a thing i will never get over is how little interest any of these wannabe tech oligarchs have in anything resembling class or grace or leadership or respectability; they’re all content to behave like pigs wallowing in shit in public, without even giving it a second thought

I see what they did there

Not to get too overly Cartesian about it, but simply being able to reflect on your thoughts and feelings proves that introspection exists. If it didn't, you wouldn't have any concrete sense of self This is like suggesting that imagination doesn't exist. It makes no sense in practice

Excellent. This was a phenomenally foolish and short-sighted policy

Even though it’s a fairly standard remedy for wrongful dismissal, I always find reinstatement such a wild option 9 times out of 10, the relationship between the two parties will be so badly damaged at this point that the individual won’t *want* to go back I’m curious to see what Gill does

"could you make the headline sound like I fuck my dog? perfect thanks"

I remain amazed that companies allow this at all. It’s an absolute nightmare for data protection - the amount of sensitive info I’ve overheard because someone is shouting it into their headphones in the middle of a cafe…

I find some of these comments oddly incompatible with Starmer’s background, as well as some of his earlier political writings I wonder to what extent him being a bit of a closed book allows him to be read as careless, cold or “intellectually incurious”

Daily Star wasn't a fan but I still persist

Essentially my entire experience of Thailand. Every restaurant (correctly) ID'd me as the whitest man alive, and refused to serve me anything vaguely spicy, despite my repeated asks

The newsroom nerd in me would love a read on the logistics and conversations involved in trying to get this signed off by the managing editors

Everyone in Westminster is too online

This is the problem with markets reacting to what Trump says, rather than and sort of empirical reality: it persuades him he can basically bullshit his way out of the situation by lying that everything is fine

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

Steve Hilton? The Fox News commentator?

One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.

POV you are meeting Bluesky mutuals in real life

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

Not the DOGE boys, surely? They seemed like such upstanding guys!

shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dog’s poop is bad. we live in a society, act like it!

I'm keen to here what Muslims in the UK think, but this seems like a reasonably well-constructed definition? It protects individuals, while still allowing for criticism of the concepts of Islam That seems compatible with what most groups have been asking for

How do you explain to someone that they actually need to know something about an issue in order to understand it?

The last 12 hours has very much felt like a textbook case of ‘Trump the projection’, wherein markets, the press and public cast onto the president the narrative they desire - rather than objective reality Yes, he said the war would end “very soon”, but he also said the opposite in the same speech

A fascinatingly textbook case of corporate comms from Hasbro’s CEO, in that this sounds coherent on its face, but falls apart the second you think about it You’re not really “separating the art from the artist” when you’re still paying the artist for their work

also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy

I'm pretty sure this is a breach of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code under rule 3.2

If this goes on for another week, I basically expect the West-aligned Arab states to look at the Trump admin and go to one-another

This is a profoundly strange piece, in that it provides no contemporary examples to support its argument, nor any tangible policy suggestions "We used to be more socially conservative, actually" is not a relevant conversation to be having. There's no evidence this demographic even still exists

An interesting change, and potentially quite a positive one, given the great job ORMS did converting The Standard hotel in Kings Cross

Have said it before, but I think there’ll be something of a bell curve in popularity with Badenoch In short bursts she looks outspoken and principled, but past a certain level of exposure it becomes very apparent she’s just a reactionary and, crucially, unpleasant

This man is a legitimate fruitcake. How anyone takes his views seriously is beyond me

this dog sat across from me in the train and the whole ride I tried to get him to look at me. he finally did after 1.5 hr

Mathias Dopfner is a Trump Administration brown-noser, and AS's track record with non-German outlets is mixed (hello Business Insider), but this is probably the most reasonable outcome The Telegraph could have hoped for

My philosophy of British political comms is to essentially treat all voters as 'aspirant middle class', largely because: 1) What's left of the working class aspire to be middle class 2) The middle class and above self-ID as working class

This is an…interesting decision in the current product environment

Bro, they used your model to help bomb schoolgirls. What are you doing??

The Westminster/Legacy Media response to this conflict has been absolutely baffling, given where the public, quite obviously, are on the issue It can't all by a by-product of stewing on X, surely?

Shoutout to this guy on Reddit for: a) creating a detailed paper trail of his private vending machine business, and how he plans to install one on university property b) getting caught by said university, which he's a student at, for installing said vending machine

Further proof that Paddington is the Grim Reaper: his presence becomes more acutely felt as you get older

I have to say, I find this format of posting your own QT from Twitter on here as an image - but also then adding in exactly the same text above it - quite odd

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

I suspect this'll become the go-to laptop for about 90% of university students moving forward

Given both the sales and technical performance of the PC ports, I think this makes sense - Sony is in a strong enough market position, currently, that it can afford to make such a move

Someone really needs to introduce Kemi Badenoch to the concept of public polling