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· Nov 10
I have no intention of tiring of this view (and neither has the dog)...
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Hey. Going on holiday to the US is optional btw
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Hey. Going on holiday to the US is optional btw
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Okay. This is angering me.
First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Man made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests
Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Okay. This is angering me.
First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
First of all, “MAN”!?
We’re not in the nineteenth century FFS. There’s a better word and it is “Humans”.
And secondly - who the f£&k thought HUMANS only learned to control fire 50,000 years ago???!!!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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I really, really wish there were more children's books with an anti-capitalist lens.
There are SO few, even though capitalism touches everything and has a huge impact on many kids' lives.
There are SO few, even though capitalism touches everything and has a huge impact on many kids' lives.
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I really, really wish there were more children's books with an anti-capitalist lens.
There are SO few, even though capitalism touches everything and has a huge impact on many kids' lives.
There are SO few, even though capitalism touches everything and has a huge impact on many kids' lives.
'refuk'. Re-fuck. I'm taking that one. :-)
Fun Fact: 38 Reform councillors have gone since July ’24. Each by-election costs £27k. Refuk’s chaos has cost us £1,026,000 so far.
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
'refuk'. Re-fuck. I'm taking that one. :-)
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Fun Fact: 38 Reform councillors have gone since July ’24. Each by-election costs £27k. Refuk’s chaos has cost us £1,026,000 so far.
December 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Fun Fact: 38 Reform councillors have gone since July ’24. Each by-election costs £27k. Refuk’s chaos has cost us £1,026,000 so far.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Starmer's biggest problem is the more you see of him, see patterns and understand him as a person, the more shockingly awful he is.
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Starmer's biggest problem is the more you see of him, see patterns and understand him as a person, the more shockingly awful he is.
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Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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You need to watch this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1l...
The Cure - Alone (The Show of a Lost World - Live from Troxy 2024)
YouTube video by TheCureVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You need to watch this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1l...
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I do sometimes wonder whether the British media establishment are making a mistake by having less contempt for high profile child sex offenders than they do for the disabled, poor, and trans people.
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I do sometimes wonder whether the British media establishment are making a mistake by having less contempt for high profile child sex offenders than they do for the disabled, poor, and trans people.
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In October, I had a very long chat with Alan Moore. On magick, sci-fi, the perils of ecological doomerism, the joy of occultist pranks, the psychogeography of Stoke Newington, the invention of the taser - and much more!
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
seamas.medium.com/its-a-rabbit...
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
seamas.medium.com/its-a-rabbit...
It’s a rabbit out of a hat: On magick, fantasy and pretty much everything else, with Alan Moore
In October of this year, I spent a balmy evening talking with Alan Moore on the week that he had two — count ’em!— new books on the…
seamas.medium.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:14 PM
In October, I had a very long chat with Alan Moore. On magick, sci-fi, the perils of ecological doomerism, the joy of occultist pranks, the psychogeography of Stoke Newington, the invention of the taser - and much more!
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
seamas.medium.com/its-a-rabbit...
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
seamas.medium.com/its-a-rabbit...
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Try learning most things in Welsh - a phonetic language - at school and then encountering new words in English. I won’t go into what I called ‘penis’ and ‘vagina’ when I first read them but you can imagine
To this day, when I see signs to the Lingerie department in M&S, I still hear it in my head exactly as it’s written - Ling-er-y - from before I knew that it was French. 🤣
Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’.
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Try learning most things in Welsh - a phonetic language - at school and then encountering new words in English. I won’t go into what I called ‘penis’ and ‘vagina’ when I first read them but you can imagine
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It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer:
zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...
zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer:
zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...
zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...
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Happy #HumanRightsDay!
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
European nations to begin major talks on ECHR migration rule changes
The talks are the most significant sign yet that international human rights law could be reinterpreted.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy #HumanRightsDay!
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
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People currently sitting on softer surfaces than me. Number 74 in an occasional series.
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
People currently sitting on softer surfaces than me. Number 74 in an occasional series.
