First images from those meetings

There’s an overwhelming amount of news (and noise) in these times… and this means some of the best and worst discourse gets submerged. If you read one thing today, it should be this; highlighting both ends of the spectrum, and underscores values we should collectively cherish and protect.

Forget happy hump day, it's happy midweek Pellicle publication day, and this one's a doozy. A characteristically informative, thought-provoking and balanced piece by Tim Anderson 🍵💚

This heritage Irish stout recipe from 1883 by @kernelbrewery.bsky.social and Boundary Brewing Co-op elevated a St Patrick's Day tea very nicely. Sláinte! ☘️

Happy Silver Man day!

Ed Zitron's a fantastic journalist, capable of turning a close read of AI companies' balance-sheets into an incandescent, exquisitely informed, eye-wateringly profane rant: www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl... 1/

The juxtaposition of the first and second items of business for this Privy Council meeting is hilarious. privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/u...

Brilliant sweepthestrait.com

Richie from @weare1of100.bsky.social consistently collabs with incredibly talented (and tastefully-curated) creators. I've been pining for this one for weeks since it was first teased. Made up I managed to get my usual number today 🎛️🔥 I lost control, I sold my soul I sold my soul, I lost control

🟪🟦 Oh, this is great. Beguiling simple, frustratingly compelling. Congrats @chrisroguerobot.bsky.social Just lost a good chunk of my early morning getting lost in pastel-coloured futurist strategic gamesmanship. Extra points for the name too. Shall we play a game?

Remember Operation Rolling Thunder? This is Operation Rolling Bullshit. Excellent piece joining the dots between Surkov’s doctrine, Bannon’s gameplay, and the current US / Israeli strategy of shoot first, spin later, retcon always.

Next time anyone you speak to says, 'yeah but family voting', make sure you've read this and have it up your sleeve. @jamesgraham.theliberati.net 👏 www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog...

🍊Third year making Negroni marmalade in the pressure cooker… and this is the best batch yet. Improving the recipe, technique & method* annually. Kaizen. *First time using Method 1 from the definitive Modern Pressure Cooking by @catherinephipps.bsky.social (takes longer but prefer it to method 2)

As Russia’s full-scale war enters its fifth year, the fighting is erasing art that was meant to be indestructible. Photographer Oleg Petrasiuk has captured not just images of endangered artwork, but evidence of a cultural landscape in the process of disappearing in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast.

As Democracy Volunteers are the source of the claim of "Family Voting" in the Gorton & Denton by election, I got curious about their claims and thanks to @joenoonan.bsky.social I came across this claim about "Family Voting" during the 2020 Irish General Election. A brief 🧵

A terrifying glimpse into our dystopian future.

I suspect Trump's going to be more determined to lean into a major Iran-shaped distraction after today's SCOTUS tariff ruling. Compensating and misdirecting hard for a perceived lack of authority or power is his MO. He certainly doesn't want to be compared to the Duke of York, Grand or otherwise…

"Surprise, Arizona" 😬

I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic) refuse to hold hand’s at India’s AI impact summit. Their beef runs deep.

Pretty accurate and pithy summary by @samfr.bsky.social 🔥

👟The esteemed @dgquarterly.bsky.social have just posted one of my favourite pieces of theirs online. The ultimate tale of fraternal conflict and sportswear. I’d highly recommend subscribing to Delayed Gratification… it’s a peerless periodical. www.slow-journalism.com/from-the-arc...

"Shoot first, ask questions later" is not how the use of force works. Especially not a stone's throw from a city and a civilian airport. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4659MsH

Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and allies say

Imagine your car pulling over mid-drive to ask, “How’s your experience so far?” Ridiculous…until you realize that’s exactly how many apps behave now. How we normalized being interrupted by the products we bought to do work. Backseat Software: blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-sof...

Ever since he resigned from the Daily Telegraph, calling out its calamitous and craven journalistic decline, I've had great respect for Oborne's moral clarity and rigorous analytical ability. His writing here underlines his insight and instinct. Fascinating and essential.

Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

This is genuinely exciting. Great decision ACE 👏

Listening to the new album 'Sidings' by @cravenfaults.bsky.social when a reminder flashed up that this photo of Malham was four years ago. Fortuitous adjacency. The contrast, repetition, verisimilitude, texture, scale and character of Yorkshire landscapes is writ large in his widescreen music.

In a week with so much news; too many shocks and uncertainties; and countless hot takes and deep dives, this scintillating and excoriating must-read @wired.com Big Story by @vermontgmg.bsky.social should top your reading list 🔥 PSA We're only 3 weeks into 2026, folks… www.wired.com/story/donald...

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

The quiet way AI normalizes foreign influence Americans are learning to “trust the citations” in AI-generated answers—but AI doesn’t reward credibility, it rewards access. cyberscoop.com/the-quiet-wa...

What lies between the 50 states and the rest of the world is less Gulf of America, more Gulf of Incomprehension…

Worth reading. A great summary of the transformation of post-Soviet Russia which led to the oligarchs and Putin's consolidation of power… and the links and parallels with what's happening in the USA today. Nothing in history is new, but this is a blueprint… soiled with Russian fingerprints.

🗳️I'm all for scaling up renewable energy, but we need to do so responsibly. Protect our most valuable landscapes with their unique ecosystems, wildlife habitats and capacity to act as carbon sinks. Please consider adding your voice to this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Bernie Sanders spelling out some truths (and articulating what would have been mainstream Republican thinking until recently). Consensus can't exist in a climate of fealty and fear. Moral clarity should not be subsumed by greed and self-interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

NEW: Why not calling a Nazi salute a Nazi salute puts us in a whole new place of danger. We have to call spades spades or what else is there? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “loved” an AI-generated slop image of a horse made out of bread posted by a spam page that also posts AI-generated images of amputated children and circumvents Facebook’s algorithm to link users offsite to ad-laden AI-generated content farms www.404media.co/zuckerberg-l...

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