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Skeleton, a sport practised by a few thousand people (probably far fewer) in this country, has received £5,765,123 from UK Sport for the 2022-26 period.
That's more than what was awarded to basketball, handball, lacrosse, fencing, squash and volleyball taken together over the same period.
That's more than what was awarded to basketball, handball, lacrosse, fencing, squash and volleyball taken together over the same period.
What exactly is it about Britons that makes us so good at hurtling down an icy drainpipe? | Zoe Williams
What exactly is it about Britons that makes us so good at hurtling down an icy drainpipe? | Zoe Williams
Team GB has swept up the skeleton medals at the Winter Olympics. I suspect it’s something to do with our capacity at weathering tremendous, impotent fear, writes Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Skeleton, a sport practised by a few thousand people (probably far fewer) in this country, has received £5,765,123 from UK Sport for the 2022-26 period.
That's more than what was awarded to basketball, handball, lacrosse, fencing, squash and volleyball taken together over the same period.
That's more than what was awarded to basketball, handball, lacrosse, fencing, squash and volleyball taken together over the same period.
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How my wet table looks today. These dolls need a home. ABIDE, a horror game unlike anything else, is currently on Kickstarter and needs your support. www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
February 17, 2026 at 12:22 AM
How my wet table looks today. These dolls need a home. ABIDE, a horror game unlike anything else, is currently on Kickstarter and needs your support. www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
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How to make pancakes the british way:
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
February 17, 2026 at 8:28 AM
How to make pancakes the british way:
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
Step 1: remember it's pancake day
Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine
Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes
Step 4: no pancakes for you
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If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.
‘It’s the most urgent public health issue’: Dr Rangan Chatterjee on screen time, mental health – and banning social media until 18
‘It’s the most urgent public health issue’: Dr Rangan Chatterjee on screen time, mental health – and banning social media until 18
The hit podcaster, author and former GP says a failure to regulate big tech is ‘failing a generation of children’. He explains why he quit the NHS and why he wants a ban on screen-based homework
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:52 AM
If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.
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Can cities survive without the anonymity they give people?
Genuine question.
Genuine question.
Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.
February 14, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Can cities survive without the anonymity they give people?
Genuine question.
Genuine question.
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not that it's not a complex issue but it drives me *insane* that we've been watching the world set itself on fire over the past decade or so partly because of people quite suddenly going from Not Very Online to Way Too Online and governments now want to recreate that experience with teens everywhere
February 16, 2026 at 9:38 AM
not that it's not a complex issue but it drives me *insane* that we've been watching the world set itself on fire over the past decade or so partly because of people quite suddenly going from Not Very Online to Way Too Online and governments now want to recreate that experience with teens everywhere
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ted bundy ass tactics by the gestapo
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
ted bundy ass tactics by the gestapo
My fave time on a Friday is about 2hrs post work, vegging out watching YouTube for a while and I suddenly remember it's Friday again and it's the cleanest hit of dopamine all weekend.
February 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
My fave time on a Friday is about 2hrs post work, vegging out watching YouTube for a while and I suddenly remember it's Friday again and it's the cleanest hit of dopamine all weekend.
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Fuck your ChatGPT, if I want to see a caricature of myself I will make the effort to go to the seaside and pay £15 for a cruel man to give me body dysmorphia like we’ve always done.
February 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Fuck your ChatGPT, if I want to see a caricature of myself I will make the effort to go to the seaside and pay £15 for a cruel man to give me body dysmorphia like we’ve always done.
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NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
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It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.
February 10, 2026 at 4:51 PM
It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.
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Something compelled me to make this
February 10, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Something compelled me to make this
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The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
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(watching Full Metal Jacket) There's literally a peace sign on this guy's helmet despite him being a soldier, are the costume designers fucking stupid
Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?
February 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
(watching Full Metal Jacket) There's literally a peace sign on this guy's helmet despite him being a soldier, are the costume designers fucking stupid
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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
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What's that you say!
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 8:44 AM
What's that you say!
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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Kind of bonkers that people in dentist offices are just hearing about this in 2026
"He is a white supremacist. In my view, he is a racist.”
‘The View’ Host Unloads on ‘White Supremacist’ Elon Musk
“I think we have to call a thing a thing when we’re talking about someone like Elon Musk,” Sunny Hostin said.
trib.al
February 3, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Kind of bonkers that people in dentist offices are just hearing about this in 2026
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Labour has accelerated the UK partnership with Palantir, owned by Thiel.
Palantir is in the NHS, military contracts and the police forces. Mahmood described how she wants the "eyes of the state on you at all times".
NEVER trust this disgusting Labour government
Palantir is in the NHS, military contracts and the police forces. Mahmood described how she wants the "eyes of the state on you at all times".
NEVER trust this disgusting Labour government
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Labour has accelerated the UK partnership with Palantir, owned by Thiel.
Palantir is in the NHS, military contracts and the police forces. Mahmood described how she wants the "eyes of the state on you at all times".
NEVER trust this disgusting Labour government
Palantir is in the NHS, military contracts and the police forces. Mahmood described how she wants the "eyes of the state on you at all times".
NEVER trust this disgusting Labour government
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It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice
Ricky Gervais calls out Grammy winners for making political acceptance speeches: "You're in no position to lecture the public about anything"
Ricky Gervais calls out Grammy winners for making political acceptance speeches: "You're in no position to lecture the public about anything"
Gervais cited his own 2020 Golden Globes monologue, in which he urged winners not to use their acceptance speeches "as a platform to make a political speech."
decider.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice
The B52's are one of the best post-punk bands ever.
Fight me.
Fight me.
January 30, 2026 at 9:52 PM
The B52's are one of the best post-punk bands ever.
Fight me.
Fight me.