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Everyone in the UK is inviting Vance come over for a visit, but only to pubs in Aldershot (home of the British Army)

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

The central fact about Zelenskyy is this: He is very good at killing fascists. That is why Trump and Vance despise him. They recognise the ideological enemy when they see him iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

The problem is less a US President whose brain has turned to mush but a US constitutional order that has placed old men whose brains have turned to mush in the Presidency since 2016

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

It's weird how so many people who have accused "the woke" of seeing racism where there was none, are now being openly... racist?

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

“You know when you’ve been Tangoed!”

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

US Science has been under sustained attack for the last month. I've been thinking about the vulnerabilities in UK science. In a new post, I've imagined a dystopian but *possible* future for UK science - as a way for prompting discussions on how we can protect it. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Why the time is right to pivot and chart a path back to EU membership.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 17 days ago • 273 comments

Brewdog. Another company whose products you should avoid.

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

submitted 18 days ago • 147 comments

During an era of failing traditional media, TechDirt is absolutely killing it covering, explaining, contextualizing what is happening. Not a surprise if you’ve read them for a while.

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

submitted 29 days ago • 561 comments

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/01/trump-plane-crash-character-sidney-blumenthal

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Elon just filed his proposed second amended complaint, asking for "treble damages" for companies illegally [checks notes] not advertising on X... The level of entitlement is insane. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 31 days ago • 133 comments

Brilliant. Every single issue poll should include a Don’t Care option Issued on behalf of The Campaign For The Right To Not Care

submitted 35 days ago • 21 comments

'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Opportunistic, uninformed, haphazard, confused, shameless, contradictory, ideological, petty, misleading, vindictive and insane: Another week in the life of Kemi Badenoch iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...

submitted 46 days ago • 59 comments

#PhysicsFactlet It's a foggy day here in Albion, so let's talk about light (multiple) scattering! Fog is composed of micrometre sized water droplet that can scatter light. This has two main effects: some of the light that was supposed to reach your eyes don't (because it is scattered away), and […]

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

"Pause for a moment to note how the same Brexiters who once insisted EU refrigeration standards for exported kippers, which turned out not to exist, were an intolerable violation of British sovereignty are now untroubled by a foreign oligarch openly engaged in overturning a British election"

submitted 52 days ago • 10 comments

I've just discovered https://www.map.signalbox.io/ which shows the real-time position of every train on the British mainland. It will make me a much less anxious traveller next time I'm waiting for a train!

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

The government’s weak response to Musk simply highlights its unwillingness to use the power of the nation state. This already *is* a diplomatic incident. Wake up!

submitted 60 days ago • 50 comments

After 2025, the year will not be a squared triangular number again for another thousand years. Enjoy it while you can. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squared_triangular_number

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

It is also almost certainly distorting economic value calculations. If entity X saves 2 minutes of operator time by wasting 20 minutes of my time this is from what I understand counted as an efficiency gain.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

A “man,” no plan, banal, Panama!

submitted 72 days ago • 37 comments

To put this in context, the entire R&D budget for wind power at the Department of Energy is $132 million.

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

wrote up a reply to @dustyweb.bsky.social's "How decentralized is Bluesky really" blog post

submitted 97 days ago • 38 comments

Absolutely no reason to treat X any different from Sputnik or Russia Today

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Right at the end of this excellent summary: “…more than half of all farmland sold in 2023 was purchased by private, institutional, or “lifestyle”investors”, so not for growing food then. That seems an almighty problem to me.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. "Instagram and TikTok work because they’re about images and videos but, when it comes to text, the freaks and weirdos are the ones holding the whole edifice together."

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments