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Happiness is significantly enhanced by being too lazy to “have a lifestyle”.

Interesting thatAI translations seem to be even more inaccurate than older translation apps.

International trade -an adult speaks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bgU...

Just listening to reporting on Trump’s latest brain farts, only to realise that there is a single underlying message - America’s word is no longer good.

🔥 Despite Reform’s surge, the overall swing in local elections in the East of England region was towards the broad left. Don’t let the media noise fool you. The right didn’t advance - it fragmented. Here’s how...

VE Day. Appropriate remembrance, or "Let's make war glamorous again"?

things you won't hear much in the immigration debate: it's already fallen (see Sunder's thread) + OBR assumes net immigration 350,000ish for its forecasts so we should be discussing 'why the economy needs this many people, who should they be, & if you want fewer what does that do to growth'

I feel like we've been saying this forever but it's worth saying again. Book bans do not exist in a vacuum. They're not one off events. Book bans are the canary in the coal mine. They usher in an era of censorship, fascism, violent scapegoating. Authors, join the fight: @authorsabb.bsky.social!!

The Internet Archive backing up Web pages and digitising public domain material is great. Inventing their own digital lending library and rules, offering current, copyright work to anyone for free without writers' consent or payment like legitimate libraries is not. That's what landed them in court.