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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 554: When choosing a title for your novel, make sure it sounds like fiction. Jame's Runcie's terrific novel, THE DISCOVERY OF CHOCOLATE, and Marina Lewyzca's A BRIEF HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRANIAN, were both repeatedly placed in the nonfiction section of bookshops.

We're told all the time there's no fucking magic money tree to invest in public spending and yet these pricks are throwing away money hand over fist on actively making everything worse, hurting free speech, expanding genocide, fucking our healthcare and privacy.

Fun fact: Admiral Vian, who had been involved in the actual hunt for Bismarck, was pretty pissed off with the film because he felt it unfairly removed the involvement of the Polish. (great film in general though. one of my faves)

I gave a quote to a Metro news article: "This new government guidance will cause extreme harm to trans children of all ages. Study after study have shown that trans children need policies that are the exact opposite of what this Government is enforcing... 1/

This is just unconscionable man

Don’t allow anyone to tell you that your desire to purchase a castle on the Scottish coast is “not in line with the realities of the current housing market."

It cannot be right that one’s right to use a particular loo depends upon which judge you might appear in front of, and can change day by day. So much for “clarity”. The SC ruling and how it’s been presented by the media has created confusion and fear, exactly as predicted 10 months ago.

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Yes, Darling.

This is good, but Mahmood reportedly abandoned possible leadership ambitions after realising how much her party would hate her proposals, and polling doesn't suggest they'd be supported nationally, but she's still utterly determined to prove how anti-immigrant she is *just for its own sake*.

There's that. But I want to note that the Basic Income for the Arts is essentially a lottery for 2000 eligible people, amounting to a grant of €16,900 per year, and it is available for three years. It is less yearly funding than the Govt of Ireland scholarship for postgraduate researchers.

Such a powerful image in Le Monde. (The writing on the plane says "Neutral athletes") Cartoon by: Letton Gatis Sluka

Is being a repulsive bigot who uses slurs to describe minority groups a prerequisite for being a “senior figure under Keir Starmer” or….?

I've been putting it off but he was going to find out sooner or later so today I finally broke it to Jim that he has not been selected as the new presenter of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. www.tom-cox.com/jim/

insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man

I am sorry that my choice of language (calling Jim Ratcliffe a cunt) has offended some people in Monaco (Jim Ratcliffe) but it is important to raise the issue of Jim Ratcliffe being a cunt and maintain an open debate on the challenges of Jim Ratcliffe being a cunt.

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“Beiermeister started at OpenAI in mid-2024 as a part of a wave of hires from Meta who viewed themselves as trying to change tech companies from the inside.”

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

RIP The Clobberer #ThePogues #AndrewRanken

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Look all I'm saying is we've tried chaos *without* Ed Miliband

And to think that I know someone from there ...

Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but not to her - the prize was awarded to her (male) supervisor. #CelebratingWomen

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 10 PinkNews: 110-y/o UK Women's Institutes announce will only allow members based on biological sex (ironically apparently opening them to trans men). Several branches close rather than comply: "[we won't] accept marginalization and oppression of trans people..."

“I sat my son under a large maple tree in our backyard and told him that males cannot be female, and we would be going back to his birth name and pronouns." A quote from a parenting book available in 58 public libraries in the UK 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/exclusive-58...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 107632: If you're writing a sex scene, beware of over-describing actions. Sensations, thoughts and feelings often work better, and won't end up reading like a biology manual.

The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one. Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

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Bad Bunny performs. The NYT: What is sugar cane? WaPo: What are politics? Fox News: What is Spanish?

I think it’s easy to feel intimidated when some people write alt-text as an art, which is wonderful but, as someone who sometimes needs it, and family who always need it, I can assure you that even the most basic description is appreciated. Please think of it as anything is better than nothing.

Ben and I got drunk and made a record to fund @noiseboxradio.com, which has become so popular the PRS fees have skyrocketed. So go and buy it, it's a Eurodance version of the theme from Minder like I might have done with Daz twenty years ago.

"we fired all of our Black and Brown journalists and media critics and for some reason are writing bad articles about the Bad Bunny halftime show"

Well, that’s ominous.

"As a parent, I am deeply concerned about what my child is accessing online. Albeit not enough to check or to install some very basic software that would prevent them from accessing dodgy material online. That's why the Online Safety Act is so important."

Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’ The resident doctors’ wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science or medicine. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Sometimes I take a nice photo

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in which Mike Johnson attempts to scripture-splain to the [checks notes] Pope