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Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms
I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
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I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
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No. 42: Pan Amsterdam
From dirt road blues to crypto hoes and beyond with the Texan renaissance man.
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OK! Pan Amsterdam is live, and he takes us from dirt road blues to crypto hoes, Soulquarians to Iggy Pop, teenage talent shows with Destinys Child to drunkenly calling a beloved DJ “a McCauley Culkin-looking motherfuckerr”. This one is an absolute RIOT. GET INVOLVED.
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Ah yes, stupid cyberpunk
your 14yr old nephew is addicted to at least 4 different gambling apps on his phone where he's actively betting daily on the outcome of individual skirmishes in a real life war happening on the other side of the globe
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ah yes, stupid cyberpunk
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Black Friday is good for cheap streaming services and cheap streaming services only
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Black Friday is good for cheap streaming services and cheap streaming services only
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The reason these guys are a waste of everyone's time and attention is that they want to be, but the reason they are such a huge waste of time and attention is that people let them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The reason these guys are a waste of everyone's time and attention is that they want to be, but the reason they are such a huge waste of time and attention is that people let them.
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Ideas to devalue your £2m home:
Install an outdoors glass cubicle toilet on your front drive and make sure you use it regularly. Keep eye contact with anyone who sees you using it.
Install an outdoors glass cubicle toilet on your front drive and make sure you use it regularly. Keep eye contact with anyone who sees you using it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ideas to devalue your £2m home:
Install an outdoors glass cubicle toilet on your front drive and make sure you use it regularly. Keep eye contact with anyone who sees you using it.
Install an outdoors glass cubicle toilet on your front drive and make sure you use it regularly. Keep eye contact with anyone who sees you using it.
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Reinforcing social norms that being a bigot is not just unacceptable but pathetic is not bullying. Bullying is a power trip. Hurting people smaller than you because hurting people feels good.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reinforcing social norms that being a bigot is not just unacceptable but pathetic is not bullying. Bullying is a power trip. Hurting people smaller than you because hurting people feels good.
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Nice graph but the boob expansion guy said this budget was bad for the 99% so who should I believe?
Overall, the combination of tax rises and giveaways since last year’s Budget is progressive.
Incomes for households in the bottom half of the distribution have increased by 1.0 per cent and incomes for households in the top half fell by 0.7 per cent.
Incomes for households in the bottom half of the distribution have increased by 1.0 per cent and incomes for households in the top half fell by 0.7 per cent.
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Nice graph but the boob expansion guy said this budget was bad for the 99% so who should I believe?
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Can't wait for the documentary: Tinker Tailor Soldier Dumbass
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Can't wait for the documentary: Tinker Tailor Soldier Dumbass
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Immigration creates jobs, supports public services, & drives growth.
These are economic facts.
How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today
These are economic facts.
How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Immigration creates jobs, supports public services, & drives growth.
These are economic facts.
How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today
These are economic facts.
How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today
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Good paper on how value-free machine learning “science” is inescapably shot through with unacknowledged theory. Bottom line:
1. There’s no such thing as raw data.
2. As Keynes said about economics, people who claim they’re just following the facts are always following unacknowledged ideologies.
1. There’s no such thing as raw data.
2. As Keynes said about economics, people who claim they’re just following the facts are always following unacknowledged ideologies.
The purpose of applying machine learning to the scientific process is to pretend you don’t have to think any more. This is incorrect.
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23840/7/Andr...
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal (2024)
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23840/7/Andr...
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal (2024)
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Good paper on how value-free machine learning “science” is inescapably shot through with unacknowledged theory. Bottom line:
1. There’s no such thing as raw data.
2. As Keynes said about economics, people who claim they’re just following the facts are always following unacknowledged ideologies.
1. There’s no such thing as raw data.
2. As Keynes said about economics, people who claim they’re just following the facts are always following unacknowledged ideologies.
I was obsessed with this book as a kid. Couldn't do ANY of the puzzles in it, mind, but it was just so gorgeous. Actually saw Kit Williams at a book fair and he autographed my copy and wrote "FAIRE FORTUNE BE YOURS" or something like that. 🥰
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I was obsessed with this book as a kid. Couldn't do ANY of the puzzles in it, mind, but it was just so gorgeous. Actually saw Kit Williams at a book fair and he autographed my copy and wrote "FAIRE FORTUNE BE YOURS" or something like that. 🥰
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Just occured to me that following the budget the government has now done five of the ten "quick wins" I suggested for their their first few months. Took them a little longer...
