Anthropic’s cynicism comes as no surprise, which is why I had zero hesitation in filling in my claim as part of the class action suit against them 🏴‍☠️ If anyone’s unsure about whether their work has been filched, here’s the link to check: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com 📚 #AI

“We are here because you were there” - Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Endlessly fascinated by how easily gulled the protein maniacs are. Most sweet-dessertish high protein nosh pots taste rank 🤷‍♀️

a society losing the plot in real time

Lev‘s podcast is definitely one to subscribe to 💁‍♀️🔊

An obvious lie about Canada's GDP - and the original source of the antagonism is coming from the US toward Canada, not the other way around. "It's your fault for not acceding to my threats" is the language of domestic abusers.

For Pete’s sake, fund the BBC World Service to the hilt, this isn’t hard 🤦‍♀️

"Just as the world watched courtrooms hold Big Tobacco and Big Pharma accountable, we will, for the first time, see Big Tech CEOs like Zuckerberg take the stand."

This really is a very good piece. I think quite a lot lies behind it. First that the *actual* education of the likes of Musk etc is very superficial. Just enough Western Civ classes at elite universities for them to persuade themselves that they are talented intellects without any deep study.

Be this dog with its energy.

The tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow blossoms

“Nobody understands a word this guy is saying.” He was speaking Spanish. Pretty sure plenty of people understood what that guy was saying.

Can’t wait for it to be like this. Spring scene with insects, from ‘Brehms Tierleben’ (Leipzig, 1892). Waddleton.b.1.146 @theul.bsky.social

This is rather special. Marc Bloch was a titan of modern historiography, and a big influence on me as a young history student. He was a brilliant French medievalist murdered by the Gestapo for both his Jewishness and his contribution to French resistance, but they couldn’t kill his work

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Mandarin ducks #Birds #wildlife #Yorkshire wildlifeandtravel.com

Dipper #Birds #Wildlife #Derbyshire wildlifeandtravel.com

Easy to be cynical about these proposals but what has he got to lose? Flip the script on poundshop populists like Farage and actually tackle the corruption and culture of impunity that people are so fed up with (hope springs eternal)

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

The media moved on when trump said he had a new tone because as the constitution states the president is the editor in chief of all news outlets

says it all.

Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

Nigella to the rescue! 👑

No matter what happens in today’s Olympics downhill race, how about we all agree we could all do with a little of Lindsey Vonn’s moxie (especially in our 40s and beyond 💁‍♀️) 🎿❄️🏔️⛷️

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Can’t think why Europeans would be booing Vance, is a real mystery

My cartoon in The Oldie

Three-time Trump voter: I'm looking at this awful picture of the Obamas. What an embarrassment to our country. He is not worthy of the presidency. He takes bribes blatantly, and now he's being a racist blatantly. He's pathetic as a president, and I want to apologize for supporting this rotten man.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

Trump told Schumer he will withhold $16 billion for major New York infrastructure project unless Schumer agrees to rename Penn Station and Dulles Airport after him. Please America- wake up- this is dementia   abcnews.go.com/US/trump-pen...

It is going to be lawyers and the courts. That is what it was in 2020. It was in 2022 after the first wave. It will be again in 2026.

Always a joy to see the forbidden gummy bear on my feed

Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats. It's all there. He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players. Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.

In the early 2000s I applied to a slew of international organisations, including the Norwegian mission to the UN and was rejected. If only I’d known cosying up to Epstein would have helped my application! 😱🤢🤯🤬 www.nrk.no/urix/terje-r...

Stunning. Very much worth a few minutes of everyone’s time

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Sage advice from @sathnam.bsky.social on how to read for pleasure again, I’d also add bookending (sorry, couldn’t resist) the day with a half hour of reading a physical book first thing and again before bedtime. www.thetimes.com/culture/book... 📚

In 2011 I had a well-sourced story on medical students doing unauthorized gynecological exams on unconscious patients without consent and we didn't publish it at a major women's mag because my boss, whose husband was a new doctor, said "He told me that doesn't happen." www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

While lashed by freezing rain as I cycled yesterday across London I thought 1) why do I do this to myself? and 2) at least spring is not too far away 🫠 For anyone else who also needs a respite from the challenges of winter, feast your eyes on these snowdrops (snapped during a rare sunny day here)

Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

Good morning

Take the tiny wins where you can, people 🎉❤️🇫🇷

Having been invited in 2010 to an Epstein dinner with Woody Allen and then Prince Andrew in New York, the magazine editor, Tina Brown, replied: “What the fuck is this . . .? The paedophile’s ball?” Brown’s reaction should have been everyone’s. as.ft.com/r/8b3cb3a6-5... The Epstein rot goes deep

If only there were some government agency with the power to do that…

The best sabotage involves some element of karma for fascists

We asked the extraordinary and rightly celebrated author Marilynne Robinson to respond to events in Minneapolis. She immediately sent us a forceful and utterly direct cri de coeur. The Weekend Essay as.ft.com/r/afe4fee8-1...