Finally some sense. Maybe the government needs to hold a seminar to remind themselves what it means to be a free, tolerant, society. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The historical parallel that immediately came to mind are the flood of Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century filing habeas claims to free them from detention. The 2 books on that: @jnovkov.bsky.social what other historical examples come to mind of fed courts being flooded by habeas cases?

I'm not a body language expert but these smiles have total 'divorced couple making the best of things for the kids on Xmas day' energy

Naming Dulles after Donald Trump would be a rather simple undertaking. Just add a "t" to the end. Voilà!

Apart from everything else I think the word ‘loser’ is only ever used by the very worst people in the English-speaking world (it is borrowed by French and German speakers too, sometimes ironically, sometimes not)

#UxbridgeEnglishDictionary MORON: Wearing additional clothes (see also LESSON).

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Afternoon

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

MPs need to grow a backbone and bloody well spend the money needed to restore and modernise the Houses of Parliament. It's a national treasure, if they hadn't already realised.

Candidate for the Most Beautiful Plane ever

Fact of the day: When Trump met Melania at a party in 1998 he was with his then girlfriend Celina Midelfart - and honestly, if you're British, it feels like the whole thing was scripted by Mike Myers...

Goodwin must die a little inside each time he's out for pints and a curry with the Reform lads. You can pretend as much as you want that you're happy to be sitting next to Lee Anderson as he farts his way through a prawn vindaloo but we all know it's killing him.

I keep reading 17th century English political history-- not my field of research expertise but adjacent. The civil war, the perverse righteousness and the breadth of violence, stops my breath in new ways this year. I resist historical parallels but there's no doubt the past can be a useful mirror.

"Brexit requires a fundamental recasting of Britain’s national strategy. Achieving that will require more imagination, more humility and a more clear-eyed appreciation of the options than anyone has yet offered in Britain’s tortured Brexit debate." True then, true now.

lol that all the papers in this look like theyre already 200 years old because ai and the people who use it are incapable of thinking

*Yeah, I think there's some innate quality to slop that feels tangibly non-biological in its origin: art produced with no eyes and no hands *But a kaleidoscope pattern also doesn't have any "life" at all, it's just lifeless, reflected colored debris, but it doesn't look or feel sloppy

Nothing has changed.

Constitutional illiteracy at Sky News.

Nice, Guardian cryptic: "Doubt the gospel?" (8,4)

So here we are. Poasting through it. Death is loss in the most profound (or certain) sense. It is the thing that is lost and will never be found again, an incontrovertible certainty and I don’t think our brains can deal (short term at least) with that radical certainty of never being found.

I’m offering the UK govt free training on how to be less of a fucking embarrassment

Liz Truss's real legacy

Great post. The "visible moral degradation" of Trump's administration will play a part in its downfall.

Wonderful to have a new addition to the genre!

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

Every January, the people of Weycroft sacrifice a Range Rover Sport to the river gods in the hope of avoiding further flooding throughout the year.

One of the classics doing the rounds again, and it would be rude not to. [Someone managed to do a follow up with the clerk of the council, and they found out that the new stacking regime had been a success]

Aaaaaaggghhhhh! #wato

"what have you got for an annoying pain in the neck"

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Tory MP Simon Hoare has given a very vivid quote about Donald Trump's comments on Nato allies, which could actually be used in many contexts about the US president: "Frankly Trump makes my flesh creep and my stomach turn. Where are his advisors? Where is his nurse? Where is his sense of shame?"

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just to add that I don't think Trump is playing some kind of cunning 3D chess, chucking dead cats on to the table to distract from Epstein or whatever. He's just a capricious chaos goblin with the attention span of a particularly inattentive goldfish.

"Mr. President you mentioned Iceland several times today and from a geopolitical standpoint taking Iceland with Greenland actually makes a lot of sense, right?" "It's pretty much one big piece of ice broken in half so I think we should take both bc the Vikings owned it and they went extinct, so.."

I can’t wait to watch these! Knowing Andy, they’re going to be great.

Difficult to see what Trump *himself* gets from Greenland. It's not a riviera for new Trump towers. Suspect the drivers are the hegemonic hawks in the WH, who've sold it to Trump as a Big Beautiful Win. My hope: the whole thing gets drawn out and fractious, and Trump soon loses interest.

I feel like we should all take a moment to remember that Ukrainians are still dying and this guy is just spitting bilge about fucking Greenland being "unprotected" from Russia.

"Al Gore's here, stand up Al, terrible man, low IQ guy, not the worst VP though, Kamala, anyone remember her? I beat her 3 times, nobody talks about that, why don't they talk about that?"

tiny Denmark may have been overwhelmed by the Wehrmacht in under 6 hours in 1940, but the Danish Resistance heroically saved over 90% of Denmark's Jews, and that is a greater victory than any this monster will ever know

Fact-check, even though it is no longer my job: China is the world leader in wind power

Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.

Something I don't say all that often but this column in the Tel is really worth a read, both for what it says and as a sign of where the UK right are on Trump www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Nice little structural ambiguity for the #linguistics feed