Whenever someone uses the food making machine on Star Trek you notice they don’t high five each other and yell I AM A PROFESSIONAL CHEF

A short story I put out into the world a while back just keeps on going and going, cropping up in the strangest of places and living its best life…

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IF FAMOUS PEOPLE LIKED IT IT MUST BE GOOD

Yeah, you *look* like someone who would have a podcast

One part of this maneuver is the subjective/objective switcheroo: going from recognizing your own inner life (I feel sad) to pretending to have a handle on everyone's life (we are doomed). From vulnerability to authority, on a journey that's also from insight to bullshit.

Still great. You should read this.

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

This is great!

We should all be as relaxed as the bloke who always takes a break from walking his dog on a Sunday morning to smoke a fag next to the petrol pumps at the Texaco garage on Seven Sisters Road

How can we get people to watch ads in their sleep? We currently waste a third of our lives not consuming ads. That’s 8 hours of lost opportunities EVERY DAY. But what if people could watch ads *in their dreams*? And maybe buy the products they’d seen *without even waking up*? Subscribe for more

As part of measures to protect the nation’s most valuable resource – its money – minister Karen Hoyland, 42, announced the construction of a £4Bn Thunderdome, where children with autism will earn their educational support by “duking it out to the death”.

You too will be this old and broken one day. With a bit of luck.

More superb reporting in London Centric on the Aziz family, this time evicting hundreds of tenants from residential properties, which comes on top of dodgy tax evading gift shops, trying to close the Prince Charles Cinema etc – absolutely depressing that politicians can't do anything about this lot.

Heartening to see members of the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family still managing to get work in these straitened times.

Every word of this by @hayleythough.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hayleywe...

What the fuck does “failed to load blob” mean?

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

Classic ginnel

Yes! An utterly amazing piece of work that I’ve been going back to every few years since I was a teenager (and think about a lot more often than that). One of my absolute favourite books. If you haven’t read it READ IT.

“Models”. That’s me done for then.

Something compelled me to make this

Age verification? i remember when you could make a werewolf, a frankenstein, a pirate or a draclia (not pictured) out of a lolly stick

Thats enough with the moustaches now, lads

Our great @bylinetimes.bsky.social diarist Peter Oborne spotted the problem with McSweeney back in August 2024. Here's 18 months of his coverage of Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

This - and the story that leads up to it - explains an awful lot about the world today open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “It's not going to be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three - but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten.”

This is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.

Finally, a politician prepared to fight against the huge roll in public life being handed over to Palantir by our corrupt govts. Why is Palantir being given NHS contracts? They are reportedly involved with rounding up migrants in the US and targeting mainly civilians in Gaza.

The British press bringing down Mandelson:

What yf the real darknesse wher democracye doth die ys the billionaires we met along the way?

I thought things couldn’t get much worse but then somebody recommended I watch “Last Comic Laughing”

Life hack: if you start getting up half an hour earlier every morning and going to bed half an hour earlier every night, within less than a month you’ll actually have travelled three days back in time

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

1 And lo, there came upon the land a time of great Noticing, and many things were Noticed which had gone unseen 2 And the Hacks spake, saying, Whom could’ve known the taking bribes and wrecking his party with bullshit terror adviser guy was a Mandelson plant 3 And, it is a show, that is made of shit

it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop falling over

February will continue until morale improves

Might see if it’s possible to get through a whole week listening to nothing but Scott Walker…

it definitely isn’t deliberately designed to part idiots with their money

TL:DR: Rich pedophiles funded entire ecosystem of bullshit to make us look elsewhere.

This is the first time I’ve read details about a bomb that was set off in residential London street, destroying cars and sending shrapnel into kids’ bedrooms. Young people are considered vulnerable online, but the actual radicalisation of old generations is given a free pass by the press.

This is a compelling, brilliant, first-hand piece on what people in Minneapolis are doing & experiencing under ICE occupation. Everyone should read it. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ice-vs-everyone

This is the cinematic future that generative AI wants! 14 Beatles with at least 9 fingers on each hand…

Best case scenario: this is just headline-grabbing nonsense that doesn’t actually happen. Worst case scenario: it isn’t and it does.

Andrew has really taken one for the team (ie everyone) here. This thread continues long past the point of despair, and is worth every post

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

For those not familiar with "destructive scanning", this means Anthropic would buy up millions of physical books, use “hydraulic powered cutting machines” to chop them up, scan the pages on “high speed, high quality, production level scanners,” then send the pages to recycling companies!!!