Watching all the Americans saying Mormons are Christians and feeling slightly discombobulated I mean their theology is, um, not related to any Christian thought at all

Til that the effective school leaving age in England is 18 My niece was in her second year at Yooni then (though I suspect that would count?)

saw a jar of sour grapes and thought better try them gave one to the girlf and she thought it was the moat disgustijg thing ever

I think the thing where my views are not just changed, but most diametrically opposed to what I thought about politics when I started to follow the news properly as a teen, is I do just think that “your judgement of the candidate’s character” is much, much, much more important than their programme:

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

Coding agents as collateralised tech debt obligation machines - discuss.

We have a film which shows the police were indeed deceived by Henry Novak's killer FOR ABOUT 1 MINUTE

I worked in politics in Belfast at the fag end, in the 'vegetarian' early 90s Not sure that people in Blighty understand how quickly things can go to shit when key political and media actors start to act pro-cyclically in situations of inter-communical tension

With Nigel Farage actively trying to stoke racial tension over the Novak murder and Elon Musk putting his thumb on the scales again, its time to repost this about how the government can deal with its Twitter problem digitalpolicy.substack.com/p/how-the-go...

This is amazing and I can feel my blood pressure rise as I read it.

Greetin' 🤣😂😅😅😭

After months of stress and the possibility of 10 years in prison hanging over our heads, we’re ready to celebrate. So... KAPOW and Bookclub present: I GOT INDICTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS CONCERT

Are you referring to the book ‘Careless People,? The one Meta don’t want to see publicised? #CarelessPeople

Out of office all August (as God intended)

A European alternative to MS Office: Software auto shuts at 5pm. It does not load on weekends, public holidays, & most of August. Any out of hours messages sent are diverted until 9am on a workday. It will occasionally refuse to open documents in French in solidarity with striking rail workers.

The UK government needs to act on the threat that Israel's indifference to getting the Straits of Hormuz open poses to their domestic political future

Kin'ell

My back of envelope is from $10 a month to $1,000

We launched our fundraising drive to refurbish the Cinema and Club rooms of the Edinburgh Cine & Video Society at the weekend... www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-KR...

Amazing the alternative universe that’s happening over on the right

Your reminder that academia and other professions have become <feminized> because 40 odd years or so ago we abolished quotas in women going to Yooni

AOC - Bill Kristol 2028! (what a world we’re living in)

Free weekend update just released. People surprised that the Ukrainians are taking the initiative just were not listening. For many months the Ukrainians were open on what they wanted to do (I told you in January). Listen to them not the western press. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

This is disturbing - treating a Trumpist party as if it is a normal democratic one - it isn't, its funder's aren't, its leadership isn't and the Kruger proposals are a transparent front, an attempt to dress up as reasonable and within the acceptable bounds of democratic political discourse

Finally some decent PM jokes

This might be of interest @bymyong.bsky.social re Kruger and Reform getting all Boer War on you See what I did there? Did ya? Did ya?

This is astonishing, and scary

Gordon the Moron concurs

I helped get Ulster Scots get written into the Good Friday Agreement (by accident)

I've said it before, Tony Blair is at the point he can choose to be Laval or choose to be Mitterand and he has chosen Laval

This is such a phenomenal piece in Liberal Currents today. When we treat states as exceptional (and my first concern is always American Exceptionalism) our critiques of what’s dysfunctional in them suffers. When we treat them as ordinary and banal, we can speak freely.

I see Nicola is being lambasted in the blatts for having lavish* bookcases * Billy from IKEA

would be lovely to get some retweets on this - we have already had some old members get in touch, and people whose grandparents were mainstays of the Edinburgh Cine & Video Society way back in Nineteen Oatcake

Totally niche again, but given I follow quite a lot of Italians I thought it was worth a try. I'm looking for anyone who really loved Pinocchio as a child - someone for whom it has a special significance for any reason, or who has a story connected with it. I'd be grateful for RTs. Thank you.

Y'know, sometimes being a decent League 1 club that gets by OK and has happyish fans is better than embracing commercial suicide to achieve a single disastrous season in the Premier League before going bankrupt and being dismantled for spare parts by obscure Kyrgyz oligarchs

The Edinburgh Cine & Video Society are having a 90th birthday bash next Friday (29th May) in the East Circus Gardens of the New Town (in Edinburgh obviously). You are all invited. All we ask is that you help us track down former members. open.substack.com/pub/edinburg...

The Scottish opposition parties really need to be having more fun with the Peter Murrell story. A lot less “comparing it to organised crime” and a lot more “a bald man bought two expensive hair dryers and his wife didn’t wonder where they came from?”

Went to the hellsite to see if there were any funny posts about Peter Murrell and this is the only one that made me laugh - the rest were just grinding

We will be soon adopting the time honoured mechanisms * to deal with heat that my people have developed over time * close the shutters and pop this bad boy on the telly

Having a lot of agentic recruiters fucking with me - have started out just asking are you a bot, the results are not always that reassuring

Any chance you could repost this @threadinburgh.scot ? Trying to hunt down old members for our 90th. (oh and do come along to the party! weather is looking good)

The Edinburgh Cine & Video Society are having a 90th birthday bash next Friday (29th May) in the East Circus Gardens of the New Town (in Edinburgh obviously). You are all invited. All we ask is that you help us track down former members. open.substack.com/pub/edinburg...

This is fantastic.

Prediction: if overtime is no longer taxed a lot of high wage/long hours salaried gigs are going to switch to hourly rates and wages

As an analyst, I started asking questions of a fast-growing company. They liked my skills and knowledge of the company and offered me a big raise to work for them. I took the job and found out they'd been channel stuffing, knew I'd spot it, and wanted my help to cover it up.

A week from today: a rare performance of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate, at FOPSA in Eindhoven: www.eventbrite.nl/e/festival-o...

New blog post: GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/ Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It …

"Only in America are people arguing at the fucking pump" 😭

[Walks into office] [Cacophony of printers screeching free jazz] [Walks out again hurriedly]