Jeepster is somehow a PERFECT song that also contains the lyric "You slide so good, with bones so fair, you've got the universe reclining in your hair."

The tale of every single last Reform-led council so far is them discovering that there is no secret Net Zero Department for Pronouns that accounts for 45% of council budgets, panicking, ordering an entire budget surplus worth of flags, and then falling apart in acrimony.

Listening to Electric Warrior, and if anyone ever tells you lyrics actually matter, just play them this album.

A completely ordinary recording session which starts on the rails and over which I maintain tight control for the duration of the runtime.

Labour has done a great deal of damage to itself and the country by making “win over a caricature of Reform voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” its only governing priority. Time to make “win over a caricature of Green voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” the aim instead.

"The entire information ecosystem is now based on an effectively infinite number of voices competing for your attention. Also, we removed any limitation or restriction on publishing falsehoods." *twelve seconds pass* "Why is the public in the grip of so many lurid-but-false beliefs???"

This. I still have Amazon Prime, and it's something I'd find it difficult to do without. But I switched from an Audible subscription to a libro.fm one, for example. We're all enmeshed in a world run by technofascists and low on spoons. But we can do bits at the margins.

A case for try try again Didn’t like how my first apple attempt came out, picked myself up and did better after learning from my mistakes

With all due disrespect but when will you get it into your head that in modern, multicultural Britain, one half of those "both" rightly treats "credible enough on immigration" as a threat of deportation towards their friends, family, or themselves

Sure, why not.

It is notable that both the two parties that are seeing most growth, the Greens and Reform, are two parties where, whatever else you say about them (and with Reform there is literally nothing good to say) people have very clear ideas of what they stand for and what they're voting for.

Even before this….let’s accept for a moment that Labour do have more to fear from Reform. Labour have done essentially everything that Luke and Morgan wanted and it hasn’t worked. It’s like saying the fact you have to win football matches validates Igor Tudor!

Exactly this. The focus on "Winning Elections" is bad - not because it's immoral or anything. Because it's *Makes You Worse At Winning Elections*. "Governing Adequately" is a more reliable (albeit still unguaranteed) path to winning elections because voters do in fact punish incompetence.

Gonna spell this out for the big brain geniuses: Keir has 8 apples, Kemi has 4 apples, Nigel has 2. Nigel takes 3 apples from Kemi and 1 from Keir. Nigel now has 6 apples to Keir's 7. Zack takes 2 apples from Keir. Nigel now has 6 apples to Keir's 5.

Youssou N'Dour - 7 Seconds ft. Neneh Cherry: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCp...

1) PR absoloutely isn't a gaurentee against a right, or radical right, government 2) suatainable electoral reform requites support from both sides of the aisle. Framing it as a partisan hack is a great way of destroying its credibility We need electoral reform but this is a awful way to get it

Last "thing that killed rock music" reskeet is true, but also what killed rock music as a popular genre of the mainstream is the same thing that killed eg ragtime -- it's old people's youth culture, and young people want something new and different.

Imagine making this article and then using The Strokes as your best example of a contemporary rock band. Does this guy even know about the Post Brexit movement of the early 2020s? It was the best rock music of the last 15 years!

We go live to big tech to discuss the ethical issues raised:

It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

"We haven't seen nothing yet," said John Gradek, a faculty lecturer on aviation management at McGill University in Montreal.  www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Iran does not believe in sending representatives to its vassals' little festivals

Bruno Gerussi is best known as Nick Adonidas on The Beachcombers, but he was much more than that. He was a veteran of the Stratford Festival, an acclaimed radio host, a celebrity chef and a gifted wood carver. This is his story. 📸 CBC 🧵 1/12

People shocked Moderna explored a mRNA #hantavirus vaccine don’t understand infectious disease preparedness. Hantaan & Seoul viruses are endemic in South Korea & cause Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome. Vaccines for priority pathogens are developed long before the public hears about them.

