Cut any half-time oranges today?

"Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning... Choose painting a fence. Choose running the raffle. Choose cutting the half-time fucking orange."

An excellent, clear-eyed FT weekend essay by @stephenkb.bsky.social setting out the choices confronting governments on immigration: on.ft.com/3IxIcvo

The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea

the emergency alarm shouldn’t be an alarm sound, it should be the Wallace & Gromit theme

He brings up kids who’ve travelled from Portugal to see the band and says “we’re all just people, friend” and then brings a kid with muscular dystrophy to be on stage for a song and it’s so easy to roll your eyes but it’s just good and nice and the world is better for celebrities who do this

Nuraghe Asoru, Muravera www.donnanuragica.com/siti-archeol...

like, guys, the call is coming from inside the tech industry

Just googled the source of those statistics and the source seems to be the “centre for migration control” which is far right substack. Even if we assume it’s not complete bullshit, when you read the post making those claims you see they’re mixing up “foreign born” and “foreign national” (again).

Is Trowels day over?

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of upper middle-class people publishing non-fiction until we figure out what the hell is going on.

RIP. That’s quite the legacy.

I’m not saying “pivot to video” I’m saying maybe this is meant to be a smaller app for the smaller audience that likes this format and Bluesky should be a company that finds a path to continued existence that doesn’t require “unicorn growth” — tech has to wean itself off needing 100x to live

Survey is open for 2 more days! We have 449 people who've completed it so far. Can we make it a round 500? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

#econsky What do we know about “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” and about MIT's investigation of this paper, which apparently led to expulsion of its author? And what should we change in response. /1

🧵 / The 2025 local elections in historical perspective Reform's gains were undeniably seismic, shaking the party system to its core and central to a level of turnover unseen in any post-reform local elections. The net partisan churn is 54%, approaching double 1981's 30%.

Vatican Radio 4 again I see...

Once again on this auspicious date of April 23 I feel the need to remind everyone that Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not speak or read English.

Btw for anyone saying AI can replace engineers or will replace engineers soon. If it could, this person would have aced their full-remote job! Instead, they struggled when it came to getting stuff done. Food for thought on what this actually means in where we are bsky.app/profile/nino...

@adamjkucharski.bsky.social please tell your R4 host that contrary to his intro, Mr Goedel has shown that proof is *not* truth in mathematics...

Early Morning Shadows. 7°C and a warm day to come. the mighty Oak

Fun? Поехали! 👨‍🚀👩‍🚀🚀

It’s one of those doors that draws you in as if it has cast a spell. Decorative metalwork on the door at Selby Abbey, Yorkshire. This has to be one of my all time favourite doors. Worth waiting for the light to move around and frame it.

Young people today don’t understand the glory of Action! Image! Exchange!

The best confirmation bias jokes are only really funny in retrospect.

it ought to be interesting to see how the economy shakes out, especially in light of everything that's been going on lately

I Stand With Ukraine against this despicable bully

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

Just a dog inspecting some decaf. 📷 instagram.com/Bingothebear

I’ve just woken from a nightmare where the BBC Today Programme asked whether J.D. Vance had a point. When US officials are being asked to sign loyalty oaths and agree that Trump won in 2020

I still chortle to myself about this description of John Major: "the man who ran away from the circus to become an accountant"

Joe Dolce - there was no coming back from that.

I misread this as "beyond podcasting" at first and I think that point stands too...

To quote Ken Dodd, what a beautiful day to go up to Dan Hannan and others and ask, "how do you like that up your Anglosphere?"

Deepseek feels exciting in the way that a cheaper process for making margarine with fewer petrochemical inputs is exciting.

That was Loose Batteries in a Metal Tin with 'My House Just Burnt Down'

Me too. Worth checking & reverting to classic (advice within...)

Not short, and worth every post...

people think philosophy is obscure and all, but the most urgent crises we face now are basically problems of epistemology.

Fwiw, Excel is everywhere but there are alternatives (it wasn't even the first). But I've seen a pretty good case that there are no alternatives to CICS. If that vanished, global commerce would be back on paper. Or maybe, spreadsheets. www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-...

This is a David Brooks line about Trump but arguably applies to Musk as much (when stoned): "We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar."

Is it a stretch to say the fact I can find and order a billion things from a million stores via digital platforms shows they have broken the chokehold trad media had on a big chunk of commerce, that *they* used to extract ad rents to fund their core content business? The new platforms...

A Lone Ewe On A Grey Day. 6°C and rather cloudy.

probably the coolest one sentence wikipedia bio i’ve seen in a while

reminder to all people here on #bluesky - follow @ap.brid.gy - it improves the open social web at the cost of following 1 single account, that’s it! Takes 1 second & you have the chance to reach hundreds of thousands of other people & eventually threads users! Repost to share! #atproto

there absolutely is a dark sitcom to be written about the horrible dinner parties of Moscow, attended by some of the world's worst political "refugees"

Edward Snowden always being asked to sort out everyone's wifi problems

Yorkshire Wolds Weather is here! Follow for the best photographs of the best hills in England...

Offtology: On what there isn't Eblisstemology: Enquiry into the nature and extent of ignorance Ping an sich: A microwave meal, for its own sake ...