I've been rewatching The Wire and before each episode Sky Atlantic warns it contains "strong and frequent language." Oh no! Frequent language! Is there a reason it's worded this way?

Imagine you're Kwasi Kwarteng: you've got strident views about economic policy and you even wrote a book about it. you finally get the job as chancellor, the peak of your game, and get to test out your ideas! turns out they are garbage and the economy explodes

Liz Truss would 100% fail the Turing test.

This is the funniest possible takeaway from this film.

Ping pong episode of Shawn the Sheep might be the best bit of television I've ever seen. (And I've seen all of The OC.)

Tomorrow, I'm flying to Los Angeles for oral argument in what may be the most important Fourth Amendment case pending in the United States today. The basic facts: The FBI broke open and searched hundreds of safe deposit boxes without any reason to think the boxholders did

Zangief?

A terrific piece of reportage by @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the excesses of F1 motorsport (and the function of sports journalists within that ecosystem), online for just an hour before, as the WaPo put it, the article "vanished" –– still online @ web.archive: web.archive.org/web/2024030117…

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His eyes are orange, his tongue is black; he has purple prickles all over his back.

7 years ago, I wrote a small piece about a man who was falsely accused of a crime. A few days later, I got an anonymous telling me to look up the woman they called “the evilest white woman on earth.” What happened next is the absolute wildest story you’ll ever hear A thread

This guy rules

It's giving Boone in New Vegas.

The way this is written makes me specifically EXPECT what happened!!!!

That's Brian Butterfield.

It really feels like the last 10 years has been totally defined by finance & tech guys arrogantly believing they can do everything better and then totally failing upwards as they collect their bonuses and saddle us with higher costs for broken versions of the same shit we had.

To brighten up budget day, I am giving a set of these Fabulous Mr Benn badges away. To be in the bowler hat, all you have to do is retweet this tweet. I'll choose a winner this time next week. Good Luck!!

Dispatches can reveal how King Charles and Prince William are making millions from the taxpayer. In a joint investigation with The Times and The Sunday Times we have uncovered lucrative deals with the armed forces, schools and even the NHS.

This is a US senator … trying to ask a question . In America. In 2025 Sen. Padilla forcibly removed from Noem presser politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

In this raid, they dragged naked children out of their homes and put them into U-Haul vans. And now they're bragging about it. U.S. citizens had their doors smashed down and were forced into handcuffs and held outside for hours. Senior citizens held outside, their homes trashed.