*deep heavy sigh* Remember when we were all taught to pretend that judicial conservatism and liberalism referred to the way justices interpreted the Constitution, whether they hewed close to the letter or more broadly to the spirit, originalist or activist. Anyway.

Failed legal challenges have delayed major infrastructure projects like new roads and power stations by a collective 32 years. Labour recently changed the law to cut the time it takes to throw out anti-infrastructure lawsuits. And it's working. www.samdumitriu.com/p/the-planni...

if the employee who got caught liking the pornography on here was like 'misclick lol' and left it alone i would have thought it was a misclick. since he's going around suspending anyone who mentions it i do not believe that. i believe he was viewing the pornography lustfully

The majority of Albertans don't want separatism but they also don't want to push back in their communities because it might mean getting shunned, or worse if you live in the deep rurals. That's how dangerous the separatists are. Not physical violence. Yet. But pretty fucking awful never the less.

#CANADA🇨🇦 Both Russian and pro-Trump U.S. actors are amplifying and spreading misinformation about #Alberta separatism… …in the hope of fraying Canadian unity, and sowing distrust in key institutions and authorities. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Someone who cannot criticise the actions of the Israeli government without suggesting that British Jews should be punished for those actions is, at a basic level, incompetent.” Hear, hear @stephenkb.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/a0177a88-e...

Twenty years ago #OTD we lost one of the best accidental songwriters of our generation We remember Grant W. McLennan from The Go Betweens, taken from us far early due to a longstanding battle with alcohol addiction Taken far too early but his presence permanent & structural to modern day indiepop

Writers create fucked-up stuff, because we are deeply fucked-up people. Some readers seem to think this fuck-upedness is communicable, and if they only read un-fucked-up authors, then they, who are also not fucked up, will be able to preserve their pristine psyche. I am here to tell you that the […]

We also believe Jackson's accusers and stand *against* the PR campaign which has made them out to be money-grabbing extortionists instead of just victims who finally realised what was done to them later in life, as happens all the time

*Riker* being worried Picard might turn down a promotion is hilarious. Yeah Will, doesn't it suck when your career advancement is blocked by the person above you deciding to stay in their job forever?

Anthony Horowitz uses AI, says 'it feels like cheating'. I mean...yes? You're using the theft-powered plagiarism machine to generate text, do you expect it to feel like a good day's hard work?

Good stack. open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/p...

Thread. And while I am far more eager than most for Britain to rejoin the EU, I see absolutely no way they'd even consider letting us back in without this, or we'd just go through the Brexit nonsense again in a decade. Like the US with Trump, Britain has shown it's not a trustworthy partner.

I am fascinated (read: appalled) at the Green's deciding to abandon the moral case they were making against both Labour and Reform in favour of playing the same affordability game

The only abnormal part is "heee heee heee we'll put it in THEIR areas" and hugging themselves, which is a _stupid_ idea, you'd put them in the place where your rival party can go "ha ha planning application rules go brrr" and "WUH OH look at a rule you broke" - but that's not what their statement is

This is like saying "Plaid Cymru keep talking about Welsh independence as a distraction"

NOT TORONTO

Iran says we can be named to the unclaimed inheritance of engineer Giorgio Unitedstates and they can deposit it directly into our account.

Today’s watercolor lesson was freestyle leaves in different greens and earth colors, some glazed, some veined

is really interesting to argue that an Irish writer doesn’t count as Irish because at the time the British had come over here and just taken everything for themselves. More than one hundred years, and nothing has changed. Unreconstructed colonialism.

A very telling element of this cycle is the bit where they tell at non-white Brits

Despite its modern setting and science fiction trappings, the Jurassic Park franchise is best understood as an example of the immram (voyage) genre of medieval literature. In this essay I will

Honestly FFS A drooling racist calling for the victims of racist attacks to atone for being attacked

All right, I’ll fight crime, but I won’t enjoy it.