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22nd April 2026. 05.50

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

In the UK we call them lifts but in the US they call them elevators, because we’re raised differently.

“The Ballroom is deeply important to our National Security”

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Frankly, Orban should be grateful JD didn’t “Pope Francis” him iykwim

Following Trump’s example of how to return traffic to the Strait of Hormuz, I’m going to unclog my kitchen drain by stuffing it with chewing gum and anything I find in my hairbrushes.

8th April 2026 06.12

A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following

The civilisation that dies tonight may not be the one Trump thinks will die www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

I got the blues…

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

This photo contains more humans than any other photo in history. In fact, it contains more *life* than any other photo in history. Kind of mind bending when you think of it that way.

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Spinning swans

Hundreds of thousands of Americans died to stop “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" 80 years on, with Musk and Bannon saluting it, the enemy is truly within

It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did. But if your mate put you there? That's fine. Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

Britain’s entire rightwing political classes being dragged around by whatever nonsense happens to have appeared on Trump’s Truth Social account in the past fifteen minutes is something to behold

Paging @edzitron.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

The good kind of infighting. Creasy explaining very clearly why the policy sucks. More power to the backbenchers

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

3rd March 2026 18.08

War is such a massive pain in the arse.

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is the kind of film that can restore your faith in cinema *and* make you laugh non-stop. Come for the costumed mascots, stay for the Karel Zeman aesthetic and Buster Keaton jokes.

Probably shouldn’t have had Claude doing the targeting, then.

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

The political death wish of the current Labour leadership is quite something to behold

1st March 2026 07.02

Going off the “war room” photos, I couldn’t tell which Supreme Leader is meant to be dead.

26th February 2026 06.48

Journalists have unearthed a scientific paper trail connecting the rare toxin used to kill Alexey Navalny to Russian labs implicated in the 2020 attempt on his life. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Is your disco mbobulated? Would you like us to assign someone etc Cosmic and joyful #HenOgledd youtu.be/u_97pSkDJmk?...

Every day another reason to loathe “AI”

"Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far-right than me," says Nigel Farage, as he announces plans for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of people and a visa ban on anyone coming from six Muslim-majority countries

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

This is entirely correct. It is *also* true of Labour's earned settlement proposals -which while not as extreme/overtly racist as Reform's, would still have precisely this effect for hundreds of thousands of people Not too late for government to change course www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

22nd February 2026 07.21

Starmer’s real leadership crisis. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Fatuous media coverage aside, Starmer’s challenge is to make good on his claim that Britain isn’t the country of the Brexit years in the face of rising ethno-nationalism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/star...

"each track feels monumental in scale, sweeping, monolithically, across our eye-line in slow motion. Like a wall of sound built from orchestral drones... a powerful and cathartic listen" Rafael Anton Irisarri's @blackknoll.bsky.social album reviewed by @doepud.co.uk theletter.co.uk/rafael-anton...

The worst thing about being arrested on your birthday is it rules out the possibility of getting a cake with a file in it for another 364 days.

"Fascinating stuff. Musically it’s vast, great big slabs of mournful sound, like huge monoliths crashing into each other." Review of Rafael Anton Irisarri @blackknoll.bsky.social new album in this week's @moonbuilding.bsky.social substack. moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-95-1...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

I can remember a time when a political party celebrating the launch of a book on how to launder money, written by a convicted fraudster who is also a long-term aide to the party leader, would have been seen as a rather large (& bizarre) red flag. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Technically sunshine