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The @trashfuture.bsky.social bin theory of politics once again undefeated, the normally incredibly apolitical and fluffy magazine in my parents village had a massive long screed in it about bin collections getting worse

I just don’t party because I’m not a fucking coward

Newsletter: I wrote about the ridiculous $6.5bn all-stock deal between Jony Ive and OpenAI, how little Ive has done since leaving Apple, how impossible it is to make the mythical "third core device," and how the media needs to stop acting as OpenAI's marketing arm. www.wheresyoured.at/measures/

i am never more embarrassed to be british than when the government announces it will save our economy by investing in whatever pump-and-dump tech swindle is currently ongoing

The Wieny Motor Speedway if you will

Triangulating from “trans women are women” to appease transphobes until you land at the exciting new position: “no women are women.”

this is such an interesting time to be alive. we concreted the internet as our second equal and primary reality but it's full of ghosts now we try to talk to them and they pass right through it's a haunted world of dead things who look real but don't really see us

it’s incredible how the wisconsin supreme court election was absolutely a test for elon musk to see if he was worth anything beyond being donald trumps secret personal pay pig

can't believe thermodynamics won again

What I appreciate here is that the FT scored a video interview with Sam Altman (a high profile get!) for a conceit where he makes lunch and then another FT writer just ruthlessly savages his kitchen appliances and cooking techniques. www.ft.com/content/b180...

this is what they (the normans) took from you

The Rakefinder General strikes again

After six years of investigating and over a month of research and writing, it's finally time to tell the story of Aeroflot flight 1492, and the plane, pilot, and airline that came together to cause it. admiralcloudberg.medium.com/trial-by-fir...

Taking bets on how long it is before we have more racially aggravated assaults and this MP acts shocked that this would ever happen

For those who do not know:

the anarcho-capitalist getting beat up by real anarchists from greece is still the funniest post that has ever been made on reddit

I’ve lost all confidence that the UK will be a good place to live in five years, and if it weren’t for waiting to be able to prove I’m in a legitimate relationship with my girlfriend I would already be gone

Every aspect which is so far being publicised, a standard tactic by politicians prior to formerly launching anything, of Labour's immigration white paper continues to demonstrate this government's lack of knowledge about immigration in general, and knee jerk policies. 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

"We don't give a fuck. You need to get sober."

Harrison Ford in Shrinking is having so much fun and it’s incredible

there are some jobs that look cool but suck in practice I am convinced, however, that “guy who builds giant Lego models for Legoland” is just as cool as it looks

You can tell a recession is coming because there’s more meat flavoured crisps in the supermarket again

Then, when the dumbest people in the country are told to go fuck themselves, they conclude that naturally, this proves what they are doing is right and also why this is the reason it’s so important to vote for them

Has anyone trying to schmooze Trump thought about giving him an enormous silly hat for him to wear in recognition of how powerful he is? Seems like it might be a great way to win his undying loyalty

Labour lost 10k votes in Runcorn and all the canvassers came back ashen faced from a gauntlet of "why did you get rid of my winter fuel allowance," but sure it's all the fault of left wingers on blue sky dot com.

Now’s the time for McSweeney to recognise that rightwards outflanking of Reform doesn’t work, but he won’t, because that wasn’t what they’ve been doing. They’ve been enacting policy they really want and believe in