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The received standard tale of Millennials' economic woe is obsolete. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Every time I am at King’s Cross — which is a lot — I see the masses outside the Harry Potter shop and the platform 9¾ thing — because I need the toilet and that’s where it is — and something something JK Rowling won’t ever worry if we think she’s anti trans something something.

English pundits/politicians be clear about whether you mean England or the UK challenge (impossible)

you read what I wrote and are quite reasonably going “hrm no that can’t be right” but

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Israel has emerged as a regional killer of journalists... This latest killing spree is not only a grave violation of international law, but also a terrifying warning to journalists across the region: no place is safe." — Sara Qudah, CPJ regional program director

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

this exists it is called thinking

A little bit of navel-gazing on the last twelve months of trying to run a start-up local news organisation with no investment or plan, entirely funded by readers. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-new...

Road near Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13425

you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be

Thanks everyone who came to listen to our talk about "Share & Reuse by Design" at @sdingov.bsky.social ! It's great to start conversations with people from other departments who are as dedicated to normalising and enabling reuse as we are. <3 @robjmccarthy.bsky.social #sdingov

Growing up in a city, it's disconcerting when a double-decker bus goes on rural A-roads with 60mph limits. It feels wrong!

What have you failed at this week? shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09... Someone once told me that they thought I succeeded at everything I tried. That's probably the impression you get from social media. But the reality is much different. I need to be more honest about where I fail, screw-up, and bomb.

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

Seven years to the day since starting my first user research / UX job ❤️

Me, every day

Vacuous and nasty article in NS seemingly continuing its slow migration into the new SpikedOnline.

The word "could" is doing a lot of work here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Team Musk: he personally champions the furthest right of the racist factions in British politics: who want to remove every minority + who advocate for racial abuse online + offline to let migrants + minorities know they are unwelcome, using X to do it,with the site defending the most extreme racism

Also your star sign

Rather staggering that mainstream publication is arguing for assisted suicide in order to cut the NHS bill

I do love the "how can we afford this" framing of the triple lock that utterly fails to engage with the counterfactual of "how do we as a society cope with older people living in desperate poverty and dying of it". Proper basic social policy stuff.

"Let them die"

a few of Caleb Deschanel's astonishingly beautiful shots of Robert Redford in The Natural

'...the greater landowners of the country... had been accustomed to govern for generations. As its superior citizens they felt they owed a duty to the State to guard its interests and manage its affairs. They governed from duty, heritage and habit - and, as they saw it, from right.'

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I find this (from @edjameswest.bsky.social) interesting/revealing. To paraphrase: "we [West/Goodhart] are not blood and soil racists like Carswell/Goodwin, it's just human nature to be concerned about the pace of [demographic]" change." Sounds reasonable? [1/4?] www.edwest.co.uk/p/wrong-side...

'that's the good thing about Google'

hard to comprehend the calamity

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Of course there are idiots, as there will be on any site with millions of users. But in the age of Musk's X, the idea that it's *this* site which is promoting extremism, radicalising opinion and driving political violence is a fantasy - and it's sad to hear a Today presenter casually pushing it.

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk. What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

Composition No. 150 by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 1945 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137787

I'm relistening to The History of Yugoslavia podcast by @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social - it is EXCELLENT

I can see why Mandelson, of all people, might draw a distinction between "criminal liar" and presumably the "non-criminal liar". Also: Harry Cole Saves the West? If he's the best we've got then I'll take the oriental hordes, thanks.

i came here to say this

Wait, the show is really called Harry Cole Saves the West?! Was Harry Cole's 14 Favourite Words already taken?!

I have just realised I hit the return key with my ring finger, not pinky, when typing and it has completely thrown me

the challenge of working with namesakes

How D. W. Griffith, Welsh-American director of the Ku Klux Klan-reviving "Birth of a Nation", was presented/presented himself in 'Theatre Magazine' while working on the film in 1914

One of those "it's hard to be shocked in 2025, but...." stories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

London fire brigade response time check: @london-fire.bsky.social can get two fire engines to your door within ten minutes of some kids chucking a lit firework through the letterbox of the empty house next door.

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”