Tis the season to spread interesting food stories. Today's pick: Barcelona has fallen in love with Fish & Chips because of two Spanish-Pakistani brothers wanted to bring home the taste they remembered from trips to British chippies in Mallorca hyphenonline.com/2024/01/15/t...

A very Scottish declaration? #outwith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

First ever research publication! Ever been bored to tears by walls of slide text? Then this is for you. I have no shame - please share widely. (Thanks to @profnicolacooper.bsky.social for her support as co-author.) #MedSky #MedEd #EdSky asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

He says he is cute and this means he should be given third breakfast. #proofOfCat

I went on LinkedIn. Oops. Here is how I converted that experience into billions of sales: (Blah blah blah etc)

UPDATE: The fluffy fort has been recaptured while the garrison were distracted.

You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems

Recharging

I once did a deeply puerile thing and rang the Home Office to ask for comment on the growing campaign to abolish the Home Office, which was basically "one think tank paper and some posts". The note of genuine panic in the flack's voice is something I cherish to this day. See how you fucking like it.

It’s like hitting the ejector seat. Extremely satisfying to just reject their schtick

"I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - W. B. Yeats

This is such a good insight that I hope someone with money and talent opens the Dishroom for Sri Lankan food the world (ed note. he really just means himself) deserves.

My favourite genre of leftism is just replying to any problem with "it's capitalism" and subsequently doing nothing

This is your annual reminder that in Japan, Christmas has almost nothing to do with Santa, St Nicholas etc It's (literally) the annual KFC holiday

A 🧵: Fabulous figs, frightening foie gras, flattering liars! An ancient food thread that has it all; (If you're sensitive to animal cruelty, then be forewarned!) In the name of Hades, what do you mean Thomas? What connects these seemingly very different things -namely figs and liver- together? 1/x

the roast turkey pringles... we are so back

In the land of the Farage impressionists, the Tonty Blair borders impressionist is King

The essence of Blue Labour thought is that somewhere in Downing Street there is a button marked “reindustrialise” that Tony Blair could have pressed, but instead he opted for the “more Woke Studies” button.

Technology is cool and all but did you ever happen to think that what is possibly the most impressive and comprehensive transit signal priority system in the world, Zurich's, is essentially based on updated versions of 1970s and 80s tech, i.e. induction loops, antennas and basic programming?

Of course they're finishing with YMCA like the world's weirdest barmitzvah.

Broke: UK government industrial strategy for AI Woke: UK industrial strategy for non-AI sectors Bespoke: Kier Starmer bribes Nintendo & Universal to build a Super Nintendo World at Universal UK resort in Bedford, all the Nintendo fans this side of Singapore boost UK tourism revenue

what air defense doing

Woke 2 wont do "your fave is problematic." Woke 2 will do "your fave is extremely woke. They are in fact more woke than they can possibly imagine. This is especially true if this hurts and upsets them to hear it"

Apropos of the food chat on my timeline this evening, it is blowing my mind that *M&S* is now selling mini Dosa. Multiculturalism through food is ace

I'll throw in a vote for an Ethiopian Dishoom, please. Small plates, good for groups, must be do-able up market.

God Dishoom for Nigerian food would be incredible.

YES

Too few political and media elites were aware of the 4Chan-Gamergate nexus beforehand to see the risks as X descended into gutter terminally online fascism *Actual* nerds saw this coming a mile off "Do not cite the deep magic witch, I was there when it was written"

Ditto, "Gamergate has seized executive power" is likely to give an analyst a much more clearer eyed view of current events than any West Wing brained analysis

In a world where much of the current governing US elite has been driven insane through decades of being very online some of the best analysts of US elite behaviour are people like Mihnea who have detailed knowledge of the internet spaces that drove them round the bend

I am reminded of a time I happened to be in Paddington station one morning during Henley Regatta week, and groups of American and Japanese tourists stepped off the Heathrow express wide eyed at the crowds in hats & blazers and started snapping photos...only to step further and find it was a a mirage

The tiktok girl who does funny skits while wearing a bread mask turning into Manchester and Liverpool City Councils' public enemy number 1 was really not on my 2025 bingo card

Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.

Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.

Britain now offers overseas healthcare workers *neither* the high wages & minimal taxes of "guest worker" countries like the Gulf States or a welcoming environment and a fair path to settlement like Aus, NZ, Canada etc The results have been entirely predictable www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

To riff on @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social, the British electorate longs for STV so they can throw the party they hate the most under the bus on transfers

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

When Labour MPs cosplay Reform like this, the Faraagist voters they're chasing won't notice but the immigrant healthcare professionals who've been crucial to the NHS since it's inception absolutely will

I think it's worth noticing how completely major media institutions have just gone along with the project of sacrificing the national economy on the altar of "some people in marginal constituencies don't like hearing foreign accents when they go out"

British elites will act like neurorodiversity is somehow new or problematic and simultaneously won't bat an eyelid at a peer of the realm whose hobby outside of occasionally being in Parliament is a collection of 20,000 beetles organised by linean classification in the ancestral family house

www.economist.com/britain/2025... new guy just dropped

>Island nation off the coast of the nearest continent >Former imperial power >Demographic decline with a falling birthrate >Anti-immigrant backlash unopposed by mainstream politicians despite catastrophic fiscal & economic implications >Be Japan Pic unrelated

My fav fact related to this is that France's single longest regime since the revolution, the Third Republic, was semi-accidental. The 2nd empire collapsed after Napoleon III's wartime capture by German forces, and the first elections for the "temporary" third republic elected a monarchist majority!

The 2020s be like

Genuine question, if the Danish postal service is abolishing letter delivery and getting rid of post boxes. How does mail correspondence even work in Denmark? What happens to mail sent from countries that still have functioning postal systems (aka the rest of the planet)

I feel like BlueSky probably has no reached a certain level of critical mass just because you can have massive arguments about the Falklands on the platform