Any takers for the Greens? We're one short of a full set

It’s OK. Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are waiting for him.

Timeline bingo win.

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Lancelot had a less ambitious brother called Joustabit

A beautiful opportunity here for everyone who has ever delivered a hectoring, stentorian lecture on the non-negotiable obligation to support nations that are illegally attacked by belligerent rogue states. March right out there now and do it all just the same as last time.

"That's my seat, buddy, and when I say 'ex cathedra', I mean it."

The fire in Hong Kong is horrible and devastating. One thing I observe, in comparison to the Grenfell fire here, is that within three days, authorities have arrested 11 people, directors and top brass. I don't believe anyone, much less top brass, from Grenfell have faced charges, eight years later.

I appreciate that it is difficult for senior political figures to acknowledge that the Israeli military routinely murders civilians for sport, but that is how it is.

War criminal Henry Kissinger died on this day two years ago. It’s another opportunity to recall Anthony Bourdain’s thoughts on the esteemed American statesman.

Northwestern:

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Really fascinating which one of these the media has seized upon

Send him a camán you cowards!

Kernewek, the Cornish language, will be recognised alongside Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic after the UK Government recommended it for Part III status - the highest level of protection under European treaty

If you know any Italians, send them this. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A controversial opinion in the UK: having a standard emails job then sitting in a house you bought for a song and watching it rise exponentially in value due to political choices that have nothing to do with you is not it fact “working very hard to get what you have”

This would be a great cover for a certain kind of Van Morrison album.

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

I have received an emailed with the subject line Call For Papers - Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15% including references. (2) The article is within the scope of the journal. (3) The article is original and result-oriented.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

I like this idea but for real, once we open the jar marked “prosecuting public officials for senseless murder of foreigners” there is no putting the lid back on, and doing that is going to implicate many of our faves.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Worm (garden) Hedgehog (flat as a pancake A470) Dog (loads of different ones) Seagull (nicked my chips) Welsh Dragon (ate some mushrooms a bloke who looked like Gandalf gave me)

I’d add: the core of the case against the left 2015-2019 was that we all hated Israel irrationally, and that us believing they were gearing up to exterminate the Palestinians was the real world manifestation of our insane ideology. How is that looking now? Does it look like it’s us that fucked it.

is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend

Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Pasta (1998-1999): Canned pasta in a tomato/cheese sauce from Franco-American, shaped like weapons, a castle, and a dragon from the short-lived Fox Kids action-fantasy series from Saban, which was set in ancient Ireland

Important to understand that this is both 1) true and 2) the same thing as directly accusing most MPs and politics journalists of being actively complicit in genocide, the crime that made the Nazis the most detested people in history. Also, 2) is absolutely correct, they are.

Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"

Nobody can guarantee you a child without a disability, they can be acquired and discovered all through childhood. It's better for everyone if we focus research on making life accessible for all than intentionally blurring the line between disease and difference

With the internet becoming ever more unreliable, I wonder if anyone will publish known facts and general knowledge in a book or, rather, multiple books, everything in alphabetical order, safely printed on paper so it can’t be changed on the sly. Numbered spines would be a plus.

If the whole world did an Albania, Youtube would be usable again.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

it's interesting how both parties voting to condemn socialism has only made it more popular? I wonder if there's a popular apocryphal quote ascribed to Gandhi about that....

“Analysis... has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls. A significant number of A320 Family aircraft currently in-service which may be impacted.” Currently ~3,000 airborne A320 family aircraft. www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...

Irish tech journalism has precisely three articles: 1. Oisin McMusk has raised $118m for his GraphQL- powered AI-enabled dogball shaver. 2. A panel on why the technology they have in their LinkedIn headlines isn't going away! 3. CatballShaver's CEO, on why he expects revenue to triple next month.

“If we handed in stuff that was AI-generated, we would be kicked out of the uni, but we’re being taught by an AI,” said James during a confrontation with his lecturer recorded as a part of the course in October 2024. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Grogans could go critical round closing time.

With 6.5 poets per acre, Ireland is especially vulnerable www.wired.com/story/poems-...

Happy Buy Nothing Day!

If we're stuck with Teams, we need to improve the "raise a hand" function. If you want to ask a question, you should press a button to raise a hand. If you want to offer a comment rather than a question, you should press a button to make a hand come out the screen and slap you in the face.

How have Sheffield University management contrived to turn an easily resolvable dispute into something approaching MAB-like levels of crisis? From a pre-strike offer that could have been patched up into something that worked, to threatening a lockout from 5 January. I despair.

Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus: @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Sweating at Heathrow border control because I’ve swallowed 15 copies of uncut Intermezzo

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Reminded of a tale from reenactment forums: Blacksmith: *makes nails* Public: what rubbish, they didn't have nails in them days! Blacksmith: quite right, sir, they gaffer-taped Our Lord to the Cross..

If you want to make politics more intellectual again, you need the media to accept that viewpoint diversity doesn't just mean giving Nigel Farage an automatic right of reply. You also need to get beyond chortling when your mate sneers at someone like Jeremy Corbyn for rating Ulysses.

Cuimnidh ar Luimneach agus ar feall na Sasanach!

"Who's the wanker in the black?"