With my professional Academic Editor hat on, the appropriate editorial response is to inform Reviewer Two that their services will no longer be required on this or any other paper, as they are incapable of interpreting plain meanings correctly.

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

"Quiet, piggy." Well, now we know what the BBC's response to any further legal threats from Trump should be.

Imagine posting this (from behind a block, naturally) to someone whose bio begins with "ex-Royal Marine from Northern Ireland". Clearly, Ivan here is not one of nature's readers, and both logic and inference are skills that also elude his grasp.

Lmao

The 2025 social media experience:

There is not a single thing on this list that anyone seeking fundamental improvement in American policing could (or should) disagree with.

I'm not dunking on Dan - whom I respect tremendously, and who has done and continues to do an enormous amount of good in the world - but it is worth pointing out that *a tradition* can be a national one even if the components of that tradition are not native. But also: Reform are twats.

I've just learned this post has been read by local labour officials deep in Reform territory. Let us hope it makes them think a bit.

This is, quite literally, the concluding chapter from years of vice signaling as politics. There is no better evidence for how putting Trump, a charlatan and moral void, at the center of our politics for a decade has resulted in the literal rotting of the soul and character this nation.

Have you read this, Labour?

A quarter of the entire deployed US Navy is now stationed in the Caribbean. That goes way beyond frighteners.

"Siri, what is 'institutional memory'?"

Three days ago – three days! – I was mourning the friends I lost when, in response to the USA's cry for help, British forces joined the Global War on Terror. I suspect Bluesky would suspend me if I told you what I really think of this 5'9" heap of shite in a cheap suit.

. @johnfinnemore.bsky.social have you seen this?

"Dear Mr Hymas, Your respondents may be delighted to learn that I possess a time machine that will allow them to live in the UK in 1975. Unfortunately, it is only able to send people to Belfast. I look forward to seeing how many Telegraph readers take advantage of this offer. Yours sincerely..."

Youtube flung up some pseudo-Celtic music sung by some breathy woman who sounds like she's dying of consumption, so listen up, Americans: inferior copies of Enya will not endear you to the Irish, who know that she is a marine biology experiment that got out of hand: we were trying to talk to whales.

Casting director: "And for the senior academic in Basic Instinct 2, I thought maybe Charlotte Rampling?" Director: "Why would I want Char-" Casting director: *slides photo across table*

So Sarah Kendzior was suspended for paraphrasing the lyrics of Folsom Prison Blues in response to an article *about Johnny Cash*? LeithMotive's assessment here appears to be the correct one.

Reminds me of that marvellous image in The Kraken Wakes when someone passes the drowned Palace of Westminster (on the landward side!) in a speedboat and the wake washes against the windows.

I am sure I am not alone in enjoying a letter that makes me punch the air and go "YES!" Do read it. It is the legal equivalent of the speech in the film Independence Day.

I don’t think people are paying enough attention to the fact that the North Carolina court of appeals just ruled that 65,000 votes don’t count, and that the Republican Supreme Court candidate who lost actually won. This will be appealed, but make no mistake: they’re trying to steal this election.

AH! I was expecting to find something like this. Now that the UK is no longer sharing intel with the US on vessel movements in the Caribbean, Trump will have wanted to strike back at the UK. Which he has done, by threatening to sue the BBC – a source of news (or "intel") for the British public.

Shittification and shareholder return A rehash of an old thread Why is everything crap. Well, here we learn why Adam Smith was an early Marxist, in that though he had great faith in markets He had zero faith in merchants And the reason why, is why no one answers your helpline 1/n

A thought has occurred, to which I do not know the answer (although I suspect @ukdefencejournal.org.uk might): is the BBC considered part of the UK's Critical National Infrastructure, and if it is, what does that do to the significance of Trump's threatened lawsuit?

now would be the *perfect* time for someone to leak the Epstein Files to the BBC.

Interesting to read this in light of a comparable British situation, which was national fury at Boris Johnson flouting the lockdown rules that we kept conscientiously despite their difficulty.

Waving a big white flag isn't fighting, Chuck, you supine invertebrate.

BBC really burying the lede there

From my recollection of literature, a broken stone table is a Good Thing, Actually.

Not only has Cartland been struck off, his name has been erased from the medical register, meaning that he's not even "Dr." Cartland any more. That is an unbelievably high bar to clear, so it tells you just how egregious his conduct was. Read the judgement here: www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts...

It remains an annoyance that the raid on Eadu in Rogue One was conducted by an X-Wing detachment rather than Y-Wings, which as purpose-built strike fighters were designed for exactly that sort of mission.

A modest proposal:

LawnDartGPT. And should, AT MINIMUM, receive the same treatment.

Congratulations, techbros: you have created in digital form the dude hanging around outside schools asking children if they want a sweetie and to play with a puppy. Meanwhile, the cleavers are jingling as they dangle from hooks in the back of his van.

China Mieville, my favourite living author, has a new novel coming in September next year. It's his first solo work in more than a decade and I am THRILLED.

Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Finally getting caught up on season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The series continues to be my favourite among the raft of new ones we've had since Enterprise ended.

An interesting article - not least because the /au/ sound the author discusses *is* commonplace in at least one form of English: my native Northern Irish, where the /au/ sound substitutes for /ow/ and (certain forms of) /ou/: hence the NI pronunciation of "owl," "brown," "ground," etc...

Annual reminder that you're all celebrating an Irish pagan festival except for the candy and Princess costumes, that was America.

Cherry brandy, after the way it's extolled in some novels (most notably Gerald Durrell's "Rosy is my Relative"), comes as a shocking disappointment.

Adding this to the list of "things this moron would never actually dare to say to a veteran's face." Take a look at their account to see some more, including some very reportable examples. But even then, note that the OP is sufficiently craven to have turned off all replies.

Only fair to publish the response, which is very welcome. It is good to see MPs willing to be this clear about what is behind the flags campaign, rather than reach for 'legitimate concerns'.

Is no one going to mention the blue demon casually sitting on top of the building? No one? At all?

"This is yet another small step for man..."

Having just learned the bare bones of the David Harbour/Lily Allen thing, I cannot think of any single way in which my life would be improved by learning more, so I'm choosing not to.

"Ignorance is a virtue" has been THE most important social and societal movement in the United States over the last two decades.