Me pretending to browse the wine section in Co-op before getting the £5.75 own brand I always buy

Looking forward to the crapware on new PCs that will show off that they are 'AI PCs.'

This is what Hilary Cass was talking about when she referred to the toxicity of the debate about healthcare for gender questioning children - academics being too scared to do research because of the risk of gender activists ruining their reputation.

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

NYC, 1930s (colorized)

Have you ever felt that the average person dressed better in the past? IMO, the reason has nothing to do with respectability, body shape, or even suits.

It has to do with the loss of what I call 'shape and drape.' 🧵

Waitaminute now

Daniel Finkelstein Pwnallthethings

best friends grow old together
(jukin media)

Community notes gonna always get ya

Hardly anyone commenting negatively on the Cass review has actually read it. Because if they had, they'd realise the reason why the U of York threw out so many studies and guidelines was because they were dependent on circular reasoning. Excellent thread here on that.

I had forgotten my favourite OJ Simpson fact (probably my favourite fact), OJ Simpson was a sprinter before becoming an American footballer, he took part in a race in 1967 won by a British athlete who ran under 10.2s for the second time that year

That athlete, Ming Campbell

Why am I paying for prisons when I don’t even use them

Context: if CNN International didn’t exist within CNN (and really they operate pretty independently) this journalism would never happen out of U.S….

🧵 I’m sceptical that disillusionment among the most progressive voters poses a serious threat to Labour in this election. I want to use our British seven Segments to try and show why…

Their political engagement and energy makes them the backbone of lots of important campaigns but they are also significantly over represented on social media which means their voice (& frustrations) can often be taken to reflect a bigger proportion of the population than they are

Given how gigantic some of those battery farms can be, this has the potential to be very bad news.

The shorter Raynergate can be summed up as “the Tories understand their numbers for trust and probity have been in the toilet since Johnson, B. so their only hope is to promote a general air of ‘all at it’”. Deeply cynical, corrosive to politics and extremely unlikely to work.

Amazing. Perfect.

Inequality in the UK is overwhelmingly *within* generations, not between them. .

Not about old vs young/'privileged boomers', but income and wealth inequality.

(As I've been saying for last decade..)

ft.com/content/46d8bd…

Last year, 44% of the EU's electricity came from renewables, more than the share of fossil fuels. In 13 out of the 27 member states, its share was more than 50%.

Do WhatsApp and other private social groups drive polarisation? Interesting article by Charles Arthur
socialwarming.substack.com/p/the-admin-wi…