A quick dip onto Delay Repay to ask for the money back from LNER for my two-hour delay...but the specific train I got seems to have been cancelled. No worries, I'll just enter the next one. Instant rejection - the data we have shows you were on a different train!

I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.

An advertising spend of £2bn puts the industry's bleating of "you'll destroy jobs if you tax us more!" into context. They're fucking rolling in cash.

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph takeover strengthens UK media’s rightwing tilt

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

Philippe Clement had a nightmare start to his tenure as Norwich City boss as his side were thrashed 4-1 at Birmingham City. #NCFC

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

From mid-November on, before you send an email ask yourself if this is really a 2025 problem

This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

KENNY, KENNY, KENNY

More spin on that than a Mandelson press leak

YOU BEAUTY

Genuinely yelped as that finish somehow evaded the top corner

How are Scotland not dominating this game

Elderly Cat likes to keep one tiny paw on me at all times so I cannot gallivant without her

‘If’

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

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A hopeful message to finish. The problems with the UK economy are many, but most of them are solvable, because they are the result of sustained poor policy choices. These policy mistakes have left scars, and some of the damage is irreversible, but the majority of it can be recovered.

New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk A chart mega-thread follows 🧵

Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

I need it to get really fucking clear that letting these people run the world is why the world is a fucking disaster. And the comfortable class needs to hear that most of all. 3/n

I actually think countries should subsidise travel between their place of residence and their home country for citizens abroad. There should be grants

David Miliband's closing paragraphs in his Observer article today are quite ... striking.

Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.

Cold snap is coming so it’s time to trim back the pepper plants. Aji Amarillo peppers (some in full Norwich City regalia) will be becoming a salsa or a paste in the next couple of days, depending on how much free time I can find.

As tech companies gear up to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to fuel investments in AI, lenders and investors are increasingly looking to protect themselves against it all going wrong.

too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need

I remember being surprised at how many people assumed Burnham had given up after Conference

You could literally do a horror anthology based on the different ways this can go wrong. AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

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The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way

This is one of the few times that the analogy between a running a government and a business makes sense. Focus on making a good product and everything else will take care of itself.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

crazy IG em_clarkson

The existence of a silly season implies the existence of a sensible season

Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/c...

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology. I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer

One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids

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he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.