Isaac Chotiner: hmm, that's interesting, because I think many people would say you qualify as a prepper by virtue of having a box containing potassium iodide, water purification tablets, a wind-up radio wrapped in tin foil and longlife nutrient biscuits Me: KSHSHSH oh no the phone line's breaking up

I was talking to Briar about how one of the sub's worst case scenarios is 'a several weeks long power cut' and how consequently they are all like 'make sure you have candles and some batteries, maybe a camp stove', and Briar observed that this is just being a normal person in Florida.

I find reading about nuclear war preparedness soothing when I'm very anxious, but I've just discovered the UK preppers subreddit and it's very funny because it's full of people saying "yeah thing is, the UK is far too small for 'camping' to be a solution to any problem, in any imaginable scenario"

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

It's so wild to me that in 2025 we continue to treat child actors as kids who basically just get to live at Disneyland, and not as vulnerable and legally disempowered human beings, of whom some are literally keeping their families afloat, whose labor largely enriches people other than themselves

i love how much of this is just coates going “first time?” over and over again

It's the middle of the night and I came across a Vinted listing where one or more lads are trying to sell their friend (aged c. 12). The listing stipulates his lack of a foreskin. Technologies change, but not the heart of man.

Me: This cat and Lev are definitely - Briar: - costars in a romantic silent film Me: I was going to say rival beauty influencers, but that works too.

Yeah it’s time to bring back my all time favorite tweet, by @donaldhughes.ca

100%!! I use alt text like I'm verbally describing a photo to someone, which doesn't require mentioning everything in the image, just the salient bits that AI is definitely not smart enough to pick out

A lil conspiracy that I lowkey-highkey believe is that at reasonable chunk of the alt text demands are coming from bots run by image AI companies. This is why they demand a level of descriptiveness and detail that blind users consistently do not want.

Just bizarre that a policy this shit keeps getting wheeled out over and over again. I feel like I’m watching the episode of What We Do In The Shadows where the vampires keep fighting over a cursed hat that causes everyone who possesses it to suffer comical accidents.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Truly incredible that the one thing Labour governments cannot resist returning to is ID cards, even though every single time this proposal is hugely unpopular and also technically unworkable. What a thing to be obsessed with.

someone on Vinted listed this and put 'ideal as a decorative room divider' even though it's obviously 6 inches high 😭

well, if we're banning people from places for being "unpleasant" I think we should start with Wes Streeting, personally.

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

me, to Briar, describing the incident: "That was as close as we'd get to seeing animals fucking. We were in Chiswick. We didn't get to see Nature." Briar: I see nature here all the time. Me: Yeah, but this is *East* London.

#GoldenAgeOfFraud #Crypto

Briar said 'maybe if this group was near us you'd exercise' and you know what, maybe they're right.

Saw someone on Vinted that I'm 90% sure was selling leftover decor/memorial gifts from a funeral, which I'm really struggling to process. Like I guess it's not technically outside the bounds of common decency, but it definitely feels like it should be.

One of my edgiest opinions is that I think food served in a way that makes it seem grosser than it is, is great actually. I'm also a huge fan of those ceramic chef's mouths that a terrible Michelin-starred restaurant in Lecce used to serve citrus foam with no utensils (you had to lick it out).

Well

There’s a very small children’s playground near us which is Battle of Britain/dinosaur themed, which is a lot more theme than I think I’ve ever observed in even a larger playground before

I was going to come in here with a factoid abt using them to treat bleeding but it felt a bit dub to me so I decided to double check before repeating this and yeah, tampons are not good for any kind of traumatic bleed. So instead I'm passing on this learning just like Ariadne passed on the earworm.

Earlier today I was saying that I found it hard to summon any enthusiasm for YourParty but I have since found out that they are heavily committing to sortition as a democratic process and I might be coming around. Guys I love sortition so much.

discarded vapes are also one of the best sources of rechargable lithium ion batteries people re-use for projects as well, throwing them away is crazy

impressive that this is possible but moreover it’s bonkers we’re pumping out chips like this that might get disposed of after a very short usage cycle

ever since "dog names" max has been writing the kind of story that feels like it could be happening right now, in the paranoid internet of today. max has a knack for translating ugly feelings into panels, the contentious unsaid of social media screenshots, DMs, tumblr bios, forum threads. read it

begging the Only Connect team to R DNTH RB K

I'd say that thinking a competition that is a meeting point for almost all of Europe with a massive global audience isn't inherently political no matter the circumstances makes you completely unsuitable to be the boss of a broadcasting service. #Eurovision

Inspired by @roryisconfused.bsky.social, I can't help thinking of this headline as the premise for an MR James story: "The Professor lighted the candles, poured a measure of sherry and told Dr Standish about the day the bang bus came to Oxford. A most remarkable tale that haunts me to this day."

My favorite is how many of the photos are of like a pair of jeans lying on a bed but they’re as blurry as if the person holding the phone was tracking Bigfoot over hilly terrain

The thing about using Vinted regularly is that it forces you to contend with the fact that a sizeable minority of people either cannot or will not complete the simplest tasks, eg 'correctly identifying the size of a pair of trousers', in a reasonable manner

my husband said “whoa, you look like Aragorn right now!” then quickly added “I mean, if he bathed”

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Political alignment chart and the up down section is whether you relate to the lady or to Jarvis in "Common People" and the left right axis is if you think we need to change the conditions that make this song possible

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

honestly the entire conceptual field of "personality disorders" is fucked. There's some genuine predictive value* to the symptom list (not the conceptual framing) for BPD/EUPD but in general the taxonomy is some fucking 19th century 'pretending to do science when we're just making silly lists' shit.

It's cool how second hand clothes shopping, especially for menswear is basically about trying to find someone whose body is the same shape as yours but who has more money. If you're lucky, they're selling a bunch of stuff at the same time, or donated all their stuff to the same charity shop.

I'm constantly on the hunt for suits that would actually fit me on Vinted bc most cis men do not have a 0-2" drop between the shirt and the jacket (sorry I'm not a triangle I guess). Anyway I found one but unforch he also has insanely long arms and very, very short legs so we're back to square one.

my predictions (most to least likely): 1) inter-maga groyper (or Epstein truther) 2) terrorgram/O9A 3) rando with incoherent politics 4) rationalist cult of some variety 5) ai psychosis 6) inside job 7) an actual liberal / leftist

anyone up for scraping a cool £7,000,000 together to start a mutant school?

may everyone be blessed with an appropriately ironic death

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?