Oh hi! Does anyone fancy…. 🎃 The Spooky Halloween-branded Food Thread of 2025 🎃???

Also a day with people absolutely ripe for the block button.

Nick’s week… Monday: great writing day. Closing chapters of new book. V exciting. Tuesday: looooong day, but v good. Writing for morning then on train to Oxford for Tradecraft Exhibition opening. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lecarre

How can make the generation machine worse? MAKE IT A SOCIAL MEDIA APP

Honestly. Just derranged stuff at this point

My phone provider is genuinely suggesting that a subscription to Google's premium AI service is in some way equivalent, or a desired alternative to, a subsided Discovery+ subscription 😂😂😂😂

“Jewish people in that Manchester synagogue are not responsible for Israeli foreign policy - likewise Muslims going to a mosque are not responsible for what some crazy jihadist might do." "I 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 we could separate the two things.”

Such a useful thing

Yeah, I see a huge chunk of football twitter is now just sexist shit from incels. I'd actually probably call them vol-cels because if they behave like that they clearly don't actually want to know any women

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

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No www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Running Dry one might say?

Glasman would never defect. Essentially all of “Blue Labour” is about avoiding responsibility or even actually having to do anything other than be an Interesting Dissident.

The Guardian is trapped in a bubble of its own making where it depends on the opinions of journalists who haven’t ventured further than the end of the tube lines.

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I hope it wasn't with the bathwater, you're not supposed to do that

Happy (belated) sex with robots day

Blue Labour are entryists, just as Kinnock and others described Militant, except in Blue Labour's case, they're from the right. They should be expelled. Farage is a racist - and Glasman the true disgrace here.

Sometime in the Corbyn era that magazine got stuck in a self-concept of “harsh truth teller to the naive left” and it’s slid closer and closer to just being an Unherd clone

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

i made this meme which is better than the article:

We need a schism

"£855,00 in assets, but for WHO, Chris Kamara?"

The only -tober I will participate in

Prediction: In 20-30 years time we will see either: 1.) mausoleums that the pharaohs of old would find gaudily excessive 2.) a new heresy claiming an AI copy of you is the same thing as eternal life or most likely 3.) both

Whenever Starmer mentions anything whatsoever to do with football (“half time oranges”) all I can think about is this

"£855,00 in assets, but for WHO, Chris Kamara?"

I'm glad that today's main character has been found

Horrifying, but also having just had to get multiple devices/batteries checked before getting on a flight; lol

#OnThisDay, 1989, Technotronic's hit single "Pump Up the Jam" reached No. 2 in the UK charts. Luckily, the bilge pump on the Mary Rose had an inspection hatch, so you could see what was jamming it and clear it out. No, hang on, that's "Jam up the pump"...

#blessed to have just heard a rare thingamajiggy in the wild

Not sure why everyone is doing their 30th September/1st October posts when the real tipping point was 30 days previously

First: Subways circa 2004 Best: Muse circa 2008 (maybe?) Last: Oasis 2025

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Honestly, I've done perhaps 0.5 of one of these things, and if my neighbour isn't making any nose I'm not chapping on the door because I'm glad they're being quiet and I don't want to speak to them

I suggest everyone who is unaware does what David suggests below

I'm not saying that the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines is out of ideas or anything, but wow... Also having not dipped my toes in the fetid sewer for some time, I see that Mr Staines is soliciting for donations....

I'm not saying that the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines is out of ideas or anything, but wow... Also having not dipped my toes in the fetid sewer for some time, I see that Mr Staines is soliciting for donations....

Can't stress enough how much the army Pete Hegseth yearns for already exists in Russia... and demonstratively sucks.

Lorra lorra new account no posts only replies scolds in people's replies recently. Remember Bluesky: block early, block often.

I don't want smart appliances. I want dumb appliances designed by smart engineers.

Rare Reeves W

Exceptional work from the FT's picture desk on this story about a newly-bankrupt car-parts maker on.ft.com/46I8fbo