@lucasaurelius.bsky.social That post about the air crash turns out to be very misleading/poorly reported. I have taken down the repost you liked, fwiw
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@blackandwhiteandcolours.de That post about the air crash turns out to be very misleading/poorly reported. I have taken down my repost and suggest you do to
I’ve said this so many times. Wood pigeons, too.
Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social · last wk.If gulls were rare, people would never stop talking about how beautiful they were.
This is very convincing stuff from @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Particularly like the point that asking what needs to be cut to make a cap on bus fares possible is "an absurd way to think about fiscal discipline".
A Reader of the FT@a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 17h agoHow to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else-Unfortunately, the whole framework for managing government tax and spend in the UK is broken… www.ft.com/content/4987... @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
How to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else-Unfortunately, the whole framework for managing government tax and spend in the UK is broken… www.ft.com/content/4987... @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
How to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else
The lesson from Manchester is that it takes time for public investment policies to show up in GDP
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This is a really thorough, useful piece by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · yesterdayNEW – Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @iain-staffell.bsky.social @henrypreston.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/yfvQnUS
If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.
I think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm
*There's some kind of calculus here about which is more destructive *I'm thinking the locusts are much more scorched-earth *You'd be way better off with drones as a defense from locusts
drew beck@drewbeck.bsky.social · 14h agoLocusts seem like a great drone defense
Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.
Send this to whoever is currently posting migrant invasion content to your timeline mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/ceutas-pha...
Ceuta’s phantom invasion
The online right declared the fall of Europe. By nightfall, most of the supposed invaders were already back in Morocco.
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Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
WTF happened to Michael Clayton, @boydhilton.bsky.social ?
File under "Still don't like the look of this" (Posted one week on) climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...
Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun@eaterofsun.bsky.social · last wk.File under "Really quite disturbing" If the preliminary data for the past few weeks are confirmed, we are now very close to a new world record, and seeing an alarming rate of change climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...
I agree with Kurt. This is a very good piece not least because it acknowledges Sir Christopher's agency in engaging critically with the material, rather than seeing him as just sort of missing the point.
Kurt Andersen@kurtandersen.bsky.social · 2d agoI liked Nolan’s The Odyssey. For exactly the reasons @ezraklein.bsky.social lays out in this very excellent piece, beautifully written and produced. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
"Poop" is a stupid, twee American word, suitable only for use with someone under the age of five. The word you're looking for is "poo". Thank you for your attention to this matter. (screengrab because for some reason the link isn't generating the card.)
Well it wasn't *all* we talked about...
John Harrison@johnaharrison.bsky.social · 2d agoHeartening that seeing a 40-year plus friend for the first time in two years became a 'Voyager v DS9 - what's better' discussion For the record, I ENJOY Voyager more, but feel DS9 is 'better' in terms of characters & plot @eaterofsun.bsky.social
File under "Still don't like the look of this" (Posted one week on) climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...
Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun@eaterofsun.bsky.social · last wk.File under "Really quite disturbing" If the preliminary data for the past few weeks are confirmed, we are now very close to a new world record, and seeing an alarming rate of change climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...
I love em dashes and I'm not going to give them up because robots that write badly also use them.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3d agoYeah, Kat Tenbarge was much nicer to Jack Osbourne than I would have been, I would have just told him to go fuck himself. Also, if you're going to accuse a writer or journalist of using "AI" on the basis of em dashes, absolutely positively go fuck yourself.
"meat book" is a deeply horrible phrase. For many reasons, but mostly because of how dehumanising it is. I think that anyone who cares about this stuff can start by not using phrases like that!
Just spotted this. It's misleading and unnecessary, who eats 5/6th of a bag?
"No new author will ever be able to prove to anyone other than themselves that they can do it alone' This thought has stayed with me hughhowey.com/the-end-of-a...
The End of an Era - Hugh Howey
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wa...
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seems pretty big that the guy in the middle has resigned from Fifa over Infantino's sell-off deal!
