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With the round egg fever of a couple of weeks ago and the surfacing of monstrous deep sea fish, I feel we're all just Medieval peasants really. "Behold the two-headed lamb, speaking augres of death!"

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

submitted 23 days ago • 157 comments

"Mess" is a word you so often here about unmown grass, wild flower verges and so on. One of the biggest barriers to biodiversity is the idea that only tamed and controlled plant life looks good, or as though you are proud of hour garden, village etc.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Firefox doing a good job of capturing the public mood here.

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Tonight, in alone, decided to have one glas of wine and watch Emily In Paris. Cat, seeking fuss, sends wine flying, trashing two magazines and a photobook of 90s rave flyers. Go to kitchen, lightbulb blows triggering trip switch. Fall over cat, spill rest of wine. Locate phone in darkness...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I am fascinated by this, it's the stuff of cartoon billionaires: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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We can easily spare a tenth of England for nature without affecting food production! 20% of our land produces just 3% of our food. Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...

submitted 32 days ago • 48 comments

Now you know how it feels, yours, The Creative Industries

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I'm curious to know how much Ozempic and the like go in terms of reducing desires. Do you still enjoy your favourite perfume? The smell of your baby? Kiss from your lover? Three lines of poetry or the first signs of spring?

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Liverpool can really do sustained collective action. #bemoreliverpool

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

One of the people who really shaped my mind, who gave me a sense that beauty was both mutable and subjective and who, when I was young, implanted the idea that there was more out there. And that Out There was interesting.

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I was always baffled by the story of the Rapa Nui - who seem to have dedicated all their resources to filling Easter Island with enormous stone heads while their civilisation collapsed around them - until I witnessed the tech industry's determination to inflict AI on the world at any cost

submitted 47 days ago • 29 comments

Search engines exist. Calendars and reminders are already on your phone and email client. No one needs to use immense amounts of energy and water and stolen IP to make a worse version!

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

I'm a big fan of the solid years of work @sascampaigns.bsky.social have out into campaigning for clean water. Recommend signing here to stop tax payers bailing out water companies www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

The idea of Musk buying TikTok makes my blood run cold

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Frozen Hollow Ponds

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

</transatlanticaccent> Why! A new lipstick and a glass of sancerre and I'm ready to... honestly, this evening, sit on the sofa under a blanket.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

You know, yap is such a grim little word to be making a comeback.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

It's one of the days where the cat trots from room to room with purpose. It's like living with a tiny civil servant.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Charmed to discover that Greek newspapers publish their corrections by saying "the typographer's demon strikes again".

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Whilst I like to think of myself as a fancy farmer's market and deli sort of food shopper, turns out I have strong feelings about Lidl sub-brands, including a great love for Eridanous and Favorina and a weird interest in the seemingly one-off ones (Soder Garden, 1001 Nights).

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Happy winter solstice. If you've never listened to the adaptation of The Dark Is Rising that Robert Macfarlane and Simon McBurney did, now is a good day to start.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvp7

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Looking to spend a fun solo afternoon in West London this weekend. Need to be in Notting Hill for a concert at seven, but before that? (West London is a 'here be dragons' area for me, so ideas welcome)

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

Solidarity with my colleagues at the Observer and the Guardian who are striking today and tomorrow. There is a virtual picket line, too. If you value the paper, its history, its staff, and freelancers like me, please support them by avoiding reading and sharing any articles for the next 48 hours.

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

As an occasional Observer freelancer, I'm in full support of all the staff and their strike action.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

The best part of this 'orcas wearing dead salmon as hats' story is the quote from the orca scientist "honestly, your guess is as good as mine"

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Writing a style guide for a job, complete with a section on AI. I wonder if "These words are hand-crafted by humans" could become a status marker? Artisan copywriting.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Both The Guardian and the candle maker know their audiences well

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment