that the issue here is not “the public can’t explain to journalists why they don’t like Keir Starmer”. The hacks clearly don’t like the reasons they’re hearing, but there is no public reluctance to explain.

the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

It's 2040. Net emigration is 2 million a year. The elderly are dying in the beds without care. The NHS is on the verge of collapse. Matthew Syed and Camilla Long write weekly columns about how the left won't talk about immigration.

Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.

Broughty Ferry

The target Labour voter, as @duncanrobinson.bsky.social has pointed out, is someone who was born in the 1950s, worked in a manual occupation, married young, bought their council house in the 80s and died during the COVID pandemic

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

they've discovered another brontë - the first new brontë since the discovery of branwell in 1936. but this is particularly exciting since literary critics were pretty sure that additional brontës were impossible - all the rooms had been mapped in haworth parsonage, there was simply no space

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

If Charles Goodhart's 'global labour supply theory of everything' is right (and it's been borne out by events in the 2020s) then tight immigration policy will be very costly. www.ft.com/content/1701...

Sick of the relentless adult content I see on Bluesky: back pain, interest rates, tax brackets, that noise you make when you stand-up sometimes.

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

This is good and my only quibble, again, is that the problem here is not a failure of understanding: they know that they’re probably not going to succeed by trying to impress the most hardcore racist reactionaries *and* they would rather try and get crushed by our new far right masters, than go away

Sorry to hear about Jeff Bezos's rocket exploding prematurely. A good technique to prevent that from happening is to try thinking about something you find totally unarousing or even repulsive, like giving workers a living wage or paying a fair share of taxes.

I used to stay up half the night playing mid-90s video games, reading books or watching TV. Watching TV at a time when there were only two or three channels broadcasting.

You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.