Metropolis (1927) is set in 2026.

Meet the new year, same as the old year.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Dead of Night is streaming on Channel 4 until the end of today, in case you don't have other plans

Happy tenth anniversary to photographer Joel Goodman’s classic image which by rights should be hanging in the Louvre.

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NATO fighter jets were scrambled after Putin ordered Tu-95MS strategic bombers on a Christmas sortie toward northern Britain, according to the Mirror. The aircraft flew over the Norwegian Sea, prompting an air policing response amid concerns over a deliberate show of force near UK airspace.

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0

Is it? My understanding is that strictly speaking "defamatory" means harmful to one's reputation whether true or not; it becomes libellous/slanderous if false

So it goes

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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

🧵 It's almost a joke. Entshittification by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy - I order the book, but it doesn't ship for weeks, despite being 'In Stock'. The expected delivery date is changed to May 26, even though the book is still allegedly 'In Stock'. - It suddenly arrives. The postman doesn't...

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

Today's #DesertIslandDiscs sees the mighty Margaret Atwood talking to @laurenlaverne.bsky.social. Should be a goodie. It's on Radio 4 at 10am

This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal. Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

A proper treat for you! 🎛️ New mini #BBCRadio3 series, every night this week 9.45pm #Electronicwomen From Daphne Oram to Laurie Anderson… only 15mins each night, before NightTracks kicks in HP x

Would anyone like my ticket to tonight's Daphne Oram night at the Barbican from 7.30pm? Sadly I can't go; any reasonable offer fine, DM for details, thanks

Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language

In 2016, godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton said: "People should stop training radiologists now." In this week's The AI Shift newsletter, we ask: why are there still so many radiologists?? www.ft.com/content/f2e0...

This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 JUST IN: tens of thousands of people will need to turn to a food bank for the very first time this winter. We expect to provide an emergency food parcel EVERY 10 SECONDS.

Happy St Andrew's Day to all who celebrate it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

1 like equals one clove of garlic going into my dish

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

"Eh quoi!" (What!) Beowulf, Epopée Anglo-Saxonne, 1877 Léon Botkine 🇫🇷

UK immigration consultation. Designed terribly and probably intentionally to make it difficult to disagree, but worth doing if you do.

The Covid enquiry has concluded that the reality we all witnessed *was* the actual reality, and the version which Johnson, Cummings et al insisted was happening was a total fabrication. It’s incredible that we have to have lengthy enquiries after the event to establish consensus reality now.

A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged. A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death. And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.

Pinning this again: Do not use milk, juice, urine, antacids, baking soda on pepper spray or tear gas. Just water. Plain water.. Optical saline ok in eyes, but maybe save it for the dumbasses who wore contact lenses. Plain soap or shampoo ok on skin, but never in eyes.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

Can we go back to the days when politicians said that they really wanted to help people but it’s very hard and takes time, rather than saying that they want to hurt people and can do it quickly?

Is the Telegraph finally acknowledging that Thatcher wrecked British society?

Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

BBC Radio 3 Essential Classics Now Playing Jean‐Philippe Rameau, Benny Göran Bror Andersson, Björn K. Ulvaeus, Benny Göran Bror Andersson, Björn K. Ulvaeus & Wolfgang Katschner Lay All Your Love On Me / Loure Grave (From Les Fêtes d'Hébé, RCT 41

On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Jeffries: "There's additional funds that are available to be reallocated so that not a single person in this country goes hungry. And if that happens beginning on November 1, it's because Donald Trump and Republicans want the American people to go hungry."

The White House "bunker" is under the East Wing. The one where Cheney went on 9/11, and Trump to hide from George Floyd protests. So is that, like, out of commission? Still going to be there? Entrance hidden under the new throne room? No security concerns about the construction being so visible?

The UK government last had a hate crime strategy for England in 2016-20 Prime Minister May was fairly active on this, 2016-19 Johnson (3 years), Truss, Sunak (22 months), Starmer (15 months, new party of govt) did not find appetite/bandwidth to prioritise renewing it www.gov.uk/government/p...

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills. The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

- Celery - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's painfully unfunny Holmes spoof, The Hound of the Baskervilles - Billy Joel's Just The Way You Are

Leather gloves are usually inadequate for the temperatures that tear gas grenades burn at.

As hostages are being handed over to IDF, Israeli defense minister tweets about bombings to follow

State of the Union

Congratulations to Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London, who is now Archbishop-designate of Canterbury