Before They Are Hanged still one of the best middle-volumes I’ve read.

happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day

Anyone who thinks reading is "performative" can only be ignorant, charmless, and utterly devoid of imagination.

Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.

Didn’t *hate* it. It was rather dissatisfying, though.

Didn’t they fall for this when McConnell was Leader (maybe regarding impeachment)? “We’ll do it after! Oh wait, no, there’s no time now. Oh well.”

she's still got her fastball

So, what we’ve learned is… Maybe an app that tracked them would have been useful? Huh.

🎯🎯

Um… no? Is the Trump admin some bizarre, sick performance project to see what happens when the most feckless, incompetent people are put in charge of everything?

Now do all of the “religious” Republicans, maybe even throughout history, and see how “pure” and “virtuous” they are. Ted Cruz RT’d porn, didn’t he?

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE must have drawn heavily on Annie Jacobsen’s NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO, right?

Had a great conversation with #Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn about the first two episodes, filming that incredible night sequence with the involvement of over 300 cast and crew, Carol's complicated feelings about one character in particular, and more:

New Belisarius Cawl novel by @guyhaley.bsky.social up for pre-order! Really enjoy this series, looking forward to this new one. www.blacklibrary.com/prod-home/ne...

Explore stories from some of today’s iconic authors in the Modern Sci-Fi Classics book bundle featuring: - Seveneves by Neal Stephenson - Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink - The Oracle Year by Charles Soule - and more! Supports @roomtoread.bsky.social | https://bit.ly/4nINouS

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I get one point. I have never blasted a boombox while carrying it on my shoulder. We did, however, have one, and I played many cassettes on it, which I sometimes had to rewind using a pencil.

But didn’t he say he was waiting for the courts to tell him to release them (on “Truth” Social)? What a surprise, he remains the world’s biggest liar.

Trump also just released the guy who lied to the FBI about the Bidens taking bribes. He has ties to Russian intelligence — and Trump’s businesses. Again: The law does not apply to them. newrepublic.com/post/202897/...

What a banger

This is evil. Don't use AI. Don't download AI apps. AI kills jobs, the planet, and people -- intentionally.

Very amusing to watch Reform complain about all the things wrong with the UK - every one caused by Brexit - without actually mentioning Brexit, as if they happened by magic.

"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"

In his new book, antitrust scholar and former White House adviser Tim Wu argues that tech giants are bleeding you dry—and lays out a plan to stop them. www.wired.com/story/tim-wu...

AT LAST I CAN SHOW YOU! Here is the US cover for MORTEDANT'S PERIL! And ain't it a cracker?

Aaaaand here's the UK version. Gone for less Tim Burton more a classic 1930s feel which I also love and fits the book really well as it's a whodunnit. I love them both.

Upcoming: WE WILL SEE YOU BLEED by Ron Currie... civilianreader.com/2025/11/07/u... Due out in June 2026, via @putnambooks.bsky.social. Returns to Little Canada, setting of THE SAVAGE, NOBLE DEATH OF BABS DIONNE. Really looking forward to this.

The raw dynamism just leaps out of that image

In a future where people travel back in time and do anything they want without consequences, one disgruntled young man decides to visit his parents two years earlier. Next week. "The Belle of the Ball" by @sgj.bsky.social! Art by Leonardo Santamaria Edited by @datlow.bsky.social!

Now we know why Meta allows ads from scammers (even when you click on the ad, Meta warns you it's likely a fraud)

Apple TV’s new streaming logo was built with glass and captured in-camera 🎥

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Let it unleash a thousand memes. I call this one: "Donald Trump stands idly by while the American economy passes out in a corner."

Friends, “Furious Minds” is out! @lkatfield.bsky.social wrote an important book - one that truly is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the rightwing intellectual scene, the defining ideas on today’s extremist Right, and the ideological traditions they draw on. Please read:

Woke up at 3am, couldn’t get back to sleep. So, had breakfast and kind of finished today’s work by 11am…

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever read about McCarthyism

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

New from @garymarcus.bsky.social ... garymarcus.substack.com/p/if-you-tho...

Upcoming: EVERYBODY LOSES by Danny Funt... civilianreader.com/2025/11/06/u... Due to be published by Gallery Books, on January 20th, 2026.

Next non-fiction read is MASTERS OF THE GAME by Sam Smith & Phil Jackson — out now, published by @penguinpress.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799925...

Always disappointing when a favourite podcast has one host (of four) who is so irritating. Amazingly so, in fact. He thinks he's funny, but he REALLY isn't.

Big fan of Quakers Oat Squares. They have been unavailable for a couple weeks now, decided to search online and… whoa. There are a LOT of people who love this cereal and are absolutely shook that they’re out of stock/not available. Reddit threads, articles, all distraught at their absence.

Maybe they need the sign because he keeps getting lost…?

it was so sweet of the NY post to make a special commemorative issue

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billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off. The media landscape shrinks even further.

The Thunder stay perfect and hold on to No. 1, while strong weeks from the Lakers, Rockets and Bucks push them into the Top 5 in John Schuhmann's latest Power Rankings! 👀 where all 30 teams rank on the NBA App: nba.smart.link/qbngd6kfg