To All the Men I’ve Monzo-d Before

"People in Tehran, including officials, say the real death toll may approach 20,000. In 1989 China’s leaders survived mass protests by killing thousands near Tiananmen Square. Iran appears to have followed that script." www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, an official said. He was a registered nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. nyti.ms/4t3ekJW

Is it just me or are child actors getting better? Hamnet, 28 Years Later, Adolescence — feel like usually you price in a bit of woodenness/staginess in kids’ acting which I always thought was fairly reasonable, but all 3 have had some really excellent performances which put many adults to shame

Forcibly logged out of the Wetherspoons app for my unbecoming conduct

QUIS EST ISTE QUI UENIT

was briefly so excited reading this until I realised he meant Davos

I do have a theory that attempts to make our history curriculum less Britain-centric have, advertently or inadvertently, led to a lot of these omission of the bad parts of our history

Terrible.

Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers. Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders". It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer

In 2003, Wikipedia held a logo design contest. Here are four of the finalists:

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NIGEL FARAGE puts personal ambition aside?

This might be a spicy take but: there simply isn’t enough capacity in the justice system (prisons and probation especially) to give people differentially cruel or harsh treatment as ‘political prisoners’. www.lbc.co.uk/article/lucy...

After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I want to view those files later?

Child rape trial delayed after a plug explodes under the prosecutor's bench Sparks flying, strong smell of burning, a lawyer lucky not to have been electrocuted But in a sign of how we simply cope with terrible court decay, the prosecutor took a minute, moved along the bench & got on with case prep

Hate to get a piece of bread like this…the Unjust Slice

Aside from the casual cruelty of this story (ministers going on immigration raids is foul), this is such poor framing. Being bailed is specifically *not* ‘walking free’. Perpetuating misinformation like this makes the whole system worse. news.sky.com/story/theres...

This is essential: a democracy *must* know who is paying its politicians and where that money is coming from. Cryptocurrency is *designed* to make that impossible. The whole point is to lift payments outside the scrutiny of the state.

Data science people - recommendations for budget-friendly laptops (in fact have a preference for getting a 2nd hand or refurbed machine) I can run R from? My ancient MacBook frustratingly isn’t up to snuff

“The Ukrainians are aiding Europeans and Americans by fighting for their survival. We owe them our gratitude, not the other way around.” 100% correct 👇

We're putting the finishing touches on the next issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, which is a double issue about Labour's time in power.

You could do a sting here that’d make Operation Yewtree look like beginners’ work

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Peers have now called for a panel of #judges to reconsider the individual plight of 2,500 #IPP prisoners languishing in prison.

Take it to the bank - whenever you hear the words "relentless focus" from this government you are about to see two weeks of the most stochastically random and social media-driven public statements imaginable.

On Wednesday he spent the day in Luton.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Interesting read www.ft.com/content/7987...

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

2026: the year of The Centrist Mum?

I’m so ready for this (latter group)

There are simply no music videos as fun as this youtu.be/NDWgtB_MD24?...

Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.

Big day for the little orange clock symbol

Have had a great year of reading but this was perhaps the standout (honourable mentions for Middlemarch & Parallel Lives). Genuinely fascinating and surprisingly moving—I could’ve read full books about most of the people he spoke to, and was really struck by both how much & how little has changed

"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."

‘She hated the left, the idea of "living together," and the European Union. She imagined a France covered in burqas and minarets, and she revered Vladimir Putin.’ www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

This is a great idea. Naloxone is magic, perhaps the closest thing to a wonder drug I can think of, that has prevented countless unnecessary overdoses. Drug and alcohol charities have done a lot of good to get it out into communities, but more can be done! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"Labour Alienating Rural People by opposing hunts" lads I'm gonna be real with you the purpose of a social democratic party is not to speak for the country squire

Opener was unfortunately even funnier — pure Partridge

Powerful Gender going on on the cooking front

‘Can’t fight back’ — these are the groups on whose whims and perceived interests multiple successive governments have based their policymaking. It’s not that they ‘can’t fight back’, it’s that they haven’t needed to!

lol lmao this government will stop at nothing to fold for people who are never going to vote for them