You keep doing this.

Re-uniting Ireland (N+S) will have many challenges that Germany had- a larger richer & smaller poorer partner. @fotoole.bsky.social & @sjamcbride.bsky.social argue to prepare now for a vote; a Farage gov could call one. For Farage: Keep NI: more scope for harm Lose NI: a Trumpian GB is easier Link.

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

That’s always the tough choice isn’t it? Simple things that directly affect and improve everyone’s lives vs imaginary dog whistle bogeyman nonsense designed to appeal to the worst people on God’s green earth just in case. Which do you choose? It’s a tough one. Politics, eh?

Apparently Brits like banning things. This is a prime candidate, hasn't been banned enough (outside the Metropole).

Deep Buster. #grickledoodle #dogs #thinking #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

Another video has surfaced showing what appears to be the moment of the strike in Lviv. The impacts resemble the 2024 strike on Dnipro, where Russia used an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile without an explosive charge, relying on kinetic force alone.

I love "urban" music. It's my favourite genre on the hit parade.

Look out for my next 'hot take' column on why Trump is just a normal guy because he breathes and brushes his teeth every morning.

I keep hitting refresh but I don't see an update on when my Single Market Membership is arriving? What gives.

TIL: Cossack ~ Qazaq/Kazakh Wiki: Max Vasmer's etymological dictionary traces the name to the Tatar Turkic word kazak, kozak, in which cosac meant 'free man' but also 'conqueror'.[11] The ethnonym Kazakh is from the same Turkic root.

Uncanny, no?

Holds up pretty well.

pupils of Timothy Snyder who've read and watched all his stuff: "The Pale of What?"

This statement from Spain (with Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay) points out the kind of statement the EU -could- have made…

oh god. I see the 'population' argument is resurfacing again ("zombie apocalypse"?). in case you missed it, this is what I had to say on the matter in the last edition of @lrb.co.uk, in response to David Runciman's (insufficiently critical, IMO) approach to the concept of "replacement rate" 🤦‍♀️

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

English yet and German jetzt are from the same old high German root word "iezuo".

🚨🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE🚨🚨 Very few people can claim to have met and known 🇻🇪's Maduro, Chavez & interim president Delcy Rodriguez. Well, my guest @catheriner.bsky.social, former 🇬🇧 ambassador in Caracas, is one of them and she spoke to me earlier today. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Starting a war economy

Trump posts footage of the Maduro raid set to "Fortunate Son" -- a protest song about the Vietnam War draft

Thanks Anthony. I've just written this too, which in part engages with Paul's arguments. howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/governing-...

one thing i've noted a few times is reactionary centrists have never, ever, ever understood the criticism of them to the point that when they hear someone say what they find objectionable about them, they literally have no idea what they're talking about

this'll save your life. a great cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=iITx...

You could have a big dipper youtu.be/OJWJE0x7T4Q?...

The title is clickbait, they're more like statements of the fucking obvious macdonnchada.substack.com/p/prediction...

McSweeney: "Guys! We've doubled Starmer's approval rating among Reform voters! TRUST THE PROCESS"

Doing politics by bumper sticker is itself deeply screwed up.

“They don’t swing their arms like regular Americans.”

Magnificent.

more than you ever wanted to know about my midlife crisis 🫣 www.roifaineantpress.com/post/pleasur...

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

Maybe this, not the data centres, is the infrastructure payoff from the AI bubble.

This logic checks out. Imagine all those losers in non flying cars in 2028. Sucks to be them. Duh!

Starmer seems fundamentally unable to rise to an occasion. "He would make an excellent Permanent Secretary" from a former PermSec seems an excellent summary of Starmer's faults

A generation of AI app developers that never read Dilbert comics explains a lot.

Axe throwing but into LCD monitors running javascript debug consoles.

🇪🇪 Two possible scenarios for a Russian attack on Estonia are published in a report by experts from ECFR. 1. Invasion - a quick capture of Narva, possibly an advance on Tallinn - to shock NATO and force negotiations on a "pause".

yeah, Minnie Driver is royalty.

We went into that security queue and emerged as different people. Time passed, enough for lost connections, and found ones. We suffered together, grew up, grew to know each other, grew old. Some didn't make it.

A few quick thoughts about this morning's decision. Don't believe the spin from various Russians & others: it's a big deal. The EU has now unambiguously demonstrated that it is able and willing to provide the external financial support Ukraine needs, for as long and as much as it takes. (1/N)

"[Starmer's] main challenger from the right, the glozingly smug Wes Streeting, sits on a tiny, precarious majority and espouses a worldview repugnant to most of the voting membership."

America 2025

New research finds that car touchscreens are so distracting that they induce "significant performance degradation" among drivers. Meanwhile, in-vehicle touchscreens remain completely unregulated in the US. doi.org/10.1145/3746...

Where's their open letter to motor manufacturers FFS? Imagine if councillors got this worked up about the incredible destructiveness of motor cars #motonormativity www.islington.media/news/dockles...

We've had a meeting and decided that due to persistent pavement parking all cars are banned from London. You've only got yourselves to blame.

An article in the Financial Times argued that Britain should “fall in love with cars again” and invest in more motorways. Here’s why the economic argument is flawed and why we should not. open.substack.com/pub/pinecono...