Indeed you may have encountered some of Hammerstein's (he dropped the aristocratic 'von' at this point) leadership principles in management studies. They're characteristically blunt and on point. They formed the basis for his wholesale overhaul proposals for the Weimar Republic's army. /7

Highly influential 20C photographer Robert Frank was once described as the “Manet of the new photography”, and his images as “cinematic, immediate, off-kilter and grainy” ~ here’s his young son Pablo in Times Square (1953)

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

The whole of history:

An important related statistic is that men live longer lives if they have daughters, but not if they have sons.

Contractor: so how'd you want the tits? Perky? Big ole cans? Iowa state legislature: the what Contractor: me and the boys was thinking perky Iowa state legislature: this is for the war dead? Contractor: okay writin' that down as perky

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘September’ Shell Nature Studies, 1956 Artist: Rowland Hilder and Maurice Wilson

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

Very interesting, inspiring & enraging episode of Subject to Power with @rachelhewitt.bsky.social - all the episodes I've listened to have been fascinating, on a wide range of feminist subjects open.spotify.com/episode/7z5o...

“The way that Russia recruits, offering hefty sums to men from the poorer regions to come forward, is a bit like an extractive industry. Eventually the mining becomes increasingly expensive until there is little left to extract.“

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

You know what else is 14 words? "Did you insinuate my wife was a prostitute on the Plymouth Herald comments section?"

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Anyone who's read Sarah Wynn-Williams's book will find this unsurprising www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

Women's rights protestors have demanded the EU explore "all legal and diplomatic avenues" to prevent America from burning $10 million worth of contraceptives stored in Belgium due to changes in US aid programs.

The fascinating science of how we think not with the brain but with the world www.themarginalian.org/2022/03/22/t...

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

My hunch is Euro responses to Russia's latest escalation will: 1. Lead to short term moves within social media news cycles that will be widely condemned as inadequate 2. Initiate long term structural shifts in policy and posture that intensify confrontation between Russia and EU/UK

Responses to the latest Russian drone incursion over Poland show how in hyperactive social media discourse the ability of personalist autocracies to move faster than other systems generates a comms advantage that masks long term structural impact of moves initiated by democracies

“The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive.” Yes, my friends, on the day a new Dan Brown ‘book’ hits the shops, it’s time to remind ourselves of the work of renowned journalist Michael Deacon of British newspaper The Daily Telegraph... archive.ph/44MCP

Ladybird book in the Spotlight ‘Smoke and Fluff’ (1941) Artist: Angusine Macgregor

My God.

This is sickening, and if I hear another male 'security expert‘ argue that 'at least Afghanistan is now more stable than it was before‘, I cannot guarantee for the consequences. Who cares about 50% of the population, eh?

The only country to have left the ECHR in this century is Russia... and they were expelled. Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Fucking hell. One surrogate whose life the buyer is determined to destroy, another who nearly died & lost her uterus, but if this clearly unfit, vengeful woman decides to buy a third baby, nobody can stop her. Ban commercial surrogacy already, ffs archive.ph/2025.09.03-2...

“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade. Look at what he does, ffs. Look at his tax affairs. Look at his grifting. Look at his lies. Look at his prejudice. Look at his allies. Look at his manifesto. Look at his Brexit. He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.

Can we take a minute to recognise Angela Rayner has taken accountability by owning up to her mistake, correcting it, referring herself to ministerial standards & now resigning. Not one single Tory MP did this & was always backed by the prime minister especially Boris Johnson. #UkPolitics

That’s because, as Farage knows, there is zero talent among the barely-educated ranks of Reform. What that means is, should they ever win, UK voters will have no idea who will end up running the country. (Story from The Telegraph)

I will scream from the rooftops forever that medical abuse during the birthing process has radicalized huge swaths of birthing people against industrialized medicine. And that anti-vaxxers exploited that distrust to create a mobilized base radicalized against medical science as a whole.

Timeline cleanse

Operation Raise the Colours has never been about the safety of women & girls Read: Why do I have to hide away? Project Resist's Report on the devastating impact of the '24 far-right riots on Black, migrant & minoritised women & children Link in thread #FeministsAgainstFascism

Am I imagining it, or has he got bigger?

Obviously twitter is so much worse now but ffs, I was getting rape and death threats before Musk took over and I feel so much of the discourse about which social media site is worse and when just reeks of male privilege.

The ECHR alone provided redress to victims of crime failed by public inquiries, such as the Hillsborough disaster or John Worboys' victims (the black cab rpst). Our Government must defend our membership of the ECHR, loudly and proudly. Without it, we're all less safe.

Do the powers that be not get that lots of us aren’t actually racist

In response to my rant yesterday, I was asked how we can make better parks and other public places for teenage girls? What do they want? I have answers to this, so now a positive 🧵. Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.

Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

It's important to assume that Reform in Government would indeed try to do this. The right thing is not to tell the public that this won't happen - so they can therefore vote for Reform without guilt - but rather that a vote for Reform is a vote for the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people.

This is also worth remembering about the flags on the lampposts. One person with a bike and an Amazon account can “take” your town in a night, and create the illusion that it belongs to people you’re scared of or don’t want to meet. Just like any act of vandalism or territorial marking.

After struggling to write a book review for an excessively long time, I eventually decided to just structure it around Daniel Dennett‘s rules for composing a critical commentary. It really helped, which is good because I often recommend it to my students. www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/d...

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

It shows such a basic lack of political understanding that Labour didn't go straight on the attack over this. Just because most people are worried about immigration being too high it doesn't mean they're psychopaths.

realistic Star Trek

I wrote this before work. On Afghanistan, Farage, the impossibility and yet horrific possibility of his plans, and why the Left needs to get its s**t together. open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

This is how Farage's cruel and unworkable plans should be reported, credit to @mikeysmith.com www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...