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Do you notice how I don’t have to work at all to find this awesomely embarrassing content? It just falls into your lap, unbidden. It blooms so abundantly that you can wait twenty minutes, then sweep it up off the floor.
January 21, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Do you notice how I don’t have to work at all to find this awesomely embarrassing content? It just falls into your lap, unbidden. It blooms so abundantly that you can wait twenty minutes, then sweep it up off the floor.
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Things are especially normal at the New Statesman this week, where nobody is suffering some kind of dissociative crisis
January 21, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Things are especially normal at the New Statesman this week, where nobody is suffering some kind of dissociative crisis
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians is a gorgeous film. After 65 years, its design is still fresh.
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
One Hundred and One Dalmatians is a gorgeous film. After 65 years, its design is still fresh.
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
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*screams in Foucault*
*screams again, louder, in Emily Bender*
*roars to the heavens in Philip K Dick*
*screams again, louder, in Emily Bender*
*roars to the heavens in Philip K Dick*
Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.
January 20, 2026 at 9:07 AM
*screams in Foucault*
*screams again, louder, in Emily Bender*
*roars to the heavens in Philip K Dick*
*screams again, louder, in Emily Bender*
*roars to the heavens in Philip K Dick*
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Little note in the new Bill on Hate Speech
Good thing there will never be a Minister who acts in bad faith when they go about banning groups.
Good thing there will never be a Minister who acts in bad faith when they go about banning groups.
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Little note in the new Bill on Hate Speech
Good thing there will never be a Minister who acts in bad faith when they go about banning groups.
Good thing there will never be a Minister who acts in bad faith when they go about banning groups.
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One of my fave political stories ever: when Maine’s GOP then-Gov LePage thought that not signing bills by deadline meant they’d die.
So he ignored all these Dem bills, thinking it’d kill them.
But in Maine, if Gov just does nothing (rather than veto), a bill becomes law.
So they all became law.
So he ignored all these Dem bills, thinking it’d kill them.
But in Maine, if Gov just does nothing (rather than veto), a bill becomes law.
So they all became law.
January 20, 2026 at 4:50 AM
One of my fave political stories ever: when Maine’s GOP then-Gov LePage thought that not signing bills by deadline meant they’d die.
So he ignored all these Dem bills, thinking it’d kill them.
But in Maine, if Gov just does nothing (rather than veto), a bill becomes law.
So they all became law.
So he ignored all these Dem bills, thinking it’d kill them.
But in Maine, if Gov just does nothing (rather than veto), a bill becomes law.
So they all became law.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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He will without any exaggeration destroy America, reduce this country to a lawless mafia state, start a civil war, start a world war, kill us all, or all at once.
And the biggest obstacle to preventing this remains not his objective strength but that OUR LEADERS WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE THREAT.
And the biggest obstacle to preventing this remains not his objective strength but that OUR LEADERS WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE THREAT.
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
He will without any exaggeration destroy America, reduce this country to a lawless mafia state, start a civil war, start a world war, kill us all, or all at once.
And the biggest obstacle to preventing this remains not his objective strength but that OUR LEADERS WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE THREAT.
And the biggest obstacle to preventing this remains not his objective strength but that OUR LEADERS WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE THREAT.
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The only way the world can be safe in the near term if is Trump is gone from office - because he’s overthrown through some mechanism or because he’s dead. He is a deranged madmen unfit along every imaginable dimension and he is surrounded by evil criminals who exploit him for malignant purposes.
January 19, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The only way the world can be safe in the near term if is Trump is gone from office - because he’s overthrown through some mechanism or because he’s dead. He is a deranged madmen unfit along every imaginable dimension and he is surrounded by evil criminals who exploit him for malignant purposes.
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Ultimately if this were acknowledged by the press, by Democrats by other stakeholders it would require them to stop robotically acting like it's 1988. So Democrats do deflections to cost of living, conservatives rationalize it and the press sanewashes his utter derangement.
He’s out of his mind, a narcissistic megalomaniac in an all-consuming spiral of self-pity and selfishness, but the truly insane people are the thousands of powerful men around him who won’t say so and continue to dance around him like this is normal, rational behavior.
