I think that's a point that will surprise a lot of people. There's a lot of calling the internet capable of accessing "the sum of all human knowledge" and such that I think gives people the impression that any and all records exist online somewhere.

Brentford - Arsenal being shit

That was a wild 10 days. Barely remember any of them.

This New Yorker piece about Claude is in turns scary and hilarious: www.newyorker.com/ma...

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

'And Brooklyn is an honourable man'

okay seriously - what did Mike Skinner know ??

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

sorry babe can you say that again - i was too busy mentally constructing an opening credits sequence out of the FT's stylised Labour leadership photo montages

episodes of house m.d. they would make today: -- crypto mogul reappears after stealing customer money. the team has to figure out if it was a genuine fugue state or a fraud - but the FBI isn't going to wait -- politician gets thin. ozempic? no it's AIDS. no it's a disease or something -- [Zika]

something I think about a lot is how mental illnesses are often extremely well-designed to hook into the attention economy. hijacking mental resources away from boring old reality is, in a sense, how mental health problems often work. which makes them become almost desirable in this context

who was the last cabinet minister to die in office? (not a quiz question, genuinely wondering)

oddly I was asked this question in a job interview yesterday (as a practice round) and the answer is simply Crime and Punishment. it's so good

I was at this performance and can I just say the conductor did an unbelievably good job lmao, it was supremely impressive www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

I was at this performance and can I just say the conductor did an unbelievably good job lmao, it was supremely impressive www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

five English teams in the champions league from league position is just too many , isn't it

Norwich fans this morning! 😂 #ncfc

not the most notable story on that Wikipedia page

not sure I agree with this at all as a matter of history - environmentalism was a significantly new ideology, with lots of very different pulls compared to social democracy, and we should expect it to create small political parties which can contingently adapt and grow

comfortably the worst gig I've ever been to was Toploader at a May Ball, whose one hit (and the whole point of their set) was released before I was born. they played songs from their new albums. *toploader's new albums*

probably a forty-six-like post on the table making a wry analogy between the beckham thing and starmer/burnham. i reckon

Katy Perry’s Friends Skeptical Of Alleged Powerful Boyfriend Who Lives In Canada https://theonion.com/katy-perrys-friends-skeptical-of-alleged-powerful-boyfriend-who-lives-in-canada/

the statues on Parliament Square are so weird. three foreign leaders (Lincoln, Mandela, Smuts), two campaigners (Gandhi, Fawcett) and then seven prime ministers who seem to have been selected at random

once again remembering how good Hail To The Thief is as an album. much better than In Rainbows!

Fleetwood Mac's The Chain is instantly into contention as the most criminal choice for a breathy minor-key cover Traitors has made yet

well yeah I would imagine that the debate was about the language used in the Bill. what else is the Lords meant to change, how the Bill smells?

Feel like the Day Today War episode offers a better explanatory model right now than much IR theory

Brooklyn Beckham: it's time to address the shadowy shape that's difficult to photograph in the room

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

watching House for the first time, an excellent show where the most compelling question is nonetheless how the hell did any of these characters make it through a single day of medical school

Is it just me or are people being extra cringe on the Traitors this series, why are you getting FBI training

I was in Norwich Cathedral yesterday morning prior to leading a medieval graffiti tour there. The organist was practicing & Budge the cathedral cat was sauntering about his adopted home. Quiet time within a special and beautiful place #wellbeing #beauty #mindfulness #architecture #serenity

excited for the new Mitski album not least because the single is harmonically pretty cool. thought "The Land..." was actually quite mid so hoping for better

every month features a headline saying "Boost/Blow to Rachel Reeves as GDP SURGES/COLLAPSES 0.1%" and then you read on and it's entirely dependent on whether Jaguar Land Rover have managed to turn on their computers

Makes me think of this paper. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Venetian Republic or nothing.

well I would've thought it was fairly self explanatory

extremely hard to see where Xabi Alonso goes from here, right? unless a rather unexpected vacancy comes up at Liverpool

Hugh Laurie is such an unreasonably good actor

St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North #Yorkshire “St Cuthbert” window (2020) #HelenWhittaker The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea. #StainedGlassSunday

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

“Racy”

unspeakably good from Macclesfield. hard not to feel very patriotic about the FA Cup on the whole

I would say this is a fairly despicable way to describe non-consensual sexual images, including of minors?

not to be a downer but there's a hell of a long way from here to there re regime change in Iran