Might read a book. 📕 Only joking , going to look at my phone while a shit film plays in the background that I’ve seen at least 3 times and eat sugar until the anxiety is so overwhelming I have to go to bed. 😉

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... We're living in Kingdom Come by JG Ballard.

It's performative. If Steve Reed were really "furious" about water bills, he wouldn't have ruled out renationalisation, or forbidden the Independent Water Commission to recommend it. He enables the filthiest, most parasitic capital to defeat the public interest. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Sad but true.

I had forgotten that the kid leads of 28 WEEKS LATER have names that sound like someone doing a pretty good job making fun of British people

Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus

On responding to far right parties … from Angela Merkel’s autobiography. It should be read by U.K. political leaders but I’d be surprised if it was.

BBC Two ident before 9pm: “Tonight we pay a tribute to and celebrate a creative visionary, Alan Yentob, with highlights from his 50+ years here at the BBC and idents like this one, which were commissioned by Alan when he was BBC2 controller.”

“Every French city with a population greater than 150,000 has a mass transit system (tram or metro), while there are 30 British towns and cities that large that go without,” notes Ben Hopkinson, head of research at Britain Remade. Weak management skills are another challenge.”

Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss

The productivity crisis is a crisis of social reproduction. People's lives are being torn apart overwork, stress, and despair - and the services that used to put them back together just aren't there anymore. Read: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/how-...

As a politics nerd, I can't look at this while washing up and finishing with 'tough on the causes of grease'. It would be more fitting for it to be grime though.

Alton Towers’ new toxic waste-themed ride briefly closes due to sewage leak

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

*007 loses gun* BAD GUY: “Looks like you’re done, Mr. Bond.” *007 pulls out phone and taps twice* *Delivery van pulls up to secret layer, driver hands 007 a package containing a replacement gun* BOND: “With Prime, the only thing that’s done are long delivery times.”

David Lynch: "Most films reflect the world, and the world is violent and in a lot of trouble. It’s not the other way around. The films don’t make a peaceful world violent—the violent world made the films."

Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

Yes, the US in on this chart. Can you find it?

So they want the tax payer to wipe the debt slate clean so they can start raking in the private profits again. Nationalise the debt. Privatise the profit. Charlatans. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

When the bubble pops, and it will, you’re not just looking at a few Johnny-come-lately companies shuttering. This is a load-bearing delusion. The entire tech industry is fucked because they all bought in, every VC firm bought in, investors have everything in it. They need to make you like it.

When the purpose of work devolves into providing you with the financial means to compensate for its disabling emotional effects, you’re probably engaging in what I call ‘compensatory consumption’: spending your salary to offset the emotional & psychological damage of earning it.

Reason #368 Elon Musk is a sociopath.

Via Adam Tooze adamtooze.substack.com China is cracking down on economists who say negative things about the economy. Can I say that it's *extremely* easy to imagine the Trump administration following a similar path?

The rise of predatory "limbic capitalism" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-th...

The first quote is absolutely essential. Often people are needlessly medicalised due to adverse structural circumstances.

“Wonderful Christmastime” is fine. It’s like two minutes long and synthesizers are fun. You all need to calm down.