Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning
American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV
french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts
British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault
The ire directed at 90s comedians for saturating the children's book market with slop is well deserved, but let's spare a little hate for the TV presenters who have flooded crime fiction with identikit, most-likely ghostwritten, "cosy" murder-mystery guff.
If I was a kid in her school I'd take the piss out of her like this as well.
The government don't need to build every software system in-house, but it does need enough employees who are good enough at building software that they can tell good contracts from bad, and hold contractors accountable
Betting companies kill, consciously & for unfathomable profit.
"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
This feels so desperately sad and unnecessary.
How does the law stop Girl Guiding from deciding it’s own inclusive membership rules?
My youngest daughter and her friends have left in protest.
Transgender girls told to leave Girlguiding groups by September www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran.
My best summary: this war is dumb as hell.
acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...
In this case, JKR is specifically using the money she makes on this show to hurt trans people - she’s said as much. There’s no death of the author here. The author is alive and doing evil with the money from this show.
"We are NOT overgrown school bullies" claim middle aged columnists, politicians & billionaires forcing actual school children they will never meet out of club they share with their friends
Palantir in the NHS is controversial. But also, the software is "not very good"
by @rorycj.bsky.social
rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/palantir-i...
It's conjectured, but not proven, that π and e have this property. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_...
They set fire to the kitchen, and the 'main goal' now is to put out the fire in the kitchen.
Hi Masud!
If a company as large as Microsoft - the only hyperscaler building out AI from cashflow - is having to do token austerity, this shit must cost so much more than we think
Header: "British woman without cervic and vagina naturally becomes pregnant after reconstructive surgery", with an error code: "JavaScript must be enabled to use this feature".
Finally, a real use case for JavaScript
I have an Excel joke it's really good most people rate it Oct 10
As yet another UBI trial rolls past showing that it works really well, it's hard not to conclude that the main reason nobody adopts it is because bad employers don't want to give up their leverage over the desperate and poor to work in shit conditions for pittance.
Complex explanations of Trump have been proposed, but it's really quite simple. The Trump Doctrine goes as follows:
"Not one stone will be left on another".
He's going soon, and he's taking it all with him.
Oh, and automatically deleting any ticket more than, oh, 3 months old is great.
People think they hate Jira, but really they hate bureaucracy, and Jira is where product teams most often run into bureaucracy.
Not me, though. I *really* hate Jira.
Seem to recall there’s a word which perfectly describes this… Starts with an R and rhymes with “racism”.
According to data collected by DORA (DevOps Research & Assessment), some teams are "Elite" - shipping many times a day, while others are "Low-performing" - shipping < once a month
But some teams aren't shipping *at all*. I propose a new level just for them
codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/a...
Just more evidence that the UKs “first past the post” voting system does not reflect the diversity of our politics. Time for a change
