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Way back in 2019 I asked folks on The Hellsite to send me photos of themselves holding out their empty hand so I could draw what they were holding. Might do this again some day.

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Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

As a fan of 1) dumb British newspaper stories 2) data feeds that run departure boards 3) working out how to get trains out of Kings Cross with seconds to spare Enjoyed Sunday Times printing a big read commissioned to find passenger outrage which found zero outrage. www.thetimes.com/article/3dcf...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I am begging the media to put the focus on what was cut, and what the effects of those cuts are likely to be, rather than some nebulous topline number that implies to people that they’re actually doing what they say they are their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

@thebugle.bsky.social @zaltzcricket.bsky.social Worst pun ever? Or, best, if you’re that way inclined?

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It’s almost like McSweeney doesn’t like the voters he’s got and would like another lot

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Council Tax has become a starkly regressive tax. The poorest fifth of households now spend more than three times as much of their income on Council Tax as the richest. Here's what you need to know 👇

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

submitted 10 days ago • 167 comments

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

submitted 14 days ago • 108 comments

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

submitted 15 days ago • 213 comments

The @catsprotection.bsky.social National Cat Awards have a category for Incredible Cats who have "survived against the odds, been with you through a difficult illness, returned home after an epic adventure, or even saved your life." I'm hoping it's finally Bertie's year. He's AMAZING

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Oh brother

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Does anyone do these? I want one!

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I am still trying to get over the fact that the supposed free speech warriors in the US are now busying themselves banning individual words they don‘t like. Libertarianism? As if.

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

Can't get a comparison from this book out of my head: between the anonymity of driving and of internet interaction. Because you can't see a face, talk or get direct impartial feedback on your own behaviour, the other person is always an idiot & it's easy to triumphantly claim the moral high ground.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

I'm afraid what risks 'hollowing out' London is property prices, foreign consortia owning countless empty buildings, rental costs, the decimation of nightlife, gentrification and Pretification and the demise of in person shopping. It should be somewhere we want to go not have to.

submitted 18 days ago • 22 comments

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

Long term theory of mine is the public / news media can only cope with / use one measure of economic health at any given time. When I was a kid it was inflation. As a teenager, it was interest rates. In the 60s, it was the balance of payments. In the 10s, “the deficit” (often conflated with debt.)

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

For the love of god, the overweight squirrels of North London are now eating Viennese Whirls.

submitted 21 days ago • 73 comments

And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

submitted 22 days ago • 371 comments

New data from the Office for National Statistics tells us about murder victims and perpetrators. Perhaps the most shocking finding is that babies under 1 year are the single age group most at risk of homicide. These horrific crimes happen to 20 in every million babies.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

This is spot on. If your business model depends on massive theft, just do something else for a living.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.

submitted 24 days ago • 140 comments

HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahHahah deep breath Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

feathers mcgraw portrait

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Me: "My brain like almost can't compute the amount of bad news at like every single part of government systems." @mmasnick.bsky.social: "It's a distributed denial of service attack on people who believe in reality."

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

Starmer and Reeves going through the ONS offices looking for whoever reported that

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

It's just absolutely devastating having worked on humanitarian aid programmes to know that thousands of children are going to die of hunger in the next few weeks because of Elon Musk and what it will look like and smell like and sound like. It's hard to think about anything else really.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Back to the Office.

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

Spent a fortune on a big chunky cardigan. I saw Chris Cornell wearing one and thought, "My God, that looks cool, I'm gonna get one". I just look like an old man in a cardigan. Turns out it was Chris Cornell that looked cool, not the cardigan.

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments

The absolute core rule of local government is Do Not Make Bins Worse www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Good piece on what looks like a good scheme to help scam victims - and having done some work on scams when I was at Which?, I'm very aware that any of us could be a scam victim. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I’m tired of hearing about bats. Do you want to hear a story about jumping spiders and the town that disappeared? I think I might be breaking this story – do come be the first to read it.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Happy 88th birthday, Philip Glass.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment