Oh Kemi. It's not your decade, is it?

I have long thought that Kemi Badenoch’s advisors absolutely hate her guts, and nothing I’ve seen over the years contradicts this.

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Home Recognized as National Historic Landmark, to host Writers’ Residency locusmag.com/2026/08...

Gah. Why did I read that obituary-come-haigiography of Rod Liddle in The Guardian? I need something to get the taste of that out of my mouth.

To my neighbours: don't even think about it. bsky.app/profile/the-...

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2d ago

Couple face huge court bill after losing neighbour fight over ornamental squirrel

Indeed he did - things like "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids"

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Well, quite. But it also just diminishes our language through hyperbole. If Rod Liddle is a 'towering intellect', what words do we have for Roger Penrose, or Nobel prize winners?

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Off to some cheery Sunday evening viewing: Peter Watkins' The War Game.

No Donald, it's not the one used in that Andres Serrano piece.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don't know about you, but I don't like the way Trump is gripping Jesus.

Fine afternoon listening to Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg play his first live date since 2018 (Meiburg - "I'm terrified"). Roll on the band dates in November.

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

Better than any recent horror film: this guy's legs 😱

Biggus@biggus.bsky.social · 5d ago

The longer you look at it, the worse it gets. #aifail

The Grumpy Cook website has a ‘Pay It Forward’ scheme where you can pay for a range of meals for people who may be struggling. These range from a small breakfast through to a family pack lunch and also including a child’s meal. The prices are suggested and start at £2.00. grumpycook.co.uk/shop/

HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 6d ago

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

So, let's have your "everyone else is in bed" music. What are your late night faves? #NowPlaying

Well, that was fast. Thankfully. It would be helpful for Google to tell us what they think they are bringing to the world in introducing a way to modify Google Earth views. We seem to have several gangs of adolescent boys competing to see who can do the newest thing with "AI" and get it out.

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.

#NowPlaying, a record that starts off quietly and does not remain so. Includes Jaki Liebezeit on flute, as well as drums. Have a fine weekend, everyone 🍷

A thoroughly well-deserved five star review for the John Tilbury box on @anothertimbre.bsky.social in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

John Tilbury: At Home album review – an eclectic and extraordinary treasure trove

The great interpreter of Morton Feldman and a towering figure of experimental music signs off with four discs of intimate, revelatory recordings

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Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

They specifically want books before 2022 because they are uncorrupted by AI. They need books that have not been poisoned by the poison they are making. It's just like pre-war steel. They invented cultural radiation.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Razorlight. Why? Not one of life's major conundrums but a puzzle.

Decent man being subjected to incredibly bleak showtrial by stupid vindictive people entirely unfit for public office

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Shout out to the man on the train calling his bank about ID theft and who has read his name, postcode, and the long number on his card to the whole carriage.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

Have just sat through Ranganathan's BBC promo for the first time, which has to be longer than The Odyssey.

they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them

Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · last wk.

Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?

Legendary pianist John Tilbury, captured playing piano, clavichord & organ at home as he approached his 90th birthday this year, ending his recording career with a wonderful, generous 4CD set that also includes selected, notable archival works boomkat.com/products/at-...

The Royal Astronomical Society is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts. Read our full statement here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

RIP Bill Oddie. A joy to watch in my youth in The Goodies, and memorably enthusiastic about Joni Mitchell that one time in a queue in Tower Records.