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Pani puri this afternoon.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Spinal Tapocracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Saw a truly amazing concert at the Barbican last night - Niladri Kumar on sitar and Satyajit Talwalkar on tabla. From the first moment to the last it was completely mesmerising. Impossible to describe in words how much their music covered in just a few short hours.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

They’re going to stack highly confidential work papers in the bathroom.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Strongly suspect the David Graeber Institute would get a HR consultant in if they had a particularly knotty personnel problem.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

submitted 27 days ago • 81 comments

Catching the light, woman with cat, the Gorbals, Glasgow 1948 by Bert Hardy. He was a fearless and engaging photographer who could take photos anywhere. This is a particularly poignant image.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 22 days ago • 364 comments

Not very Reithian.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/

submitted 21 days ago • 37 comments

Sorry this took so long, but I finally got the doc I prepared for my friend up on Google Docs. It is a deliberately short Long Covid On Ramp for folks just discovering they are sick and wondering what to do next. Thanks to all who contributed! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 104 days ago • 31 comments

So many idiot proposals by so many idiot men is why.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Is America fighting Iran or engaged in cultural appropriation from the ayatollahs?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Dipshits gotta dipshit. “It’s about more than GDP,” would be - indeed is - an idiot and basic point of view when expressed on an internet forum, never mind as a political credo.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments