subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"
as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.
Oh, the grand old duke of york
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This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow.
Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do?
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14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
Man from The Traitors asking "Does anyone think anything of anyone?"
Me making sparkling smalltalk at parties #TheTraitors
The four wise men gave Jesus gold, frankincense, myrrh and nickel but Jesus gave the nickelback and that guy never made it as a wise man
You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems
This looks like such a great show! 🥳
People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.
William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them October 14 2025, The Times The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.
Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.
I’m running a Kickstarter to fund a self-published children’s book. Please take a look and support if you can www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
Some good news.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
Snippet of an email addressed to “Name” offering to help promote a book entitled “Book”
The spammers aren’t even putting in the minimum effort any more!
Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
the feminine urge to diminish and go into the west
This is excellent fun!
Really enjoyed watching Deep Cover over the weekend! Nice to see some fun new comedy films getting made (and laughed a lot at all the improv references)
Sci-fi view of The Future: We'll all have flying cars and holidaying on Mars! Disease will be fixed with a quick blast from a Star Trek thingy!
The Actual Future:
Today's good news: Discovered practice has paid off and I can now run slightly faster
Today's bad news: Running at increased speed without learning how to close my mouth is now causing me to swallow double the amount of flies
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“So how did the care sector work before immigration?” Women did it. For free. Except now families can’t live well on one income and no one’s retiring at 55 on a fat pension, free to care for their parents, their husband’s parents, and their grandchildren. Undoing care-for-profit will be expensive
The Victoria's Secret one! Agree though, I went to the recording and thought there was lots of great stuff in there
Was thrilled to be in one of the writers' rooms for this series of DMs Are Open! This first episode has a sketch from me and some other fab writers:
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Thanks Mike! I was one of the writers in the room this time (which was made up of 4 people writing for the first 2 episodes if anyone is interested). Wasn't sure if they'd keep my sketch but just listened and it made it. Shame the 15 minute runtime means they can't fit more in though!
🚨 ICYMI: Another Celeb Writes Shit, Lazy Children's Book.
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