Can’t stop the signal

The White House and the fourth richest man in the world conspired to stop me seeing some footage and I saw it anyway

The entire forces of oligarchy cannot bury a 13 minute video clip for 48 hours. Chat, is the oligarchy washed? Is it cooked? Is the regime chopped?

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel

I hadn’t thought about 60 Minutes in forever, but then they started hiding the news, like a cool scavenger hunt.

The minute by minute battle between people uploading the video and companies taking it down is a real early internet idealism information wants to be free cyberpunk situation

Americans getting uncensored news from Canada reminds me of Zweig saying he had to read smuggled foreign newspapers to find out what was happening within walking distance of his house

What got me here is the description of disease not being treated, being actively encouraged. That’s something I remember from Mauthausen

Introduced my family to Sharpe. Now that’s soldiering

You can tell how well Weiss’s decision is going because every word of it is leaking immediately

Just got an ad with the outstanding opening: “You’re not a Child. You’re a MAN! So stop wearing so many layers to go outside-“

Fondly remembering this giant plaza in Charlotte with no shade at all

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Deeply funny how MUNs have inadvertently created maskless masquerade balls through a confluence of other unrelated practices

What spending 60% of GDP on defense does to a mofo

The noble Model UN Kid must rise up and replace debate bros with a culture of consensus and deeply awkward flirting through note passing

I remember my encounter with influencers, sitting in a cafe watching a fashion influencer go into the bathroom every 15 minutes to change outfits, go take photos, then back to the cafe toilet for another outfit Glamorous

Times have been tough in this Ohio town since they closed the old sex crimes redacting factory. So when Trump, Bondi, and Blanche redacted Trump’s name from hundreds of documents describing sex crimes, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.

For years I was unable to find this wonderful image in my camera roll and I now see it’s because every significant word is slightly misspelled

In fairness to Truss (?) achieving your life’s ambition then losing it in 50 days would break almost anybody

There's a new @philipreeve.bsky.social #MortalEngines novel coming next year... and I'm very excited! Read more here: cowboyscapescowls.blogspot.com/2025/11/phil... #worldofmortalengines #WOME

Mortal Engines (2018)

Come ON man. Likelihood of a groyper-staffer groupchat literally called “the Christmas Time Adventurers” is approaching 100%

her: I guess I'm looking for something of a Renaissance Man, you know? me (thinking of Vitruvian Man, slowly shifting my arms and legs to outline a perfect circle): Totally

Hail Saint Nick!

I wonder how close the universe is where President Epstein is being forced to release the Trump Files

Every time I see the O2

James Gunn’s Superman:

Watching some Gap commercials from the 90s to better understand my culture and heritage as a globalist

Currently at the funeral for the penny, happening at the Lincoln Memorial:

Which was more “woke”? Establishing prohibition or repealing it?

48. That exception of course is the fossil fuel producer. They are hostile to energy productivity for the same reason John Henry didn't like the steam shovel. They can't compete with it. Wins for consumers come at their expense. Wins for the climate come at their expense.

47. As Amory Lovins has said for years, no one wants a lump of coal, or a barrel of oil. All we want is a hot shower and a cold beer. And if we can get that heat and light and chilling without paying for (or burning) fuel, we're all happier... with one notable exception.

45. Specifically, we've decoupled economic growth from fossil energy consumption. Coal demand has collapsed. Oil use is flat. Natural gas use is growing but < GDP, even as standards of living have gone up. That's happened because of higher efficiency and decarbonization.

"village" mentality is what sustains conservatism. not being able to do anything without the Grandma Gestapo reporting your every move. depending on the easily withdrawn kindness of others instead of impersonal but reliable services. and of course obeying aristocratic landowners

Got criticized at work this week m.youtube.com/watch?v=S1DO...

🚀 Liftoff at 12:30UTC on December 20, Long March 5 Y10 launched TJSW-23 from Wenchang

VIBHISHANA: "i dunno about this, Ravana, i don't think you should have kidnapped Sita. what if Lord Rama comes and beats your ass" MATT YGLESIAS: "let's talk about how kidnapping Sita polls among moderate voters in the Kingdom of Lanka"

Britain’s only remaining unifying value is affection for Henry Hoover

1. First, let's talk about the elephant in the room that he doesn't mention explicitly but haunts the whole piece: climate change is real, we've overshot the goal and the only way to turn the corner is to leave fossil fuel in the ground. To ignore that is to talk about rocketry and ignore gravity.

This is my Dad’s exact birthday

Daniel O’Connell smiling with a little concern in heaven as England’s worst reactionaries say that lots of other people should be barred from office and the ballot but don’t have the nerve to say Catholics

What a beautiful country

When I’m tired enough my internal monologue goes to a mix of languages and nonsense I can only describe as “how the minions talk”

As was stated a few years back, that’s the British version of American twitter being white people condemning other white people for being white.

Mother of God https://www.wikiart.org/en/andrei-rublev/mother-of-god-1408