A network of far-right Facebook groups is exposing hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist and extremist disinformation and has become an “engine of radicalisation”

They are trying to break me. Property was originally built in circa 1790, stone built... and now the interior is

Who amongst us could look back at their dating history and NOT say "I was a dumbass"

The case is part of a broad effort to not only reinterpret the Reconstruction amendments – the constitutional amendments passed after the civil war to ensure equal rights and due process – but also to weaponize them against democracy and civil rights

In case you missed it, I've been looking into bike storage solutions - and here are some of the best options. No room for your bike? Here are 13 clever, space-saving storage ideas for indoors and out www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

It's so clear that there's a huge number of professionals in the US who carry with them traumatic memories of being excluded, laughed at, or looked down up on by the Smart Kids and who have basically made hostility to Smart Kids their entire personality, ideology, & worldview.

From the print Onion

Just watched the first episode of “The French Chef” with Julia Child (“a WGBH videotape production”) Charming, and even so old and in black & white, useful and instructive.

Fun Fack: K. Lung, the creator of The Monsters: Labubu, teamed up w/ THE fucking Louvre to make an exclusive Labubu series that's literally ONLY sold at the Louvre LOL. The Monsters Art: Popmart x How2work, features Labubu & other Monsters dressed as characters from famous artworks.

If you see this, post a bridge Golden Jubilee Bridges from Waterloo Bridge after a memorable Waterloo sunset

I thought Ezra Klein was a dick before it was cool

Astute reflection on the kind of “bubble” people like Ezra end up in It’s actually one many of us probably experience but are sensible enough to recognize and allow for.

Klein has one of the largest platforms in the country, if not the world. At a minimum, not knowing how to use that platform to achieve his supposedly liberal goals is profoundly lacking in imagination. At worst, is a profound moral failure.

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations” - Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Happy #WorldRabiesDay to those who celebrate I.e., those who had to get treated theconversation.com/louis-pasteu...

Okay. Maybe I start a writer’s retreat on a Scottish island.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Okay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula

Everyone needs to cancel TikTok, Paramount, CBS, all of it.

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

Managed to complete an Andor rewatch before the final day on my cancelled Disney+ subscription www.youtube.com/watch?v=-asb...

My best advice for parents re: harmful content: show genuine interest in the stuff your kid is watching and doing online. Let them talk your ear off about Minecraft and Roblox and the funny video they just watched. Make them feel excited to share with you, vs making them feel ashamed or judged

War ravaged Portland

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

Somebody out there in the #BayArea #SF #SanFrancisco is looking for a bonded pair, brother and sister kittens. These two are exactly them!

Sometimes it’s right - even necessary- to do the thing even when it’s what your enemy is trying to provoke. Because not to do it is a(nother) form of capitulation.

I don’t care what anyone says, Michael McDonald is great and “soft rock” was capable of good music. Even in 1982 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9gbQ...

Well now I want a donut

It should be illegal for an employer to mandate use of a smartphone app without providing you a smartphone.

Note that trams (buses on wires), trains, and undergrounds are all better than electric cars.

The first steam-powered passenger rail trip was on 27th Sept 1825 (200th bday is nuanced - regular passenger steam slightly later). Here's transport carbon footprint today - Eurostar easily cleanest cos fully electrified. I hope the next 200 yrs has even more (electric) trains! With lower prices...

My dearest Martha, I send you all my love from this war-torn ravaged place, where our hardships surpass comprehension. Yesterday, a barista gave me a whole milk latte when I specifically ordered skim. Later, a young woman with strangely colored hair glanced at me disapprovingly.

“The first month of 2025 has been one of those “oh no, we’re living in history” moments. A singularly American onslaught of death and degradation, moving at the speed of light.”

Portland legit has the world's most honest servers. A few years ago a waiter told me to avoid everything except the chicken because the chef was having a bad day. last week a waiter told me if I wanted a good version of the thing to leave and go to this other restaurant 2 streets over. mad respect

what the fuck are you talking about man

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Fred Armisen: Are you going to the war? Carrie Brownstein: No, there's supposed to be a really good potluck after the dog fashion show

Ezra Klein has been speaking a lot on red states and rural Democrats and here’s the thing…he shouldn’t. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

Former military personnel were seen trading in automatic weapons for mandolins and zithers.

I have a solution both for people having trouble finding nice housing and for those looking for community. And for ppl wanting nature. You give me some money and I’ll buy this huge mansion in the country and make it a cross between a rooming house, a commune and co-housing. (Everyone has equity.)

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

“I love London with a passion, says Sandi Toksvig in the intro to “Between the Stops” Me, too, though I’m not yet fortunate enough to live there. But I’ve stayed there, and ridden the 12 many times, and I’m really looking forward to this book - because London and also because I adore Sandi

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Carol Reed's multi Academy Award winning 🇬🇧 British film adaptation of Lionel Bart's 1960 stage musical "OLIVER" starring Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Harry Secombe, Oliver Reed, Jack Wild and Shani Wallis premiered #OnThisDay in 1968 at Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square in London

What character permanently altered your brain chemistry?

I was reading a story by Daniel Defoe, and he uses the term “quack doctor.” I had no idea it had been around so long! Apparently it comes from the Dutch word “kwakzalver,” or “quacking ointment seller.”

Do those people ever read the words that they’ve uttered? Do they have any idea of how nuts they sound? Nuts and evil?

A Western Australia teenager has started a petition calling for sheep shearing to be included in the Brisbane Olympics

A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems, and that this is responsible for the rising bacterial infections, viruses becoming more common... In the British Medical Journal

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...