Sounds about right medium.com/@alysion42/i...

"People offer simple solutions to problems and yet there are all these complex things going on" - Gareth Southgate Wise @therestpolitics.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2Qdy...

T’was ever thus - Mythical Man-Month (1975)

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope” - RFK www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Ticket sales for the Washington National Opera have collapsed since Trump took over the Kennedy center www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Transactional solutions to interactional problems: things will get worse not better Hilary has great ideas, with real traction - read Radical Help

“Is there anything that the president and the republicans are doing well right now?" "Not that I can see" Jim Wade, an impressively calm and pragmatic Kentuckian soybean farmer talking about the effect of tariffs on his business

Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL. We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

I have a very bad feeling about this...

@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC. “This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…” So good!! 🔥

There’s been a lot of it about

Here's a version of the English nursery rhyme, "The Grand Old Duke of York" 🎶 about the man who says he isn't going to call himself it anymore ... though whether he should be taken at his word ... 🤔 youtu.be/hoETmTJM014

... more like at least 25 years than 15! :) bsky.app/profile/ntou...

I guess the question is how far those changes have helped govt deliver better policy outcomes? Looking around, the evidence seems patchy—digital's still often relegated to transactional service improvements rather than making the public sector become more effective in how it tackles policy issues

A super piece - critically important ideas about escaping the endless mire of underperformance in government

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

A disturbing (and plausible) view on AI. Development progressing geometrically. Huge change in next few years. Real possibility of bad stuff. Needs rapid but measured global collaboration between big players to avoid. US (hence Trump) being one of those… youtu.be/5KVDDfAkRgc

Brain tumours are rare, but their early signs are easy to mistake for stress, tiredness or the menopause. Researchers explain what to look for – and why it matters.

The age verification chickens, it seems, are inbound

"When you’re trying to bring about significant change in any complex system, it’s impossible to know up front exactly what’s going to work, how the various risks are going to pan out or how the context is going to change."

After Donald Trump's address to military leaders today, "senior U.S. officers have to wonder who will shield them from the impulses of the person they just saw onstage," Tom Nichols argues in The Atlantic Daily. https://theatln.tc/0WI2Lqm9

I wrote a thing about digital ID cards. It’s rather long… paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...

An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt. nyer.cm/6ApBXER

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

It's odd that Republicans can do the mental gymnastics to link Tylenol to autism, but not link gun deaths to guns.

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

I loved talking to Signal's @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, who is such a consistent, clear voice of sanity (and always a great interview). We talked about (of course) SignalGate, what AI means for Signal, why tech bros continue to be such a disappointment, and much more. Read, listen, etc!

“[With WhatsApp] gold is in the ingredients, but Signal is the gold standard. Privacy is our sole focus. We do one thing and we do it very, very well, which is provide the world’s largest actually private communications platform” Join Signal and persuade just one of your friends to do the same

About what is this bloke* on? * Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy youtu.be/_MLRcf3diso?...

I’d missed this. Don’t you. @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social youtu.be/YY_8WzcHqMQ

In some ways, an oddly upbeat vibe, for a musical rundown of the backsliding #freespeech situation developing in the US ... but this is our 🎵 parody "Freedom of Speech" to the tune of #Disney's "Under the Sea" - with some familiar faces cut in. 😎 youtu.be/DyoYRN8cc-g #Kimmel #Colbert

Children were 36% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and 56% more likely to develop autism if their mother had gestational diabetes.

Donald Trump is gambling that he can consolidate authority before the public turns too sharply against him, argues @davidfrum.bsky.social:

Here's a parody adaptation of the classic song "Walking in Memphis" by the soulful Marc Cohn, in which we address Donald Trump's arrival in the UK for his exciting historic second state visit. It's called "Put Up Some Fences" 🎹🎶 youtu.be/1Iag4yaozis?...

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today. "You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

Excellent (20 minute) podcast by Ezra Klein starkly summarising of the current state of US politics and the opportunity that the impending budget vote offers the moribund Democrat party open.spotify.com/episode/5kpn...

A quick #intro for the lovely people here on Bluesky... nice to meet you! listen here: pod.link/1810797958 (easy listening) read here: nonzerosum.games (more posts, pics and sims)

Well, that hit me like a tonne of bricks.

Bill obviously didn’t get the memo

I’m getting much from The Economist’s posts on Bluesky. A few times a week I’ll read an article that I wouldn’t otherwise come across. I see they are not getting many likes, I hope they don’t stop posting because of that

“We might find bureaucracy annoying; its absence, though, is deadly” - prescient stuff from Tim Snyder from before Trump’s election

Here’s a thing worth reading @davidallengreen.bsky.social davidallengreen.com/2025/08/ever...

"it seems that many platforms are using the Online Safety Act as an excuse to conduct a data grab on a massive scale"

Absolutely mind-boggling that the UK Govt has *still* not reviewed its use of X

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation