"For Kirk and for much of society today, words are not expressions with referents, but rather, performative speech acts with specific functions — in his case, owning the libs." holy moly, what a blog www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

love getting uber push notifications prompting me to get a ride. love taking a taxi for no reason

OpenAI once had a clear edge in the artificial-intelligence race—but now, its primacy is being threatened, @matteowong.bsky.social argues:

“We default to ‘chaos’ because, as systems break down and democracies fray and dissolve around the globe, we can’t find a better way to express our sense of helplessness.” Another great WOTY roundup from @fritinancy.bsky.social, with a cogent selection of her own.

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Stephen Miller’s sadistic designs go? trib.al/Qxli9RW

"Border towns are always pulled between two impulses: liberal openness to difference, pluralism and complex identities or as an identity as a frontier post guarding against the Other." Lovely to have this post by @lewisbaston.bsky.social, author of Borderlines, on his visit to Nova Gorica/ Gorizia

Use this link to follow future Cete Records - Vinyl and Cd releases - Coming real soon! ;) elasticstage.com/cete

The good guys as Choon Review have done us a stellar review for our next full album - which is due for release 15th December.....check it out here - choonreview.com/inf0-reflections-of-past-technologies-cete/

The Lights of Pelennor Fields One of my favourite locations is just up the road from home, one of the filming locations for #LOTR. Lights! Action! uhh... Camera! - #Twizel, #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Aurora #Night #Landscape #Stunday #EastCoastKin #BucketList

Magnificent Aurora over Loften, Norway ~ time lapse

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

"Before You" is a short film (15 mins, available at link) that follows a couple dealing with the grief of ending a complicated planned pregnancy. The film has been selected by several Oscar-qualifying festivals.

Over on the Facebook, you can bet that whether it's ICE brutalizing immigrant toddlers, or the US military mass-murdering civilians in international waters, every person cheering it on makes sure that you know they are a "Christian" in their profile. Every. Single. One.

#peaceprize #tacos

Trump has never really achieved much. He's only rich because he inherited a fortune. His Art of the Deal brilliance is a myth, and all the things he's famous for, including that book and The Apprentice were made by other people. His craving for prizes represents a desperate need for validation.

Idk who needs to hear this but nourish your mind. Read books, write poetry, dive into art. Happiness will never reach any of us if we’re all caught up trying to satisfy what the world wants from us. Our spirit is craving knowledge, creativity, and inspiration. Our souls need art.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

🔴 Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence If you think the Gill conviction is bad, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle… bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...

IMO Hegseth should just say he can't remember exactly what happened because he had one too many. Totally understandable. Happens to the best of us.

If you read the nativity story backwards it’s about a couple who get robbed at a party in a barn and trade their baby for a donkey to ride home on.

Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

I preferred it when Rod Stewart sung lovely songs such as ‘Sailing,’ ‘Mull of Kintyre’ and ‘Margaret May.’ Now he’s become all radicalised, wallpapering his rooms in animal skin and sending back his gongs. 😬

I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...

"In the solitude of a book, we find ourselves a little more willing to be vulnerable to having our mindset challenged." - Nick Raines The main difference between people who want to ban books and me: They would feel threatened by that quote. I feel *energized* by it.

Thoroughly deserved. If you haven't, do.

Forton Services is my bestselling T-shirt. Wear the M6 brutalist icon. Made in the UK. Sizes XXS to 5XL. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts

🚨British military personnel trained in Israel amid the Gaza genocide, Declassified can reveal. This comes after we exposed the Israeli soldiers training in Britain over the past two years👇 www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...

Love sci-fi films, but always struggle with novels. My brain can't get to grips with: "Jake awoke in Neu-Croydon and trip-shifted his Snow6. He'd been zamping the Decortex Line long before the Tokyo Dataspleen Protocols, unnerving the Neuro-Eidolon Body who had once declared him an ultra Cyberpug."

#MorningVibe Because nothing says “family gathering” like a tannic red with enough structure to withstand the turkeys and all of their conspiracy theories! 🗣️ iambossiofficial (IG)

WHO WILL YOU SAVE? Is the definitive collection of my short fiction. Available now from @titanbooks.bsky.social and all good book sellers.

Sir Robbie Gibb says he has ‘no intention of resigning’ Then the the public who pay the BBC honcho responsible for ‘impartiality’, having been an early founder of GB News, owner of the Jewish Chronicle when its standards evaporated, should make sure he’s sacked. What a rip off

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' and 'Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day', paperback and hardback. 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' due 26 Feb 2026 (HarperNorth).

A pile of toxic filth has been dumped in the British countryside. This has put me in mind of Nigel Farage This week’s column by Stewart Lee, on Reform poisoning our national discourse www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

💒 NEW Sunday School: Backing The USSR 🕵️‍♂️ 🇺🇦 Ukraine "peace" plan 🫠 MAGA's Epstein meltdown 🙋🏼‍♂️ Farage's nazi past ⚖️ Reform's Russian bribes AND 🦠 The Covid Inquiry Report With @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social. 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/1dZQ... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Elon Musk can't get humans to love him so he made a robot to love him instead and now all the humans are making fun of the robot. This is the smartest man in the world, a once-in-a-generation genius and clear member of the natural aristocracy

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

BLOG POST: An attempt to put into words my *feelings* about generative AI and why (a) I don't like being tricked into consuming it and (b) I just don't care about things that are made using it. precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...

It's always the ones you most expect... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gill is being sentenced today for 8 counts of bribery from a Russian agent. Follow @thenerve.news for updates throughout the day. This is why it matters & this is who it harmed: Ukrainian protestors outside the Old Bailey.

Guilty of accepting bribes from Russian spies: A good friend of Nigel Farage is highly likely to be jailed tomorrow (Friday). Yet, the story appears to surprise most Clacton voters - and, worse still, unlikely to change the minds of Reform supporters. #ReformWatch

It's time we asked a different question about migration: Why are so many British people leaving the UK? inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

Websites are rightly locking out AI crawlers from accessing their content. But their attempt to protect copyrighted material has corollary damage: misinformation sites, which don't, are polluting training data. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91442627/mis...