Every time I see Hamnet my failing brain thinks “haha, hamlet with pigs, lol” and then has to go through the process of realising, once again, that ham is already in hamlet. I know it came out ages ago. This is still happening to me

Well, if it’s 14 March, that can only mean... naturally: the ninth anniversary of one of the finest exchanges from The Old Place

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

I’ll stop bothering Michael with quote posting in a bit but he’s really hit the nail on the head with this - gavin here is more upset about the mere investigation of allegations of MASS EXECUTIONS by UK troops than the potential that these crimes occurred

Regimes targeted militarily by the United States quite famously immediately capitulate (panicked history professor whispers in my ear) Folks, I’m getting some new information here

Why call it "rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation" when "cancelled by woke" is right there.

For the purposes of computing, we always need to approximate π. In JavaScript, `Math.PI` is the nearest 64-bit floating point number to the true value of π. My proposal is that for consistency and symmetry we should introduce `BigInt.PI`

she is sad because I won't let her sit on the bananas

can this be a solution?

This should be read as a companion piece to the FT article about Jamie's Italian. It's more important to read this one though.

These two things do not go together. Cheering on support for trans rights calling out our oppression, next day go out campaigning for the party doing said oppression

My son and I watched Stop Making Sense a few years ago. He asked if I had any of their albums. This gave me the opportunity to recreate a classic Onion article.

A duck goes back in time to meet his own younger self, even though he doesn't remember meeting himself before. "You fool!", his younger self quacks. "By bringing the two of us together, you've created a

Mathematicians love today, 2026-03-14, because 2,026 minus 3 minus 14 is 2,007 which is of course the largest prime number

It's becoming increasingly clear that the main difference between the US today and Nazi Germany was that the Nazis had more competent military leadership

Amazing. I had no idea, but “Herschel decided to name the object Georgium Sidus (George’s Star), or the ‘Georgian Planet’, in honour of his new patron, King George III” (Wikipedia)

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

I like to think the two articles advertised at the bottom were by the same guy, about a single sequence of events he experienced

There’s nothing more obnoxious than when people celebrate being an asshole or “just saying what everyone’s thinking” Yeah, dude, most people have edgy thoughts, and learn to keep them inside. It’s called control. What you’re doing is like being really proud of constantly shitting yourself.

Anyway, this is the Gorbaechev Dictum (@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social): we fight antisemitism like there is no Israel and fight Israel like there is no antisemitism.

working as one of those “real mermaids” and trying the vape-into-your-shirt trick to hide when I take a pull from the breathing apparatus

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

Post a great photo of a musician.

“If you’re not doing anything illegal, then you got nothing to worry about!” Also: “Existing in public space without buying anything will lead to the authorities being called.“

I felt like there was a simpler way to make this comparison so I took the data from the original chart and made this spreadsheet and bar chart that normalizes income by hours worked per week. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is painful but true. open.substack.com/pub/readfoun...

so am i but you don't see bragging about it

Sarah Vaci is a "gender critical" artist who set out 4 years ago this month to create 100 portraits of "female detransitioners." To date, worldwide, she hasn't even found 100 to take part in her project, and at her current rate, it will take her 10 to 15 years to finish. Why is this important? 1/

I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana. (PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

"What do voters like?" "Erm... estate agents?"

I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in? www.ft.com/content/4493...

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

one page rpg: winston churchill vs one otter you are winston churchill at 90 years of age, and you have been confronted by a single otter. you have four moves: alcohol, genocide by starvation, speeches, and being mean to guests at dinner. the otter has one move, which is to bite you in the ass

we do really need a universal Scary Politics News scale in which 10 is "this is currently enforced criminal law" and 0 is "this is an anonymous comment" and that rating needs to be posted directly next to the headline in large font that is not hidden by the paywall popup

I don't know why people act like it's demeaning to say, "Don't worry your pretty little head about it." Do you have any idea how nice it would be to be told not to worry about something? And hearing I have a pretty head on top of that? If you said that to me I'd kiss you.

astronomy is so funny because it's this fairly niche interest for a small community of nerds and also it's 99.9999% of everything that exists

I’m shocked, stunned etc. Meanwhile, everywhere else around the world assumes Australia has cracked it and are rushing to copy their law.

My post in praise of cognitive offloading andymasley.substack.com/p/the-lump-o...

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.

Truly amazed at how Labour found their own Suella Braverman.