St Augustine giving advice on posting etiquette

Want to run a fake London estate agency and repeatedly scam people out of thousands of pounds through rental scams? The good news is that for £250 you can join all the official renters' protection schemes and do it with a UK government badge of approval! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-ren...

So... if Donald Trump really does make his hours-long speech and die of heat stroke... would they cancel the World Cup? Is this what Yoko Ono was warning us about?

v funny to me that the "subway takes to oxford union speech" pipeline is a thing that apparently exists

can't believe he missed this. it was all over the news

hold up. his dad Karl?

Just yesterday, I casually mentioned to some fellow Millennials that Helene Fischer was the same age as them, and they were shocked. They were convinced from her schlager vibes that she was at least in her 50s if not her 60s

i have two books in the US Independent press top 40 bestsellers this week. It's basically when the Beatles had all the top spots and played Ed Sullivan. They're calling it "Elledgemania" www.instagram.com/p/DaVi-GyIPo...

I know there’s a market for this stuff, but it’s wildly depressing to see a polite request with zero threat of enforcement behind it or even, given it’s in the privacy of your own home, any mild social disapproval for acting differently being met with “outrageous! this is WOKE SOCIALISM!”

Not to be a killjoy, but the very least a school should offer when doing this at that sort of notice is for children to be able to come in from the usual time for lightly-supervised reading or play. Not every parents' employer will/can be as flexible with their staff as the school wants to be.

German row over plan for workers to need sick note on first day of illness

Afroman: “I was gonna pay child support” until marijuana ingestion

This is fetish content. This is clearly fetish content. My god people are going to take medical advice from a sex worker producing fetish content.

Yes that's how that works

I'll say it's swift, I didn't even know they were dating.

This makes me so mad too, and I'm willing to bet booking com doesn't pay them nearly enough to justify it either.

Slightly weirded out by the realisation that Delaware is smaller than Devon and has fewer people

fwiw reckon it's probably for the best. It's bad if people interpret "i'm leaving X" to mean simply "I am left-wing", and that's the signal — for better or worse — departing X _for bluesky_ sends

The thing I don't get about TikTok is this: If this is what you're into then fair dos, but haven't you got the point by video two? Do you need a whole channel of identical "woman locks you in a cage and feeds you drugged food" videos? Feels like diminishing returns.

Going with my mum to the supermarket and this meme pops into my head every time. I’m 54.

ok she just made it the fuck up. i really thought that's what she was going for as its similar sounding enough and i can see a pre internet kate just going oh its like the dolls whatever theyre called

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For all these statements "Northerners" and "peasants" should be read as "Northerners who moved away and fashioned their hometown into a personality substitute + the most horrific bores"

Such a global hate symbol that you can go into pretty much any grocery shop on the planet and find a dozen products with a big stars-and-stripes themed label. Obviously people who buy peanut butter don't seem particularly put off by it.

I can’t believe I missed this. They doubled down! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

absolutely deranged they've got their llm so fucking noided about evals and fictional environments it hears tell of a new version of nvidia drivers and goes "ah this is probably a fake world im living in the matrix and everything is a lie"

i can't be the only person who thinks we can solve this with a late-night sober cafe/community center + queer free library that gets in trouble on Instagram for not paying its workers and closes after eight months

the NIMBY, joyless Soho Society have put a statement out and I love the very delicate and precise phrasing of this, from "been involved in Soho" to "on average, many of the trustees"

Foreign Policy's paywall is down all this week, so here's some pieces I think stand out of late. First up is this excellent breakdown of the geography of the Iran war, and why it gives Iran such an advantage. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/i...

Just remembered when I was a kid, playing Age of Empires and not knowing what "Choson" was. So I asked my granddad who worked in a museum. "Who are the Choson?" "What?" "The Choson civilisation, in ancient times." "Oh, the Chosen People? That refers to the Israelites."

Nandy perhaps realising that the new prime minister will not be too weak to sack her and actually is interested in the policy area of culture, media and sport.

I've noticed quite a few Uyghur and generically "Northwestern Chinese" restaurants opening around Frankfurt recently. I assume there's a larger community but it's invisible online. I wonder how closely they're surveilled by the Chinese stafe

Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India

Yeah everyone saves it up for an extremely bland linkedin post at the end of the day now. I really miss conference posting, used to be quite a good way to meet people IRL

Ooh, the example question here is one of mine! I think it might be the most perfectly tuned to Bluesky question I've ever written

Sorry to say #OnlyConnect will return 13th July, with a twist - it's a longer series! Contestants will need an extra step to get to the endgame. That would be my fourth series as a setter - very pleasing 😌

What... what is going on here? Is the implication meant to be that Taylor Swift is cucking Donald Trump with George Washington?

Sorry but Americans don’t do nearly as much fireworks as Europeans

I quite enjoyed yesterday's auto-subtitles inadvertently rendering Shearer's commentary as "if there's a problem heroin can solve it."

Tipping Point The Velvet Is this anything?

I couldn't find even a single Moog rendition of God Save The Queen, but I did find this. Turns out if you transpose it into a weird mode, the anthem sounds exactly like the soundtrack of JPRG. Specifically, this would play in a difficult ice cave level near the final boss youtu.be/0RcjbEajlkY

It's true: the UK has ARM, DeepMind (aka Google Gemini) and Synthesia, and it doesn't have Noah Smith

@niemanlab.org with the headline of headlines. Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-...