Social media should be like the Gallery in Take Hart. We all write our skeets on a piece of paper and post them in to the BBC and once a week a camera lingers over the best ones.

Newsletter: Anatomy of a crypto meltdown October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward. www.citationneeded.news/anatomy-of-a...

What Bastiat called the "broken window fallacy"; a pretty shocking indictment of GDP measurement. I wonder how this compares to other countries www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

My garda neighbor told me rioters keep burning his vans so I asked how many vans he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new van afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding vans to rioters and then his daughter started crying.

Marlo Thomas "That Girl" Sunglasses by Opti-Ray (1966)

read this post. One of the accounting fuck fuck games in AI is fiddling the depreciation. The Nvidia cards die in 12-18mo. Amazon, Meta, Google all depreciating at 4-6 *years*. This makes *huge* difference in earnings per share. blog.dshr.org/2025/10/depr... (the bitcoin miners also pulled this)

lol

this is an absolutely wild use of passive voice, where you have to get through layers of narrative to figure out an ICE agent smashed a car window with his gun like an idiot, which went off and shot two people

Put pecans in my banana bread, took it to a whole 'nother level.

The thing to remember about the Louvre is that security is nearly impossible, because the doors are all made of thin wooden slats set at an angle to allow airflow

Pretty amazing that the main left party won’t speak up for anyone’s rights except fascist football hooligans and maybe poisonously reactionary newspaper columnists and billionaire crackpot authors - and that it is *extremely* belligerent in the defence of both - but here we now are.

Brianna died because two IRL classmates at her IRL school that she attended IRL decided, IRL, to murder her for fun. They lured her, IRL, to a park where they IRL stabbed her to death for the pleasure of seeing, in person, how she screamed. Her mother making it about phones and online is disgusting.

This is hilarious because why is this OpenAI’s desperate, scrabbling marketing strategy for women but the equivalent for men is ‘you can fuck it now’

New singles by The Dead Milkmen and Drop Nineteens. What a world.

when people get stabbed at a synagogue just for being jewish then antisemitism is a stain on society that must be eradicated, but when a trans girl is stabbed just for being trans then it’s because phones are bad

what the fuck are you talking about, she made a whole community of friends online and was stabbed to death by two of her classmates

The “health surcharge” is an utterly bogus labelling. It’s not hypothecated for health spending and you can’t choose not to pay it and not use the NHS. You could call it an education surcharge or a defence surcharge or anything. It’s just using the sanctified status of the NHS to rip off immigrants.

A third of UK councils are projected to go bust, as is Thames Water, NHS mental care is an oxymoron and your "industrial strategy" is fully built on an AI bubble thats gonna pop. But, by all means, focus on the football supporters.

Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbBB...

I am aware of the brainrotting nature of social media and the danger of conspiracy theories, but does anyone sometimes wonder what Mossad has on Keir Starmer?

Absolutely incredible: the for-real stance of the British government here is that a) the right of notoriously violent foreign football hooligans to attend games in British cities is non-negotiable, and b) in particular, fuck the people who live in the area, who are scum

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You cannot guilt me into voting for this. As long as there is an option that is not this I will put my cross there. I will not put my cross against the name of a transphobic anti-immigrant right-sliding racist party because other parties are (allegedly) worse. It is *wrong* and I will not endorse it

Fashion (as opposed to wearing nice clothes that you like) is the enemy of both class solidarity and the environment.

That XKCD cartoon, except AWS US-EAST instead of the random guy in Nebraska

Monday

Rakefinder General

I'm deep down the rabbit hole, lxds. I've bought a Lamy Safari and a bottle of ink a couple of weeks ago, and now my Cult Pens basket is over £200.

Do you know what? It IS working. It hasn't caused tailbacks, quite the opposite actually. More importantly it's saved the lives of at least a dozen kids. Reform are actually campaigning for the return of more deaths and injuries. Absolutely bonkers.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

23 years ago, today. Goodison erupted. 90 minutes after the game, we're in a taxi, heading down Hardman Street, and got a call from a mate - "You'll never guess where Wayne is now?!" "Haven't a clue!" "Back home kicking ball on the street with his mates!" #UTFT www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJu...

It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.

I have a question about vampires. If a vampire gets invited into a home by the dwellers and then another vampire comes to the home, can the first vampire invite him in or does it have to be the home dwellers again?

#OtD 19 Oct 1920 Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested and charged under Regulation 42 of the Defence of the Realm Act with attempting to cause sedition in the navy by editing and publishing two articles in the Workers Dreadnought paper stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9141...

A reminder that when people talk about "the markets" deciding this or that or the other, they are putting a veil of anonymity across a small number of people who all think the poor have it way too good and that the job of government is to punish them.

Ask your doctor if laudanum is right for you.

Google Photos just showed me a montage of The Pizzas I Have Eaten.

Like, it's not a very nice topic to talk about, but normalising picking up after your dog is such a massive victory for civic life in this country. We had a dog growing up and it never even occurred to us to do that, except in our own garden.

If everybody in the country went to university, then all the toilet cleaners would have degrees. How you feel about this very much depends on what you think the purpose of education is and how you value people who do manual labour, and I would love to hear the answers of politicians and journalists.

That was satisfying Unzoomed #639 5/6 🔴🔴🔴🟡🟢⚪️ unzoomed.com

absolute wankers run this place follow Alexis on masto: beige.party/@amutepiggy

Oh look, they've only gone and f-f-fucked up the penguins

Tbf there is a third - "here‘s how we will solve social problems with technological solutions. Everybody else who tried this was using the wrong protocol"

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

It was DNS btw. If something makes zero sense based on the observable facts, it’s always DNS.

The silence of the Westminster lobby as one of their own backs calls for me — an elected Member of Parliament — to be deported is telling. No condemnation, just bootlicking of their proprietors and jostling for Zone 2 dinner party invites. Our media class is rotten to the core.

bluesky devs only make two types of posts: "HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE MY USERBASE SINCE STARTING THIS SITE" and "i liek cats. upvote for more"

Delighted to hear that Gary Larson is drawing again. Digitally this time but you wouldn’t know it to look at them. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff