"From a capability perspective, OpenClaw is groundbreaking. This is everything personal AI assistant developers have always wanted to achieve. From a security perspective, it's an absolute nightmare." Well We Could've Told You That, part 276,983 www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...

NEW: The PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on Reform's limescale problem. Check my Substack for more. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

Yes, it's trash, but somehow I'm more upset by Ben Franklin's straightforwardly American (rather than more English-sounding Colonial) accent

Surely someone's done this one already? Share a preacher, priest or nun...

I just published my first product of the year, a scenario for Twilight 2000, courtesy of Free League Workshop www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Pretty much this at the moment when it comes to the whole wage slave in late capitalism thing

Guess who wins from racism? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01... Big business is.

Current mood (via www.instagram.com/squirrel_box...)

My feeling is that anybody who has dealt with a frustrated toddler or had one of those jobs as a PA working for a megalomaniac boss or had an admin job where you have loads of responsibility with little authority will recognise this ploy. Just dress up reality as some form of "win"

Maybe your soldiers shouldn't do stuff they can be prosecuted for if you don't want them to be prosecuted.

"His ignorance, or is it deteriorating mental health" - both. One is perennial, the other relatively more recent, but both are true. bylinetimes.com/2026/01/21/d...

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

“I got you an elephant for your room.” "Thanks.” “Don’t mention it.”

Remind me again why we're supposed to take this senile moron seriously? Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is act of 'great stupidity' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

I'm liking the description of "the absolutizing of fright" as a way to sum most of our current ways of interacting online blog.ayjay.org/normalizing/

Pluralistic: Social media without socializing (19 Jan 2026) - another reason, if any were needed, to avoid Facebook pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/b...

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

I know I'm not the audience for the Fail's lunacy and can't be expected to keep up with all the nonsense they spout, but what on Earth is "an ocean-going Socialist" when it's at home?

Given all the other recent Conservative defections he's accepted, "I've always thought Robert Jenrick was a fraud" reads more like a recommendation than a criticism

Why does everything have to be "unearthed" or "discovered" nowadays, when we all know social media is mainly done in public and that mendacious right wing grifters publicly tell us they're mendacious right wing grifters all the time...? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/this-m...

"Plotting in secret"? Little Bobby's been more Reform than Reform for years

One of the few positives about the last decade or so is people are starting to get hip to the fact that the Luddites were right all along.

My notebook and pen are not sitting on the nightstand listening to me, you creepy box of LinkedIn sprites.

We can’t ignore the gendered dynamics of what we just saw katemanne.substack.com/p/renee-good...

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

@jimbobbers.bsky.social Given there seems to be a bandwagon running along here, I might as well wish you a happy birthday too old chap - hope you have a good day 😁

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"This is the case of financial capitalism, fuelled by financial engineering delivering technological change and physical investment for which there is no proven need"

I'm a highly trained assassin jumping between alternate realities. Does this mean I can stop putting this PowerPoint together now...?

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

Reform are calling for someone with historic anti Jewish comments to have their a British citizenship removed.

677) Sproutsbot. Like Onionbot, Sproutsbot effectively deals with its assigned vegetable. Although in this case, since its assigned vegetable is Brussels sprouts, "dealing with them" means hurling them as far away as possible. #SmallRobotsRemastered #FestivebotsRemastered

This is what museums should be doing - what a great initiative by Manchester Museum Manchester Museum seeks help to uncover hidden histories of African collection www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.

Happy Winter Solstice, where we celebrate the returning of the light, on the shortest day and longest night. On the solstice, when the land feels closest to its oldest stories, we’re reminded how much of England’s past remains out of reach.

Happy solstice, everyone

Santa Is Now Using AI

LIFE RULES: Insulate your house with books to ward off evil Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse Never click on a link to the Daily Mail Use double the recommended amount of garlic Always stop to say hi to sheep And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice) I think that's more or less everything covered?

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Well ain't that the coolest bunch of Belgian Carabiniers you've seen today?

NY Times: “This a presidency that celebrates nastiness and spite, not empathy or grace, a reflection, perhaps, of a coarser era in American life.”

NEW | There are some familiar faces in the latest part of the year’s most calamitous chart… The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Three: Clarkson vs the NHS, the phoney war on 'woke', and Boris' beard buffet brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Trump is literally telling the world there is something wrong with him, and yet nobody listens

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Last dance at Middle Earth? - sign spotted in the village of no return, this afternoon. #WyrdWednesday