John Speakman

Working on a theory to explain why the more luxe the neighbourhood is, the crappier the Morrisons there is. Is opening a Morrisons a sign of gentrification and the shiny new ones are in places where it's in the early stages? Or does having a down-at-heel Morrisons help keep the riff raff away?

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Aux HLM .. NANTERRE inside LES TOURS NUAGES cité PABLO PICASSO

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It is now 311 days since Epstein Files Transparency Act mandated full release of Epstein Files—and they're still not released. Never before has an innocent person refused to release facts that would exonerate them from accusations of rape, sex trafficking, and being a PDFile. Sounds quite guilty.

"The short-termism of universities burning through their social licence neatly parallels the roll out of the resource-hungry, carbon intensive data centres on which AI depends. In both cases, the underlying philosophy might be rendered as après moi, le déluge (after me, the flood)"

I found this story very compelling, perhaps because it is, as the title says, Far, Far Away (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

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🧪 A new study found care recommended by LLMs costs 3.2x more than plans from treating physicians ($314 vs. $97 per visit at Medicare rates). Across 200 real clinical encounters, AI ordered 5.6x more specialist referrals and nearly 2x as many new medications. #MedSky

"Same foods" are another reason why parents should be seeking autistic wisdom: Otherwise how would one know how important same foods can be for a very young and/or nonspeaking autistic child? And how great is the risk that that same child's distress over food gets dismissed as "autistic behavior"?

I don’t understand the notion of pardons. If they did whatever they were accused of, which acceptance of a pardon implies, surely the only morally acceptable way to get them off is to say what they did shouldn’t be a crime in the first place? Aware how incredibly naive this must sound.

Seems like this should have been a bigger news story. Spouse says “no wonder the shops are so full during the week” pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/gu...

A reminder that James Baldwin and Richard Avedon were high school friends who worked together on their school's literary magazine and then collaborated on a 1964 book, Nothing Personal, with text by Baldwin & photos by Avedon

Morning all. Photographer Michael Goodger. Woman in pink sweeping the street in Salford 1969.

FEDWATCH: “.. the ‘weighted average cost of capital,’ .. has jumped to more than 15 percent for neoclouds, Hyperscalers, .. in a synchronized move. .. .. investors are realizing that ‘monetization’ could be challenged by the cost of capital, which is now breaking away from .. Treasury yields.”

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Audrey Hepburn shopping in a supermarket in LA with her pet deer (1958). 📷 Bob Willoughby

once in awhile I get bumped up to the fancy part of the airplane and as a person who studies auditory perception for a living, I am always struck by how spaces for the wealthy are in general very quiet

View over Luskentyre

godard arrested while filming the riots in paris, may 1968

once again I'm posting Harold Wilson's "Little Things That Mean A Lot" memo and list because I genuinely think a lot more politicians should have a copy of it pinned up next to their desk

An important reminder 🏳️‍⚧️

Ashley Hinson claims Josh Turek supports "allowing kids to change their gender at school and not tell the parents about it" (This literally has never happened! Not once!)

I needed to know what day the semester ends at my own university; it only took me a web search and 8 separate clicks to find

Go ed, lad.

Bollocks to this. Put the heating on.

However I might be just cool enough to appreciate the Cabs. The rerelease of Code feels/smells of the depths of the Leadmill and the Warehouse (not bad places to be at the time, or at least I was happy there). +1 for Sherwood twanginess and the erudite beauty of His Holiness Bill Nelson. RIP RHK.

Unfortunately there are people who care about trans people having rights who are not trans people themselves and I’m sure that the number will suddenly grow exponentially post election when candidates have lost and you’re looking for someone to blame that isn’t the candidates themselves

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Likewise New York. No space for umbrellas, and rain there often comes with wind that will shred your umbrella in three seconds. Raincoat technology is quite good.

I have regretfully concluded, and I mean this with no snark at all, the music of A Certain Ratio will always be cooler than I can ever be. I like it, but I feel I am always scratching its surface. And as for jazz, forget about it.

Kitt Peak National Observatory image of Arp 104, also known as NGC 5216 and NGC 5218, or Keenan’s System. A bridge of stars and gas about 7,000 light years wide and 150,000 light years long connects the two galaxies. Credit: NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, T.A. Rector, H. Schweiker Source

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

This iconic view disappears forever next week. So for posterity, have this timelapse trip down Oxford Street from the top deck of the bus I’ll miss it, but also looking forward to pedestrianisation

What we need is some sort of transitional justice process in the United States a reckoning through truth and reconciliation, which will take years, but has to start now. 1/

Ilkley Moor 'boulder' house approved after planning appeal

Morning all. Photographer John Bulmer, The Alexandra Park (lonely pub) Manchester 1976.

Party at the Edge of the World🎀 Type 2🎂 #art #illustration

Strawberry Switchblade in No.1 magazine, 1985.

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

"Murder is to me no special category," [said the Devil.] "All sins are murder, even as all life is war. I behold your race, like starving mariners on a raft, plucking crusts out of the hands of famine and feeding on each other’s lives." - Robert Louis Stevenson, "Markheim" 🎨Lynd Ward #BookWormSat

It might be a bit more complicated. The remarkable thing about the United States is that people pulling in this kind of big money don’t feel safe, however cushy their life seems to others. Feeling secure in the States is reserved for the truly obscenely wealthy, i.e., the billionaires.

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ok, fine, hand me the blond wig, I'll be the press secretary