You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken

General Sir Richard Barrons spelling out the narrative thats being pushed: the sick & disabled, kids in poverty, pensioners, they all need to suffer so we can have more bombs.

I remember when I found out that _parapluie_ was French for umbrella as a kid and it all kinda fell into place. Parasol for sun, parapluie for rain. Simple!

The nail in the coffin for physical media. The death warrant for actually owning the games you buy. For companies not being able to delete the game from your system, or deny you access. For being able to share them, resell them, buy them second hand. And, most likely, for #VideoGamePreservation. 😔

BREAKING: The Duke of York’s Theatre to be renamed The Tom Stoppard Theatre The name change will celebrate the extraordinary legacy of the playwright, who passed away last year. Currently playing at the venue is Arcadia, considered to be his masterpiece. 🔗 www.westendtheatre.com/359319/news/...

this is the worst fucking chart i have ever seen. just fucking awful wrong headed investment.

Renationalise the schools

Because they're violent far-right thugs, no surprise given the origins of 'Raise The Colours' etc in the racist football violence 'firms' where Yaxley-Lennon started out. Since the 'buzz' is mostly violence & intimidating people, little surprise many have form for domestic violence, affray & worse.

Brexit and Trump being elected the first time shocked me into accepting how many people could be openly motivated by racist populism. GenAI has opened my eyes to how many people are ready and willing to surrender their thinking and agency to an app. I’m so disappointed with human beings these days.

And another one...

Imagine what the world might be like if journalism was actually what our English teachers at school told us it was supposed to be.

A punch to the face?

"DiD yOu kNoW hE dOeSn'T tAkE a SaLaRy?"

Just a little primer on Bill Maher, who helped launder Louis CK back into the industry after CK was outed as preying on women, since some people seem to think the fact that he's critical of Trump makes him an ally and a decent guy:

Just a reminder that the whole "#MeToo has gone too far" social media backlash wasn't organic. (More on that later in this thread.) Leaving aside men *convicted of crimes* (e.g. Weinstein), it's hard to find any men who actually lost their careers over allegations. www.avclub.com/mark-twain-p...

Have Americans considered, rather than court-packing to outnumber the court-packing the other guys did, simply not having politically appointed judges and instead having an independent judiciary? Radical, I know.

Shell releases report during unprecedented global heat wave to let the world know they would like to pour a lot more fuel on that fire for a few decades. Luckily, they are wrong. LNG is too expensive.

Excellent news - a Norwegian political party is pushing for a total ban on face-worn hidden cameras ("pervert glasses" is the official term).

One of the saddest things I’ve written. Excellently edited and shepherded by the Bulwark team, and I’m grateful for the space to say these children’s names and write about their short lives

Jesus, Mary and Joseph -- this gave me an excellent chuckle 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wait, I've seen this movie already.

This is such a ridiculously good book - please pass this on

Friends! If you know of anyone who’s going to train as a science teacher in September, please tell them I’m giving away FREE Kindle editions of my book “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” which is recommended by lots of science teachers and on many science teacher training reading lists

Shout out to onshore wind, which has avoided nearly double the greenhouse gas emissions of utility-scale PV :)

If you didn’t get on with science at school or just want to remind yourself what you should have learned from science lessons, drop me a line and you can also have a free kindle edition of the book:

Friends! If you know of anyone who’s going to train as a science teacher in September, please tell them I’m giving away FREE Kindle editions of my book “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” which is recommended by lots of science teachers and on many science teacher training reading lists

History books written by dolphins, presumably

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

☀️ NEW | Renewables were the LARGEST source of global energy supply growth in 2025, for the first time outside a recession. Renewables grew by 10%, adding 3.3 exajoules to total energy supply in 2025. Solar alone delivered 71% of that rise. 🧵1/3 🔗 www.energyinst.org/statistical-...

judging from the reviews, this does not auger well

I just cancelled a free trial before the automatic payments kicked in and the adrenaline flowing through me right now feels like I narrowly escaped a shark attack.

Building it gave a lot of science journalists / writers (including me) the opportunity to use the pun "Lords of the Ring". I had the amazing experience of being allowed to go into the tunnels and film with the lovely @jonbutterworth.bsky.social and a few others who worked on it).

Oh I was obsessed with this thing! Also gave rise to a great many puns and typos, eg the Large Hardon Collider. 🤣

Building it gave a lot of science journalists / writers (including me) the opportunity to use the pun "Lords of the Ring". I had the amazing experience of being allowed to go into the tunnels and film with the lovely @jonbutterworth.bsky.social and a few others who worked on it).

Don’t see anything wrong with this. (Aldi middle aisle today.)

Have had the most productive day of the year so far - something about being incapacitated by the heat for several days and then feeling relief seems to have given me a kick up the arse.

Sad to think that, if not for the ironclad commitment of most white people to white supremacy, we might have a country whose 250th birthday is worth celebrating, and we might have celebrated it in a way that doesn't give the vibe of a chinz-ass failed casino run by Nazi cosplayers.

I often wonder whether an economist has estimated the cost to the economy of these pathetic signalling games.

I think I first read about this in an Aldous Huxley novel

The actual Sarah Jessica Parker fulsomely recommending M. John Harrison's new novel to her 10 MILLION followers on Instagram was not on my bingo card for 2026. But is hugely welcome.

Because commissioning editors are mostly posh oxbridge graduates who think audiences are a lesser species.

Here, Here. Why have our politicians swallowed the mega-hype of the billionaire tech bros?

I worked technical theater in high school and college and a few summers in professional theaters and I will say this sloppiness wouldn’t fly in my high school, let alone a job for the Nation’s 250th or the President.

LOL

The husband of one of the demonstrators did not participate in the protest but was sentenced to 30 years in prison anyway, convicted of moving boxes with leftwing zines and other materials after a prison phone call from his wife.

Been to the cinema twice in two weeks, which is about all I usually manage in a year. Enjoyed being in a cinema but disappointed by both films - Disclosure Day (go and read @adamroberts.bsky.social review to see why) and Toy Story 5.

When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... I despair at tech journalism. A (probably paid for) review of Ring that has a “sustainability” section but skates over the sharing of data with police etc in the “subscription” section. It mentions better products such as EUFY but as if they don’t matter.

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...