Someone should really ask every Republican in Congress if they’re in the “Hitler sucks” wing of the party or not.

I just wish the CEO of Novo Nordisk would have turned to President Trump and said “that would be very communist of you to force a company to ‘give a piece’ to the government when it demands it” -or something like that.

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾 Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social

Blue Labour strategy working like a dream.

Which should be a lesson for Labour: they need to stand up to Reform, not stand with them.

There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour. We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!

The full Mat Bors

A court in Brussels recently ruled that fairness in sports includes being fair to trans women. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

As for the testimony of Border Patrol Chief Patrol Greg Bovino: Ellis: "Defendant Bovino admitted that he lied about whether a rock hit him before he deployed tear gas in Little Village." When Bovino threw a second tear gas canister at the crowd, the crowd was running away.

Here's a sense of what the last one was like, aka a very good time Bring any and all consumer tech you'd like to see submitted to the tribunal for judgment. Hammer will provided. See you there. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

Everything to these people is a grift, everything is about enriching themselves at taxpayer expense. Let’s cut their welfare for once.

The UK Labour Party defines itself as a "democratic socialist" part in the first sentence of Clause IV. And has since the 1990s. That's how woeful the BBC claiming it's a term with no definition is. Good grief.

Like Rand herself, big corporations are always welfare recipients.

Hey, would you look at that, how weird news.sky.com/story/rachel...

When “the public decided they’ve had enough of experts”, they really were saying it’s time to let people who don’t know what they’re talking about order us around. And here we are, slowly drowning in it.

Anyone who insists someone must wear a poppy has completely forgotten the point of them: remembrance of people who died fighting for the right of people to be free to choose things for themselves.

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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Has someone put an archive of the Epstein files in there?

When you got a good blurb and you want to show it off. cc @nickharkaway.com!

Oopsies.

Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100. Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth. 🧵

Everyone kind of knew that Musk was deliberately using X to amplify extreme right wing accounts, but seeing actual data confirming it is still shocking news.sky.com/story/the-x-effe...

Or even used for crimes which already exist. Fantastic example from Nick here: bsky.app/profile/nick...

I'm so tired of this. Someone comes up with something and Govt says nooooo, we'd never use this for evidence, it's just an admin/health/convenience thing, it's private, blah. Then they don't mandate safeguards - legislative or systemic - and a little while later... www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

"I don't know, Mr Betteridge, what do you think?"

This one seems to have got a lot of people who don't like cars very het up. They're arguing "well fine, fit them with trackers, why should drivers get away with speeding etc". This is a COLLOSAL mistake, and a perfect example of how you really need to think about unintended consequences first. 🧵

The broad problem connecting reporting/social media algorithms/main character syndrome seems to me to be an inability to distinguish what is true with what is relevant. Well if it's in front of me and it's real EVERYONE SHOULD BE FREAKING OUT

Latest newsletter from @willsh.bsky.social buttondown.com/artefacts? and reminded of Rutger Bregman’s Moral Ambition that people seek to be asked to act. How Mamdani asked for help and people gave their time and effort. 1/2

Year one: "We can work it out as an estimate" Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!" Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country." Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"

The whole "OMG a prisoner has been mistakenly released" thing is such shit. No one gave a toss till it was an asylum seeker released.Last year, 262 prisoners - five a week - were released from prisons/courts before they should have been. Zero front-page reporting. www.theguardian.com/society/2...

I remain absolutely amazed how, nearly two years down the line, this post on adapting to the new reality of search in the era of AI holds up incredibly well. www.ianbetteridge.com/adaptin...

[through gritted midwestern teeth] congrats nyc

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Email is the new rock and roll.

Wow, look what the Forstater case has unlocked… The racist is found to be unlawfully stopped by the police because of his protected characteristics of political belief. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

as recently as this morning I would have said "there's nothing that can possibly happen to make me wish dick cheney could have lived just one more day"

This goes past poor reporting into being wilfully misleading. Despite identifying exploitation, no mention of it as an issue, or the human trafficking often involved. Instead just uncritically repeating the misleading claim that "illegal working is a pull factor". 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These articles elide exactly what Clanchy wrote in her book, so a reminder that she described girls going through puberty as having "Cypriot bosoms" and wearing "flirty hijabs". She also talked about Jewish noses and commented on the skull shapes of various children.

Will be discussing ChatGPT with students this week - decided to populate my sidebar with a couple of silly queries for them to spot when I share the window. Have to say it knocked this one out the park - particularly point 2.

This piece on Dick Cheney by @attackerman.bsky.social stands out for two reasons: it’s incredible thoroughness and the vitriol Spencer pours on the former VP. And like all good writing, the two are connected. The thoroughness of the facts about Cheney laid bare defies anyone not to loathe him.

This entire thing is genius and frankly justifies every damage that AI might do to the planet or our culture. If we’re going out, let’s do it like this: having trivial fun with our new overlords.

Per NYPost's scoop, some of the ways Mamdani's wife has "quietly steered" his campaign are weighing in on his logo design, being "a major source of support for him in private" and once posting on Instagram, "Couldn't possibly be prouder."

The sub call for Indigenous writers is now open! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Oi!

If you want a story of what’s actually wrong with Britain (hint: it’s nothing to do with immigrants) then this one pretty much aces it.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

NewsGuild: "Management plans to lay off six of our members, most of whom are BIPOC women or trans, including Teen Vogue’s Politics Editor... There was no mention in the announcement of the coverage that has earned Teen Vogue massive readership and wide praise from across the journalism industry."