Opening the lid of AI and it’s just Sam Altman crouched in there typing really fast to everyone. He seems stressed.

This section of the @washingtonpost.com really captures why women are enraged right now and how the system keeps allowing women to die and be assaulted. I’m HOT today so here’s a thread explaining why.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

This is the least of the reasons why Trump and Netenyahu are absolute pieces of shit but my god, they really are absolute pieces of shit. We really did seem to be getting somewhere.

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

You’d think two guys involved in historical international child sexual abuse rings would get along better

With every failure, JD’s features shrink further into his face, as the curse on this globe-trotting fart demands.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

So embarrassing to vote for a strong man, like ooh I need a big strong man to do things, like you’re in a seventies disco song, damning.

The Strait of Hormuz even sounds like a cool as hell card. Like it’s got a dark wiggly river on and it means ‘power’.

Playing a game with an in-game social media feed that I need to check and I think it’s given me depression

If THE CHRISTOPHERS isn't on my best-of-the-year list at the end of the year, then it will have been a very good year indeed: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/m...

Chris Fleming the only stand up special I’ve seen that’s of this century, a giddy neon scroll of charm and vitriol, references you half get, chumming you to a gradual sense of numb exhaustion.

Right now, we are witnessing a preview of what could happen in the USA this November. Hungary's opposition party, Tisza, is so far ahead in the polls that they are on track to win a supermajority in the parliament, spelling the end of Orban. The only way Orban can remain is to subvert the election.

Elder millennials very much in the phase of opening google then thinking ‘what did I come in here for again?’

These guys are doing proper reporting it’s so refreshing

What the hell has happened to Microsoft word?? Why can’t I just save my documents like normal? And send and attach to things, what is this hell and how do I escape it?

What the BBC describes as a ‘moderate breeze’ is basically the first five minutes of The Wizard of Oz.

And here's a secret of the past decade: a lot of the crucial organizing/resistance work is done by women who look like nice mom-type ladies, often suburban variety, sometimes through nice organizations like churches. Sorry if anyone needs it to look like Che Guevara.

Side note- ‘Wine moms’ also a rather contemptuous way of acknowledging we made child-rearing so disconnected and peripheral and under-valued as a capitalist society that the primary caregivers drug themselves constantly.

This is it www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

This is good

the amount of good ms. rachel puts out into the world is immeasurable. she is so much closer to something divine than many men who claim to be holy.

It’s absolutely bonkers to me that we don’t talk constantly about the decades of lead poisoning that probably caused huge rises in violent crime for half a century. Like, we don’t even use it as a narrative touchstone for environmental policy, it’s just dissolved into past.

every time some tech psycho giddily says unemployment could hit 30% soon I'm like ok man and then what. what happens after that usually. how about I give you fifteen minutes to skim wikipedia and then you can get back to me. its fine i'll wait

Angela Rayner today decided to directly take on the “incredibly vindictive” landlord Asif Aziz over mass evictions of his tenants. She joined Croydon Labour mayoral candidate Rowenna Davis to say Aziz’s company has acted in a “disgusting and disgraceful” manner and “should not be landlords”.

Oh damn

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

It’s so mad to think that most humans who save time by using AI at work are then going to use the rest of their time to do more work and super-charge the economy rather than say, make a carbonara

Do you remember that period when female characters were allowed to exist independently but they had to fall over within moments of meeting them? The early Bridget Jones period? Even CJ from the West Wing had to trip in her introductory scene. Weird weird competence-fearing days.

So few things are better than they need to be but @theonion.com is just killing it every day

Luckily I don’t use oil for anything

Oliver Bonas: dress like your train was running twenty minutes late

One day you just inexplicably stop going to Gordon’s wine bar

I don’t want to criticise our writing masters but the baby shoes were probably just smaller than the newborn’s feet by the time they required them - annoying but happens all the time. That baby’s doing fine and fat as hell.

he outlines this massive surveillance society under the pretense that ethical, responsible people will be in charge, undermined by his effort to cement a permanent zealot kakistocracy in a country too corrupt to have working regulators or corporate accountability of any kind

All this technology and you can never take a picture of the moon that’s as good as the moon is

Police must be so annoyed about podcasts, every podcast is basically ‘then the policeman tripped over his dick, picking some flowers as he fell, handing them to the murderer, then crushing the victim and her small child. Also they lost all the evidence and shot an unrelated black man in the face.’

Does this include or exclude Christopher Harborne, the billionaire Thai resident and dual citizen, who spends most of the year in Thailand for tax reasons and is the biggest donor to reform UK?

Huh remember MeToo how it was like oh man I hope consequences for sexual harassment and assault aren’t limited to the professional sphere rather than the legal one and now America is like no let’s crown nonces and make the wife-beaters movie stars

Trump says Netflix will ‘pay the consequences’ if it doesn’t fire Susan Rice

This is like that bit in Titanic when the ship breaks in half

I've not been on socials much these days. But I'm very proud of this little movie - in particular because of the utterly spectacular performances of Ian McKellen and Michael Coel. It was a small film, written and shot on spec. It opens in NY and LA April 10. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8eT...

Can’t believe I have to brush my fucking teeth again

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

What are the excellent recent podcasts?

Wish I could bestride things all soft and casual and not always like a fucking colossus

hear a podcast with American comedians revering the funniest SNL sketch of all time, look it up and it’ll be some guy grabbing himself and going ‘shoo shoo whoo!’ for seventeen minutes