HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

Time for my occasional repost of this one youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0?...

Didn’t we just have a whole thing about how AI hires old white dudes all the time?

Major event in the world

Are they trying to @greatdismal.bsky.social-quote their way through this? “AGI is here, it’s unevenly distributed“? That feels like a stretch.

But if you have some spare income, give what you can here or sign up for one of the paid tiers. I think the founding member thing lets you put in whatever you want straightfromthehut.substack.com

Incredibly classy move from a WIRED reporter who’s just been fired (for what seems like protected union activity) – completely commendable way to look out for your colleagues and their work. Feels like the kind of person any newsroom would be lucky to have, tbh.

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

I probably would have voted for her in the leadership election, had the checkboxes not denied me access (because while I support Labour in concept I don’t agree with all current policies). This seems like a grab bag of wants without hows.

Unassailable logic:

I had somehow missed this drama…

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Oopsies.

Reminder: gov'ts and companies will bend over backwards to tell you that private data they want to use (whether against you or just around you) is not really private. I know I occasionally sound like a fanatic talking about surveillance etc, but... www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Friend has just been bitten on the upper leg by a dog. Inevitably: a Chihuahua.

well, at least there's this electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Aside from this being a fascinating thread, there is a great Coen Brothers movie right here.

“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still…. there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighbourhoods that once held tens of thousands of people”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watch how absolutely nothing happens.

Planet: am too hot now really much too hot stop pls tnx China: uh yes but no but infrastructural hegemony Trump: something something animals IQ test drug boats asylum Labour: let’s tax EVs it seems like the perfect time Ecosystems: I might just retire

Half an hour left: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

I need to up my naming game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swein_F...

Fascinated by this.

Fascinating.

Getting a bit Gnomon again, @nickharkaway.com

Seeing a lot of takes about how Mamdani's win doesn't mean other left candidates should do what he did because it won't necessarily work for them. As opposed to how well chasing the centre-right vote has historically worked? I dunno, man, I think it's worth a pop.

I have this weird thing. My phone number is on the supermarket account, but for some reason when they call they think it belongs to Mrs H, and they really don't like it that it's me answering. They treat the whole thing as if our grocery delivery is medically confidential.

Super important. Thank you

Morning walk through The Zone. 📷 1. Satellite of Love.

Hard to believe these days, but there was once a time when the US government led the debate on how to combat climate change and improve environmental quality.

Increasingly feeling like the general message to escape western economic torpor is "take more risks". Don't just hang on to accustomed norms across the board. Not populist division or nostalgic wallows, but a sense of direction in which some things are stopped to allow others to happen.

TL;DR we can, we haven’t, we must.

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

A total and utter hero

Just to be clear, it IS about removing rights. Specifically it’s about removing Article 8 rights - private and family life - to make it easier to deport people. You won’t find advocates able to mention any other rights here.

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

Cars the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of motors on our roads as there were 30 years ago, but anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood and anti-cycle lane campaigners keep claiming they 'cause congestion'. Okay.

Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...

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Post the good news when you see it…

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

Having an amazing writing day (which also means I'm probably thick as porridge when I post here at the moment) but WOW it takes energy out of you. IDK how brain chemistry works but if I was a video game toon the little 'creative neurotransmitters' bar or whatever would be blinking red empty.

Jeremy Brett, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1933, in Berkswell, England

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component: www.newscientist.com/article/2502... Research paper: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

I don't think you should be bringing up history and forgiveness, Tony, old chap.

I've never done this on social media before but... ...my brilliant assistant is moving on to pastures new after three years. I am looking for someone to help me out. They need to be able to *get to North London easily, regularly*, energetic (it's often a dashing-around/carrying stuff job)...

Wow. On the one hand, completely in line with expectations. On the other, still really bad.

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