(Two child limit; processing asylum seekers; indexing tuition fees; increasing depts delegated authority; ethics rules)
(Two child limit; processing asylum seekers; indexing tuition fees; increasing depts delegated authority; ethics rules)
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Just occured to me that following the budget the government has now done five of the ten "quick wins" I suggested for their their first few months. Took them a little longer...
(Two child limit; processing asylum seekers; indexing tuition fees; increasing depts delegated authority; ethics rules)
(Two child limit; processing asylum seekers; indexing tuition fees; increasing depts delegated authority; ethics rules)
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2016 happened. Russia did support Trump’s campaign. Good reporters were on it at the time. I wrote it up within the larger context of global oligarchy and neo-fascism in "Road to Unfreedom."
9 years ago,House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Speaker to be Kevin McCarthy had a recorded conversation in which McCarthy says, "There are two people that I think Putin pays, (Representative Dana) Rohrbacher and Trump. Swear to God."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio0...
Washington Post: House majority leader said in 2016, "Putin pays" Trump
YouTube video by CBS News
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
2016 happened. Russia did support Trump’s campaign. Good reporters were on it at the time. I wrote it up within the larger context of global oligarchy and neo-fascism in "Road to Unfreedom."
We need UKRaveComments to start up on here...
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
We need UKRaveComments to start up on here...
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Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
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the next couple of days are going to see a hell of a lot of "the rich declare themselves poor"
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
the next couple of days are going to see a hell of a lot of "the rich declare themselves poor"
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When you're driving a miniature steam engine at 10:00 but scowling at Portillo dancing at 6:00
"I AM FROM LAKE TITICACA! ARE YOU THREATENING ME? BOMB THE PENTAGON HEHEHEHE YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! FNEEK!"
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
When you're driving a miniature steam engine at 10:00 but scowling at Portillo dancing at 6:00
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Only a sixth of the public know that immigration is now falling (significantly) from its peak levels. It is a challenge to the politicians and the media to do their distinct jobs more effectively by communicating this, so we can have a more informed debate
www.britishfuture.org/immigration-...
www.britishfuture.org/immigration-...
Immigration falling but public still thinks it is going up – new research - British Future
Findings from the British Future/Ipsos Immigration Attitudes Tracker into what the public thinks about immigration for work, study and asylum
www.britishfuture.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Only a sixth of the public know that immigration is now falling (significantly) from its peak levels. It is a challenge to the politicians and the media to do their distinct jobs more effectively by communicating this, so we can have a more informed debate
www.britishfuture.org/immigration-...
www.britishfuture.org/immigration-...
"I AM FROM LAKE TITICACA! ARE YOU THREATENING ME? BOMB THE PENTAGON HEHEHEHE YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! FNEEK!"
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"I AM FROM LAKE TITICACA! ARE YOU THREATENING ME? BOMB THE PENTAGON HEHEHEHE YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! FNEEK!"
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"Labour is chasing a voter who barely exists". I think this is a good summary of the issue.
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"Labour is chasing a voter who barely exists". I think this is a good summary of the issue.
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Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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When people like Lucy White thunder the explicit racism of "there should not be a single person born in Pakistan in the UK House of Commons", ask them whether Boris Johnson, who was born in America, should have been permitted to be the Mayor of London, an MP, and the PM.
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
When people like Lucy White thunder the explicit racism of "there should not be a single person born in Pakistan in the UK House of Commons", ask them whether Boris Johnson, who was born in America, should have been permitted to be the Mayor of London, an MP, and the PM.
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AI is the new motion smoothing
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
AI is the new motion smoothing
It's OK, AI will do this for you soon.
Although now I think about it, I doubt it could make a movie as bad as a Tarantino Star Trek would be in reality.
Although now I think about it, I doubt it could make a movie as bad as a Tarantino Star Trek would be in reality.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It's OK, AI will do this for you soon.
Although now I think about it, I doubt it could make a movie as bad as a Tarantino Star Trek would be in reality.
Although now I think about it, I doubt it could make a movie as bad as a Tarantino Star Trek would be in reality.
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“I read the ALT text and it didn’t help | Me for Unherd”
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“I read the ALT text and it didn’t help | Me for Unherd”
The day Gillian off of New Order joined Pulp
"a very wide leg trouser worn by the Chancellor, possibly indicating a break from Sunak's skinny orthodoxy"
Chris Mason (probably)
Chris Mason (probably)
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The day Gillian off of New Order joined Pulp