I absolutely do not understand why green energy firms are not doing this everywhere. It's obvious.

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · yesterday

iiiiiiiinteresting www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

He looks like he’s been sedated.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump takes a break from fear-mongering about communism to brag about seizing the means of production: "We had a problem with Intel. And we settled the problem. They gave us 10% of the company. That was worth $12 billion."

Luis Garcia, he drinks sangria, etc. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Chelsea: Xabi Alonso reunites with Liverpool team-mate Luis Garcia in pre-season

As two Liverpool legends meet in pre-season, Luis Garcia says he hopes Xabi Alonso's Chelsea finish behind their former club in the Premier League.

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Three things can be true: 1. The BBC needs urgent changes 2. Nandy is asleep on the job 3. Polanski is a dimwit and letting down his voters.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 6h ago

NEW: Green leader Zack Polanski has criticised 'absurd' editorial decisions from the BBC – and said that the broadcaster gives Nigel Farage’s Reform much more coverage than his party www.thenational.scot/news/2...

If people want to wear these fine but to hell with pressure so to do.

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8h ago

realise this is both off-topic and makes me sound like Germaine Greer but I'm just not convinced a society that thinks women wearing shoes like this is normal is in any way a sane society

Your prison ship name is Bibby followed by your favourite period of history. Me: Bibby Plantagenet

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 8h ago

Before the Bibby Stockholm was the Bibby Renaissance

Banks is an obnoxious and rather stupid man who is overdue for a thorough going over by the ST Insight team. Imagine being obtuse enough to do what he's done here? I hope he enjoys the consequences.* *obviously, I do not hope that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Arron Banks ‘hired private detective’ to look into journalist who investigated Reform UK

Asked whether he targeted reporter who investigated party finances, Brexit campaigner says: ‘When you live by the sword, you die by the sword’

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It is one of the worst things about the country. If you should be in Antibes, the Copenhagen Coffee Lab will fix you right up. Near me there are two good coffee shops next to each other. A fucking rarity. Basically a half-decent non American coffee chain would clean up.

Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦@showerabsolute.bsky.social · 7d ago

I don't know why the French put up with the coffee situation

Now on 75,000 words. Home straight!

Todd Kendall@alpinemigrant.bsky.social · last mo.

60,000/90,000 words written for the sequel to The Star and the Pincer ... feeling strangely content if a bit worried about where the final third's going to come from. But still, progress! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

Given these people unfailingly vote for parties that deny climate reality, a disastrous sea level rise is perhaps the only way that these people realise that becoming a refugee is "something that can happen to anyone".

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2d ago

Has anyone read anything good on why the east coast is such fertile ground for the extreme right? (Lincolnshire, East Anglia, the Essex and Kent coasts) Demographics aren't wildly different to other areas where it's much less pronounced.

www.maptap.gg August 7 99🔥 99🔥 99🔥 98🔥 91🎉 Final score: 963 Quietly pleasing

@katebevan.com's new fave academic just dropped.

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · yesterday

In case you thought you’d already heard academia’s worst thing this week: you were wrong.

If you've not come across Katie's first, it's a sparkly debut and the most gleeful exposition of how fucked we all are In The Very Long Run that you could imagine. She writes with verve and a contagious delight, I'm sure her next will be equally entertaining.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · yesterday

Story time! Six years ago, my first book, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), came out. It was fun to write! I got to share all my cosmology fun facts and dig deep into all the ways the universe might end. I had SO much fun with it, I thought, "maybe I should write another book?" 1/?

School activities seem like the last redoubt for cheques in our experience in France. We end up paying in cash ... 🏧

Ange✨🦌🌕💫🌍@ange1874.bsky.social · yesterday

True. And so many places just won’t accept them now.

The studio when journalists start asking questions.

Please Disperse - Nothing to See Here

ALT: Please Disperse - Nothing to See Here

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Film Stories@filmstories.bsky.social · 2d ago

Michael 2 should start filming by the end of this year, pending a release in 2027, early 2028. There are, er, questions... filmstories.co.uk/news/michael...

Is this Adam Brooks actually a real person?

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2d ago

the 'magic soil' argument is from mein kampf, if that matters at all

This is a good piece.

I knew Rod Liddle and hated what he became. He would have wanted me to say so | Zoe Williams

A man who prized blunt speaking has been selectively eulogised. There’s a balance between decency and honesty: I’m sad he caused such harm, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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You come at the FT? Best not miss.

Robert Smith@bondhack.ft.com · 3d ago

‘Tice said, however, that it was “not surprising no one reads the FT”, adding: “it’s so boring”.’ www.ft.com/content/4abf...

Aged like fine milk this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sachin Nakrani@sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 4d ago

Andoni Iraola every time a @david-ornstein.bsky.social alert pops up on his phone.

It’s odd with MacArthur. Terrible commander in WWII and absolutely insane in Korea. The intervening period where he helped rebuild Japan with generosity and grace is absolutely inexplicable in his arc.

Zach Dorfman@zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Continuing my Korean War/Halberstam posting: It’s hard to convey how malignant Douglas MacArthur was, how anti-democratic, what a persistent threat to civil-military relations. Conversely, George Marshall was a man of towering integrity and wisdom.

Sunset looking from Sweden over to Denmark; last night in Scandinavia 😢.

A player moving to a new football club is not joining “a project” and clubs do not have “stances” on things like this, stop mangling the English language for clicks.

Sam Neill dies and is remembered with sadness and the joy he gave us. Rod Liddle dies and is remembered as the violent racist misogynist bigot he was. How you live your life matters.

Balthazar He Chose Poorly

ALT: Balthazar He Chose Poorly

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I miss Hitch. Glorious comment.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 5d ago

Christopher Hitchens said of Jerry Falwell: “If you gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.” So anyway, Rod Liddle is dead.

At a time like this I’m reminded that the late Rod Liddle posted gleefully racist comments on Millwall FC message boards and still had a job in journalism afterwards.

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 5d ago

[Rebekah] Brooks added that "he challenged conventional thinking and left an indelible mark on British journalism." An indelible mark is a stain, Rebekah.

Camilla Long needs to go to a digital detox retreat; she’s cooked her cognitive skills.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6d ago

This piece was published Sat afternoon. It could win awards for incoherence. Its big point is the EU Commission had no interest in stopping these people going into Europe By the time it was published it was clear none had done so www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

The useful smart glasses (for me at least) would be a live heads up display for music and navigation on foot around town. Tech bros: wouldn’t it be cool if you could record and photograph people without them knowing?

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm convinced by the stories people with visual impairments tell about how useful smart glasses are for them, but none of these users seem to depend on being able to record video, which is the main thing that makes them "pervert glasses". Why can't we just regulate that?

Week one as a branding consultant for the city of Gothenburg’s gone well, I feel.