I once did a sample lesson on Magna Carta for a teaching assistant role and it did include me summarising Richard's choices as king as "a bit like spending the entire national budget to fight a war on the moon." (I did not get the job. But it was a good lesson)

A lot of people criticising this, but I am choosing to believe that this is finally the anti-Richard I film that England deserves.

Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... The sharp decrease in crossing trip times v. Internal trip times makes me wonder if large portions of the gains on the island are going to cruising cabs and Ubers, whose pricing was unaffected by congestion pricing.

I have discovered over the last year, after doing some reading about wtf is going on with healthcare agencies around the world, that *a lot* of (arguably most of them!) European government health regulators look and sound ... just like RFK, Jr. It's kind of concerning!

I'm sorry I am at my most masculine when I am flinging my youngest into the air while she laughs and my wife disapproves.

For the last several years, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was widely seen as the standard bearer for US urbanist reforms. It’s now pretty clear that person is Mamdani.

Mayor Mamdani said over the weekend that he wants the Department of Transportation to add daylighting before someone has been killed rather than wait to ban parking at intersections after a completely avoidable tragedy. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/05/m...

Another day, another reminder that if you're going to be a strict constructionist, letter-of-the-law pervert: there's several ways the administration could structure this, such that there would be no *legal* basis on which to refuse an order to occupy Greenland

the thing is that what they want for Maduro is a show trial and the venue they are trying that in doesn't do show trials

Ender’s Game fucking slaps and Orson Scott Card is a goddamn monster

I was teetering before but now I’m ready to say it: I’m full Jags-pilled.

Yes, I have used this many times on Twitter when I started getting more attention than I wanted. It really helps.

While many consider me a shill for Mayor Wu, the fact is, I have *never once* let Mayor Wu off the hook for the same standards of accountability that I've held Boston mayors to since 1995. Fact is, under Wu, there's been a sea change in accountability. Trust but verify. Filed a PRR @ MOAC today. 👇🏼

The wild thing about Fetterman is that so many of his boosters have flipped over to Platner, an even more obvious plant, & said "OK I was wrong to support the guy with a put-on working class affect there, but THIS guy with a put-on working class affect..."

Would it make more sense if I said that they love being upset

This should be a pop-up before you can post

Regret to announce the rise of the autonomous ships has opened up whole new vistas of potential ugliness

his friend was murdered and some people are making his decision to call it a career about an insufficient willingness to fight and like, do we not want those who can't hack it to step aside for those who can?

People desperately need a sense of proportionality around how mad to get over which thing. In Parker's case, the appropriate amount to have gotten mad at her was: zero mad.

Anyway, here’s a fun thought: things 09A show that “communities” based around pure nihilism can form online, this combined with LLMs and chatbot psychosis, mean you could create scalable turnkey antisocial behavior inculcators as a service. I’m certain nation-states are already thinking about this.

People obsessed with Will Stancil are no different to Chris Chan's tormentors.

Incredibly disappointing how frequently I see trans women chased off the internet for literally nothing and makes me wonder why in god's name I'm voluntarily putting myself at risk

The only thing Hillary got wrong was the proportion. It’s much more than half.

That’s what I mean by a perverse incentive structure. Both sides of the classroom are incentivized to adopt AI, and both sides of the classroom are certain that use of AI on the part of the other results in a diminished learning experience. The solution? More AI!

I want this site to beat twitter, and for twitter to evaporate. For that to happen, people you hate must have a more pleasant experience posting here than posting there. A minority of this site decided instead that they want it to be their little club, so that's what we have.

I find it hard to square the preciousness about "why would someone ever stay on Twitter?" when everyone on this site knows that the community here intentionally chased off lots of people.

I think you can square this circle by understanding the position here is that your are morally obligated to microblog here or no where at all and also morally obligated not to offend their sensibilities while doing so. If you want to talk, you have freedom to agree. Otherwise: condemnation.

Yeah again, not telling you how to post but the number of people I see both enthusiastically celebrating “running off” someone and decrying people still being on X is not zero. You gotta choose guys!

Anywayssss

Ngl it’s really disheartening to see liberal currents struggle to raise 500K and these jokers just keep raising cash no questions asked

If you want Democrats to start acting like Republicans, then Democratic voters/supporters are going to have to start acting like Republican voters/supporters, and that means not nit-picking every single word that comes out of Dems' mouths when there are much bigger issues to message about.

the discourse around Chinese EVs from the global perspective and Chinese perspective is so interesting. From the former, they're an example of how China is overtaking the west in greentech. In China, they're an example of how provincial ambition is resulting in excess industrial capacity

I reiterate my opinion that to the extent I disagree with Bluesky moderation it is that they do at least an order of magnitude too little

I mean I don't know if I would have Will's persistence if I started getting his level of heat, but the way to avoid them is to fold to the jerks and stop saying what they don't like, that's not a great dynamic

if you want the Senate to do something, Senate Republicans must do something. People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

Look I’ve followed you for a long time now and seen these replies and dog piles and they make no damn sense. Most of these folks go out of their way to misinterpret things or get raged over something small.

Something a media organization might do is state in the headline (or article!) that Kelly was absolutely right. That could be relevant and perhaps even crucial for the reader to know

i think that the tragedy of the Scott Alexander extended universe is that one interpretation of rationalism is a group of people that wanted to come up with a utopian online environment that wasn't subject to these kinds of forum dynamics

More politicians should just make their speeches into threads and post them

2026 marks 4 years and 2 months since our administration took office—and 250 years since our nation was born. 250 years ago on this very day, a young man—the son of immigrants, and a BPS alum—was standing on the banks of a half-frozen river, focused on getting home to Boston. #BostonInauguration

What transit lines are opening in North America in 2026? 🚇 Metro in LA, Montréal, Monterrey 🚈 Light rail in Ottawa, St Louis, Seattle, Toronto 🚋 Streetcar in Kansas City, Orange County 🚌 Bus improvements in Atlanta, Salt Lake, San Bernardino & more It's on The Transport Politic's annual roundup ⏬

pinterest, what are you smoking? definitely not mids

Said boys going to be on their Bridgerton swag.

your feed has been blessed by the 3rd rail anti-icing work train. RT if you too are anti-ice

I've been on the receiving end of a few leftist mobs, and it's remarkable how offended their constituent members are that you would dare to defend yourself at all, much less reply to them using the same offensive language they have no compunctions about using on you.

coming back with a deliberately mocking tone is *far* more effective most of the time than trying to have an actual discussion with them, incidentally, and they get so mad that it's very funny.

The site's early adopters also trending toward online left communities and being invite only also had a lot of networking effects where it attracted a lot of the power-users who were predisposed to brigading and a lot of internet troll behavior