First episode of #halfman a difficult watch. Impressive performances, but: am I alone in finding it slightly pornagraphic in its fetishisation of working class homosociality?

Ok fine I’ll do it myself. I’m fucking wheezing

Scientists at Chernobyl have discovered bugs able to break down radioactive materials. The potential benefits extend far beyond Earth. Listen to “Babbage”

So Palantir are like Fascist fascists i see yeah maybe we shouldn’t integrate the nazi computer into the NHS

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

There is so much market manipulation going on in this administration.

Judges 4:21 always went down very well in the front rows of my choir stalls as a boy

I don’t believe you all have some obscure favorite Bible verse

Great story. A v good friend was DV'd for the FCO years ago. One question was: "does your wife have expensive tastes?". Answer: "Yes, but she works in banking and earns far more than I do". He passed.

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

Keir Starmer shocked and appalled to find he is actually prime minister, we can reveal, after aides went to great lengths to keep true reason for July 2024 house move from him.

New post: "Elections 2026: The Five Battlegrounds" With national politics fragmenting I've sorted all councils up for election outside London into five groups to help explain how things are evolving. Incl predictions for all 104 councils. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/elections-...

BREAKING: Downing Street says that neither Keir Starmer nor David Lammy knew that Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting - and lays blame with Foreign Office officials for overruling the decision.

News: English National Opera appoints Helen Shute as new Chief Executive Officer bachtrack.com/news-helen-s...

I am absolutely not an expert on classical literature, but weren’t the Sirens essentially this, telling a man exactly what he wanted to hear to lure him to his death?

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

I know from experience that leaving Substack has a cost. No other platform is as *easy* to get up and running, any time you change platforms, you're going to get significant churn. But, my friends who are on Substack--I don't think it will get easier to leave, might as well do it now.

Pope Leo is no angel.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

Plaid Cymru's priorities for Wales Check out the full plan ➡️ partyof.wales/manifesto

Paul Robeson, whose birthday was yesterday, had one of the most remarkable lives ever. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ro...

Reinstating National Service would be a small price to pay for not having to think about him anymore.

At my speech therapy class yesterday we worked on Kurt Scwitters' Ursonate

Hall of fame FT correction

Anyone else getting Suez vibes from this?

The more I read about the provisions of the ceasefire, the more this seems like the greatest strategic defeat in American history.

My PhD is on 18th-century theatre but I can nevertheless hazard a guess at this one….

The Musicians’ Union (MU) has called for its Scottish members to sign a petition asking all political parties in Holyrood to put fair work in the creative industries at the heart of their election campaigns.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant. His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot

I'm no fancy politician, but if I was a member of Congress and the President (the guy with the nuclear codes) was ranting like a madman about killing "a whole civilization," I would end my vacation pretty quickly

How does the new Senedd election voting system work? I tried to do 2 impossible things: 1. Explain it simply. 2. Explain it in one take. This election really matters so please share to help as many people as possible exercise their right to have a say over their futures.

Starmer warned by Lib Dems he could make UK 'accomplice to war crimes' if he keeps letting US use British airbases - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Ronan has worked intensely on this investigation for the past year and a half, dealing with hostility behind the scenes. There’s shrinking space for this kind of reporting that affects our lives-individuals that can acquire the press they want to control. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I never thought I’d be nostalgic for the discipline and statecraft of Idi Amin and Col. Gadaffi, yet here we are:

"Leverhulme Prize winner"

some of you on here have never teleported to a waffle house and it shows

Can’t help feeling that DJT’s Easter post is just the perfect example of him craving attention above all - regardless of whether it’s positive or negative He embraces the ‘heel heat’ - relishes it, in fact.

Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.

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Karita Mattila IS Liza Minnelli IS Klytämnestra

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Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who mounted two groundbreaking but unsuccessful bids for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died aged 84. ft.trib.al/jlMv97E

Love. Unity. Hope. These are the things that will stop the far right in its tracks ✋ Join us in London on 28 March for the Together Against the Far Right national demonstration Save the date and sign-up for updates 🔗 togetheralliance.org.uk #Together #WeAreTheMU #BehindEveryMusician #Unity

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!