ntheowl
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owl tree vole eat cake pudding ('the famous')
Pinned
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If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
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“I am glad,” said Frog. Then Frog and Toad went right to sleep.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“I am glad,” said Frog. Then Frog and Toad went right to sleep.
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I just think it would be neat if turkeys used the same technique to draw us
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I just think it would be neat if turkeys used the same technique to draw us
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No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
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Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
[birb beast]
Griffin Protome from a Cauldron (Greece, Samos, 650-640 BCE)
Harvard Art Museums, Boston
Harvard Art Museums, Boston
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
[birb beast]
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Pay squeezes in freelance creative jobs are a grim scene.
The expected payments for most musical jobs as a freelancer are the same in figure terms as they were when I first started doing this 25 years ago.
The expected payments for most musical jobs as a freelancer are the same in figure terms as they were when I first started doing this 25 years ago.
Last time I checked my current rate at one publisher was $70 less than my starting rate there almost 20 years ago, when accounting for inflation. It'll be even worse now.
The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pay squeezes in freelance creative jobs are a grim scene.
The expected payments for most musical jobs as a freelancer are the same in figure terms as they were when I first started doing this 25 years ago.
The expected payments for most musical jobs as a freelancer are the same in figure terms as they were when I first started doing this 25 years ago.
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1 2 3 all over the face. This numbered face is part of an #earlymodern book about physiognomy, the art of face reading, and chiromancy, the art of fortune-telling by looking at your hand. The numbers described the person's character, personality or body functions from their outer appearance.
1/2
1/2
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
1 2 3 all over the face. This numbered face is part of an #earlymodern book about physiognomy, the art of face reading, and chiromancy, the art of fortune-telling by looking at your hand. The numbers described the person's character, personality or body functions from their outer appearance.
1/2
1/2
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Details of Dannatt:
- Lobbying top UK diplomat in Ghana for a gold mine company he had shares in
- Lobbying ministers to back a fertiliser factory takeover bid he chaired
- Lobbying Home Office at the instigation of a US arms company that paid him, to crackdown on Palestine Action
- Lobbying top UK diplomat in Ghana for a gold mine company he had shares in
- Lobbying ministers to back a fertiliser factory takeover bid he chaired
- Lobbying Home Office at the instigation of a US arms company that paid him, to crackdown on Palestine Action
How Lord Dannatt used his peerage to open doors for business interests
Former head of British army is suspended from the House of Lords after being filmed breaking rules
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Details of Dannatt:
- Lobbying top UK diplomat in Ghana for a gold mine company he had shares in
- Lobbying ministers to back a fertiliser factory takeover bid he chaired
- Lobbying Home Office at the instigation of a US arms company that paid him, to crackdown on Palestine Action
- Lobbying top UK diplomat in Ghana for a gold mine company he had shares in
- Lobbying ministers to back a fertiliser factory takeover bid he chaired
- Lobbying Home Office at the instigation of a US arms company that paid him, to crackdown on Palestine Action
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Frog came running down the hill. He pulled Toad out of the snow.
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Frog came running down the hill. He pulled Toad out of the snow.
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We are moving inexorably to the end point of electoral chaos - five parties all tied on 19% in the polls, election to be decided by blindfolded chimps chucking coloured darts at a constituency map
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (+2)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 23-24 Nov.
Changes w/ 16-17 Nov.
RFM: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (+2)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 23-24 Nov.
Changes w/ 16-17 Nov.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We are moving inexorably to the end point of electoral chaos - five parties all tied on 19% in the polls, election to be decided by blindfolded chimps chucking coloured darts at a constituency map
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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We will skip through the meadows and run through the woods and swim in the river.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
We will skip through the meadows and run through the woods and swim in the river.
Hm. 'As Kemp puts it: “Every civilisation throughout history has had an expiry date.” Considering we can’t know ours [it was 1980]...'
Civilisations: Rise and Fall review – TV that will make you despair for our own plummeting society
Civilisations: Rise and Fall review – TV that will make you despair for our own plummeting society
The mightily stressful and incredibly close-to-the-bone BBC show traces the demise of four ancient worlds – and it’s wildly prescient stuff. Will we never learn?
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Hm. 'As Kemp puts it: “Every civilisation throughout history has had an expiry date.” Considering we can’t know ours [it was 1980]...'
Star Wars Rankings (wrong answers only)
1. The Hidden Fortress
2. The Dam Busters
3. The Singing Ringing Tree
4. Andrei Rublev
1. The Hidden Fortress
2. The Dam Busters
3. The Singing Ringing Tree
4. Andrei Rublev
Star Wars Rankings (wrong answers only)
1. Starcrash
2. Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars
3. Rocky Jones Space Ranger
4. Alexander Nevsky
1. Starcrash
2. Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars
3. Rocky Jones Space Ranger
4. Alexander Nevsky
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Star Wars Rankings (wrong answers only)
1. The Hidden Fortress
2. The Dam Busters
3. The Singing Ringing Tree
4. Andrei Rublev
1. The Hidden Fortress
2. The Dam Busters
3. The Singing Ringing Tree
4. Andrei Rublev
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If Nvidia had just stuck to soaps and moisturizers they probably wouldn't be mired in all this mess.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If Nvidia had just stuck to soaps and moisturizers they probably wouldn't be mired in all this mess.
[typical]
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
[typical]
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Toad fell into the pond.
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Toad fell into the pond.
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That is the indictment, right here
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
That is the indictment, right here
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Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
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The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout