Neom pivoting to datacentres feels like the top www.ft.com/content/036b...

the 21st century condition is more exemplified by someone tweeting "no one is saying X" despite themselves tweeting X ten minutes earlier. Are they lying? Not really. They simply cannot conceive of themselves as saying X. There is a part of them that is saying X, and a part of them that is not

Ok folks. I am at the airport heading to Morocco for a week. To avoid distraction while I am there, I am going to delete Bluesky from my phone. See you on the other side.

A good reason to think the midterms will be relatively normal - Republican electeds think so.

People rightly say that Labour currently dislikes its actual current voters; but Reform clearly loathes its

no! no!!

i am afraid there is no other option comrades. we must eat morgan mcsweeney.

this is recognizably the same genre of joke as Su Tung-Po a thousand years ago

Layoffs and their social consequences

Never forget Farage and Badenoch promised us ICE in Britain.

Spinal Tap: Embrace the Penguin

Burnham PM by end of the year imo.

"If you had predicted this in 2024, they would have said you have Trump derangement syndrome" is true, but a bit trite. But almost all this is downstream of America's reaction to 9/11, including the creation of ICE and DHS, and if you said this would be the consequences back in 2002, well....

Easter Morning https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/easter-morning

You need to sit in a cubicle to afford the things that Vance values. And he has zero interest or plan to create the jobs that will replace or sustain those jobs. He’s lecturing, scolding, and moral grandstanding in the worst way.

Owen Jones, 'Arabian Ornament', from The Grammar of Ornament, published 1856

Nathaniel Bronze is truly the Howard Ratner of people who know what a logistic regression is.

If this is true, and I bet it isn't, he should resign immediately.

87. Benten Shrine at the Inokashira Pond https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/87-benten-shrine-at-the-inokashira-pond-1857

During the massive storms last year I was in the Yellow House in Rathfarnham, and some salty old dog at the bar told the barman that the wind was that strong "it'd tear a fiver from a Cavan man's hand".

*Astronaut meme*

kirk’s death became a pure media incident in a way that would probably scandalize even Baudrillard

I have just read "Gorton and Denton is a prime seat for Reform" and all I can say is that no, no that is not true.

American on the Thielbux: "It isn't real because nobody is betting money on explicit, falsifiable predictions" Denmark: "We are deploying troops and they have authorization to shoot back at any intruders without needing to check with HQ"

“[Patel] was also the author of three children’s books in which he’s a self-styled wizard who saves King Donald Trump from the evil forces of the Justice Department.” The chud counterpart to the Yud! Author of the Kash Potter fanfic series

Dublin City Council CEO Richard Shakespeare says "I have now taken the decision to suspend all posting by the City Council on the X.com platform. This applies to all City Council X accounts and will be actioned with immediate effect."

All the sovereignty lads just desperate for a US-UK Anschluss now apparently

*describing what text microblogging was like to infant relatives when they’ve grown up* “so. you know the crazy guy on the street ranting about aliens? imagine he is in your phone, all the time. and if you post too much, you become the guy yourself”

No one, and I mean no one, hates Dublin as much as the Dublin City Council www.independent.ie/regionals/du...

Went on a rant against the idea that the state pension will be abolished in future using UK examples. If anything, the opposite is much more likely to be the case.

It's literally in the 1951 treaty that the US is free to station whatever troops it wants at its bases..

Watching some Steely Dan outtake videos on YouTube has triggered a divorce lawyer ad (I think aimed at women, presumably ones in the same room as the person playing the video)

Can’t be overstated how much international diplomacy is just this

sinners

In order of preference: 1. Marty Supreme *gap* 2. Sentimental Value *gap* 3. Sinners 4. One Battle After Another 5. Hamnet 6. Bugonia Not out in Ireland yet: The Secret Agent May catch up on: Frankenstein Train Dreams Meh: F1

The Reform hype here will probably benefit Labour.

PSA: Greenland is not majority white and is not a colony.

The issue isn't that Trump's domestic opponents are as bad as him, it's that until they can demonstrate they have both the ability and the willingness to securely marginalise his supporters, any deal you make with them only lasts as long as their hold on power does.

Most brigades in Little St. James Island are socialist and patriarchal

I will be in Birmingham and Cardiff in April. Recommendations?

Reminder that it wasn't just right-wing columnists bigging up Trump after the 2024 election win. Anas Sarwar too was saying how crucial it was to put Scottish business links ahead of silly political concerns Somehow I doubt he will want this messaging in election flyers now

Guy who wrote this has now written "Europe should give Trump everything he wants".

The way in which the US Supreme Court has been trying to for a year now illogically carve out a "none of this applies to the Fed" exemption from the administration's reign of terror on civic institutions, which it is otherwise agrees with, underlines the only way to hurt these guys is in the money.

I know the answer to why people are pretending otherwise, but PSA the vast majority of people in Greenland are not white.

America so rich! America richer than Europe! Americans buy vacation place in Tuscany. Americans go to Washington for protest? Oh no no no, too expensive.

Quite a bit of evidence that more dangerous infections in childhood increase the risk of atherosclerosis in later life btw.

Despite what people are saying, the word anarchy is being used correctly here.

People from outside Ireland occasionally ask me, "Why is Bono, an international music titan from Ireland, not all that loved in Ireland?". The answer in its entirety is a complex one, but "He sent Dolly Parton a birthday cake and put his own name on it" goes a long way to summing it up.

Includes my favourite party conference speech anecdote that I've almost certainly shared before.