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Being middle aged during these times is wild because it’s like, will I die of a preventable disease, will I die as a casualty in WW3, or will I live long enough to die when humankind gets eradicated by climate change?

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

All tech company bosses just give off the weirdest vibes. Something not right there. Obviously Elon, but Altman, Bezos, Zuckerberg. All just creepy. Would not want to be stuck in a lift with any of them

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

This the biggest geopolitical shift of my lifetime. We better start getting used to it.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry for making you look at him but yet again, as with Peterson, Musk, Montgomerie and so many others, the turn to the hard/far right begins with obsessive transphobia. It might be the primary driver of rightwing radicalisation over the last decade. They always bring it up.

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

Every single word of this, and I would also add: Turn the fucking music down. Or better, turn it off. Punters come to restaurants to eat and to chat with their companions, not to have their ears assaulted by some random Gen Z waiter's playlist.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

And 5th, after 7 years of Trump it's going to struggle to make things any worse. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Cribbed from LinkedIn.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

If you want an unusual but good reply for those times people ask what the UK does well, mention the gov.uk and nhs.uk websites. Easy to navigate, simple to understand, accessible, and always genuinely useful.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

submitted 16 days ago • 158 comments

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need. inews.co.uk/news/david-a...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f... I wish police would intervene to prevent these atrocities more often.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Look this is the best thing you will read today and well worth whatever time it takes. www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happe...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Wise words. dannorth.net/best-simple-...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

submitted 24 days ago • 639 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 24 days ago • 729 comments

Now do Soho, permanently this time

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Look, I want to respect your diary and your prior commitments and stuff, but can we possibly bring this forward? nationalpost.com/news/space/a...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Hot take - delaying starting the meeting for latecomers is discourteous to the people who turned up on time.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The Prince Charles - a West End institution - is under threat. Support them, unless you want to see another fucking M&M superstore where this beautiful cinema is. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

submitted 30 days ago • 43 comments

Driving a gold Land Rover Defender should be illegal in and of itself. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

submitted 30 days ago • 230 comments

Just read a wicked new ttrpg about being a good citizen. It's free: survivethetyrant.infy.uk?i=1

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Such a loss. ntoll.org/article/my-f...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Fixed It.

submitted 31 days ago • 84 comments

I think this is a joke: getfullyear.com I mean, I hope it is.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

What's wrong with forever? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Police were called five times to Axel Rudakubana's house. He was expelled from one school and delinquent in another. He had a conviction for violence and three referrals to Prevent. The weapon used was a kitchen knife. The failings here are offline. This just isn't an internet regulation story.

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

Very much here for the staff of IKEA inventing fake board games for their room display

submitted 38 days ago • 139 comments

When the bubble pops, and it will, you’re not just looking at a few Johnny-come-lately companies shuttering. This is a load-bearing delusion. The entire tech industry is fucked because they all bought in, every VC firm bought in, investors have everything in it. They need to make you like it.

submitted 45 days ago • 141 comments

The detailed answer from @daivaughan.uk is a brilliant case study in why making government services natively 21st Century Digital is “more complicated than that”

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

what's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? jvns.ca/blog/2025/01...

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

It's on a beautiful winter day like this when the majestic low sun shines through your house that you realise you don't dust enough.

submitted 47 days ago • 40 comments

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

submitted 47 days ago • 2406 comments

NEW A close look at Truss's legal threat to Starmer The former Prime Minister has sent a glorious but seemingly hopeless cease-and-desist letter By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/a-cl...

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

Yes, but I think it's bigger than that. What we're learning is that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with everything that we enjoy about contemporary society. They don't even want to make pop culture for us anymore. They want to outsource it to machines and replace it with slop...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Experts warn Trump dangerously close to figuring out where Canada is

submitted 50 days ago • 38 comments

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

submitted 56 days ago • 2208 comments

First computer: ZX-81 Current dev box: MacBook Pro M1 Favorite device: iPod Classic Dream machine: MacBook Pro M4 Max

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Suspended sentence? Anyone who disseminates Coldplay music should be in prison at least. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j... Including Chris Martin, obviously. People need to be protected from this corrosive stuff.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting

submitted 55 days ago • 17 comments