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submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 34 days ago • 242 comments

if you didn't know how Fight Club ends in China

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

submitted 57 days ago • 1107 comments

Plainly true. The use of AI in online culture is so shit that we're in danger of overlooking the things it is going to significantly improve, particularly in health.

submitted 66 days ago • 42 comments

Five months ago, I recorded a 10-minute explanation, as a former regulator, of why the UK would be not only perfectly within its rights to ban twitter, but probably ought to. Maybe now people will listen. APPLE 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... SPOTIFY 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/6LuN...

submitted 75 days ago • 378 comments

Suella Braverman has just told #lbc listeners that not only has Italy built a wall on "its border with Turkey" but that she has been there "and seen it."

submitted 77 days ago • 280 comments

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submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 80 days ago • 677 comments

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

submitted 90 days ago • 109 comments

When you've just sat down from the shops and you remember the sprouts

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

submitted 197 days ago • 459 comments

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

submitted 96 days ago • 1063 comments

Worried about #ElonMusk buying his way into UK politics? Think we need to take money out of our democracy? Help #DemocracyForSale's people-powered plan to #SafeguardDemocracy by taking this short survey: democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Please share. Thanks!

submitted 105 days ago • 127 comments

In amongst all the chatter about worklessness and long-term sickness, has anyone mentioned Long Covid?

submitted 114 days ago • 7 comments

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

submitted 123 days ago • 3055 comments

If the taramasalata strikes spread to the hummus or salsa sectors, then we might be facing a double dip recession

submitted 128 days ago • 20 comments

this thread 😍

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

Hack: you can put "-ai" in your search and reduce the likelihood you'll get shown AI gunk results, or hit "Web" after the search to focus on links only without AI overview.

submitted 152 days ago • 25 comments

From Aaron Rugenburg on 🐦 Shell. 35 years ago. They knew “An internal report by Shell from 1989 precisely predicting the "violent weather" and "deluges" that just destroyed half of Appalachia, and summing up expected climate chaos with the comment, "Civilisation could prove a fragile thing."

submitted 170 days ago • 8 comments

This is pants-shitting levels of increase for any SRE (the people who keep websites from falling over), and the fact Bluesky (mostly) hasn't fallen over and the impact to existing users has been as minor as it has been is the kind of feat non-tech people don't understand how impressive it is.

submitted 198 days ago • 37 comments

That time when a Conservative government 'picked a winner' in the nascent British computer industry, the BBC was mandated to expand its remit beyond broadcasting, and we all ended up carrying the results around in our pockets. The past is a different future. arstechnica.com/features/202...

submitted 202 days ago • 4 comments

Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪 landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

submitted 201 days ago • 96 comments

This entire shelf of off-brand cereals sounds like an old English army Major, trying to find a euphemism for gay men.

submitted 203 days ago • 56 comments

Alright - now posting my first “serious” contribution here! My latest article for @BylineTimes assessing the DNC convention last week. bylinetimes.com/2024/08/23/d...

submitted 208 days ago • 10 comments

A small story for you, Bluesky, in my occasional series of Things that Happen in London. So my daughter (just turned 17) and two friends were on a late train the other night. Also present: an exceedingly drunk lady returning from Taylor Swift, snoozing in the opposite seat. /1

submitted 213 days ago • 94 comments

This feels like the old place before the old place became the bad place

submitted 213 days ago • 1 comment