The anti-tax lobby is right wing and, whilst I think that the MEN's intent here is more about a clickbaity headline, it's irresponsible to frame it like this.

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

As a software engineer, let me just say that it's *extremely* telling that AI has brought lines-of-code back as a metric worth pretending is remotely worth giving a shit about. It's a terrible metric of basically no utility, but AI bros don't want to measure utility: they want to measure volume.

Extremely accurate 3D printable TNG combadge stl by @casey.tube and is directly based on a Production-Era casting www.printables.com/model/364842...

The paragraph about TV Tropes is spot on. I can't bear that approach to criticism where the main aim seems to be asserting superiority to the work. People who'll identify an influence and be like "Ah, rumbled!" episodes.ghost.io/art-criticis...

Tod's Workshop once again spoils us with beautifully shot medieval weaponry physics experiments that avoid the 'Extremely brutal, bro!' vibe such videos tend to have on youtube.

another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys

100%. And adults need to go back to actually being adults, instead of sensitive/temperamental/obsessive/conspiratorial ten-year-olds in adult bodies

I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy. www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...

this is it. this is the most bluesky post ever

Those of us who chose Foley over The Rock and Stone Cold as kids continue to be vindicated as adults

it’s a weird time to be a person who finds the aesthetics of phone-targeted internet video completely repulsive.

watching THIS IS SPINAL TAP, and the decision to make the band genuinely good musicians that just happen to be intensely stupid is what really rockets it into the stratosphere imo

Reading a bunch of books this year has really solidified for me how awful the internet is in comparison nowadays. Obviously in terms of general hostility but more generally in terms of lack of depth, insight, reading comprehension, base of knowledge, etc

I simply hate the recommendation algorithm. it's not all downside and a lot of people's livelihoods depend on it but overall, I think it is the most harmful invention since cigarettes

worst trend of the last 5 years has been every part of the internet getting more “for you page”-y in the sense that it will show popular posts to Every Person on The Website instead of a small niche. End result is nobody interacting knows basic background of the topic or even bothers to read details

I genuinely affirmatively think that it is now a democratic imperative to spend as much time as you can offline. Read more offline. Socialise more offline. Discuss media you consume with other people offline. Out there is a real world full of people looking for real human connection - seize it

Finally gotten around to 28 Years Later. I hear the ending is absolutely outrageous, and somehow I've managed to remain wholly unspoiled on specifics. Check back in 90 minutes or so to see how absolutely beside myself I am.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

The basic truth of all claims about immigrants is that immigrants are just, you know, people, and therefore what is true for any human in the UK working in one field is also true of an immigrant in that one: www.ft.com/content/10da...

One thing that rankles with me - slightly - about nepo baby discourse, is that seemingly 90% of successful actors in the UK have a massive structural advantage simply from being born rich. To obsess over the 1% who also have famous parents as if THAT'S the problem, misses the forest for the trees.

Online subscriptions that you can only cancel by phone. Hmm. Fuck You Beer52.

Went on a short morning walk and saw these birds just sitting on a cliff.

a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/

I've put up a full sized Christmas tree for the first time. I've never had enough space before.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I love it when people post a picture of some regular guy to reddit and say “what breed is my cat?” Ma’am, your cat came out of some muddy shrubs in your friend’s sister’s back yard

Like everyone else caught up in the Unbound “drama”, John Finnemore is working out what to do with a book that was terminated with incompetent prejudice by people who vanished. If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here! open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...

What if: Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?

Agree with every word of this We've gone from 9% of social care staff coming from outside the UK and EEA in 2021/22 to almost 25% in 2024/25 The govt has no near-term replacement It means either: 1) staffing shortages or 2) councils spending far more to attract staff, with no extra funding

The "immigrants using taxis and hotels" bullshit is driving me insane - everything about the press and political framing is an absolute lie. Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!

My mum has had to downsize four times including leaving London in the last 20 years, again life just happens. Are homeowners just meant to all have some kind of special protection ring around them financially so they never come to any harm from market changes?

This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened

Here’s my CHRISTMAS GIFT TIP. You can buy all Michael Palin’s books and DVDs and suchlike off his website, and he signs and dedicates the item for no extra charge. Don’t say I don’t give you nowt. (I did this for my dad, and he didn’t notice the autograph on his Ripping Yarns.) themichaelpalin.com

almost everything they describe by these words (free tuition, cycle to work, what have you), is not actually /exclusively/ beneficial to the middle class at all, they just hide behind the fact that they can benefit /both/ middle class and working class people as an excuse to defund them.

Who cares what they think. I bet most of them have no understanding of the issues whatsoever, they won't know overseas students already pay way, way more than UK ones and prop the entire system up. So their opinion shouldn't matter.

Here are two very good friends who have been helping me move furniture today.

Computer, 15 feet of spaghetti, single strand, lukewarm

Me when i spread butter on my toast.

I met this bird today

I've been following media coverage of immigration in detail over the last six weeks. There hasn't been a day during that period that the British people weren't told that asylum seekers are a drain on society or a danger to women and children

Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now

i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again

Obviously this is ghoulish pseudo-technological nonsense and it's objectively a good thing that it can never actually exist, but still somehow the most unrealistic thing in this ad is that it shows the service this company offers continuing, functionality unchanged, for decades

idk why these grown men even want to hang out with teenagers. have you spoken to a teenager? they're annoying.