Can't disagree with any of this, although I would want to make a case for the nearly 8 minute majesty of How Does It Feel?

"The aim here is not to honour the memories of murdered children but to use them as a device to argue for fresh cruelty" - the Daily Mail (and those who use it as a platform) is a societal cancer

Thomas Hoepker, 1990.

Just had a Reform leaflet through the door - my son immediately looked up the Freepost address to send it back to them at their expense, popped it in an envelope and took it to the post box. So proud 👍

Being unemployed is not always a bad thing.

This is the front of the queue, right? #Salute53

The further irony being that if you're using LLMs etc for the majority of your work, you're technically not doing the work you're paid for anyway

Norman tub font with carved human face (with C17th lid) at St Mary's church, Stainburn, North Yorkshire

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

When the AI bubble bursts, I really do hope it takes the rest late capitalism's bullshit with it

When I get a new follower...

This whole “wake up to check whether or not Trump has actually destroyed the world overnight” routine really does make it hard to concentrate on other things. Which will be my excuse to anyone who needs anything from me today.

We didn't deserve this day.

This war is a long way from over as yet www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04... Even if we do have a ceasefire this morning, the consequences of this war will last for decades, and we might all pay the price for that.

Trump is a war criminal - no two ways about it

Spring is in the air

I mean, I don't know why we worry about Reform getting anywhere near power. All we have to do is wait for their elected representatives to open their mouths, and out they quite rightly go

So we should nail him to a piece of wood? I mean, I’ve heard worse ideas.

These people really are unable to just admit that they were wrong and have to try to make that someone else’s fault and tbh their shitty analytical framework isn’t our problem. If I was getting outdone by every 19 year old vulgar Marxist I’d reevaluate what I believe.

April Fools' Day doesn't really work in an era of rampant online disinformation, does it?

In the face of the ongoing idiocracy of the Trump administration, it's kind of difficult to see the wood for the satirical trees on April the 1st...

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

It's telling that point number 1 here is "people feel..." Gee, I wonder if people's feelings have been at all affected by nearly every poltical talking head screaming "IMMIGRATION IS BAD" at them for YEARS. Policy should be based on evidence and facts, not people's easily manipulated feelings.

At the IWM London today, such a bloody relief to see such honesty and clarity! #iwm #history #empire

Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.

Funny that...

Given my skeet earlier in the week, I'm a big fan of the "Dark is Rising" variant here, but seriously, these are all brilliant

Modern Capitalism resembles Feudalism more and more.

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well.”

And indeed this

This

Show a book cover that had a huge impact on you as a kid.

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This net zero brigade - are there arm patches or uniforms or something?

Oh stupidity, definitely. And I bet Philp is the kind of man who still says "University of X? X Polytechnic more like!" and thinks it's a 'gotcha'

“Now that he’s blundered into this Middle East conflagration he’s also destroying the US as a world power. Vietnam was an exercise in humiliation for a nation that thought it could simply flex its huge military muscles and win. This is by degrees worse.”

Maybe it's not fantastic to have an economic system that can be moved from "shit" to "catastrophic" based on the sentiment of a few people reacting to the paedophile emperor of the global hegemon?

Narrator: And from then on, it was known as Wednesday day

Thing I like most about this story is the very Yorkshire incredulity expressed by the police and the 999 operator - "Gunpowder?" "A gun?" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The co-opting of right wing labels is a red flag from the start, but the article then goes on to imply, rather than provide evidence, that Verdant are in any way linked to @zackpolanski.bsky.social's Green Party - it all seems hugely dubious to me

For me the "it's AI!" piece is less important than the "brazen, cynical, lazy dishonesty" of Reform that Sarah highlights here

If Matt Goodwin wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛

In amongst all this justifiable anti-Rowling HP TV series backlash, I wonder how many parents are like me, and have upset their children by saying they won't take them to the theme park because you refuse to fund transphobia?

"Prince William keen to build 'strong & meaningful' bond with Church.. [because i) the PR dept hopes it'll be seen as a repentant gesture to atone for Andy. ii) If we stop believing in gods, the ancient royal claim that god sanctioned their very existence isn't worth shit]" bbc.com/news/article...

To be fair, the mere fact that Nick Timothy is an MP in the first place brings the House of Commons into disrepute, even before he opened his stupid mouth

The fact that this imbecile thinks in terms of minimum & maximum tax, rather than simply the *right* amount of tax for what you earn, is why the rentier class keep tax consultants in business