Noam! Noam, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Chomsky. You know that new theory you're looking for? Well, listen to this!

I mean, it's one penis Michael. How much can it cost? $150,000? www.mediaite.com/media/tv/hea...

Me: so it's basically a remote assassination device for high value, high security targets such as world leaders, politicians, military generals and the like. It will revolutionise war. Think of all the millions of lives it will save. Peter Jones: Well I'm out Deborah Meaden: It's a "no" from me

MPs laughed when Jake Richards dismissed Jeremy Corbyn’s request for a meeting on the Palestine Action hunger strikers. Laughed. This is who we’re governed by, people entrusted to represent a nation, yet so insulated by power they respond to human suffering with indifference and mockery.

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

Can aphantasia people also not call to mind smells, flavours and audio memories? Is it just visual imagination they don't have? Can they remember what something feels like?

I recently asked myself the question: what's the biggest grift in the world right now?

Comparing MPs pay with Doctors. Isn't it amazing, austerity for everyone except Billionaires and MPs. What a coincidence.

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

I have no proof of this but the correct spelling is "it weighs a ton". You can't use metric when being idiomatic. "It weighs a tonne" is obviously wrong. Just as wrong as "give him a centimetre and he'll take a kilometre"

There's a cafe in Fountainbridge that literally never opens. It's always clean and appears to be stocked. Every Christmas someone puts up new decorations. Pretty sure it's a cafe for ghosts.

Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

I take it back I'm hyped again www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdA...

This year I got to see two original series run for second arcs and I'm so grateful to everyone out there who read these books. Getting to tell longer stories in the medium I love is a privilege I cherish. <3

Already disappointed in Supergirl and the trailer isn't even out. They're adapting possibly the greatest mainstream comic from the past few years and clearly have decided to drop the incredible and inventive fantasy aesthetic for something far more conventional

I just found my least favourite word and Wikipedia article at the same time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynoid

I'm deeply concerned about the wellbeing of prisoners who were involved in Palestine Action protests, and are currently on hunger strike. Some have not eaten for six weeks. A number have been hospitalised. They are all being held on remand - without trial or conviction.

Santa baby, leaking liquid out of his bones Which you can own For a very small fee Santa baby, we're sellin' slurry from a coffin tonight

It would be unbelievable if this administration wasn't so bone-stupid. Federal prosecutors spent over a year trying to extradite a woman to the US to face charges, and now that they have, ICE wants to deport her.

Couldn't attach my arse this morning, don't know what's wrong with it. Tried the spare but that kept falling off too, even with a belt. I just can't be arsed today.

Propose changing the phrase to "it vinegars my cockles". Why would anybody want warm cockles?

If anyone hasn't figured out what to get me for Christmas yet nhmu.utah.edu/articles/exp...

In Germany it's illegal to kill a wasp which is in my opinion the only true example of political correctness gone mad

God Marina Hyde is such a twat

There are only six good British people and they are all currently on hunger strike. Very on-brand that the media hasn't acknowledged their existence at all.

Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.

We need a modern day Robespierre

Streeting has invented a remarkable new political strategy of whispering to Guardian readers "psst, I don't really believe anything I say you know"

Things you didn't realise if you were a kid in the 90s: Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the UN Secretary General before Kofi Annan. I always thought it was just funny sounding made-up words from The Fast Show.

It's a boy! www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...

Had an argument online today about the best shape of potato peeler (straight, obviously). This is what the internet was meant to be. I'd almost forgotten the internet could be good

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Never seen hype around a new technology sustained on apocalyptic doom-mongering before. Imagine if Jobs introducing the iPhone saying yeah this thing is REAL dangerous and no one understands how it works. Maybe it will kill us all and take over the world. Anyway it's $500 and available in May

Defund the police. Fund Batman

People who are blown away by LLMs are perfect marks for cold reading scams. They only remember the hits and forget all the misses

So the actual bar being discussed for juryless trials seems to be anything where the sentence is less than 5 years. Anything less than 5 years would not require a jury and could be decided by a judge in a closed room. Worth noting that 3 years is the top number for activists generally...

God this is a hard read now harpers.org/archive/1941...

Does the pardon extend to all other crimes the turkey may have committed?

If you want to track how much worse the BBC is these days compare these two articles, one from 2000, one from 2025, on proposals to scrap the jury system. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6016... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The artist formerly known as Prince Andrew and his horse are both looking really sad lately. I wonder what the horse did

I reckon Trump is a Russian asset but he's just as terrible at it as he is being president. You can tell after the Putin meetings that he's recently had a bollocking

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1