@refractparadox.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Makes a change from 'go to the continent, find a sympathetic king and do a deal, raise an army, invade'.
Makes a change from 'go to the continent, find a sympathetic king and do a deal, raise an army, invade'.
There is clearly trouble ahead for Harry and Meghan on their return to the UK. Here are five ways to avert it | Stephen Bates
With a sceptical public and hostility from a lot of the press, the Sussexes face quite a challenge. Still, they really could help themselves, says former Guardian royal correspondent Stephen Bates
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2026 at 10:16 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Makes a change from 'go to the continent, find a sympathetic king and do a deal, raise an army, invade'.
Makes a change from 'go to the continent, find a sympathetic king and do a deal, raise an army, invade'.
Maybe, or maybe not, but we must compete with AI somehow.
You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit.
🔗: on.wsj.com/4hUsBWd
🔗: on.wsj.com/4hUsBWd
August 29, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Maybe, or maybe not, but we must compete with AI somehow.
Am I cynical to think that a lot of academic media criticism amounts to 'this creator is a genius academic who broadly agrees with me on various complex social issues'?
August 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Am I cynical to think that a lot of academic media criticism amounts to 'this creator is a genius academic who broadly agrees with me on various complex social issues'?
This is long over due!
Or force all sans-serif typefaces to have a curved lower case 'L', similar to the one used by the Transport typeface used on UK road signs?
January 28, 2026 at 10:37 AM
This is long over due!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If I wanted to build an embassy everyone assumed would be used for espionage I might not have it so close to the Tower of London where spies have been executed.
If I wanted to build an embassy everyone assumed would be used for espionage I might not have it so close to the Tower of London where spies have been executed.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If I wanted to build an embassy everyone assumed would be used for espionage I might not have it so close to the Tower of London where spies have been executed.
If I wanted to build an embassy everyone assumed would be used for espionage I might not have it so close to the Tower of London where spies have been executed.
The negative impacts of lock-down on children and their education is undeniable but it seems extreme to linking schools with the 'fabric of childhood' might be going a bit far. I recall suggestions that some groups found lock-down less traumatic than school. www.ghll.org.uk/news/items/c...
Covid school closures in UK damaged ‘very fabric of childhood’ : Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning
www.ghll.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The negative impacts of lock-down on children and their education is undeniable but it seems extreme to linking schools with the 'fabric of childhood' might be going a bit far. I recall suggestions that some groups found lock-down less traumatic than school. www.ghll.org.uk/news/items/c...
The USA - a country famous for keeping politics and violence separate.
A couple of AWI American infantry from @hatminis.bsky.social 28mm plastics. I’ll take some comparison shots and put them on my discord over the next couple of days as well.
September 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
The USA - a country famous for keeping politics and violence separate.
So, as far as I can tell age verification is the big tech solution to a social issue that people are blaming big tech for exacerbating - is that right?
July 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So, as far as I can tell age verification is the big tech solution to a social issue that people are blaming big tech for exacerbating - is that right?
So this.
World War II movies are the worst, because it’s bunch of youngish white guys all wearing green outfits and you can’t even tell them apart by their hair because they’re wearing helmets.
“Maybe it should have clued me in when whatsherface walked in on whosehisthingy shagging the other other other blonde woman and burst into tears,” Wilkes continued. “But in my defence – nobody wants to see their brother doing that.”
June 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
So this.
The honesty of this is valuable. I think it is not only propaganda that complicates but layers of history and context (who started it is rarely simple) but the articulate idealism is necessary challenge to my tendency to cynicism tending to realism.
In any conflict, we should oppose the aggressor and defend the aggressed, regardless of identity. I have only contempt for the Iranian regime, but Iran was attacked by Israel and the US without sufficient cause or legal justification. Israel and the US are the aggressors, Iran the aggressed.
June 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The honesty of this is valuable. I think it is not only propaganda that complicates but layers of history and context (who started it is rarely simple) but the articulate idealism is necessary challenge to my tendency to cynicism tending to realism.
This is worryingly amusing.
June 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is worryingly amusing.
I know assisted dying is controversial (and that the Guardian has issues) but I do think this headline might not come across as reassuring:
'Britain is one step closer to compassionate, kind death for all'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Britain is one step closer to compassionate, kind death for all'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain is one step closer to compassionate, kind death for all | Kim Leadbeater
This historic day comes too late for many who supported my bill, but I will never forget their courage and selflessness, says Labour MP Kim Leadbeater
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know assisted dying is controversial (and that the Guardian has issues) but I do think this headline might not come across as reassuring:
'Britain is one step closer to compassionate, kind death for all'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Britain is one step closer to compassionate, kind death for all'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@coffeeandkink.bsky.social This might be something you like.
