I'd have thought that believing God is 'biologically male'* is a lot more heretical than believing God is 'non-binary'. *Presumably has to be this because Republicans don't do gender

Laughing at this map because it shows that the place we chose for years of summer 'beach' holidays (Devon) still never gets 85 F days

They were a bit too good tbh.

Wolf's public engagement also poor, contribution to next REF cycle negligible

Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.

Sadly I am a Talarico pessimist. A guy who is actually trying to live by Christian values is going to drive most of the white evangelicals into absolute fury and they will turn out in droves to vote against him. He shames them and deep down they know it.

Indianapolis currently has one nonstop international flight to Europe (Dublin) per week which is probably about the maximum level of European demand to travel to Indiana.

'They are not just gonna not fly'. Honestly they have no clue as to why people fly to the USA.

Becerra- born in Sacramento, educated Stanford, 25 years representing LA in Congress, California AG Hilton- born in London, educated Oxford, moved to California in 2012. US citizen for four years. This will be an epic curb stomping. Followed inevitably by Hilton blaming 'foreigners' voting.

The event that was 'too embarassing' for Milli Vanilli to participate.

At this point the only act who has actually confirmed seems to be Vanilla Ice - which is hilariously on the money.

Bluesky playing up on the Ipad again...

New bibliography entry: Breaking the State: Food, Hunger, and Power in War ift.tt/qZjEWT2 #FWWstudies

Personally I’d have gone with ‘Nazi Nosferatu’ or maybe ‘Ku Klux Kuck’ but this is OK.

I really hope AI doesn’t come for Capybara videos because I want to believe.

So let us game this out. At least 75% of all international flights go to ’sanctuary cities’ (Chicago, Newark, SF, LA, NY are 5 of the top 7 airports). Of those flights you could divert at most 10% to non-sanctuary- even if passengers were willing. Effectively sanctioning the USA.

Definitely going to be buying a pardon soon.

Not wrong- although Venetian blinds aren’t a bad first step. (Weirdly they seemed to be more common when I was a kid)

The ’market’ clearly thinks that the Strait of Hormuz simply has to reopen and so has already priced this in. So in practice they are betting that either a. Trump surrenders, b. Iran surrenders or c. They can actually come to a deal. I’m not sure I’d share that confidence.

I would like to report a murder.

Economic History seems to be going down two diverging roads - speculative theorising about long term determinants of political action/economic development- sometimes interesting sometimes dubious and excellent empirical detective work like this (and the EHR piece on WW2 inflation in France)

In an alternative timeline imagine what the A list ’Concert for USA 250’ would have looked like…

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Politicians who actually cared about their constituents' wellbeing should be SCREAMING to get mitigations in place, instead of HOWLING that Net Zero is a fraud.

This is spot on. But dropping the triple lock would doubtless be much worse politically because most of the public is deeply committed to the idea that they have ‘paid’ for their pensions.

This is one of those things that makes you think ‘That would probably be very good’

‘Veep’ Creator Armando Iannucci Set to Write ‘Paddington 4’ ... Well ok. "If I don't get a fucking marmalade sandwich soon I'm going to sell your ass to that fucking Scientology boat, and you'll be branded and stranded, you useless bobble-headed pencil-dicked piece of prebiotic shit."

The immense success of podcasts is clear proof that a market exists for demanding content; people will even watch video of podcasters talking with little or no televisual ‘excitement’. That TV execs ignore the demand signal shows they just don’t want to hear that, though.

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

Essentially true. But this is in part because they have been improved.

It is 20‘ C hotter in Oxford right now than it was this time last week (14‘C versus 34‘ C) That is pretty crazy.

Trying to think what on earth the USA is trying to achieve other than this ‘5%’? Maybe the Iranians offered him a golf course?

This is wild.

Incredible to think this was only six years before the first satellite telephone calls. (Cable and satellite have advanced surprisingly in parallel in the last seventy years.)

MAGA are refusing to believe that an American flag wrapped bully would beg before a vengeful bearded fanatic after discovering he is powerless. They are also upset about ‘The Boys’ finale for some reason.

Similarly the incoherence of the stolen election claim is staggering. He won two elections when the Democrats actually ‘controlled’ the Federal government and then lost one when he ‘controlled’ it.

This is very interesting. The linkage between urbanisation and classic industrialisation is possibly weaker than is generally imagined.

TBF he also doesn’t seem very interested in most of his children.

Can confirm that Winstanley is very successful in sending students to Oxford.

This would be an absolute disgrace. www.ft.com/content/c98a...

‘Company Town’ is definitely a strong transatlantic divide- Brits think of Bourneville or Port Sunlight and Americans imagine a silicosis and pellagra ridden Appalachian hellhole where the Pinkertons lynch trade unionists and evict their widows.

Winning Bluesky today.

Got to love that the guy who ended up going to completely the wrong town in Mongolia, 400 km in the wrong direction, was the geography teacher #raceacrosstheworld

The reactions of MAGA to the finale of The Boys demonstrates that the show portraying them as pathetic power worshipping simpletons was bang on.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

‘they would be forced to take these freedom classes’ is such an epic quote.

‘I’m sure we aren’t going to need’…

It is actually even worse - according to the Guardian the NIH lab which does Ebola research was closed down last year.

Are you saying that the IWM isn’t going to take my 1970s AIrfix stuff from the attic when I pop my clogs? What kind of ‘war museum’ are you?

Wait for the puppy.. 😅