I’ve written more about statistics of the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, including: – Books that just missed out – Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out) – Best novelists – Alternative rankings – Weirdest and least-weird ballots mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

I really enjoyed this analysis of what we know so far about the recent (horrifying) diving tragedy in the Maldives. share.google/b5wLrnKW4P7Y...

With this move, in an attempt to own the house, it looks like Google is willing to bring the whole house down ... "What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy?" - William Shakespeare.

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

PSA: the salad in this caused my teenage sons to eat vegetables. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ma...

Playboy is here and knows exactly what gets Bluesky users off (hating AI)

After staying at a friends house recently and experiencing oat milk for the first time I am now a big fan of oat milk. Hey, do you like oat milk? Do you have a favourite brand of oat milk? What do you do with oat milk? Where do you put it? Do you bathe in it? Do tell.

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

Just saw a nun vape

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and seemingly random motion. 📽: Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations

I sometimes feel insane that we don't constantly talk about the time Labour gave a black guy who was poised to unseat Nigel Farage the sack because he was a better poster than Keir Starmer

😭😭😭😭 the police made Raise the Colours cry by arresting their leader Ryan Bridge when he got to London 🤣🤣🤣🤣

#65: Hardware Store

If you buy keys Meta's Pervert Glasses, you will be pointed at in the street. Women will recognise you instantly as a predator. Young people will shout 'pedo'. You'll probably get assaulted for filming men's dicks in the urinals. I give it a few hours before they're snatched off your creepy noggin

If you own meta glasses you are a pervert. Pretty simple message & one that needs repeating in every video by meta glasses seen on social media

"The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it." - David Graeber (from 2020)

The @bklynlibrary.bsky.social just named my book, ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ one of the “250 most influential books in United States history” @onesignal.bsky.social 💘 www.bklynlibrary.org/america-250/...

Pretending to be your own mom to tell yourself that you’re a good boy is very Norman Bates Coded except Bates ran a successful business

Hi, spider expert here! Kyle Rittenhouse was bitten by a Brown Recluse (loxosceles reclusa). Unlike widow bites, recluse bites don't affect the nervous system. Instead, they are a cytotoxic venom, destroying local tissues at the site of the bite.. So how bad could this get? Well...

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

I stumbled on Howtown the other day through this excellent video on animal music. Really looking to going back through their archive www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZYh...

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

I've written a brand new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories based on the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles.) This is #62, it's called 'Chips' and it's dedicated to @annebillson.bsky.social.

POV it’s dinner time and grandpa’s calling from the wrong P.F. Chang’s

The €2m Mr Higgins gifted back to the State comprised of €1,310,491 in Oireachtas and Ministerial pensions and €689,474 in pay over the last 14 years www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Roger Casement is remembered as a revolutionary & humanitarian, but new research reveals a surprising side to him- a lifelong passion for zoology. He even has a hawkmoth named after him (Gnathothlibus casementi). Dr Aidan O’Hanlon’s new @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social piece www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Just got the best scam email in work its claiming to be from the gardaí about a criminal investigation but is written like a letter from the leprechaun in Darby o gill and the little people I have printed it out

I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering Musk v. Altman for @technologyreview.com . Here's what's going on day 2 of the trial at the Oakland federal courthouse. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are here. Musk will likely testify today. Opening statements from both parties' lawyers to come soon.

Well this has perked me up! A Woman of No Importance has been chosen as one of the 14 best page turner non fiction books of.all.time! Wow!!! inews.co.uk/culture/book...

5/9 Scientists are calling them “interstellar glaciers.” These are reservoirs of water and molecules that could one day rain down onto newborn planets — just like what happened to Earth billions of years ago.

Words by Móglaí Bap ❤️ 'Irish Goodbye' ft. Kae Tempest is out tomorrow...

After reading this newest essay of mine, one of my readers said via email, "This is probably the best article I've ever read advocating for UBI. And one of the best you've ever written." If you haven't read it yet, please do. Maybe you will feel the same way. 🎲 www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

Douglas A. Cooper, Thomas Paine scholar, has written an extraordinary Letter to the Editor which appeared today in the Berkshire Edge. franxfiction.com/all-lines-ha...

If you haven't seen the documentary I'll Be Me, about Glen on tour while suffering from Alzheimer's, it's a heartbreaking / heartwarming watch - he comes alive in his music as the rest of his world crumbles away from the awful disease en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Ca...

Happy 90th birthday to Glen Campbell. This stripped down version of WICHITA LINEMAN brings Glen to tears at the end, as it should have. From 2003.

8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film. So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.

Peter Magyar's rally is literally lit 😄

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state" CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏 (Same goes for sport btw) #Speirgorm

the tortoise lives, as per helena horton at the guardian

So many law review articles and he just tweeted it out

Not sure its yet sufficiently understood that there is a major and escalating U.S.-militia conflict in Iraq in parallel to the Iran war, and that by increasingly compromising the state it is posing significant risks of broad destabilization there.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

You really do gotta hand it to Carl Sagan on this one.

I've recently started working in town for the first time in years, it's shocking how bleak some once-hip spots now are, but it's encouraging to see Talbot and Parnell Street finding their swagger. But what do YOU think the coolest street in Dublin is in 2026? www.irishtimes.com/food/2026/03...

two questions: can you recite any poems by heart? if so, which ones?

wow mr president

in ireland, we don't say 'serial killer', we say 'he's a divil for the aul' murder' & i think that's beautiful.