Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

this is actually showing the increase in usage driven by making nonconsensual porn

Make it viral.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

This is incredibly disappointing from my old college. I went there from a comprehensive school; would they want me now? See also their spectacular sexual harassment scandal of a few years ago. Perhaps they need to sack everyone and start again.

Trinity Hall, also the college that has been trying to hide years of sexual harassment cases. What is going on at this college? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Are sausages not already dead when you buy them?

A bit late today, but another thing I am doing is writing a new book, taking a look at our stately homes and what they really mean (spoiler alert: they don't like us very much). It's called Burning Down The House, and, subject to all going well with the contract, will be published in Spring 2026.

A bit late today, but another thing I am doing is writing a new book, taking a look at our stately homes and what they really mean (spoiler alert: they don't like us very much). It's called Burning Down The House, and, subject to all going well with the contract, will be published in Spring 2026.

@matthewparker70.bsky.social I'm just reading The Sugar Barons, as part of looking at Harewood and slavery. The cruelty and abuse are never mentioned in accounts of stately homes....

If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.

Getting rid of DCMS meant there was no one in government able to warn the prime minister that creatives can't live off thin air. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

One down, several hundred to go... but it's a start. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Not yet, but we could crowdsource on if someone set up a location...

Is there a list anywhere of the main UK organisations and MPs and public figures who remain on X? So we know.

Want to know how important women are to our current government?

The most telling thing about the grok business is that the government refuse to take any meaningful action. VAWG and CSAM are less important than whatever reason they have for not acting be it fear, greed, stupidity or corruption. This is a truly bizarre situation. I can recall nothing like it.

As promised, one aspect of what I do every day this week. I also work on 'gender mainstreaming' which is basically creating better places which are more gender equal. The great thing about this is that great examples of good practice already exist in Europe so I get to be positive.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Why you should have a cat

As promised, one aspect of what I do every day this week. I also work on 'gender mainstreaming' which is basically creating better places which are more gender equal. The great thing about this is that great examples of good practice already exist in Europe so I get to be positive.

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

Happy New Year. In the spirit of this, I intend to spend this week posting about all the wildly various things I am doing in 2026. First, my book The Hard Way will be coming out in paperback in the spring, although perhaps not with exactly the same cover.

Happy New Year. In the spirit of this, I intend to spend this week posting about all the wildly various things I am doing in 2026. First, my book The Hard Way will be coming out in paperback in the spring, although perhaps not with exactly the same cover.

out of my depth on any foreign policy thing but seems clear that at least some real part of this is fueled out of, if not a kind of boredom, a very real desire to entertain themselves because they are absolutely not interested in governing beyond shows of force they can post about online

If you are thinking of following suit, here's a list of EU tech alternatives: european-alternatives.eu

If you haven’t done so already, please boycott US products as much as possible and not travel there (and encourage your friends/family to do the same). The Trump regime has been repeatedly threatening 🇨🇦 too, and so in return Canadians have inflicted severe financial pain by cutting travel + imports.

Full respect to @islington-council.bsky.social for gritting the brilliant new bike lane across Newington Green. 😍

What can I do as a person in the UK?

Relaxation tips: - take a deep breath - put down your phone - find a sinister fog in the forest - enter the fog and let it enter you, until you become one - travel the wildlands with the other fog spirits, spreading fear & wonder in equal measure - have some tea

The Duke of Westminster’s Estate, Forest of Bowland, 1989, photo by Fay Godwin.

Found this laminated and zip-tied to a railway bridge today. Thought "oh, that's interesting!" Went over for a closer look, and it's fucking AI slop. The bigger words are words, the rest are nonsense. Why?! What is this for?! What did the people who made it think they were *DOING*??

Just no. Where is his morality?

Important detail which is also adressed in the planning of Vienna "gender mainstreaming". www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

2 things: 1) Joel is right here in that AI is a "restorative" nostalgia (from Svetlana Boym) machine, in that it produces a past that never existed & tries to drag it into the present 2) the crusade imagery is violent white supremacy (see next post)

Please add to the discourse around the decline of white men in literature the number of careers made possible by wives. Maybe white men aren’t uniquely talented! Maybe the patriarchy just made sure women were kept out of the running! www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/07/behi...

Acme Underwear no longer exists, possibly because they tended to explode in the presence of coyotes. Eaton's Fall and Winter Catalogue 1909-10. Toronto Public Library, ref ARCTC 658.871 E13.2

Christmas is all about Ottoline. Says Ottoline

🏺Facebook archaeology groups might not be completely dead after all

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, right now. Have a happy Christmas time, folks. And thank you for supporting Ukraine all this time.

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Actual Mog

Sinister or reassuring message viewed from the bus yesterday. you are content

this made me so happy

No idea.

Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971 #WinterSolstice

It's not people, it's men. In the photos it's all the women with their faces blacked out, and the more I look at them, the more it looks like an artwork about power.

Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal. Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.