we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

ok guys I need to admit something as you know I'm an anti-genAI ultra but, at the end of the day, I'm still a person, right so anyway several friends sent me the results they got from that "draw me based on the interests you can find on me" ChatGPT prompt so I thought oh, go on, as a one off

gotta agree with this. at some point we all have to contend with what good faith is actually for and extend it accordingly

I like cooking but I am not a great cook or anything. What I do have is a hobo's sense of adventure

Our pediatric dentist has a drop tile ceiling with one tile taken out and a TV that plays cartoons while the kids stare up at it and get their teeth cleaned and I want to email my dentist and be like why don’t you do this

I don't think we have to engage properly with Matt Goodwin talking about birth rates, he's just trying to signal that he wants more white people, it's not really anything beyond that.

Entire world: welcome to the “decathlon,” ten classic athletic skills in one event! Finland: no. biathlon. Two things. Ski and gun

He looks as though he's been caught cooking and also as if he mistakenly believes cooking to be illegal

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

decided to get into cooking venison as it's actually sustainable and.....there's something so grown-up about it isn't there, making a venison steak as we speak and I'm very much in my pyjamas and about to eat on the couch in front of Modern Family but also......what if I smoked a cigar

all been there brother (from @morganj0nes.bsky.social’s “No Second Chances”)

the photo choice is reminding me of

had three glasses of wine at dinner last night and told my Labour friend "THE MILITRAIN IS COMING BACK INTO TOWN, CHOO CHOO" so I guess that's where I'm at, personally

An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier today👇 SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬

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I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

sometimes screenshots of rage-bait posts make me feel like we've all been taught it's normal to show each other rotting fish or a lunch someone left in a bag for several days

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

goddammit he's just so good with kids, AUAB (Assigned Uncle At Birth)

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

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important info re: inflategate

this is the crux of my argument: the House of Commons just wasn't built with "over 600 pretty normal and reasonably clever professionals who love being in Parliament" in mind, and that's why everything's broken now youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/politics-i...

I realise McSweeney is big news right now, but the story here should be about Josh Simons, a government minister www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

oh wow, my exact list also

Guy posting about how the head shape of Estonians make them unfit for public service before liking someone else saying that women should have compulsory pregnancies: thank goodness I’m not in some weird political bubble

My scorching hot take is that anybody who values London as a great city for pedestrians should stop using all these companies.

always knew he was the best character actor of his generation but this really is a remarkable transformation

I hope the abyss in @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter becomes a returning character

in this week's newsletter! my very, very hot take, which is that one of the reasons politics has got bad is that our politicians have got.......too good - do read it, see what you think, shout at me, etc youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/politics-i... [free edition!]

(seen a bunch of people sharing this/talking in general about how "normal" Mamdani is but imo this doesn't show a normal person, but an *exceptionally* skilled communicator - a normal person wouldn't react like that to having a speech interrupted by a child! give him his due!)

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

unfortunately I consumed some alcohol tonight and on the way home I decided to listen to Bad Bunny and consequently I now wish to consume more alcohol and listen to more Bad Bunny, ideally until circa 4am

v funny to me that I posted a bunch of random pictures to Instagram today, because that's what I do roughly every ten days, and it immediately started getting a ton of likes and I didn't get why then I realised there was one picture of a hand with a ring on it, and I'm in my thirties, and oh, I see

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

I mean!!!!

I must interrupt your day with an urgent report from the Winter Olympics: ski jumpers are allegedly injecting their own penises with candlewax to fly further www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

just got a letter from my landlord saying my rent - for the one bedroom flat I live in, alone - is rising by £183 PER MONTH from April? knowing that it went up by £100 a month last year? what the everliving fuck

I think that when the days are shorter we should have shorter workdays, for our mental health but, get this - when the days are longer I think we should have shorter workdays also, for our general wellbeing

I will say - and yes, to be blunt this one of the few things in life I really feel I can get on my high horse about! - that I've cut a *lot* of men out of my life over the years after hearing stories about their misbehaviour, and watched every single time as those men just kept most of their friends

Think there should be a sort of hipstery rush for the more forgotten New Labour figures. "Bring back Ruth Kelly" "What's Mike O'Brien up to these days?"

bro just one more ‘the left is bad’ speech bro, I swear one more speech shitting on the left and it’ll fix politics bro

lads I don't want anyone to panic but I am writing up quite the scorchio take for tomorrow's newsletter

this interview with the charli xcx film director up there with some of the most embarrassing shit i've ever heard

"the first adult groomed by teens" is a great line

It’s so cruel - and what next? People are housed in hotels (& barracks) often out of town, bus routes are scarce & the weekly allowance is pitiful. Charities can step in, but are people now just going to get sick? What is the plan here?