War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
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Excellent long read in today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples
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I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.
Reading’s unique full-size replica of the Bayeux Tapestry is 140 years old this year! Visit for free or book a guided tour with one of our expert team. From September you can compare it to the original on display at the other end of the Elizabeth Line in the British Museum! #BayeuxTapestry
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The Tapestry gallery is excellent and well worth a trip down the Elizabeth Line. Highly recommended!
Reading Museum@readingmuseum.bsky.social · last mo.Reading’s unique full-size replica of the Bayeux Tapestry is 140 years old this year! Visit for free or book a guided tour with one of our expert team. From September you can compare it to the original on display at the other end of the Elizabeth Line in the British Museum! #BayeuxTapestry
I’ve been reading How to Talk to AI (and how not to) by Jamie Bartlett. It’s a good read and I just noticed 99p today on Kindle. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FH...
How to Talk to AI: (And How Not To), the must-read new book on artificial intelligence - the Sunday Times bestseller eBook : Bartlett, Jamie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
How to Talk to AI: (And How Not To), the must-read new book on artificial intelligence - the Sunday Times bestseller eBook : Bartlett, Jamie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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SpaceX and the ‘enshittification’ of markets
The IPO of Elon Musk’s company is a big risk for the millions of investors who have put savings into passive investing
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Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 2mo agoSpaceX and the ‘enshittification’ of markets - @katie0martin.ft.com on the risks of Elon Musk's company joining big market indices. Remember Twitter? www.ft.com/content/f724...
BBC TV Children of the Blitz. Really well made programme now on iPlayer and well worth your time. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Children of the Blitz
Some of the last survivors of the Blitz, children who weren't evacuated, tell their story.
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it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson
Time for some hard truths from a tech bro: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Time for some hard truths from a tech bro: the Stephen Collins cartoon
I have thoughts – you’d better listen
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Meet Mackenzie Bly (not his real name; see back cover). I wanted to write something purely funny, but fell in love with my lead character along the way. It's out in August, but the lovely proofs, with cover by Jim Kay, have just arrived. Repost before tomorrow (Sun) evening, and I'll pick a winner.
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
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This is excellent, great cast and does a very good job of highlighting what’s been going on for years in our privatised water industry. I really hope it gets a lot of attention in the same way that the Mr Bates Post Office series did.
Channel 4@channel4.bsky.social · 5mo agoDirty Business. Watch tonight at 9pm on Channel 4 and Channel 4 streaming. youtu.be/MEz6sYhYtio?...
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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My January reading included two excellent books: 1929, the inside story of the Wall Street crash by @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social and A Shellshocked Nation, Britain between the wars by @alwynturner.bsky.social They complemented each other I think.
Hoping Matt Goodwin loses Gorton and Denton for many reasons, not least because we can deploy the headline, and resulting nickname, Matt Badloss
Whoever gets the best shot of him just standing next to the word "ME" wins tonight.
At the risk of preaching not just to the choir but to the house of bishops, for my New Statesman column this week I have written about leaving Twitter a year ago, and how surreal it's been watching people make excuses for sharing a site with an AI sex pest tool www.newstatesman.com/culture/soci...
How I quit Elon Musk’s toxic online playground
X abandoned me long before I abandoned it
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The thing is he’s not physically writing those posts and letters himself. Which means there’s someone in DC doing a lot of nodding while taking dictation and saying things like ‘do you want that in caps?’ And ‘how many exclamation marks, sir?’
Just finished the last episode of Pluribus on Apple TV. Excellent. And Rhea Seehorn superb.
Well said
Zoë Grünewald@zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 7mo agoBeen thinking a lot about how we are talking about health and society so I wrote down some thoughts about what happens when self-care replaces collective care, and why joy, connection, and shared spaces are as essential to a nation’s wellbeing as any diet zoegrunewald.substack.com/p/when-whats...
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