About to see a significant rise in "I thought it was a wild boar" being used as a courtroom defence

Presumably this obvious attempt at political interference in another country's election will be roundly condemned by Fidesz

Czekam tylko, aż przyklei swoje imię na froncie Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej.

Red Is Undead

This is a mindblowing account. Visiting the US is currently a huge gamble. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sometimes you come across an absolutely perfect dispatching of a quote or trope you’ve always disliked but have never quite satisfactorily articulated to yourself why. Bravo, Paul Hanley. Bravo.

The follow-up question is always "And now you're familiar with it, what do you think of it?"

watching the ski-jumping

his stuff really hasn't aged well

I, too, believe that we should go back to traditional ways of people doing their jobs, like MPs holding constituency surgeries

Opinion | Wallet Inspector Tried to Warn You About Wallet

Post a banger, not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=59JG...

European Commission: "So, guys, single market in servi....." EU countries: "NOOOOOOO, NOT LIKE THAT"

I think the difference between the Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics for me are that with the latter I can more or less understand in the case of most disciplines - okay, maybe not horse dancing - who is winning at whatever point and why. Whereas with the former, I am mostly at a loss.

Claude, create me Richard Branson if even Bono hated him

BREAKING: just published my private WhatsApp messages with @jakubkrupa.bsky.social. :: agreed that Marco Silva seems to have taken Fulham as far as he can :: recommended pubs in the Hammersmith area where you can get decent bitter for less than £7 a pint :: exchanged recipes for pizza dough

I can imagine getting a reputation as the kind of guy who will publish private messages if he thinks it's in his interest to do so will really help him politically

I have no wish to see a curling semi That’s my weak Winter Olympics gag

was with them for the first four words

Survey folk, I highly recommend reading this book, but maybe not directly after taking delivery of two sets of data from a quota-based CAWI survey

it would be very funny to me personally if ed miliband became prime minister because last summer he kindly took a photo of me topless

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o... Lol, no they didn't.

"Doing nothing is harder than you think. It involves saying no and suspending any sense of guilt at doing so." Now that, there, is truth.

This is bewildering stuff. Apparently the game should now be reffed on vibes and counterfactuals.

I’m certain he isn’t currently to be found posting aggressively on X about how actually these two positions are perfectly compatible

Last week I turned down one conference invitation and one invited lecture in the US. It’s just not worth the risk right now, even if I’m in a demographic less likely than most to trigger suspicion. All it takes is one border guard who doesn’t like the look of you.

There is one word that stands out very clearly here

The casual and repeated disrespect shown both to a renowned professor and basic principles of English grammar aside, why are @greenparty.org.uk giving free advertising to betting companies? Are they really that ignorant of the damage they do?

“Asked Claude Cowork…” - one of the biggest problems with these interfaces is how they encourage people to act as if they’re interacting with a person. A person who’d surely stop and think before irretrievably deleting valuable files.

I know it's somewhat down the list of boneheaded behaviour here, but not backing up on Time Machine is just astonishing. It does, however, require connecting a usb to your machine, which is manual labour and therefore beneath the VC class.

Interesting how many responses to this are of the “come on Greens, you’re better than this” variety, which was a stock response when Corbyn’s Labour did anything particularly underhand. There is no “nice guy” party.

"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Tim Allan has resigned' to people who never knew Tim Allan was employed" - GK Chesterton

Either this is incompetence or dishonesty. Neither augur well.

I played to bigger crowds at the Yorkshire Dragoon in the mid-90s, and our gigs usually attracted three stoned bikers and the upstairs barman

Perhaps we need to hear a little less about their cheap tickets and enviable fan ownership model.

I don’t know if it’s just my feed, but while I could tell you a lot about what happened during the musical interval at the meat chess extravaganza yesterday, I couldn’t tell you who won it. Why don’t they just dispense with the tedious parts and just have a concert?

Oh well, that’s the whole thing over and done with then. If it can‘t name a Guardian cartoonist’s wife, the game really is up. As annoying and unhelpful as AI boosterism is, the opposite is getting to be just as tedious.

Tacy będziecie.

oko.press/na-zywo/na-z... Kanał Zero Zdziwienia

Apparently InPost is going to be taken over by FedEx. I look forward to a bright new future of paying 47 złoty to have my parcel delivered to a locker in Walsall, with a tracking number that doesn’t work. The only up-side is that it isn’t being taken over by DHL.

The Cerberus of the Guardian’s paywall

🧵 / To be more serious, one of the advantages of Westminster types taking more than a surface-level interest in elections would be to stop falling for this 'great man theory of elections'.

I already can't comprehend why people think it's ok to surveil their neighbours and their own family with doorbells connected to the internet. This linked up surveillance stuff is the obvious next step and I will think very badly of anyone who still uses one.

I maintain that the british national anthem should be Jerusalem and the american national anthem should be Highway To The Danger Zone

To participate on X is not to engage in the Habermasian cut and thrust of reasoned argument in the public sphere, but to lick the urine-damp floor tiles of a public convenience.

Borges

A Werner Herzog commentary option is about the only thing that could induce me to watch the meat chess ad-fest

”Ladies and gentlemen please do not clap on the 1 and the 3”