Everything I have learned about Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will.

The biggest scam ever sold is convincing poor people that rich people worked harder.

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Map of the United States if it were colonised by Britain

In 1927 the General Post Office opened an underground railway between Paddington and Whitechapel, with 6 stations. A fleet of driverless trains carried letters and parcels below the congested streets. It operated for 76 years and closed in 2003. @PostalMuseum

It's cute the way the article never considers taxing the hell out of billionaires, instituting universal health care, and eliminating student loan debt as ways to, I dunno, make having kids AFFORDABLE.

Joseph Grimaldi was the first great clown of English theatre, transforming the part into a starring role of pantomime.His home was here at Exmouth Market at Clerkenwell, which was stormed by a crowd of fans in 1828 after he announced his retirement.

we have a way for guys like this to fund the military it’s called “taxes” and clearly they should go up

Oh come on, isn't this exactly the sort of thing we own St Helena for?

Very excited to have this launched.

What a glorious image

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

In 1963 Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham locked Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in a room in their shared flat here at Mapesbury Road in Kilburn, refusing to let them out until they had written their first original song.

Happy Hobbit Day To celebrate, steal a despot's favorite piece of jewelry and toss it in a volcano. Ruin that guy's whole day

Round of applause to @srlpublishing.bsky.social for this: a web page listing each of their books stolen by Meta. More active shaming of techbro thieves from publishers, please! srlpublishing.co.uk/product-cate...

Thread about a great American journalist. RIP.

Each swan on the Thames is 'owned' by either the monarch, the Vintners', or the Dyers' livery companies. Each July a census and marking of the swans takes place known as 'swan upping'. This statue of a Vintners' swan upper is on Upper Thames Street, opposite Vintners' Hall.

I’m seeing anti-immigrant accounts on bluesky, and people interacting with them. Come on, here we block and move on. No space here for Nazis.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

✏️ A Handwritten #Phrase on a Page of an Old Book, c. 1790: “Those who oppress people shall never find salvation.”

TV showe idea: The Criterion Closet and the NPR Tinye Deske are private detectyves wyth a tense rivalrye until romaunse doth begin to blossom bitwene them...

The American theater director Robert Wilson, known in France (but nowhere else, AFAIK) as "Bob," died today at age 83. Looking at the French news outlets, it's so funny to see everyone but the relatively staid Le Monde reporting that "Bob" has died. www.rfi.fr/fr/en-bref/2...

I do feel a great sense of satisfaction in knowing that Tom Lehrer outlived Kissinger

Saplings? Cool.

You helped will this into existence, you know...

For those times when "dumpster fire" falls short as an analogy for the national situation.

Scary, indeed. It takes awhile for the payoff to come, but once it does...

Brilliant news

The original Globe theatre was destroyed by fire today in 1613. Read here about Elizabethan playhouses. www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/elizabethan-...

For the first time in over a decade Omaha elected a Democrat as Mayor and he's Black too. Go focus on that

this is a sith lightsaber, from the war. I keep it on a shelf right next to my stormtrooper armor and imperial officer’s uniform. I’ve even got a verified chunk of the death star from yavin. I’m just a collector. I just think the history is interesting. no, I don’t have any rebel stuff

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

My 75 year old mother spent last night looking up wheel chair hire companies so we can go to London to protest Trump’s state visit. In case anyone was wondering how other countries were feeling about current political events in the US.

Blue hour in Bordeaux. Left London yesterday on the 09:31 eurostar, changed in Paris, and arrived at 17:15. #TrainsNotPlanes #highspeedrail

i hope the people running @wikipedia.org know that if they implement any kind of generative AI, many of us will never donate ever again

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

Nothing says “secure masculinity” like changing the name of a boat because it’s named after a gay man.

Having a cat is all about compromise, meaning you will have to compromise but they will simply not be doing that.

Why I wear a rainbow watch band. Kindness is easy. Happy pride month people.

Same

Moving house after 20 years is quite the experience. It's astonishing how much crap you accumulate over time. My new project is going to be expunging my mind of the phrase, "This could be useful some day."

Nationalize the water companies. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I’m going to mute this almost instantly but I’m seeing conspiracies fly about this Biden cancer news. If you’ve ever been around an elderly man with metastatic prostate cancer, then you might know it happens all at once. My 77 year old grandfather was working a 5 acre garden in June. Dead in July.

Everything should be closed on Monday, this is a fantastic idea.

You guys it's simple, we all just need to pool our resources together, and purchase an even MORE expensive private jet to bribe the President of the United States to do socialism.

It’s not an island of strangers. It’s an island estranged from its politicians. Inevitably, because the contempt in which they hold their own supporters is breathtaking.

He also gave us televised snooker but once again people sadly just focus on a single small part of his career.

Thomas Guy was the son of a Thames lighterman who became a bookseller and printer of Bibles in the 17thC. He made his fortune trading in South Sea Company shares. Prior to his death in 1724 he founded Guy's Hospital at Southwark. His statue stands in the hospital's courtyard.

Did you know there are still around 1,300 working gas lamps in London? An increasing number are historically-listed structures, with some lamp-posts now 200 years old. Discover the history of London’s gas lamps and where you can find them in my new video youtu.be/rq5VWPT0GF8

Just saw someone saying they are not in the business of shaming people for their politicial choices these days. If you aren't in that business, you are part of the problem. More people need to feel the shame of what they are doing.