“So, Nick, what kind of dog do you have?” “She’s a werewolf.” “Yeah, haha, that’s O SWEET JESUS -“

This investment will change lives. It'll go towards bespoke, calming spaces to help children with additional needs get the support they need at a good, local school on their doorstep. Labour is building schools where every child can achieve and thrive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The word “symbolic” is also doing a certain amount of mitigation work here.

Here's a question: there's an Italian bakery I go to where they serve a "Krantz" which is essentially puff pastry or possibly a twisted crispy bread with an apricot jam or paste. Does anyone have a recipe they like for a similar thing?

I want a donut. Problem: I literally just had a donut.

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

This is the point, not the by-product.

Imagining an LLM trained on my grandfather. “Mr Harkaway, your machine has committed 8421 acts of fraud since Monday and is now married to 11 women, 2 bishops and Nelson’s Column. It is also being sued by the estate of Frank Sinatra.” Eep.

I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful: All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.

#thiswritinglife #writing When I finish a first draft, I find the act of returning to it almost physically difficult. It becomes something alien and a bit alarming that I have somehow to embrace.

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

Worst cantrip ever

The university bought Claude AI for students to use. Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished. Great stuff, academia.

Found a new tattoo design just now spilling ink on my hand.

"Why are we spending tens of thousands of drachmas on fortress walls when the siege of Troy proved wars of the future will be fought with swarms of cheap wooden horses?" - The Mycenae Times Editorial Board (1181 BCE)

Oh. It would appear this printer's out-tray is too short for A4 paper and everything falls on the floor. Super.

"Show me a picture on your phone which has your energy but isn't a selfie.“

16mm flatbed editing.

1/US stepping up attacks on the EU. This has left many in Europe scratching their heads but it is part of the neo-royalist agenda. The EU stands for the rules based order and stands in the way of a new order based not on rules but clique interests. www.politico.eu/article/top-...

DROP BEAVERS

“Beaver bombing”

What the actual hell

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Detail from AP’s photo of the FIFA Apocalypse Prize.

I suppose there’s no point in suggesting he check whether it’s in line with international law

Apparently we’re now pioneering twee protest

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

2025 continues to be the plot of a B-tier Xbox game.

Boring update: I am not the owner/operator of the asknickharkaway Gmail account. If you get mail from it, no, that’s not me. (And please let me know.)

And HEEEERE it is!! The REAL solutions to fix immigration for all - for a system we can be proud of! bsky.app/profile/anot...

Sick of constant demonisation of migrants on #bbcqt & failed cruelty being the only answer from spineless politicians? Look out for my report launching at 11am with 9 evidence-backed proposals to ACTUALLY fix the immigration system! With @anothereurope.bsky.social & @fesonline.bsky.social 👀👀👀

Just thinking of soil as akin to a coral reef was enough to set my mind alight.

Nobody nailed it harder than Marshall McLuhan. “World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”

Did much work. Huge push. Mission accomplished. Stupid now,

Where does the Le Monde newspaper sit on the Reality/Crazypants continuum?

OH HEY

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MARCH 10 2026 BE THERE OR BE SQUARE Covers are by @fringe-element.net who did an awesome job Editions will include introductions plus bonus short stories There will also be a preorder campaign--more details on that later.

Ooooh, great. What the hell is happening right now?

I don't need to make more nonsense than I'm already making but heavens alive this makes me want to make more nonsense than I'm already making

Long time to the elections, blah blah blah. It just feels as if we're completely screwed.

anisota.net/harvest This is interesting and a bit fun.

This government bewilders me. VAT on public schools: perfect. Getting rid of (some) jury trials/right to appeal: Bizarro Labour.

A French ICC judge sanctioned by the US over the Netanyau arrest warrant says all his accounts with US companies have been closed, making it “like being sent back to the 1990s.” “Without sovereignty – military, health, financial and digital – we can no longer guarantee the rule of law,” he says.

Niche question: does anyone know what’s going on with UK TV rights for the IBU? Between Discovery, Eurosport and BiathlonWorld I am mightily confused.

Note that Google's AI also thinks Zinc is liquid at room temperature.

The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed. California's energy system is now coal free. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...