Anthony Adler
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An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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My first full time job involved doing PR for an "internet fridge" in the early 2000s. At the time I quietly thought it was a silly fad that would pass. God I wish I'd been right.
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
My first full time job involved doing PR for an "internet fridge" in the early 2000s. At the time I quietly thought it was a silly fad that would pass. God I wish I'd been right.
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Holy shit, and there we have why the humanities are vital for those in STEM, that's absolutely magical
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Holy shit, and there we have why the humanities are vital for those in STEM, that's absolutely magical
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Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
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December 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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“--it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back...”
--Tom Stoppard
--Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“--it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back...”
--Tom Stoppard
--Tom Stoppard
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Me about to piss off a bunch of capitalists: If Bezos doesn’t want to pay his fair share in corporate taxes, I don’t see why we shouldn’t nationalise Amazon and make it a subsidiary of the post office.
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Me about to piss off a bunch of capitalists: If Bezos doesn’t want to pay his fair share in corporate taxes, I don’t see why we shouldn’t nationalise Amazon and make it a subsidiary of the post office.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
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I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
I mean come on: we'll ask but reserve right to exclude you on the basis of how you look. Oh, and if you try to use your birth sex specific facilities we'll kick you out of those as well.
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
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Demons don't do anything they promise to, but we are told the next, even more lavish one will.
So much gold is being spent on summoning that apparently 'a bubble' is about to burst and then everything will be a lot worse for a long time, and none of the people responsible will suffer in any way.
So much gold is being spent on summoning that apparently 'a bubble' is about to burst and then everything will be a lot worse for a long time, and none of the people responsible will suffer in any way.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Demons don't do anything they promise to, but we are told the next, even more lavish one will.
So much gold is being spent on summoning that apparently 'a bubble' is about to burst and then everything will be a lot worse for a long time, and none of the people responsible will suffer in any way.
So much gold is being spent on summoning that apparently 'a bubble' is about to burst and then everything will be a lot worse for a long time, and none of the people responsible will suffer in any way.
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The demons pretend to be neutral but they are not, and they aren't living, they are demons. They are made at out of sand, rare metals and lightning.
They aren't living but they do drink. If you ask a demon a question it will become thirsty, and they insist on fresh water.
They aren't living but they do drink. If you ask a demon a question it will become thirsty, and they insist on fresh water.
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The demons pretend to be neutral but they are not, and they aren't living, they are demons. They are made at out of sand, rare metals and lightning.
They aren't living but they do drink. If you ask a demon a question it will become thirsty, and they insist on fresh water.
They aren't living but they do drink. If you ask a demon a question it will become thirsty, and they insist on fresh water.
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Demons are always spying on you, that's part of the deal and if they help you make something, then they can now make a copy of it, forever.
We are currently waiting to see the lawmakers are going to punish the demon summoners for stealing a copy of every book ever written by a human.
We are currently waiting to see the lawmakers are going to punish the demon summoners for stealing a copy of every book ever written by a human.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Demons are always spying on you, that's part of the deal and if they help you make something, then they can now make a copy of it, forever.
We are currently waiting to see the lawmakers are going to punish the demon summoners for stealing a copy of every book ever written by a human.
We are currently waiting to see the lawmakers are going to punish the demon summoners for stealing a copy of every book ever written by a human.
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A demon can pretend to make art and even give the illusion of living people for a short time, but they cannot create anything actually original because demons only steal.
We are now in a demon summoning war. The powerful groups have convinced themself whoever gets the most powerful demon wins.
We are now in a demon summoning war. The powerful groups have convinced themself whoever gets the most powerful demon wins.
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A demon can pretend to make art and even give the illusion of living people for a short time, but they cannot create anything actually original because demons only steal.
We are now in a demon summoning war. The powerful groups have convinced themself whoever gets the most powerful demon wins.
We are now in a demon summoning war. The powerful groups have convinced themself whoever gets the most powerful demon wins.
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The demon seller is very good at selling the idea of demons to the bosses ('more gold for you!') so your job and things you own are trying to trick you into using demons or forcing you to see a demon.
Sometimes demons do terrible things, deadly things and the summoner just sighs.
