This is a cracking, spooky listen. And the rest of Broken Veil is very worth your time too.

I think Asha Rangappa is right — they are lining up the external and internal enemies. Or trying to. This is very risky and will almost certainly blow up in their faces.

'The perfect organism. It's structural perfection matched only by its festivity'

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

Absolute belly buster of a Christmas sandwich was had at Nosh in Dundonald today.

It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.

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I gave up my Observer subscription when the Guardian sold it to Tortoise and immediately sacked @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . I still take the Saturday Guardian, but found this really difficult to read in the Eye.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Brilliant thread.

Well done Stephen Robinson and St Mirren. Good to see much missed, former Glenman Conor McMenamin on the team too.

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

Cranky Russia apologist meets……Steve Bannon. Zero surprise here.

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Nigel Farage's new strategy is to call the childhood victims of his racism liars while lashing out at any journalists who dare to report his actions. This is just a small taster of how he would act if he ever got any power www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sympathies with this from an NI perspective. Our population whinges and moans about how bad things are with public services etc & then spectacularly fails to link their voting habits to the problem - luxurious cognitive dissonance that they can absolve themselves of any responsibility.

Just off screen, Indy is about to walk over to the fireplace and choose the real Holy Grail.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... Uh oh

There's something of Antrim Area hospital that reminds me of the old 90s Bullfrog Amiga game, 'Syndicate'.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati... My student, Ryan Magee, graduates today from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, getting his PhD on the disease ecology of bovine tuberculosis in Ireland, North and South. @afbini.gov.uk played a big role in this as did colleagues from @ucddublin.bsky.social

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Just finished this brilliant book by @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social . Well worth anyone's time. Rather than restate the simplistic, partisan reasons for either case, it holds a mirror up to all of us. A proper debate in other words. Well done Royal Irish Academy for publishing.

A clarifying moment has arrived for we Europeans. Hope our leaders heed it. The US is not the friend of western liberal democracy.

The far rightists Trump and Putin want to rule Europe were on display this week It was not a pretty sight. Piece from me on why we must fight them

This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.

Quite telling how the memory of Blair and New Labour haunts the new British right.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... A special prize, for a special boy.

Of course "FIFA Peace Prize" is Italian for "Jumbo Nonce Cunt".

The dangers of making a fetish of neutrality.

Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of critically endangered African penguins remain. In two key colonies in South Africa, the vast majority of the breeding birds likely starved to death because of a collapse of their food supplies, according to a new study.

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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

sluggerotoole.com/2025/12/04/n... Every. Word.

You can argue in good faith that Rachel Reeves isn't the best at comms and politics, but most of the Reform press' obsession with her just seems to revolve around misogyny and some ingrained , 'we're born to rule' entitlement that she has no right to be where she is.

Superb stuff from @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social in his latest Substack on the Fyre festival like madness of the Your Party conference.

"Earlier today, IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them. "Following the identification, the IAF eliminated the suspects"

You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?

It’s that time of year. Time to celebrate the Yuletide season with @tomgauld.bsky.social ‘s John Le Carre advent calendar.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... Fascinating on human over reliance on large language models. Seeing this grow steadily over last 3 years and trying hard to avoid outsourcing my own thinking. Coining of new term LLeMing for those who do is great.

music.apple.com/gb/album/arr... Had forgotten just how good this soundtrack is. Feels properly alien at times.

Mind-blowingly cool use of AI “Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environ... Somewhat inevitable given climate change and the situation in Britain. But still a big blow for the local ag industry.

Dipping into this next. Meant to be a great read.

I am deceased.

DOGE should become a future synonym for clueless overreach in critical situations. Usage - guy who forgot to attach the rope to the piton on the final ascent really DOGEd.

Little known fact. Max Verstappen's brother Nat, drives the last 511 Ulsterbus on a Saturday night from Belfast City Centre to Comber.

Little Egret in Moat Park, Dundonald. Perched above the Enler river looking for fish.

The reason this has been whipped up is the Budget is incredibly boring and tame, with no fundamental reform of anything. It’s a bit of fiscal drag and some tinkering on issues of marginal interest. Really the question is why wasn’t there more serious measures given the economy’s relative stability?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If only this could have been predicted.