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Oh, that’s okay then

A footnote from David Miller, expressing highly recognisable reservations about the rise of the journal article.

Continue to think there is so much sticking heads in the sand around this in left-of-centre discourse which is going to look painfully outmoded within months let alone years

Anne of Green Goebbels

They found her! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

One of the most depressing things about Trump's corruption is just how low-rent, unambitious and grubby it is: www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

it feels almost indecent to say this since the primary reason for removing children from poverty is simply removing children from poverty. but it is really well established fact that child poverty is extremely expensive in the long term and this policy costs money.

It was the Busta Rimes, it was the Wusta Rhymes.

I'm the editor of Adolescence and I'm answering your questions: www.youtube.com/shorts/-siqo...

The Barnabáš Kos Case/Pripad Barnabáš Kos (Peter Solan, Czechoslovakia, 1964) Barnabáš Kos (Josef Kemr) is a professional triangle player whose undemanding practice routine buys him time to represent his orchestral colleagues on official panels, where he's scrupulous about never rocking the boat.

The story of La Barra, a Colombian restaurant in Elephant & Castle, and how it’s navigating gentrification: youtu.be/1GTuYi-to_U

This MoMA feature on John Wilson, who collects documentary footage like a magpie, is great: youtu.be/MwGWoqyQqTE

I made a (very) short film yesterday about La Barra in Elephant & Castle, and how it's being affected by the redevelopment of the area: youtu.be/1GTuYi-to_U

I watched an interesting documentary: Before They Meet (2021). Lithuanian and Russian ornithologists working together across an increasingly tense border between Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Oblast. I wonder how things have changed since 2022? docked.blog/films/before...

Last week we launched a free webapp that shows the tens of thousands of UK companies whose ownership is being hidden, in most cases unlawfully. It's now easier to use, faster, and has way more features. Quick thread.

The TV show Adolescence is being weaponised in the effort to ban phones and social media for kids – but this only highlights the UK's abject failure to build online spaces that aren't manipulated by algorithmic gamification.

Thinking about the effect of AI on the commons, and what to do about it: roblog.co.uk/2025/03/ai-a...

You’re watching Comic Relief, I’m slamming my legs in a car door. We are not the same x

Nice article from Gizzi Erskine on the wonders of MSG: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

This is absolute gold from Sky News. Someone tell the lads 🗡️

Good news from the British Election Study: there's no sign of the reported uptick in sexism among young British men Bad news: what's going on with middle aged men?

Thinking about the effect of AI on the commons, and what to do about it: roblog.co.uk/2025/03/ai-a...

I watched an interesting documentary: Before They Meet (2021). Lithuanian and Russian ornithologists working together across an increasingly tense border between Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Oblast. I wonder how things have changed since 2022? docked.blog/films/before...

I ought to get some "trying to do Blairism without a financial services boom is like trying to do that thatcherism without North Sea oil" mouse mats printed

I don’t wish to alarm anyone but if you draw glasses on Masaccio’s Virgin and Child it’s Michael Caine holding a tiny Chris Evans being serenaded by the Proclaimers

"Sorry. The water's quite hard round here." *turns on tap* *Jason Statham squeezes out into the sink* "Making tea, are you? You cunt."

Blue Whale on at date: Internally: "Don't let her know you're a whale, don't let her know you're a whale" Waiter: "What can I get you" Blue Whale: "Yeah .... Could I get like a ton of fucking krill. DAMMIT!"