A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

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Is it because you don’t know him and you weren’t invited?

Eurgh

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

These patriotic displays have gone a bit too far now, if you ask me.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Six years ago, there wasn’t even a Wikipedia page for the biggest robbery of all time. But I was obsessed with the story and pitched it as a documentary - now, finally, it’s out there, and here’s my story about the robbery in the Mail today. It’s pretty wild. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

A story to make your blood boil. But as an aside, I'm a big fan of Mill Media sometimes printing the full aggressive responses they get to their questions (see also: Twamley, Lee)

Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Attenborough should narrate a new series called Absolute Bastards, that follows the absolute bastards of the animal kingdom

The hero we need in these times www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago. I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.

All prepared for tonight’s trick-or-treaters

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

Whoever channeled Billy Idol for this headline… I applaud you and your very strange decision

I'm sorry, you what now?

NL was always among most Atlanticist in continental Europe. Supported US invasion Iraq, blindly pro-Israel, provided troops in Afghanistan & Iraq, often bought American rather than European arms (Joint Strike Fighter). Quite something for top intelligence people to come out and say this out loud.

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?

Immediately got an earworm of "Nuns on Fire" stuck in my head, to the tune of "Girls on Film" bbc.com/news/videos/c1jzj1n797yo

Every single line of this horrific story delivers some new wonderful detail/sense of revulsion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is fine

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

Sarah Mullally, now the Archbishop of Canterbury, was at the heart of the appalling Martin Sargeant fiasco. Read our investigation from last year www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’. Our story about today’s attack. manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...

i can't think of a movie other than One Battle After Another where the main thing i'd try not to spoil is the way a sequence was filmed

EXPOSED: Nigel Farage’s mass-deportation anti-migrant fantasy isn’t a “saving” - it’s a £TRILLION black hole. Britain's fiscal watchdog, plus an exclusive @bylinetimes.bsky.social analysis, show Reform UK's plan would make Britain poorer, smaller & deeper in debt bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/f...

I have the strongest admiration for Deborah Haynes and even more after reading this extraordinary story about her experiences with aHUS and the brilliant medical teams who have helped to save (and evacuate!) her - she will be on Sky News in 10 mins to talk about it. news.sky.com/story/critic...

Some of the mental images presented in this article will haunt me forever - in particular one that has put me off lasagna for life www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

NEW: Here's our report on the "SIM farm" the Secret Service discovered, which hopefully helps better explain what the hell is up with all this. @agreenberg.bsky.social, @lhn.bsky.social, & @mattburgess1.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/sim-fa...

I’ve been working at the Guardian for close to 18 years and the picture caption on this story may genuinely be my favourite from that entire time.

I don't think it's being rich that's making you unpopular, mate www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Peter Thiel gets roasted to hell & back in this amazing @sfstandard.com story. Pro Tip: Thiel should fire his entire staff—and all of his dumb friends—for allowing him to pursue this fanatical fiasco! Great reporting by @eshugs.bsky.social and Garrett Leahy. sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/p...

“He’ll die, like we all will, but he’ll have had a horribly joyless time getting there”?

Worded slightly like a threat

Love this story in @liverpoolpost.bsky.social about a hidden bohemian corner of Liverpool, the Garlic Mansion www.livpost.co.uk/the-garlic-m...

EXCL: Reform's first councillor in London is a convicted "slum landlord" who rents out a 33-person HMO. While digging into him I found out one of his former tenants is new Green party leader Zack Polanski. www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...

Turns out you can make far-right, controversialists into moderate, well-meaning centrists, but only in obituaries and tributes. It’s a bit of a brutal way to move the Overton window.

Sometimes you see a headline and can picture the editorial meetings that took place before this is what was settled on

One of those "it's hard to be shocked in 2025, but...." stories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For @londonermag.bsky.social, I visited the Hyman Archive, the world’s biggest magazine collection, as it sits in a strange limbo inside a south London lock-up www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-south-lo...

Found it. Here is Captain Scott, near the end, regretting having a big curry. I seem to recall this is the moment it really starts to unravel.

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

This, by Mael Galisson, is a stunning piece of work. I saw him present on it yesterday. He works to record all deaths across the Calais UK border. The scrolling timeline format brings it home even more. As does the inclusion of photos and stories. www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/ent...

In the weird, terrible moment we're all experiencing of contested reality / distorted reality / unreality, I was heartened by this wonderful Zach Helfand piece about the brilliant, heroic fact checkers of @newyorker. May they save civilization.

Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on August 25 while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family reut.rs/4g5UcRd 1/6

1. what 2. turn off the internet, we made a huge mistake 3. what www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

You might be surprised to learn it’s not illegal to buy and sell human remains - even if they’ve been stolen from a grave. From me in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...