Tells you something (not sure what) about the interaction of technological progress and culture that someone posted a Telegraph mad headline generator here last week, and already it's obsolete because the real Telegraph headlines are even madder.

A crying shame she's a bluenose, but we can't have everything.

"You want to replace Churchill with animals on banknotes because you hate Britain" being met with "oh so you hate Britain's animals then?" incredible uno reverse reverse moment politically

I can not WAIT until he starts buying them pants.

This was great fun and a real timewarp back to the ’80s Liverpool music scene for me. Penny’s book is great.

You’ll never guess which country moved their mine sweepers out of the Middle East a month ago.

Rejected McCarthy Song Titles: an occasional series.

there is an extended bit on the sopranos about how everybody laughs at tony’s stupid fucking jokes because he’s the boss and a bully and he finally realizes it let’s all try to be as self-aware as a make believe idiot mafia goon

I’m very sad to hear that Christoph Grote-Beverborg has died. He mastered and cut vinyl at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin and would etch the runout groove with- CGB @ D&M He was such a generous, funny guy who deeply loved music and the physics of sound.

Pundits loved telling you about Trump's "anti-interventionism" because it seemed contrarian and interesting, but he always represented neoconservatism's worst impulses shorn of any moral pretense or concern www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

Thicker than shit in the neck of a bottle. Couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

Hugeaux #LFC

Kegseth's long-anticipated transition into a real-life Buck Turgidson appears to finally be complete.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

This is pretty bold stuff from somebody who got 552 more votes than Sir Oink A-Lot.

I see "tacking right" is as effective a strategy for an ostensibly left-leaning party as ever. People will say what they like about the so-called "crank left", but there's clearly an appetite for *something* close to what they're offering. Perhaps Labour should consider some sort of response to it.

Today in Build A Big Prison On An Island, Put All The Techbros In The Prison, Nuke The Island.

Excellent recommendations, as usual. Even in its bowdlerised original cut, The Big Red One is an all-time great WWII movie.

NEW Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...

I just want to point out - because I can't be alone here - that it's been a good two or three years since I so much as thought about this fucking idiot (not you, Dan), and I'd almost forgotten he existed until people began sharing this latest example of his signature horseshit. Thanks, guys.

I would bet proper money that all these fash gobshites banging on about Christianity are "weddings, christenings & funerals" churchgoers at the very most, and I'd like to see someone press a few of them on their attendance next time they're on TV or radio giving out about their "faith".

Outstanding work, bonny lass.

Winter's finally over in Berlin, so yesterday I took a little record-digging trip out to F'hain. One spot I stopped off at was playing this. Never heard her before & only vaguely familiar with her name, although she's been around a while. Anyway, it's a good record. www.discogs.com/master/84614...

🎶 "Close friends get to call him TC..."

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

BBC Four doing a Gladys Knight special tonight, which is great news for fans of women who combine incredible voices and hot auntie energy.

Actually, scratch that - 18 months away from him being papped on Richmond Common wearing a hi-vis vest with COMMUNITY PAYBACK stencilled on the back, picking up litter with one of those little claw doohickeys.

McMullan showed up on the Boybands Forever doc a while back and he remains the embodiment of the bottom-feeding tabloid hack: a man with a gaping void where anyone else would have human decency. He knows he's an irredeemable shitsack and, knowing he can't change, has chosen instead to lean into it.

1/ You can also read the text in English here: www.bundesliga.com/en/bundeslig... - maybe the best thing about this is exactly how specific Kompany gets about both the nature of and the solution to the problem. He names names, he provides a path forward.

today is going to be one of the great days in modern internet history

Make America grate again.

Especially as if she was, it wouldn't be happening.

The Nonce Formerly Known As Prince Andrew getting arrested on the same day Yoon Suk Yeol gets banged up for life. I'd love to say something like "nature is healing" at this point, but I think I'll save that for the day AMW's fellow child rapist finally shits the life out of himself.

They can remove clips of Premier League goals in minutes. 48 hours is an eternity online.

“OK, people are scared of crypto. So we need our new platform to be associated with a rock-solid, dependable institution which will absolutely not fall to bits at the last minute. Got any ideas?”

Rest in peace, Reverend Jesse Jackson, champion of civil rights & equality. And the finest orator of "Green Eggs & Ham" in history. #jessejackson #snl

Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.

I am shocked - shocked! - that a company run by horrible union-busting posho snides, which co-opts "punk" iconography while being OK with their pubs becoming fash pubs, should continue to fuck people over (investors, no less!) even when they're on the down slope. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Tom Noonan gives one of my all-time favorite performances in Manhunter, his Francis Dollarhyde is pitch-perfect: somehow both utterly terrifying and heartbreakingly human. I still get chills when I watch this scene -- Noonan and Joan Allen are phenomenal here.

This is sad news. Ever since I first saw (noticed?) him in Manhunter at the end of the 80s, Tom Noonan became one of those actors who, for me, was always worth watching. His scene in Heat is brief, but vital in terms of what it tells you about the nature of McCauley's life and relationships.

On the way to London to speak to a delegation of MEPs about the barriers facing UK musicians while touring the EU since Brexit

Banger of the day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifvA...

I went on marches all the time when I was younger, but none since the Stop The War march in London almost exactly 23 years ago. Didn't stop the war, of course, but I was with some dear friends and we got to hear Jesse Jackson speak in Hyde Park, which was the highlight of the day. RIP, Reverend.

What an actor. One of that rare breed who was always great, even when he was appearing in absolute crud (which wasn't often, to be fair). RIP, Colonel.

Open AI is stopping the new PlayStation has to be something people can use to mobilize

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

Doing that thing where you're going through Stevie songs trying to find a suitable one to dedicate to the missus for Valentine's Day, and seeing how long it takes before you start filling up like a soppy sod. I landed on You And I, and had to tap out before Stevie had even opened his mouth.

Civilisational narratives are useless groyper echo chamber bullshit that should be treated as an indicator of how strategically deluded much of the current US government is