Went for a walk in the Peak District

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!

This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC. We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.

if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy

Cyclocross under the lights (in the mist and fog) 📷 Pentax K3 mkiii monochrome

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year. merl-shop.co.uk (and, yes: we ship internationally!) 🧵

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Collapse of a civilization

This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.

"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacentres, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The only good Star Wars films are those which are direct ripoffs of better Kurosawa films So basically Star Wars

A movie that takes place where you're from

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

my central hypothesis is that this is also true for humans

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members! Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again. Join today to be part of it ⤵️

I kinda love LLMs for how weird they are.

Unexpected benefit of turning off "Smart Features" in Gmail: searching your email works well again because it doesn't default to "most relevant" and doesn't apply ai to your search query. You can just search for a thing and see a list of emails that match your search. Incredible

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

Shocking Home Office documents - seen by the Daily Express - reveal that asylum seekers at a former military base are allowed to .... ....WAIT FOR IT.... Play badminton three times a week.

La #LDH porte plainte contre la publication de #Grok, l’intelligence artificielle du réseau social X, pour contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.

These people believe in nothing - except power for its own sake.

HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️

Why should people who “look like” the home secretary be on the hook for immigration policy? This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:

It's not just the fact that they're evil. It's not just the way they are working very hard to make 'asylum seekers' and 'illegal migrants' into interchangeable synonyms for each other. It's the glee with which they communicate these things. They take uncontainable joy in the suffering of others.

Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?

Scottish commentator on the BBC saying the Scottish team'll be excited to take those flights to Mexico and the USA. Canada catching strays.

Scotland just went into injury time 2-2, Tierney scored a worldie, then they scored another from the halfway line. Insane finish

Scott McTominay’s stunner: the height of contact is unreal 📸 Andrew Milligan

Wow Scotland!!

A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones

If only Ferenc Puskás was alive today to win the McTominay Award

One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May

Labour won't redistribute wealth from billionaires. But they will seize belongings from those fleeing war and persecution. Absolutely disgusting. Asylum seekers are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity just like anybody else. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

Inspired by Donald Trump, backed by Tommy Robinson, channelling the Nazis – here's Labour's new policy on migration https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/refugees-jewellery-asylum-home-office

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

UK hospitals bracing for once-in-a-decade flu surge this winter

Plastic beads spreading on Sussex coast after ‘catastrophic’ spill, meeting told

A Labour Party has jettisoned plans to increase taxes on unearned income - disproportionately enjoyed by the wealthy - and is increasing them instead on the earned income of normal people. What a shocking indictment.

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

If you think that “the slow vanishing of employee benefits” is a better trade politically than “the other lot saying you broke your promise on income tax”, you are out of your tree: www.ft.com/content/1160...

Part of me just feels like the salary sacrifice must just be the world’s biggest bluff, because I don’t want to live in a world where “pointlessly whack your own voters, and also a good-sized chunk of the Cabinet and spads” is a thing a government actually would voluntarily do.

It's sort of interesting to me that for a lot of British journalists, "success" largely means reducing people's access to essential services

A fine day to remember Jim Harbaugh's unique relationship with "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" and the remarkable interpretive work that his and other football brains have done on this important text. (This is a gift link; I believe this news must be shared widely.) defector.com/the-edmund-f...

I lay there broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than I have ever done since