Sometimes demons do terrible things, deadly things and the summoner just sighs.
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The demon seller is very good at selling the idea of demons to the bosses ('more gold for you!') so your job and things you own are trying to trick you into using demons or forcing you to see a demon.
Sometimes demons do terrible things, deadly things and the summoner just sighs.
Sometimes demons do terrible things, deadly things and the summoner just sighs.
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It's weird to live in a time when some mad guy has worked out how to summon demons, and he says the demons can do jobs for cheaper!
But the demons don't do a good job at all, oh and as well as paying them, every time you want them to do a job you have to chop down a tree.
But the demons don't do a good job at all, oh and as well as paying them, every time you want them to do a job you have to chop down a tree.
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It's weird to live in a time when some mad guy has worked out how to summon demons, and he says the demons can do jobs for cheaper!
But the demons don't do a good job at all, oh and as well as paying them, every time you want them to do a job you have to chop down a tree.
But the demons don't do a good job at all, oh and as well as paying them, every time you want them to do a job you have to chop down a tree.
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I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
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Hillel: put your right foot in
Gentile: done
Hillel: now take it out
Gentile: ...ok
Hillel: put your other foot in, shake it all about
Gentile: wait what?
Hillel: what is hateful to you do not do to another
Hillel: that's what it's all about
Gentile: done
Hillel: now take it out
Gentile: ...ok
Hillel: put your other foot in, shake it all about
Gentile: wait what?
Hillel: what is hateful to you do not do to another
Hillel: that's what it's all about
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Hillel: put your right foot in
Gentile: done
Hillel: now take it out
Gentile: ...ok
Hillel: put your other foot in, shake it all about
Gentile: wait what?
Hillel: what is hateful to you do not do to another
Hillel: that's what it's all about
Gentile: done
Hillel: now take it out
Gentile: ...ok
Hillel: put your other foot in, shake it all about
Gentile: wait what?
Hillel: what is hateful to you do not do to another
Hillel: that's what it's all about
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What is the longest unbroken line in the UK? I think painted lines on the inside of a motorway might be a good shout. Can anyone do better? It has to be human made.
November 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
What is the longest unbroken line in the UK? I think painted lines on the inside of a motorway might be a good shout. Can anyone do better? It has to be human made.
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Left and right wing parties now have the exact same policies, so the defining political divide is that the Right does crimes on purpose while the Left does them by tripping over their own shoelaces.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood by his chief finance minister, Rachel Reeves, after she admitted breaking housing rules when renting out her family home.
UK’s top finance minister broke housing rules
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is cleared by a government ethics probe, but the opposition smells blood.
www.politico.eu
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Left and right wing parties now have the exact same policies, so the defining political divide is that the Right does crimes on purpose while the Left does them by tripping over their own shoelaces.
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we can't get back the men we've 'lost' to these horrific ideologies because we never had them in the first place. it's been 84 years but dorothy thompson still says it best at the end of 'who goes nazi," which you should read if you haven't. the link: harpers.org/archive/1941... . the quote:
October 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
we can't get back the men we've 'lost' to these horrific ideologies because we never had them in the first place. it's been 84 years but dorothy thompson still says it best at the end of 'who goes nazi," which you should read if you haven't. the link: harpers.org/archive/1941... . the quote:
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A week ago I saw someone eat an orange in the way you'd eat an apple; peel and everything. It disturbed me so much that I've not been able to get it out of my mind. Sharing so you can think about it too.
October 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
A week ago I saw someone eat an orange in the way you'd eat an apple; peel and everything. It disturbed me so much that I've not been able to get it out of my mind. Sharing so you can think about it too.
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Okay, here’s the game with this one: do NOT look at the floorplan. Look only at the photos.
Comment telling us which photo number you were on when you realised.
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Comment telling us which photo number you were on when you realised.
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Check out this 3 bedroom cottage for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom cottage for sale in Caistor Lane, Tealby, Market Rasen, LN8 for £475,000. Marketed by Mundys, Market Rasen
www.rightmove.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Okay, here’s the game with this one: do NOT look at the floorplan. Look only at the photos.
Comment telling us which photo number you were on when you realised.
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Comment telling us which photo number you were on when you realised.
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.