Interestingly, if you Google "double exposure," only a couple of the results are actually real double exposures.

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

I spoke to a few people, including journalists, at Labour conference who had seen and believed claims on X that Multiverse – Tony Blair's son's company – had been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme @fullfact.org have checked this claim and it is untrue

Another one for the genre of overpaid "journalist" connecting random things that annoy them to a current issue. Spectator is great at this.

Right, this is a persistent problem in this discourse.

I've acquired film for my grandfather's Penguin camera - let's see if it works!

Obviously this is the worst of it, but every time I read the NYT (which is not very much) I'm struck by how this prevalent passive voice is part of a writing style that reads like it's written by someone who hates journalism and is loathe to tell the peasants the news. It's horrible to read.

Tyneham

Tf is the anger with BlueSky rules about

I have the best new socks

There's a strange contingent of ostensibly left-wing people online who want to privatise the BBC in reaction to this, for some reason. Not really sure how this would solve anything, nor do anything but make the problem worse.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Munich by Robert Harris is a strange book; it's not poor by any means, but at times reads a bit like a self-insert fanfiction. A lot of "well I say, this is most extraordinary, young man!" with the same cadence as though Sonic the Hedgehog just walked through the door.

France

Everything I read about Biden's decision to run again makes me angrier

Had a lunch with a psychoanalyst yesterday which was great but every so often he'd say something like "I can tell you keep a lot more private than most people." Alright stay off my tail.

and what's bad about this is the apps are not exactly designed for maximizing successful matches but keeping you locked in not sure how you fix this short of starting a dating co-op

"Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by." Ignazio Silone

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Unsurprisingly, the thing Noah Smith is saying is obviously not true. Look at reports on the reaction to the assassination of MLK... "glee, satisfaction and weeping in equal parts" (www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/r...) as the Smithsonian notes "some actually celebrated" (nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...).

Cones just searched “Charlie Kirk” on Twitter.

Political violence is bad and solves nothing

My friend is trying to get funding for a folk horror-adjacent film he is making and everyone keeps seeing it and saying "that's great but can you make it more like the Wickerman?" This made me viscerally angry upon hearing, STOP MAKING THE FUCKING WICKERMAN

Did you know? Poe never actually said the phrase "Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”" That was an invention by the Simpsons! #poetryfacts

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

Doesn't seem like a great approach regardless of personal belief.

So what power does the Labour conference hold over the future?

Unrelated but does anyone know how these bots get their data? Is there an API?

Incredibly embarrassing few minutes where he just seems to ramble about an unrelated issue? Is this what all congressional hearings are like?

I would be less sad about the retirement of Melvyn Bragg - a man not without his faults - if I had any confidence in the BBC to replace him with someone who comes close to his level.

Ah this is very sad. In Our Time and Melvyn are both special. Soundtrack to doing chores, cooking dinner, and when I can't sleep. As I've said before, my favourite moment is when Melvyn reads 'She, to Him' by Thomas Hardy and audibly chokes up at the end - rightly so as it is moving.

Hello and welcome to In Our Time with me, Amol Rajan.

Trump distinctly NOT at death's door it seems

Let's check in on how England are doing in the cricket

I think I might be giving myself some sort of compartment syndrome during running (unsure of the specifics); my leg went numb today, so I will try to not let that get worse

Do you think the anonymous immigrant who invented Tikka Masala was ever kept up at night haunted by the utterly moronic discourse his invention would lead to?

Franz Josef in 1859: Hey Metternich watch me smash these Italians!! Metternich:

Most people are willing to overlook the moral issue with meat. The rest is price, and vegan options are more expensive or, if not, more limited.

Fitbit when I exercise a bit more than normal: you've really pushed it today! In fact, you're overexerting yourself. This is madness. You've overtrained. You're going to have a heart attack. I've called the ambulance. It's over Fitbit when I haven't exercised in a day: LAZY FUCK

Caught in the rain, Henry decided to stay under his favourite bush, rather than risk the scary run inside through direct rain. As a result, he was soaked, just slowly. There is much to learn from this sorry incident.

At what part of running do you start getting better

The answer to this was no btw

this stuff breaks you down the longer you stare into it, primarily because you can see the nihilism in the act infect discourse and the social fabric around you i have cried today

A fun fact is that I was probably the first (or one of the first) person in the mainland UK to see an Asian hornet, but my camera wouldn't focus on it.

HELP SHE'S OUT OF CONTROL