Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.
Our cat Charles, meditating in the garden yesterday, whilst baked on strong Jamaican weed.
You're right about Jim being the St Hubbins character in the band (www.tom-cox.com/jim/) but really it's Charles who takes the Nigel role.
I am not interested in being a person on Instagram, doing collaborative posts with people or filming myself talking to the camera. I want to be a person who fucks off away from the noise and works hard and writes better and better books for the rest of his life and then dies. Why is that not ok?
We've now raised £50,000.
Anything you can spare, will go towards challenging this Labour Government and taking the fight to Reform.
And most importantly - to creating the hopeful alternative.
👇🏼
maybe someday we’ll have nice things too
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBYp...
Angine de Poitrine- Sarniezz
I guess it’s as believable as me, an actor who went to school for acting, not knowing Robert De Niro was in The Deer Hunter?
Here’s a little reminder 💪🏼
An exciting astronomy milestone was hit last night, as DESI completed its original 5-year survey mapping 40 million galaxies in the night sky!
DESI continues operation, now aiming for an 8-year survey and ~60 million galaxies. 🔭🧪 #cosmology
newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/04/15/d...
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
So they're making mini transmitters now that can broadcast on the old disused analog tv frequencies, so there's no reason you couldn't find some old CRT tube TVs and set up your own house wide TV station and just convince the kids "this is what TV is"
FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea
🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation
🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship
🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund
www.carbonbrief.org/...
The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Checking in on the status of the U.S. government:
hasan released a mini-doc of his experiences and highlights of the interviews he did when he was in cuba, it's good stuff and of course, struggling in the algoritm so go click, like, thumbs up, comment, all that stuff
youtu.be/WvqeXFnqXCo?...
Oracle fired 30,000 workers by email the week they posted $16.9B net income.
United Healthcare paid its CEO $10.2M the year they denied 32% of prior auth requests.
The money was never missing. #freehealthcare
Priorities.
The story of Ted Landsmark, pictured, is worth reading because it’s the kind of classic Boston story you don’t read as much because loser townie shitheads like the other dudes in the famous picture suck up all the press oxygen even though they’ve been fucking outnumbered dinosaurs for decades.
I spent the last few days on a Congressional delegation to Cuba to see firsthand the devastation and suffering caused by the U.S. blockade of fuel.
Read my full statement.
MAGAs say they care about the well-being of Christians—then ignore Black Christians shot in church, put Latino Christians in camps, ban Nigerian Christians, & bomb & kill Lebanese Christians & Palestinian Christians
MAGAs care only about wealthy white male Christians—b/c that's what fascists do.
A series of three tweets: Rabbi Akiva Weisinger @MisfitTorah 1) For those wondering why I, an Orthodox Rabbi, am outraged by the Texas trans law, aren't I supposed to stand up for Torah Values or whatever A thread: 2) I don't like it when kids kill themselves. 3) End of thread.
Just going to leave this here.
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Here’s a picture from Reddit where someone explained why Thomas the tank engine has his face in the place he does…
The Iran economic shock is coming youtu.be/Oi265I48MdI
I have no idea if this "worked" or where these books ended up. But somebody from a tiny village in Devon messaged me to say that the book they found in the local free village library persuaded them to pre-order my latest novel. And that alone instantly made all these journeys I made feel worthwhile.
I don’t even remember what happened last season four years ago. It was six episodes. I barely remember their names. I don’t give a shit anymore. I’ve moved on to another show that probably won’t get a second season and if it does I’ll be in a nursing home by then and I won’t remember to watch it.
It’s genuinely weird how much everything I write now sounds like I’m a socialist worker from the 1970s when in fact I’m just a fairly standard socially liberal social democrat in the tradition of most European centrist parties. And yet compared to Ellison that makes me some kind of communist.
When you elect conservatives, they will spend SO MUCH of their time in office indulging in their own weird sexual obsessions. You're electing bathroom monitors, book banners, genital police. Their obsession with sexual activity, usually involving children, is both creepy and endless.
Keir Starmer utterly silent on the war crimes that are happening.
He'll drone on about a special relationship but nothing to say on war crimes in Iran, Lebanon, Palestine.
Trump and Netanyahu able to behave like we have law of the jungle.
Just want to tell a story about the day I was proudest of Kat's campaign, and why I'm so excited she's quadrupling down on it.
One day when she was running, a potential constituent reached out to her. She needed baby formula with a specific protein in it ASAP, but she could no longer afford it.
What the fuck, indeed. What are Y'all waiting for, GOP Congress? Are you THAT chickenshit to stand up against the Fanta Führer?
