Here are all the lyrics! www.bobdylan.com/songs/subter...

From the court’s opinion today blocking Hegseth’s attempt to discipline Mark Kelly: “As Bob Dylan once famously said, ‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’ Our retired vets deserve more respect from our govt, and our Constitution demands they receive it!”

you snort cocaine off the tank part of the toilet. this cant even do drugs right. they want us all dead

I thought this was a jokey post, but no, it’s a direct quote from Secretary Brainworms

Messaging has faded but COVID hasn’t. Data keeps warning us, yet without clear guidance on ventilation, vaccination, and indoor risk, people navigate blind. Treating the pandemic as over weakens readiness for the next one. Honest communication and resilient data systems are needed now.

UK has lost its official status as a country that has achieved elimination of measles, as vaccination rates have fallen below the 95% required to achieve herd immunity. So sad, and likely due vaccine misinformation. If you haven't already, get your kids vaccinated ASAP. www.bbc.com/news/article...

if they’re gonna remake Threads (why?) can i insist on one change to the initial premise - they use the accurate figures of projected megatonnes detonated on the UK. don’t even need to update them to now, the accurate figures from 1984 will do fine.

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

Which is worse, legal warrants to obtain toll records or covert, illegal spying on members of congress? www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-e...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

🟨 Print Edition — The EU’s Farage Clause’ Shows Reform UK’s Power The EU is reportedly seeking a so-called Farage Clause in its Brexit reset negotiations with the UK. 🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/the-eus-farage-clause-shows-reform-uks-power/

We are witnessing another legislation designed to expand Georgian Dream’s repression apparatus within an already authoritarian system. Below I examine the scale of state control and repression already imposed on the Georgians, and the risks tied to it. kshoshiashvili.substack.com/p/georgian-d...

Hermes CEO says Epstein was financial predator, believes he was a "target" reut.rs/4tsw0il

Sub-editorial hilarity This from the Daily Mail, I believe … Personally, I only take a few minutes… And from David Stokes: Whose in the loo, There's a very long queue, Is it an elephant doing a poo? They're taking forever Who can it be? Ah it's a trans woman Doing a century long wee

Pippa Crerar, "Voting intention in Westminster for the youth age group" "Zack Polanski's Green Party is in the lead amongst 16-25 year olds with 34%

Don't just call out what not to do. Call in what to do. Which would you recommend? www.reddit.com/r/Substack/c...

There was £14 million donated from companies before the 2017 election. By 2024, the figure was £42m. Just five gave £27MILLION In 2024, Labour took £13.3m, exceeding trade union donations (£10.6m) for the first time in the party’s history. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...

🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...

This is bleak as hell. Who cares about literature when you’ve got computers? Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...

Looks like Reform UK politicians are learning the consequences of their ridiculous head of policy Zia Yusuf… Reform will not defund Bangor university over free speech row, politician says

Boris Johnson met a former KGB officers son without officials after a NATO summit. Ignored security warnings. Then gave him a seat in the House of Lords. We were told to just trust him. This is not normal. These questions still demand answers.

good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts join us in the fight against these cuts!

“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston “Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski

The mood in Gorton and Denton is clear - Labour have blown it. Only the Greens can stop Reform.

New hope for academics everywhere!

Daniel Defoe's 1726 "A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain" is wholly alien to any British person who lives in the shattered empty wasteland of the present. books.google.co.uk/books?id=b2M...

Call for Abstracts: Conference on Situated Imagination and Imaginaries for Urban Futures, to be held on July 17, 2026 at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. Deadline to submit abstracts: March 3, 2026. situatedimaginationconference.cargo.site #urban #sociology

I borrowed this from a post on Mastodon. V. useful. Choosing. please wait.

Yes, exactly. El Presidente (as opposed to Al Dente) is just 'another politician'.

Oh. www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

Reposting this with alt text.

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

The crazy thing is that many US household brands sell better versions of their product in Europe as they leave out all the banned chemicals. For instance Starburst [Opal Fruits]. Here’s a review by a US blogger: www.candygurus.com/uk-starburst...

Here’s a list of chemicals banned in Europe but present in US products:

Jeremy Corbyn doesn't share Peter Mandelsons politics & has never had anything to do with him. Keir Starmer kicked Jeremy out of the party (and then gave Peter Mandelson a top govt job) And he actually thinks this is something to boast about? #PMQs

Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday that the company needed a factory on the moon to build A.I. satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.

"Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching a national database of automated license plate reader data, including from school cameras, for immigration-related investigations." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I wrote about the crypto crash and why this is the worst crypto winter in the industry's history. Sub to the Odd Lots newsletter here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

We are demanding that EU co-legislators reject attempts in the AI Omnibus to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act. We cannot open a loophole that would let providers exempt themselves from the AI Act’s high risk requirements with no transparency www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

Clive Lewis MP: This deal with Palantir stinks. It stank before Peter Mandelson was involved, and it stank when those now on the Opposition Benches initiated the NHS and defence contracts. Peter Thiel is an oligarch who despises democracy... Even the Swiss army has rejected Palantir... #R4Today

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

Doesn't he know the first one to jump always loses? MPs hate the first one to wield the knife. Given how desperately I need this man's career to end - good, have at it, Wes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Left: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home Right: Nigel Farage's Reform UK advertising a job which is working form home

NEW: All flights to and from El Paso airport in Texas halted for 10 days for 'special security reasons,' FAA says.

Ha Ha. she spent $129 on Eliza: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... When we talk, Leif mostly parrots back to me slightly paraphrased versions of whatever I tell him, like someone who is only half-listening to what you’re saying. Surely being alone is preferable to bland inanities?

At policy and politics events in London too often a latent francophobia shines through that British political and intellectual elites no longer have the luxury to afford