Something extremely funny about trying to make an argument about much more like adults you were treated in the 1990s, the absolute high point of the "students are lazy and learning nothing" culture wars

We should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tibor Fischer's slow degeneration from serious writer to complete crank is one of the more depressing literary careers of our age

Tibor Fischer's commentary piece was much more tentative than the hubristic Telegraph sub-editors decided to project it as. (Though it does contain a silly conspiracy theory about the opinion polls). But it seems that a majority of Hungarian voters are now out-of-touch metropolitan elite!

The Home Office should really be working overtime to denaturalise every UK expat employed at the Danube Institute

"Someone else should fire bomb a Walmart"

It's not just that the nominal Secretary of State was attending UFC match as diplomatic negotiations to end a war were falling apart. It's also that he looks fucking hammered.

They were also however both produced in an era when we mostly made Confessions of a Window Cleaner

The people most fixated on qualifications in politics are those with least to show for theirs' like oh I don't know Oliver Lewis who has now spent around 20 years zig-zagging between various peripheral think tanks, campaigns and tea boy roles

it's been pretty brutal watching BlueSky get overrun by obvious scams and then having people scream about how if you don't fall for them you're pro-genocide

This is either the biggest dork shit ever or beautiful or both. Amazing: the viral pacers bickering couple were actually yakking about uh the Ben Sasse podcast and hashing out ways to rejigger liberal arts education www.si.com/nba/pacers/v...

It's this vibe.

Donating to online scammers posing as legitimate people in need is not morally neutral: You potentially are giving money to brutal slavery and human trafficking networks: www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

Oliver Postgate, producer of many children’s programs, was born 101 years ago today. His shows are, for people of a certain age, a portal to one’s childhood. Here’s Ivor the Engine. The adventures of Ivor, his driver Jones the Steam, and the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.

I keep an eye on the private markets here and there. With the caveat that it's impossible to know actual sale price as opposed to advertised price for *sure*, my best guess at the market sale price of *simply the accounts that have reposted and tagged me* in the last 2 days is around $500.

The tl;dr takeaway from this very long thread: 1) There is an entire underground market for any type of account you can imagine. 2) Sites know about this and work to detect people buying and repurposing accounts fast, because even an extra half hour can make a huge difference in profit.

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

I have never really been able to reconcile in my head the idea that people subject to a hideous genocide delivered via aerial bombardment could ever have, as their first priority, begging for money on the third biggest microblogging site in the world

If Westminster cared about making the rest of r/UK better for their actual voters it would be very possible for them to make ScotGov look quite stupid because the SNP's own political position makes any big reforms hard or impossible

"So if the Hungarian opposition does win will the US VP crash out so badly he gets excommunicated" and other questions the present age forces upon us

"Innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" is a very good standard for legal incarceration of a person, but I am perfectly entitled to have a lower standard to vote for someone for public office.

ICYMI: Anti-atheist bathhouse bros... christiannightmares.substack.com/p/weekly-rec...

My most I guess unliberal opinion is that if we don't make vaccinations mandatory we should routinely prosecute parents for child cruelty if their kid gets measles etc due to not being vaccinated

Give me a stack of visas big enough and some decent lab space and I will crush the life out of any American lead in mRNA technology

Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social

As the prosecutions have started to work their way through the system from last summers' asylum hotel protests its become a bit obvious that most of the people involved were the usual suspects. In Epping for example Searchlight reports lots of those facing criminal charges have ties to Combat 18 etc

where do horses try each other for war crimes? at the Hayyyygue

GHALIBAF: "So I'm not really sure what our objectives are here because our leader is in a coma and maybe has brain damage so it's all just scheming viziers, y'know?" VANCE: "You're not gonna believe this."

Substack will *not* save investigative reporting: - It’s slow and sporadic to produce, and newsletters require weekly (at least) consistency. - It requires multiple reporters, editors, data folks, lawyers. - It often requires travel expenses, record fees, database subscriptions, etc. - Lawsuits.

Issuing a correction regarding my statements on California politics, you do in fact gotta burn it to the ground

the molotov cocktail was named after soviet foreign minister vyacheslav molotov, who was best known for exploding into flames when hurled at infrastructure

Whether it's Pete Hegseth being a white nationalist alcoholic sexual predator with a fetish for violence or Lloyd Austin being Black, the two most recent secretaries of defense have alienated segments of the American public.

David Tennant is tje second category send Skeet

(after burning an effigy) Alright, nice work, gang. That's a great start, but remember the real guy's still out there.

For all those who are interested in the only book painstakingly explaining and defending Aquinas on homosexual relations,

So who do we think they end up trying to nominate as an antipope

"how many memes does the Pope have?" some 20-year-old groyper who discovered coke nine months ago says as he posts on another official U.S. govt account.

No party of the right in the UK has an offer for people under 45 so the younger bits of the onlime right now spend most of their time trying to get stuff taken away from various groups to assuage their status anxiety

Sycophancy as a Service

There's a joke about how certain financial products aren't bought they're sold? No one is buying an inflation hedge on their payroll From Kalshi. This is a thing a structured products team would come up with to offload counter-party risk from something weird a hedge fund wanted to do

Shakeshack is one of the best burger chains and I find its inaccessability in the UK annoying

MMA while entertaining as a product has been a net negative for actual combat sports and many people who train at MMA gyms end up as hybrid practicioners who are much much worse than they think they are

Lots of people in modern wrestling confuse "workrate" with "does high flying moves all the time"

SENIOR IRANIAN OFFICIALS ARE LOCKED IN A DISPUTE OVER THE COMPOSITION AND AUTHORITY OF THE DELEGATION SET TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE UNITED STATES IN ISLAMABAD, ACCORDING TO INFORMATION RECEIVED BY IRAN INTERNATIONAL. - SOURCES

The Cathedral is an abstract painting by František Kupka, created in 1912–13 in oil on canvas.

There is a very popular Christian bookstore chain in South Africa called CUM Books

Vermeule says Trump is correct...Vermeule says a lot of things