One of the things I will never understand about Spanish and Italian cuisine is how regimented it is. Why are people so much against adding more veggies to a potato omelette, paella rice or whatever? Why people only follow exact recipes and do not experiment?

Bloody hell, getting to being adult. Having a support group to get out of the closet, getting to know new friends to ADMIRE cinema, new friends to get to clubbing, new friends that shared my crazy obsession with music, new friends for videogames, people who helped me move to London...

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

In the early 2010s it was infuriating to see endless screeds on "legitimate concerns" against East Europeans from analysts and scholars who seemed oblivious to how the moment political leaders capitulated to this xenophobia it would just lead to escalating hatemongering against other diasporas

If politics are going crazy in several European countries one after the other, I think it is time to go past blaming the failures of individual political actors (and there are quite a few, both in the UK and France) to looking at the systemic pressures our political systems are failing to deal with.

Como siempre, elecciones de PC y de juegos bastante desconocidos. Empezando con la masterpiece de Stephane Picq, su Dune en Adlib Gold www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUfG...

I always say, Check your tweet for typos, because that gives you one more chance to never send it.

Social media, meaning the spaces for people to meet and socialize globally, has been dead for possibly 10 years already. What we have now is parasocial media: a form of mass media where there’s illusion of relationships covering a high virality broadcast tool controlled by algorithms.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

tapping this for all my Spanish followers. La prensa Británica vive en un universo paralelo compartido con la clase política

This is one of the most remarkable things about the present situation in the UK which can be hard for outsiders to realise, since after all one learns from the media. There's a *massive* disconnect between the huge focus and energy it generates in the media and the disinterest of the broader public.

Some great reporting here: “One of the most prominent YouTubers, Anthony Styles, 59, has since deleted his AJ Audits channel after it was revealed he is a convicted paedophile. He was known to frequent protests… where demonstrators claimed to stand for the “protection of women and children”

Quite annoying how much that movie contributed to the myth making of Patton (we literally watched it in high school lol). My favorite Patton story is him getting the silent treatment from the big red one in a big address after firing Terry Allen and teddy Roosevelt jr for dubious reasons in Sicily

hostia

this is the plot for Nancy Kress' "Beggars in Spain". Which is a FABLE. A speculation. Fiction. You know. Bloody scifi, it has melted so many people's brains.

saddest news. This club is even more important than Fabric in the history of London imho.

El reciente informe de la Comisión de Vivienda del Parlamento Europeo tiene una gran virtud: evidencia que la crisis de acceso a la vivienda y las subidas de precios afectan al conjunto de la UE. Sin entender esta dimensión internacional, difícilmente solucionaremos la crisis.

Still with a bit of muscle pain from the South Bermondsey Festival and the workout that my PT is pushing on me, I can say: long live the local music festivals

Yo echo mucho de menos esto. Poder aparecer una tarde de martes de bajona en casa del amigo/vecino o viceversa, sacar un aperitivo, ver algo, adiós hasta luego

doing it for the lulz is an inherently political motive and usually is an expression of clear values and a coherent viewpoint, even if the values + viewpoint are terrible. people need to talk to more antisocial trolls if they don't understand this.

of all the signs of the modern day nihilism, one that I will not ever understand is the success of memecoins www.wired.com/story/memeco...

going to be away in my new safe space, the M section of the Primavera Sound 2026 lineup

Have I ever told you I was such a fan of En Vogue that I replaced all the windows 3.1 sounds with En Vogue clips? The "ummm behbeh" from desire, the "uuuuh bop" from my lovin to shut down...

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

Hahaha, politics in the UK are a feast always. The consequences of the Mandelson fallout are, at least, very funny, like the pivot here

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Shit, Rapture is here and I still have not played Baldur's Gate 3

Oh ye of little faith bsky.app/profile/soph...

All this talk of the Rapture and not one mention of ‘House Of Jealous Lovers’.

just came across a split of an European discussion subreddit, which was done "to avoid censorship", and to the surprise of absolutely no one the White Replacement buzz is defended often

editar tweets/posts dado el volumen de datos y usuarios simultáneos que manejan estas redes en particular debe de ser una pesadilla para diseñar y mantener en todos los aspectos (y algo en lo que pienso a menudo)

today's state of the press is so sad that the new Reform thing has an aspiration of being like United Arab Emirates and no one in the press is saying shit

The fact they don't have detailed plans. The fact it's ethically repugnant. The fact that it would be an economic disaster. All of these things are what chaotic authoritarianism looks like. As we're seeing in the US.

That Farage is treated seriously shows how degraded the politics in the UK habe become. Barring absolute far right racists, anyone with half a brain cell can see this latest raft of proposals would utterly destroy the UK, as well as the lives of migrants. 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Oh great, now Nigel Garage wants me out of the country. Well, you got all as enemies now, Reform

Pot cierto que gracias a los ingleses he descubierto el mejor desayuno del mundo. No este, no, los overnight oats con fruta y añadidos al gusto

One of the best things to happen to journalism. Really proud to be a subscriber from day, ehm, 50 or something.

More and more convinced that many of these people in power are self taught via RTS videogames

Decided today to block all those accounts that reply to any post about US news with an unrelated screenshot or comic strip or grotesque caricature

basicamente el discurso de "sin of empathy" aplicado aqui. La ultraderecha es de lo más internacionalista.

Euro Xapa; Unnamed Road, WFHQ+MQ5, Praia, Cabo Verde https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=14.9291371%2C-23.5105081&query_place_id=ChIJ27bKhTuZNQkRCCB3V_jXP3M

Woah. It's one thing for Trump to ban journalists from White House press conferences; it's another for Downing Street to do his bidding on UK soil.

don't you ahve the feeling that 15 years ago the internet was full of people who wanted to promote their stuff but also meeting their fans and now it's just people wanting you to pay for their substack and thanking them for existing, you nerds, but do not talk at me please?

British politics really needs to wake up to what is happening in America given we have imported a huge amount of its culture war politics. Maybe there are some clues about what would be on the cards here under a Reform government?

No words.