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I have not seen this in any news
One of the Palestinians who was released in January 2025 as part of the “ceasefire” deal has been abducted by the Israeli terrorist forces from inside his home in Jenin
His name is Mohammad al-Ardah
He was taken hostage after he was released as part of a deal
One of the Palestinians who was released in January 2025 as part of the “ceasefire” deal has been abducted by the Israeli terrorist forces from inside his home in Jenin
His name is Mohammad al-Ardah
He was taken hostage after he was released as part of a deal
Mosab Abu Toha (@mosababutoha)
I have not seen this in any news. One of the Palestinians who was released in January 2025 as part of the “ceasefire” deal has been abducted by the Israeli terrorist forces from inside his home in Jen...
substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I have not seen this in any news
One of the Palestinians who was released in January 2025 as part of the “ceasefire” deal has been abducted by the Israeli terrorist forces from inside his home in Jenin
His name is Mohammad al-Ardah
He was taken hostage after he was released as part of a deal
One of the Palestinians who was released in January 2025 as part of the “ceasefire” deal has been abducted by the Israeli terrorist forces from inside his home in Jenin
His name is Mohammad al-Ardah
He was taken hostage after he was released as part of a deal
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How the BBC upholds fossil fuel industry narratives, 09/12/2025: an article about a battery storage project featuring one (1) person objecting to the scheme. The opinion is presented as indicative of popular opposition. No other viewpoint is offered.
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
How the BBC upholds fossil fuel industry narratives, 09/12/2025: an article about a battery storage project featuring one (1) person objecting to the scheme. The opinion is presented as indicative of popular opposition. No other viewpoint is offered.
Due to canal things I'd visit Rickmansworth a lot a while ago, and between tube station and canal, I'd often wonder which cafe this might have happened in ;-)
"a cafe somewhere. Rickmansworth. Don't know what she was doing there, but that was where she cracked up. Apparently she stood up, calmly announced that she had undergone some extraordinary revelation or something, wobbled a bit, looked confused, and finally collapsed screaming into an egg sandwich"
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Due to canal things I'd visit Rickmansworth a lot a while ago, and between tube station and canal, I'd often wonder which cafe this might have happened in ;-)
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So work was purposefully taken away from the camera crew, set designers, set decorators, sound crew, set builders, transport drivers, catering crew, actors, runners, electricians, carpenters, etc.
All to make an advert so they could say "look at what we did with AI!" Pricks.
All to make an advert so they could say "look at what we did with AI!" Pricks.
The company behind the mcdonalds ad:
Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.
Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
So work was purposefully taken away from the camera crew, set designers, set decorators, sound crew, set builders, transport drivers, catering crew, actors, runners, electricians, carpenters, etc.
All to make an advert so they could say "look at what we did with AI!" Pricks.
All to make an advert so they could say "look at what we did with AI!" Pricks.
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I post this as I know some people who get really agitated and stressed about avoiding hearing "Last Christmas" and will get incredibly upset when the get Whamageddoned. It really isn't worth the stress.
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I post this as I know some people who get really agitated and stressed about avoiding hearing "Last Christmas" and will get incredibly upset when the get Whamageddoned. It really isn't worth the stress.
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Nostell Priory has been beautifully decorated for Christmas. Trademark and copyright issues have meant a last minute change to the theme, and staff stress the story is JUST about some children being evacuated and having a lovely holiday, which I hope the ALT text in these pics makes VERY CLEAR.
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Nostell Priory has been beautifully decorated for Christmas. Trademark and copyright issues have meant a last minute change to the theme, and staff stress the story is JUST about some children being evacuated and having a lovely holiday, which I hope the ALT text in these pics makes VERY CLEAR.
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This story from yesterday didn't perhaps get the attention it should have. It's utterly shocking. It follows dogged reporting by the Observer (in its pre-sale era), which was repeatedly rejected by the academy federation concerned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
London academy staff instilled ‘climate of fear’ among pupils
Report finds children at Mossbourne Victoria Park traumatised by disciplinary measures ‘designed to humiliate’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This story from yesterday didn't perhaps get the attention it should have. It's utterly shocking. It follows dogged reporting by the Observer (in its pre-sale era), which was repeatedly rejected by the academy federation concerned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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can't say what I think about this as it would get me banned from this website permanently
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
can't say what I think about this as it would get me banned from this website permanently
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I read a while back that 5 are now producing more hours of original drama than either the BBC or ITV. That would have been unthinkable a decade ago. 5 was the "low rent" tabloid channel. Not any more, it seems.
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I read a while back that 5 are now producing more hours of original drama than either the BBC or ITV. That would have been unthinkable a decade ago. 5 was the "low rent" tabloid channel. Not any more, it seems.
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There are the usual specials of Call The Midwife, Midsomer Murders and Death in Paradise (no Who obvs). But there always used to be some new one-offs, big-ticket literary adaptations, stuff like that. A Christie, a Dickens, something that won the Booker five years ago. Nope. NOTHING. It's barren.
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
There are the usual specials of Call The Midwife, Midsomer Murders and Death in Paradise (no Who obvs). But there always used to be some new one-offs, big-ticket literary adaptations, stuff like that. A Christie, a Dickens, something that won the Booker five years ago. Nope. NOTHING. It's barren.