I am once again disappointed our Prime Minister, an *actual human rights lawyer*, can't stand up and proudly say that idea of stripping someone of their citizenship without due process because of stuff they put on twitter is profoundly wrong.

Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.

Very good. I would add on “8)” - people going “it was a long time ago” are contributing to the same problem of “citizenship is conditional” that they are trying to oppose. He could have sent those tweets today and he would still be a British citizen.

Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.

Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:

Do I know any nice folks who can invite me to lobste.rs ?

Turns out to be a pretty average flu year that started a bit earlier. NHS and Govt have a responsibility to communicate data responsibly and they failed this winter.

Gold standard of modern adventure games but also just a solid urban fantasy story. Love this one!

Having a great time revisiting Deus Ex: HR, but finding the gulf in quality between the environment art and the NPCs a lot more distracting than I did 14 years ago.

1- store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/ Eternal Strands is one of the best action adventure games I've played in years, and I've heard next to no one talk about it. It's gorgeous, is a major homage to Shadow of the Colossus, and has telekinesis magic that puts Star Wars games' force usage to shame.

I've started cross sharing tiktok videos because social media is dying and I'm committing to it

Honestly, worth the FT subscription.

The state of X/twitter continues to be deeply depressing to me. Loads of interesting (primarily US & AI/LLM focused, but still interesting) discourse still there, but anytime I open it I get swapped from "Following" to "For You" and turns out "For Me" is always just bloody raging Elon.

Apart from anything, all planning consultation periods should be reduced by 75%. And if local authorities do not get off their ass and process an application in time it should be automatically granted. With the current system they work as slowly as they can, and do not give two fucks.

Damn I miss Artifact. That shit was great.

Why haven't we got a strong regulator for algorithms yet? The AI Safety Institute could have done such a good job as the Office of Algorithmic Regulation, with real power and technical chops to evaluate and test whether this stuff was really going on.

Hey folks, I'm gonna start a new recommendation thread, and because I very recently did a huge thread of 50 indie game recommendations, it might be a little shorter, and I'll be aiming for NO OVERLAPS! Are you ready? 1. Look Outside I'll be brief. Just play this immediately, trust me.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

I am slightly baffled that we're seemingly hiring a bunch of people before having figured what the National Data Library actually *is*. I wrote up a tangentially related blog a few months back... andreasthinks.me/posts/nation...

this has become a very important video to me

Tfw you're reading about Maurice Hilleman, who developed 40 vaccines in his lifetime, and his work ethic

Inside me are two wolves

Yea, and the mountains will fall, and the oceans will rise; and verily cats will lay down with dogs; and Marjorie Taylor Greene will sound like the sanest person in the Republican Party... time.com/7334322/marj...

I 100% agree with this, and on a related note, I really want to build an atproto implementation of @octopus-ac.bsky.social, because it would be the best thing.

Funneling scholars into a few major platforms isn’t just annoying, it’s corrosive to intellectual freedom. Institutions should support researchers moving to more democratic and decentralized alternatives. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

All of Tom's games are exceptional, go buy them!

Doing a fireworks night without a single K Pop Demon Hunters song should be an actual crime

is anybody apart from Anthropic supporting the new agent skills yet? Building quite a weary MCP implementation, and strikes me that using Skills would just be way easier...

Nick, Nick, Nick... #TheTraitorsUK #TheTraitors

The extremely strange afterlife of the Xbox Kinect camera, which came out 15 years ago today: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...

Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️ From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years. Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps

This is excellent. @tangled.org continues to be one of the single most impactful projects on ATProto, it's really worth checking out if you haven't yet!

Vibe coding yourpolice.events got me excited for the potential of vibe coding and public data APIs, so I wrote a hot take on what the National Data Library should be for... andreasthinks.me/posts/nation...

This week's FT column: why I've stopped worrying about birthrates:

I wish I had internalised this two years ago but it was a different world and a different game. I'm just grateful I've moved away from this all or nothing mindset now

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

I am very excited (and not sure Waymo know what they're in for. Mostly roundabouts)

This seems notable - on current data, the 90 homicides recorded by the Metropolitan Police in the year to August 2025 is the lowest 12-month total since the monthly data started in 2003. #crimestats

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be - on.ft.com/3KQ8utE via @FT

ICYMI: Last week got grumpy trying to reach my local police Safer Neighbourhoods Team, so built yourpolice.events, that automatically adds upcoming events from your local policing team to your calendar and keeps it up to date.

Found my Nine Worlds #geekfest program from 2015, and now I'm nostalgic and sad 😭

Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Okay, so what you're going to do is get some friends together. They don't all have to be radical leftists but they do at least need to believe that borders are fake. They also need to think that the sentiment of NASA's Voyager record is the coolest thing ever but that's easy because who doesn't?

Why I don't believe in "small giants": mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

ICYMI: Last week got grumpy trying to reach my local police Safer Neighbourhoods Team, so built yourpolice.events, that automatically adds upcoming events from your local policing team to your calendar and keeps it up to date.

Folks need to be paying attention to the growth of Real-Time Crime Centers. It is not just NYC, but they tend to lead on these things. www.biometricupdate.com/202510/nypd-...