Ok so who can help me get access to a nytimes article by uh, let’s just say, unorthodox means now that they’ve throttled the archive

Great article—if you want to know why so many universities, even across oceans, are singing the same tune, look to the consultants selling them the same plans! I like this point that the same-ness distills down to the department and class level too. we all become fungible units.

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Millennial cringe never died, it just embedded itself into parenting content

I hope Adam McKay is preparing a lovely warm bath for Ed when he has to explain this to a general audience in a few years time.

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The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

Real honour to write something for one of my favourite newsletters, on how anti-Muslim politics is really the only thing left for many of the Wests right wing (and even left wing) political parties

every one of these guys would be the hugest loser you've ever met if there wasn't a massive makework program for men willing to act on their most sadistic impulses in this country

There was a writer in a workshop I attended earlier this year who used AI in his submissions. It caused a lot of controversy, and debate about the value of his own work. But what separated him from the rest of us was that he didn’t really see writing a novel as an artistic endeavour

Something I’ve been thinking about recently is the devaluation of ragebait. I saw a Paul Joseph Watson video show up in my feed recently after 2 years of not even thinking about him. He still gets a lot of views but they’re paltry compared to what they were in the late 2010s and at the start of 2020

Today @hkesvani.bsky.social writes on how Islamophobia is no longer just a piece of the Western right's playbook but its entire animating principle. www.welcometohellworld.com/a-pernicious...

Saw this on an infographic so take it with a pinch of salt, but I just read that Professor Jiang actually has a canadian accent and didn't learn mandarin until he was in college, which is to say, he might also be putting on an accent?

Was listening to Mehdi Hasan run rings around Konstantin Kisin, which also serves as an insight into the current crisis facing some right-wing influencers who ascended as 'public intellectuals' by exploiting online culture wars, and now clueless about things actually happening in reality

looking at the pothole and shaking my head so everyone knows i disagree with it.

“The Islamo-left” is a straight up fascist conspiracy theory but let’s not pretend that it is not exactly what’s been lurking at the bottom of the pond that most of our parliamentarians and media figures have been frolicking and splashing in, at least since the Iraq War went Kaboom live on TV.

Ok but hear me out. there should be a soup reviews magazine

More bluntly: this whole thing was a bleak fraud and a heist against democracy cooked up by McSweeney and Labour Together; it only succeeded because our horrible media outlets 100% bought in; everyone else was dragged along against their will. Now it can’t be denied, there’s nothing else there.

At what point do we acknowledge that criticising the "Israeli government" isn't enough and that stuff like this is intrinsic to the state's understanding of how it survives www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

People like Matt Goodwin talk about "western values" and the importance of a "judeo christian culture", and really make white people look really weird and like dorks, when it would be much more appealing to build a political movement around the revival of nu metal and grunge rappers

in many ways I am really the Francis Foster of the Trashfuture podcast

Imagine you only do this when things are going well and you aren't getting madder and redder every day

there has never been an article ive hit the link on harder than this

Reactions to yesterdays march from GBN/Talk TV etc really is more bizarre and shrieking than usual

i know posts are just posts but it is genuinely demoralizing to see people on here often more upset about "the aipac tracker" and trying to start discourse about *that*, than they are about all the hundreds of thousands of dead and mutilated real, actual people

I see that Nick Timothy is still complaining about the apparent gender disparity and over representation of men at the Trafalgar Square Ramadan prayers, yet he is oddly silent about the same thing occurring at this weeks GEESE concert

They should get Jared Leto to play Leto II in the Dune sequels. I want to see how Jared Leto would method act being a big worm

You can say the dumbest possible thing but if you set up a fake podcast studio and have the interstellar music in the background you can get loads of people on instagram tell you you’re a genius

Who is spending this weekend making a shrimp foam while their partner is out of the house for a few hours

Convinced we could blow up every LLM by asking it what the final battle scene in TENET was about and who they soldiers were fighting

Going to fellas poker night with the Yu Gi Oh duel disk. Everyone groans at my shit

Hey it’s probably good that my one year old just took a swig of my coffee right

genuinely fascinating that we’ve hit a point where the full monetization of the internet and ai bot takeover has led to a majority of people wanting tech minimalism

I wonder if that Turkish guy will get into a shoot out with ICE agents

Genuinely very funny that despite Matt Goodwin being employed by GB news, they decided to run a whole segment about how bad his self-published book is

I remember how the press reacted when Johnson refused to lock down or really do anything before the second wave, just before the vaccine arrived: Half of them roaring him on to crush the scum, the other half muttering darkly about how there would be Hell to pay, for Boris’s non-specific crimes.

HBO should have filmed the new Harry Potter in the same way as Euphoria

After much reflection and after it became clear to me that some UN seniors are serving a powerful lobby and not the UN, I’ve decided to suspend my duties I cannot in good conscience be part to what is happening at a time when UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use May God bless this world

I really love my son and all the light and joy he brings to my life but I’ll be real, last night as he was screaming at me I did disassociate and imagine myself nodding my head gently at the Geese show along with my other balding brethren

Excited to announce this new project. I’ve been keeping it under wraps for a while but I’m excited to spend a little time with Angela Rayner each week as we watch episodes from the seminal 2005 series HOUSE

Maybe they should have put on a better play. Bet you didn’t think about that

Saw a guy in fashionable wide trousers and a corduroy gilet on the tube the other day reading a big copy of BERSERK. Brother I hope you achieve your goal of getting on hotdudesreading instagram account

Everything from Camden Market to the Admiral Duncan pub and central London Harry Potter stores are owned by shell companies in tax havens. For years, they hid the identities of their real owners. Today, @andrewkersley.bsky.social pulls back the curtain.

One of the most horrifying things that happened to me was seeing a play where one of the actors stared directly at me on my phone and started shaking their head

Something else about this (and yes, what I’m about to describe is under the paywall… paying for journalism helps keep it alive) piece We’d confirmed that in recent days Trump has been making snide, genuinely annoyed comments in private about jd vance and tulsi, that they weren’t warmongering hard…

I love flexing on other parents on world book day. While they send their kids dressed up as Harry or Ron, I send my kid into school as the IRS Video tape from David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel “the pale king”

this is a good point. also there is a not insignificant number of people who associate harry potter with the odd tax-dodging gift shops in london that also sell vapes and boxes of oreo cereal. which I imagine must really be quite thrilling for JKR

I know the new harry potter will flop because nobody is being weird or inappropriate about the children they've cast

My favourite part about the HBO Harry Potter is that it’s got the shitty lighting and colour grading

Miss Rachel may have a hold on a lot of kids around the world but there’s one thing I can do which she can’t, which is to force my son to watch a sock puppet version of Seven Samurai