June 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
@coffeeandkink.bsky.social This might be something you like.
Reposted
For most Jews, Israel was not about settler colonialism. It was supposed to be a safe homeland for a traumatised generation post-Holocaust. It was, in the Jewish consciousness, a homecoming to a land we’d been expelled from. What it’s become fills me with grief, rage & shame I can’t even articulate.
June 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
For most Jews, Israel was not about settler colonialism. It was supposed to be a safe homeland for a traumatised generation post-Holocaust. It was, in the Jewish consciousness, a homecoming to a land we’d been expelled from. What it’s become fills me with grief, rage & shame I can’t even articulate.
I know it is hard to write characters who are smarter than you. However, I assumed that this applied to mega genii like Sherlock Holmes and Light Yagami, not someone who might get in to a top university.
June 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I know it is hard to write characters who are smarter than you. However, I assumed that this applied to mega genii like Sherlock Holmes and Light Yagami, not someone who might get in to a top university.
The most amusing thing about the first few seasons of Sex Education is thinking that Jakob looks like Edward Fox's Jackal and assuming he is plotting something.
May 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The most amusing thing about the first few seasons of Sex Education is thinking that Jakob looks like Edward Fox's Jackal and assuming he is plotting something.
I wonder if The Telegraph sees this as a good or bad thing.
"This is an immediate crisis that demands more research and urgent action from policymakers, tech companies, and parents.”
Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @telegraphnews.bsky.social on CCDH's new findings on the world's largest incel forum ⤵️
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @telegraphnews.bsky.social on CCDH's new findings on the world's largest incel forum ⤵️
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Incel extremism doubles online amid Adolescence backlash
Misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism have ‘intensified’ in wake of hit show, say campaigners
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I wonder if The Telegraph sees this as a good or bad thing.
Screwing up pieces of paper to make rubble for a Siege of Budapest game.
What's the stupidest way you've hurt yourself?
Oh I'm so glad you asked! I knocked myself out with a frozen bag of omelettes.
Oh I'm so glad you asked! I knocked myself out with a frozen bag of omelettes.
May 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Screwing up pieces of paper to make rubble for a Siege of Budapest game.
Fascinating thread.
Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope
During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.
www.npr.org
May 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Fascinating thread.
@kebrightbill.bsky.social Following early discussion about the casting choices in the works of the terf wizard lady, I am increasingly convinced that it is designed to head off the increasing criticism of the character that she didn't appreciate.
April 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
@kebrightbill.bsky.social Following early discussion about the casting choices in the works of the terf wizard lady, I am increasingly convinced that it is designed to head off the increasing criticism of the character that she didn't appreciate.
Anthony Price suggested that the devil redesigned hell based on airports. I also wonder if he got some ideas visiting Canary Wharf (perhaps to collect on the deals made with various bankers).
April 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Anthony Price suggested that the devil redesigned hell based on airports. I also wonder if he got some ideas visiting Canary Wharf (perhaps to collect on the deals made with various bankers).
Given www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I think we need to return to @mitchbenn.bsky.social's famous question about Ryan Gosling's ubiquitousness.
Ryan Gosling cast as lead in new Star Wars film Starfighter directed by Shawn Levy
The new Disney project, titled Star Wars: Starfighter, is set to be released in May 2027.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Given www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I think we need to return to @mitchbenn.bsky.social's famous question about Ryan Gosling's ubiquitousness.
The opening bit of 13 Reasons Why Season 2 Episode 7 sounds like an attempt to combine the philosophy of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. A shame it can't live up to either.
April 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The opening bit of 13 Reasons Why Season 2 Episode 7 sounds like an attempt to combine the philosophy of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. A shame it can't live up to either.
When ever the train company tells me that there 'team is here to help' I think of @mitchbenn.bsky.social's song 'What Would Elvis Do' and add 'with anything you might be going through'.
March 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
When ever the train company tells me that there 'team is here to help' I think of @mitchbenn.bsky.social's song 'What Would Elvis Do' and add 'with anything you might be going through'.
Given how much this panda loves an apple in this link www.thepoke.com/2019/08/29/p... I can't help worrying that it owns a death note.
A hilariously pitiful level of distraction is required to separate a panda from its cub
We all know how fiercely protective mothers are of their babies, whether they’re from the wider animal kingdom or humanity – or do we? If this panda is any kind of yardstick, motherly protection is su...
www.thepoke.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Given how much this panda loves an apple in this link www.thepoke.com/2019/08/29/p... I can't help worrying that it owns a death note.