(NYT) - President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend.
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January 19, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Ultimately if this were acknowledged by the press, by Democrats by other stakeholders it would require them to stop robotically acting like it's 1988. So Democrats do deflections to cost of living, conservatives rationalize it and the press sanewashes his utter derangement.
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i had no idea there was a new league of extraordinary gentlemen out
That's perhaps the oddest roll call I've ever seen for a team book.
January 17, 2026 at 11:46 PM
i had no idea there was a new league of extraordinary gentlemen out
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I assume they’re all narrated by Brian Blessed.
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I assume they’re all narrated by Brian Blessed.
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It’s actually three guys but they’re all Peter Sellers
BREAKING: The UK is sending a single military officer to Greenland at the request of Denmark to participate in a multi-nation exercise
January 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
It’s actually three guys but they’re all Peter Sellers
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
Every time you buy the Saturday Paper, or The Monthly, this is the guy you’re supporting.
Morry Schwartz attacking Louise Adler and in the process damaging the credibility and independence of his media products ...
January 14, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Every time you buy the Saturday Paper, or The Monthly, this is the guy you’re supporting.
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It would not surprise me if ICE ends up killing Episcopalian clergy, sadly. Episcopalian ministers go pretty hard in the paint for civil rights.
The story of Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopalian seminary student, pushing Ruby Sayles out of the way of a KKK shotgun blast in Alabama comes to mind.
The story of Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopalian seminary student, pushing Ruby Sayles out of the way of a KKK shotgun blast in Alabama comes to mind.
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 3:14 AM
It would not surprise me if ICE ends up killing Episcopalian clergy, sadly. Episcopalian ministers go pretty hard in the paint for civil rights.
The story of Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopalian seminary student, pushing Ruby Sayles out of the way of a KKK shotgun blast in Alabama comes to mind.
The story of Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopalian seminary student, pushing Ruby Sayles out of the way of a KKK shotgun blast in Alabama comes to mind.
Vanilla is the chocolate of ice cream flavours.
Strawberry is the vanilla of ice cream flavors.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Vanilla is the chocolate of ice cream flavours.
This is weird.
Incredibly awkward EU Commission press conference, with representatives unable and unwilling to answer questions on Greenland.
To the extent they just ghost journalists insisting on the issue. ~AA
To the extent they just ghost journalists insisting on the issue. ~AA
January 5, 2026 at 12:55 PM
This is weird.
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in Infomocracy, an incompletely post-national cyberpunk elections book, one of the plotlines involves a political party promising revanchist revenge fantasies to a bunch of different voters. when they win, it turns out they don't deliver bloodshed but rather the media experience of victory.
January 4, 2026 at 6:57 PM
in Infomocracy, an incompletely post-national cyberpunk elections book, one of the plotlines involves a political party promising revanchist revenge fantasies to a bunch of different voters. when they win, it turns out they don't deliver bloodshed but rather the media experience of victory.
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the number of people who can't clock bad AI-generated video footage as such really makes me more sympathetic to the people who fell for the Cottingsley fairies. Our eye for the real in video or photo footage isn't natural, it's a learned skill.
January 5, 2026 at 2:09 AM
the number of people who can't clock bad AI-generated video footage as such really makes me more sympathetic to the people who fell for the Cottingsley fairies. Our eye for the real in video or photo footage isn't natural, it's a learned skill.
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#OTD 1642, William Lenthall defied the King. When Charles I asked about the whereabouts of five MPs he intended to arrest, Lenthall responded 'that he could neither see nor speak but by command of the House'. Read more about the precedent Lenthall set👇
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Taking control: Speaker William Lenthall, precedent and the Long Parliament - The History of Parliament
Warned of the king’s approach, William Lenthall had crafted a courteous but evasive reply: ‘kneeling down’ he ‘did very wisely desire his majesty to pardon him, saying that he could neither see nor…
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January 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
#OTD 1642, William Lenthall defied the King. When Charles I asked about the whereabouts of five MPs he intended to arrest, Lenthall responded 'that he could neither see nor speak but by command of the House'. Read more about the precedent Lenthall set👇
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Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.
Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
January 3, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.