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Stop trying to make things better

We need people to stop divorcing middle-aged comedians, our culture can't take the brunt of this

Amen

This week I witnessed experienced developers almost rage quit when having to code review the AI slop the new batch of juniors produce. Individual productivity != net productivity.

Whisper it, but a more meritocratic capitalism has drained the pool of capable public servants in a way that simply didn’t happen back in the days of sclerotic dynasties

This is kind of wonderful, Alison Brown wrangled a handful of pretty decent old bluegrass guys to play “Old Town Road”. Nas X’s impact… immeasurable youtu.be/a_GCX5IoCds

One step closer to the ur-treat, the treat that contains all treats within it

Love how the rest of the country has just decided to pretend that Essex doesn’t exist. And beyond… Beyond what?

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Finally found a corner of the house where I can keep my guitar out on a nice little stand. Rest of family unimpressed. ”The hamster is not even cold in the ground yet”, they say.

I think I honestly have about as much insight and understanding of the thinking of supreme court justices as I do of the mullahs of Iran

Why did I ever go to VisionExpress!? What an idiot I am.

"You've worked hard all your life accruing all that wealth via soaring house prices and nice defined-benefit pensions, and we think it's wrong for the state to touch it via inheritance tax. But it's totally fine for the government to deny your 24-year-old kid support based off of it"

fan, fruktkorgsmaffian finns överallt nu för tiden

Mäktighet, dräktighet, präktighet! IYKYK

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Trump misstating and touting a meaningless deal over Greenland, while the entire Middle East security architecture falls apart due to his own actions, is emblematic of this administration’s foreign policy.

Ah, now that the queen is dead, is it?

Remember the deal was: you give up collective bargaining and provisions to protect you in unemployment or ill health, and you gain cheap goods, social mobility and a house? And now nothing works, everything is expensive, the public realm is visibly degraded and about ten guys own the whole world.

Someone tried to be clever again and it didn’t work. People need to stop and ask themselves: will my users/customers/clients want this to be clever, or would they prefer it to be predictable?

My new electronic keyboard can play a vast multitude of backing accompaniments - rock, calypso, bossa nova etc. So I will not encourage my children to learn how to play music, a skill that will likely be obsolete in a few years from now.

I am SO going to repurpose this argument in defence of sacking Lindisfarne

On this topic: basic canteen style cutlery is unbeatable, why do we keep trying with fancier stuff?

mfw my employer donated to the ballroom fund but I have to hit "i understand" during anti-bribery training.

gonna start a conspiracy theory that it's actually linear algebra itself that makes people start believing head-slappingly cockamamie pseudo-religious nonsense, like people think studying the nature of infinity makes you lose it wait'll you hear about positive semidefinite matrices

…would call ‘do-gooders’ - a hugely revealing insult if ever there was one. But it’s just not in the arsenal any more, because the mainstream British right wing has an unearned victimhood complex visible from the moon. Never has the world witnessed such a gaggle of whinging, self-pitying arseholes.

Remember the McDonalds interview guy? He was wrong on so many counts but this was an important aspect of life he understood very clearly

”A wealth tax will drive out investment” has got to be the most bullshit argument ever, capital in aggregate is institutional and international, and no country is going to be better off for having the idiot failsons of billionaires soaking up labour for pointless luxury

I did not ask for this gift of prophecy (or basic observation).

So many times I have thought this

The kind of holiday day when the kids have loads of fun and go to sleep excited, exhausted, and happy. Priceless.

I'm sorry but "a huge number of NYC cabs now are remaindered EVs running grey market software written by some dude in a garage" is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever heard

One of the weirdest culture shock moments I’ve had was, after a long time in London, visiting Vienna and being waited on by actual grownups and not just minimum wage 20-somethings swarming to the big city

You know who wasn't hounded to suicide for dodgy academic research? ANDREW FUCKING WAKEFIELD.

The way the UK gets hung up on the quality of its high streets really highlights the dearth of nice public spaces in general

I do worry that when a proper economic downturn comes, we have built the perfect social media infrastructure for fomenting insane amounts of class hatred. And I’m kind of a pro-guillotine guy.

I’m not there yet but we are very much on a journey from ”Linux might be fun, but probably not worth the hassle” to ”Linux certainly won’t be fun, but still worth the hassle”

No no no it must be that you open a seemingly closed section and there’s a creepy guy just standing there

Having just forced my way through another Faulkner novel, I’m not sure ”easier to read and digest” is always where the value lies

*stares* like someone who has spent far too many hours lining up interest rate curves for pricing meeting-to-meeting swaps

If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

I was not really confident in anything before having them and it turns out I was correct

And how much they smell. Being at a gas station after a year of EV ownership is like being in a smokers car a few years after quitting.

I’d be more interested in knowing the total amount of gold than the weight of the heaviest individual bar, but then English is not my first language