Looking forward to finding out how I feel about it when Spurs do or don't get relegated later today #COYS

In the event that when I die someone says "he had a good innings", I'd like it on record that in fact I did not have a good innings; in fact this innings kind of sucked arse

I don't use AI to help me find information that I can then check more easily than I could find it myself, but sometimes when I'm struggling to find something I do reach the point where if I did use AI for this it'd be worth a try. Not sure why I don't. It's not about water resources or whatever

Last time someone noticed a silly coincidence like this we discovered plate tectonics

'and now i'm going down the rabbit hole...'—karl marx, 1867

there's a burger chain in toronto that sells "california style" burgers, which means that the buns are inverted. not a thing in california. im losing my mind at how stupid this fuckin burger looks. i can't believe they sell this as a regional specialty.

the hungry observatory

Millennials: we have got to start talking up the Financial Crisis. The Greatest Generation dined out on the Great Depression for 80 years. If we’re not all out there talking about how we had to have five roommates and sell our plasma to buy ringtones I’m worried we’ll be missing our shot

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Elon is a seven-hundred-billionaire now; guess people must be pretty excited about the SpaceX IPO www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

Random fun fact there’s an old German canon (from before 1846) instructing kids not to drink coffee because it weakens their nerves and makes them pale. We learned it at school.

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

Bullshit Jobs, by David Graeber, by Lydia Davis

Israel has kept attacking Lebanon so maybe the US can't just stop them doing their war crimes at any moment after all

while i wasn't posting on this account i published a couple papers. here's one where i argue that explanatory adaptationism is distinct in kind from empirical and methodological adaptationism

On Newsnight, fall in net migration was attributed "spectacular ... Shabana Mahmood at Home Office obviously making some real changes happen there" by Helen MacNamara, former dep Cabinet Secretary. Net migration data (Jan-Dec 2025) not impacted by Mahmood becoming Home Sec on 6th Sept 2025

Getting the sense that it'll probably be fine on TV but a bit of a bust in person

If you are a philosopher and you have a blog (can be about anything, fiction too), please tell me. I'm making a bluesky list so that I can find these blogs easily: I'd love to read your stuff! #philsky #philtwit bsky.app/profile/pier...

is there a meme that's like obama handing himself a medal, but instead of a medal it's the fell for it again award pin? bc that's where I am mentally

Perfect

Is Olivia Rodrigo in her Phoebe Bridgers era?

soon the government will be nothing but twelve marco rubios in a trenchcoat

After transitioning more than 20 years ago, never once having a problem in a public toilet in any of the 15+ countries I have visited or lived in since, it really is jarring to have the government encourage my total removal from public life. But I will not change how I live at all.

“necessarily have negative attitudes” my brother in casuistry THOSE ARE THE NEGATIVE ATTITUDES

"Mayor attends huge local sporting event and doesn't even get comped seats or sit in the best spot" is such a hilarious way to try to burn someone, really nypost.com/2026/05/22/u...

It is however very much possible to adapt a great film into an even greater novel

Ladies First review – Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike come last in one-joke Netflix comedy

London

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

So were all these so-called polymaths also good at sports

Here is an #openaccess article of mine on philosophical method in Alexander of Aphrodisias: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #philsky #philosophy #ancientphilosophy

Green party candidate for Makerfield byelection quits after less than 12 hours

Lovely bit of graphing

Olga Tokarczuk has said some more about how she does and doesn't use AI in her writing lithub.com/olga-tokarcz...

Fencebook Marketplace

An actual ‘tough on crime’ thing that would be huge would be expanding the liability that Amazon and Facebook marketplace have for all the shady shit sold via them.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 has made more money than any MCU movie released last year. At $546M earned it’s beaten "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" ($522M), "Thunderbolts*" ($382M), and "Captain America: Brave New World" ($415M). The end of an era.

Keeps happening

I certainly didn't think they'd mind if she ruined everything and thought creating a rightwing propaganda outlet liberals trust as much as they trusted CBS before she took over was just an unrealistic stretch goal

Pizza is trending, so I have to tell you all: I found out 48 hours ago that there is such a thing as “Saskatchewan Style” pizza. When It saw these photos, my reaction was “My God, Saskatchewan. What have you done.” My partner’s reaction: “You know where our next road trip needs to be.”

One of Trump's genuine superpowers was his ability to bail out of any of the many, many problems he himself caused and reality somehow accommodating him more or less on his own terms through sheer force of BS. The Iran war is fascinating because it's the first time he's been unable to do so.

I'm sure the French peasant claim is disprovable but in an attempt to disprove it trivially I typed "how many hours a week did medieval french peasants work" into the search box and the second result was a thing from MIT titled "Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's"

"Somehow, Palpatine returned" is a line I use as a GM when I don't have an explanation for something I just did and people hate it

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

I'm an immovable doomer about meaningful human life if AI progress hits no limits. Yeah we'll have sports, intimacy, learning, and experience, but imo a world where the development of each and the development of all can't interact is not a world

"a colt is my passport" incredibly badass movie title. but a disastrously wrong thing to say at the airport

i'm an ai booster in the sense that i hope ai breaks the philosophy journal system into a million pieces and none of us ever has to waste time on this stupid nonsense ever again

What's really cool is spending your free time filling in YouGov surveys