This is the foreign policy version of “Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?”

Guy who has only seen Andor, reading this obituary: Getting a lot of "Andor" vibes from this.

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

Tortured by the thought that my nemesis on LinkedIn puzzles doesn't even know she's my nemesis, as she always does them earlier than me. LinkedIn puzzlers will understand.

Reviving my annual book thread: some of the books I read in 2025. 1. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. Good insubstantial fun. I coincidentally visited Monterey this year, Cannery Row is now just a strip of tourist shops.

I support a rules based immigration system. Immigrants rule. Let them in.

Spending Stephenses's Day in Microsoft Windows country.

Literally a genre-defining thread.

So many people refuse to believe this, even though we've had Facebook as a live experiment for like 20 years. In part this may be because media types get a lot of pushback from anonymous posters and generalise this into a universal internet phenomenon.

Yeah I'm DTF

I've watched this clip so many times that I now can't register the fact that it's evening without thinking of the Cowboy's incredible delivery of the line "Beautiful evening". youtu.be/GekiIMh4ZkM?...

If you see this, post a comics cover you love.

If you don't consider Die Hard a Christmas film, that's ok, but then neither is Home Alone. I don't make the rules.

Uniqlo accidentally dropped a new version of the Drake meme

RIP Tom Stoppard, to whom I credit my brief career as a theatre poster designer.

I don't see how this relationship can survive.

Incredible to claim Bjorn Lomborg as an "early survivor of cancel culture" when he's one of the best exemplars of whatever the opposite of cancel culture is: endlessly platformed, impossible to avoid despite no expertise, continuous errors, nobody asked etc etc

Repost to bless your timeline

No government can "stop the boats" so if this logic is followed every government will lose the next election until the UK ends up with the government out of "Children of Men".

David: *plays a secret chord* The Lord:

Furthermore public transit teaches you how to live with temporary minor annoyances and cars teach you that you're god's most special baby and your moment-to-moment comfort is the only important thing in the world

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Thank you #BusConnects for finally laying on a more or less door-to-door service from my work to home. Takes three times as long as cycling but great to have the option on a rainy day.

Askeaton is front page news in the @nytimes.com today

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Anyone else playing this? It's ace. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in 04:32 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Some great Beastie Boys lore here

it's not FOR us

This short clip has two of the all-time great Simpsons lines: - "I am familiar with the work of Pablo Neruda" - "Way to breathe, no-breath" as well as a top-tier Itchy & Scratchy AND Homer getting caught in the stairs. youtu.be/Qw38qcQq1po?...

This morning I read the article from @irishtimes.com and rang & wrote to them to ask for a correction. They corrected the headline, and the article author @conorpope.bsky.social wrote back to confirm that it had changed. I opened up the app this evening and it’s wrong again.

This is not harmless by the way - I don't have a heat pump (yet) so I assumed this warning didn't apply to me. But I have had a new circulation pump installed in past 8 years. The effectiveness of this recall will be directly impacted by shoddy media reporting.

Incredible - all the reporting on this I've heard called them "heat pumps". Never ascribe to malice and all that but it does feel like somebody thought "heat pump" was more newsworthy than "water pump"

Radio: They've killed the golden goose. Me (for the millionth time, as my family groans): At least the goose that lays the golden eggs is ok.

Will we never be set free? #aras25

I'm not a big fan of Part 8 being picked out from the rest of the 18 hours for special attention. It's a beautiful hour of TV but it's part of a magnificent whole (also Part 11 is even better).

Gen X once again the forgotten generation - we barely got to take on the cringe-posting baton from boomers before Millenials step in.

Great title

Interesting feedback from my teenagers going into second year of school #phoneban. They never objected to the ban itself but say all the rules/admin/enforcement around it have made school feel less fun. Interested to know if others have heard the same.

Terminate... with extreme pride and prejudice

Repost if you recognise this as the creepiest frame in the entire history of cinema

*Second* funniest conceivable bribe amount.

100 years of Americans not knowing how many leaves a shamrock has ☘️

RIP Terence Stamp, I'm remembering Happy Premise #3 in your honour. youtu.be/jYQZ-RmBHpk?...

Top-class political stunt. I wonder whether any media will correct O'Leary's false claim.

Guy entering the Irish septennial muckraking championship when the media digs up some dirt about them

Ominous message from @wired.com - I'm still hoping I have many years of reading free articles ahead of me

Here's something I didn't know..... In Google Maps, if you tap on a bus stop, it shows the available routes serving the stop and a timetable for next departures. And you can view the full route to check for your handiest stop. Really convenient feature I didn't know about until this week.

Happy 250th birthday Danieli O Connello. Spotted this in Genoa last month, today I'm close to his birthplace in South West Kerry. Any other suggestions for a #DanielOConnell tour?