Only 8% of respondents believe individual Americans have a responsibility to pay for news. "I don't think that information should be a privilege," one respondent said. werd.io/most-america...

"Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes." The question is: what's on them? werd.io/everyone-is-...

"ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next." www.propublica.org/article/life...

"Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight." www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Well, that was the worst landing I’ve ever experienced. The flight attendant across from me confirmed it was the worst HE had ever experienced. Given that my previous worst ever was just a month and a half ago, I’m going to give flying a rest for a little bit.

Descending into the airport. I cannot wait to hug my best buddy. I’ve missed him so much.

Thinking about all the people I met in the UK this week who asked me “is it really as bad as it looks out there?” (which was just about everybody). It’s probably worse. For every story that breaks containment expect there to be many more. Meanwhile, everything just continues apace. Banal, evil.

Being an active and informed citizen of the internet means understanding and caring about the values, ethics and practices of the platforms you choose to use and promote:

This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Dedicated this flight to a One Battle After Another / Bugonia double bill. I enjoyed both. I have 1h40 left. What do I do now?

Everyone was right, One Battle After Another turned out to be great.

This has been a very good trip. Truly, I don’t want to leave, and were it not for the people I’ll hug on the other side, including my absolute best buddy in the world, who my suitcase is 1/3 full of gifts for, maybe I wouldn’t.

Yesterday a four year old, upon meeting me for the first time, told me I had a big tummy and that I looked like Daddy Pig. Brutal, tbh.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

That’s a wrap for Protocols for Publishers in London. We discussed discovery and AI, monetization, and audience / community needs with publishers, in conversation with open protocol builders and people dedicated to creating an open social web. I’m very grateful for everyone who participated.

We had an amazing group at the @protocolsforpublishers.com #PfP✨London Showcase tonight. I met some of my old heroes, and made NEW heroes! Now it is 1:30 so I should get some shuteye before round 2 tomorrow. 🌙 Here’s me and @werd.io and @laurenshof.online at the end of the night ✌️

Very excited for Protocols for Publishers at Newspeak House later tonight. Lots of publishers and protocol builders showing up to discuss how we might help each other and build an open, protocol-driven web that supports journalism, publishers, and an informed society.

We lost my cousin Alan Dessen recently. He was a good man who was a big part of the fabric of my childhood. He will be missed. www.sddictionary.com/AlanDessenOb...

Walking through Whitechapel I was struck by how vibrant the community is - all kinds of people out on the street, buying at the market, passing through. Smiles, good-natured shouting, banter. If you hate the diversity of London you hate human life.

The athletic trans panic was a new way for them to be A) racist B) sore losers C ) to get women out of sport in general because it was making them to independent D) a way for privileged women to assure that any woman who is athletic enough is automatically intimidated from continujng

When I left the UK I said I’d be back twice a year. I can’t believe it’s been eight years. I’m wandering around Brick Lane, after wandering my hometown Oxford yesterday, and I just feel like I’m home in a way I didn’t even realize I’d been missing. It’s nice, but also sad.

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Jaywalking is an anti-human law. It’s been such a relief being back in the UK this week and not having to worry about it.

Ugh. If you’ve DMed me it’ll need to wait until the weekend, when I fly back out.

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for the Palantir-made tool called ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Truly weird to wander into my hometown after so long. I'm sat on the Cowley Road having a flat white. Everything is smaller and mossier than I remembered.

Perplexed to find that Britain still doesn’t seem to have figured out that Costa Coffee is The Worst.

a lot of americans are convinced we need to re-invent the entire financial wheel just because they're still paying for things with cheques. This is a you problem/skill issue, guys

100% just failed to get on a moving walkway because it was on the left so I assumed it was going in the wrong direction. Need to recalibrate my brain

Ello, Britain. It’s been far longer than I wanted. Has much changed in the last eight years?

Flying big planes is so much better than flying small planes. That is my profound nervous flyer insight.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Proud to work in support of this newsroom.

Already thinking about that one M&S Food just outside of customs at Heathrow.

"That we have not (yet) set up an Auschwitz-Birkenau, replete with crematoria, is not evidence to the contrary. After all, the German Nazis didn’t just suddenly start killing millions in the 1940s; their crimes against humanity began years earlier, in the 1930s." www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/s...

Uh … I’m boarding my flight to the UK tonight. Still time for me to pick up some Trader Joe’s totes if anyone wants to be at the apparent forefront of British tote bag fashion. www.usatoday.com/story/grocer...

I am a mild-mannered, some might say conflict avoidant person. I like peace and calm. But I can assure you that if a government agency interned my son, let alone if he was harmed in any way or if he fell ill in the process, I would turn into fucking Rambo. Until the end of time.

From the @propublica.org newsroom: “Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.” This is what they saw. www.propublica.org/article/minn...

There’s a reason they refer to WhatsApp call logs as “meta data” amirite

Tough news day.

It probably says a lot about me that I import Swiss vegetable bouillon because I think all American bouillon sucks (and it’s more convenient to have a powder than make my own).

69 Love Songs is still a perfect album.

This is what we said inside @medium.com in order to give space for people to participate in tomorrow's national strike.

Hi, in order to accurately describe the state of the country, I propose we coin the phrase “bananas republic”. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

In the uncomfortable position of being excited to visit England in February for a reprieve from the weather.

Two posts about punching up, not down: "Disrupting small, independent bookstores? Punching down. Disrupting WalMart? Punching up. Food co-operatives? Down. Monsanto? Up." 1/2 werd.io/always-punch...

Hell of a thing for a prominent leader to publish a "what a week" post and have it be about caffeine-fueled coding and how wonderful AI is. Read the room? Say something?

"The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed." werd.io/journalism-l...

My talking T-shirt that experiences time in reverse has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.