Give everyone a taste of the delicious social democrat pie

Scandi taxes means Scandi kickbacks

A truly excellent book, highly recommended thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/s...

The sky was all purple, there were people running everywhere (South Minneapolis, light pollution and all)

It's painful because it's true.

Worth knowing

We are now 9 episodes in and the writers have yet to give Mark Duplas a single interesting line.

The first album that I ever bought was 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩 - Neil Young🍁 I wish Neil all the best on His 80th birthday ~Nov. 12th Neil Young is a Canadian🇨🇦 musical icon that I started listening to as a teenager. I still listen to him today. So many great songs! #CanadianMusicIcon🍁 #NeilYoung🇨🇦

I wrote on the UK's reported suspension of some intel sharing with the US on legal grounds. I spoke to several former intel officials & all agreed that they could not think of a comparable case over decades. Some expressed serious concern over retaliation www.economist.com/britain/2025...

AI shaping up nicely. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

More for the false dichotomies file

There is confusion over the null hypothesis among those telling the won't-read-more-than-the-headline crowd about the World Energy Outlook. The FT here is choosing to read "current policies' (CPS) as business as usual.

Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)

Tech brains broken part 1000000000 (this lady is a partner at Andreessen apparently)

Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.

my new book is published tomorrow! I have put an extract here for free of what I think might be the most important thing I say in the whole book - how to preserve friendships during an information crisis (and why it's important to try, if you can) naomialderman.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...

For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae: “this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good” www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...

Apologies, I realized I was posting like a scientist rather than a social-media influencer. What I meant to say was: Cosmologists in SHAMBLES as statistical significance of their cherished idea tumbles from 4.2σ to a measly 3.2σ! When will science face this CRISIS? Or is it all just GROUPTHINK???

Happy Birthday Neil ❗ -Cinnamon Girl tidal.com/browse/track...

Just bought a brisket and cut it up to fit in my freezer. I know it's a long shot, but does anyone have any favorite suet recipes?

Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I’ve just realised that I think the reason I’ve never read the book The Swimming Pool Library is because I love swimming pools and libraries so much that if it is not about somebody inventing a kind of swimming pool which is also a library I will just be terribly disappointed.

In case you missed it: Teen Vogue, previously a remarkably useful source of US political news, recently fired all the black women in their organisation and their entire political journalism team. You can unfollow them now; I have.

What suymbolism links the bug to TPUSA?

🇨🇦 Neil Young is turning 80 — and these Canadian musicians are throwing him a party at Massey Hall in Toronto. #NeilYoung🇨🇦 #CanadaSky🍁 www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Is a humblebrag just a narcissistic backhanded compliment?

Noticed aphids swarming and saw they are all plugged into the phloem, quivering in ecstacy

"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal" edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

@rmathematicus.bsky.social Hoping you're recovered: How does the word apogee get into use?

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Trump: "We have officially renamed the Dept of Defense back to the original name, Dept of War. And remember we won World War 1, we won World War 2, we won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name. We became politically correct"

It's simple. Bond, but everyone else is a Muppet.

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

Remembering today the late 🇬🇧 British theatre, film and television actor and narrator #HarryAndrews CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) born #OnThisDay in Tonbridge, Kent, England

Someone -- the IAF? -- should present Farquhar awards for peculiarly elegant orbits.

Presented without comment.

True for many

Painting by Gregory Thielker ‘Candle in the Wind’ 2025. Oil on linen. Size 80 x 59.7 cm. gregorythielker.com/home-v48/

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

The Booker goes to FLESH by David Szalay. Super-taut novel about a man’s life over 50-odd years. Compulsively readable - wolfed down in 2 sittings. 50 grand prize, woo-eee.

Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."

I don't mean to make light of what is a serious issue, but the fact that DC has one of the highest dementia rates in the country is hilariously on-the-nose, n'est-ce pas, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

Congratulations to David Szalay I haven't read much of the material on this year's Booker longlist/shortlist/winner, but I did read this by @adamroberts.bsky.social and was intrigued by the ubrick connection profadamroberts.substack.com/p/david-szal...

Pork chops brown fat and both sides in pan, slosh in some wine, cover and cook for ten? Hot griddle to get char lines on both sides, finish in over an 180 or so? Thoughts?

Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

‘Climate change’ is out. Energy affordability is in. Awesome new media analysis by @shannonosaka.bsky.social and Kevin Crowe for the @washingtonpost.com showing declining mentions of “climate change” by Dems in speeches, media appearances, podcasts, etc. 📉

Well this is tiny… My Planck 2TB SSD arrived this morning.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

I have two missions in life: - securing world peace - dissuading people from organising a "quick preparatory call ahead of next week's panel".