this was an interesting listen and I am getting a lot of value from my UnHerd subscription deal 😊

Finished reading Joe Abercrombie’s Devils and somehow he has managed to pull off a book as brilliant as the First Law books. I think it’s his intricate character building which sets him apart from other writers

It’s weird but on Threads I was getting super pissed off with lazy reductive “oh look, facist meets facist” takes and I am definitely not Team Bosh but if they can’t understand what’s actually happening (nicely explained here) then they won’t know what’s hit them in the coming

I’m inclined to agree with comments from readers who, like me, attribute causality to the cultural economics of hyper-consumption and not “liberal feminism” but this is a thoughtful article by Poppy Sowerby

os26 on the phone and watch because I’m a sucker for punishment

I couldn’t reply to the original post. I’m not smart and probably best described as post-left, more focused on sensible dialogue and compromise. I think the question is an interesting one, and one I have grappled with. The closest I can come to a smart answer is sharing the

This time last week 🔥

A lot of coffee and a very sweaty birthday workout

iPadOS 26 has a pointy mouse pointer - finally!

Also, precise placement of application windows. IPadOS gets a little bit less shit each year :D

Labour absolutely shooting itself in the foot with these attack ads. The person putting these out must secretly vote Reform.

currently reading "A new Elizabethan age: The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and the nostalgic politics of Anglofuturism" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

fiction-wise, I have hopped on to Octavia Butler's 'Kindred'

Holy crap. I am finally on the invite for Perplexity Comet broswer and oh my god.