HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Congratulations to Liam Donnelly and Tony Hayes, newly crowned O’Brien Booksellers of the Year. As custodians of Hodges Figgis they run an amazing bookshop. Well deserved winners. @theobrienpress.bsky.social @thebookseller.com

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Congratulations to Liam Donnelly and Tony Hayes of Hodges Figgis Bookshop, Dublin, who were named The O’Brien Press Booksellers of the Year 2026 at the Bookselling Ireland Conference in Waterford this evening! @thebookseller.com

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Within two hours of subscribing to NatSocToday for the purposes of this investigation, the Substack algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content. Some of these accounts regularly share and like each other’s posts. Many have thousands of followers.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Racism has been central to Trump and his movement since he came down the escalator. He is a racist. His people are racists. His defenders are racists. His supporters are racists. His party is a party of racists. If they want to disprove that, they can. But it's important to know they don't want to.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/

Imagine seriously claiming that this Putin-lover was "the greatest friend that Poland has ever had in the White House"

Radio Fuck Europe

EXC: US State dept is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in UK/ Europe to amplify Washington’s policy stances and challenge perceived threats to free speech W/ @annasophiegross.bsky.social, @oilsheppard.bsky.social & Amy McKinnon as.ft.com/r/98452b33-5...

What a helmeted cyclist in hi viz in broad daylight looks like to motorists:

I just reread a Ta-Nehisi Coates piece from 2018 where he addresses the claim that Trump is too incoherent to have an ideology and responds, no, he clearly has an ideology and it’s white nationalism. It’s only got clearer since then yet some people still insist otherwise

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

This is from my book THEM. It was back in 1998, and I was outside a Bilderberg meeting having just been chased through Portugal by their shadowy henchmen… (H/T @isaac_kh on X)

New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...

Massive attack on Ukraine tonight.

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

The only trans people mentioned in the epstein files are victims. Hundreds of known anti-trans people are in them, though, either rubbing shoulders with the rape-cult, an active part of the clique, or trying to gain access. Are you getting it yet?

"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv

I’m just a cis straight white middle aged man who happens to work in disinformation and I am *exhausted* by the efforts to normalise British transphobia in Ireland in the last half decade +++ Fuck knows how trans people put up with it..

For the uninitiated, these are Irish Throwing Stars, an ancient weapon wielded by St. Brigid during the 1916 Rising, striking fear into the hearts of the British, and responsible for the eventual smiting of both Cromwell and Thatcher.

Werner Heisenberg got lost every time he checked his speedometer

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

Videos from Gaza show huge explosions as Israeli air attacks hit a building in Gaza City and tents in al-Mawasi. Gaza’s Government Media Office says more than 500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on October 10.

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

Slow handclap for Amazon, who took over Comixology, gutted it and then killed it stone dead. A decent, viable product people liked, destroyed for the stock bump. The way we live is completely insane. Fuck these vultures. www.comicsbeat.com/amazon-layof...

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Sorry to soil my timeline but this did make me laugh…you? Took me a moment… Greg Bovino was asked how he felt about his demotion today. "Well, obviously, I'm not happy", he replied. Someone in the crowd shouted back, "So which one are you?"

Peter Cook on “those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War,” notwithstanding, fascists hate artists because empathy highlights their hatefulness & renders them ridiculous.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

No one writes like @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The reason why cyclists and pedestrians push back against these types of campaigns is not because we think visibility is bad (I wear hig-viz!), but because it's victim blaming that diverts attention from the real issues: dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure

More please.

Spring in nearly here, and it'll bring little Mimi dancing into the bookshops! Woohoo!

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Reminded yesterday that our ecovillage SUDS system, which has reliably prevented flooding for circa 18 years, including 100 year storms, is relatively unique, and yet it's a very well understood system, ecologically friendly, while flooding repeats year after year, in all the same places. #speirgorm

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

* rising slowly, wringing cap between shaking hands * I think those little electronic signs that tell you when the bus is coming should have accurate information about when the bus is coming.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time. This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

On the day that Kanye apologises Linehan sees a job opening

If the 6% fine doesn’t exist for generating CSAM, what is it there for?