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It's grimly amusing to see actors who on a bunch of actors who usually scream "Chesterton's Fence!" about any law/societal change, talk themselves (and the rest of us) into making citizenship, the highest of all Fences, the equivalent of a revocable permit.
January 2, 2026 at 10:38 AM
It's grimly amusing to see actors who on a bunch of actors who usually scream "Chesterton's Fence!" about any law/societal change, talk themselves (and the rest of us) into making citizenship, the highest of all Fences, the equivalent of a revocable permit.
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RTing myself again because this took three days to prepare.
Just some of those we lost in 2025. The gaps are there for us to remember those close to us. Wishing us all a better 2026. x
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
RTing myself again because this took three days to prepare.
The weird thing is the Future C Collider used to look implausibly expensive, but compared to AI spending it starts to look like a rounding error.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
The man taking over the Large Hadron Collider – only to switch it off
Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The weird thing is the Future C Collider used to look implausibly expensive, but compared to AI spending it starts to look like a rounding error.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Or, if you prefer, like we're approaching the 10th year of Spiked! government.
December 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Or, if you prefer, like we're approaching the 10th year of Spiked! government.
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And the reasons for that are not hard to find - Starmer’s unpopularity among left-liberals is the logical, arguably even intended consequence of 18 months of comms and policy which alienates and angers left-liberals while winning over no one on right. This is the cake his team have baked themselves.
December 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
And the reasons for that are not hard to find - Starmer’s unpopularity among left-liberals is the logical, arguably even intended consequence of 18 months of comms and policy which alienates and angers left-liberals while winning over no one on right. This is the cake his team have baked themselves.
To put in in a way Starmer might understand, he’s behaved like an Arsenal manager who spends 80% of his press conferences saying “I really like the Spurs way of doing things, I think I could deliver for Spurs fans.”
And then he’s surprised that he gets no benefit of the doubt from Arsenal fans.
And then he’s surprised that he gets no benefit of the doubt from Arsenal fans.
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
To put in in a way Starmer might understand, he’s behaved like an Arsenal manager who spends 80% of his press conferences saying “I really like the Spurs way of doing things, I think I could deliver for Spurs fans.”
And then he’s surprised that he gets no benefit of the doubt from Arsenal fans.
And then he’s surprised that he gets no benefit of the doubt from Arsenal fans.
A pithy summary of Labour’s strategy.
Imagine if Everton’s strategy for gaining supporters was to play in red, rename the stands after Dalglish and Sir Alex, and play You’ll Never Walk Alone every time they came out onto the pitch. That’s what we’re dealing with here.
December 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A pithy summary of Labour’s strategy.
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Yeah this is a good point - it's very small numbers of people as a portion of the country which is great, except for some reason our media and political class have decided that they are objectively the most important segment of the electorate and must be appeased at all costs.
This would be more reassuring if these weren’t also the people whose support all of Labour, the Tories and Reform have been fighting for years to secure
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"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade's time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."
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December 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yeah this is a good point - it's very small numbers of people as a portion of the country which is great, except for some reason our media and political class have decided that they are objectively the most important segment of the electorate and must be appeased at all costs.
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This is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland
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December 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Sadly easy to trace parallels in the UK.
December 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sadly easy to trace parallels in the UK.
The Begum car also highlighted that if the Home Secretary can claim an implausible case that you are eligible for citizenship elsewhere there are no safeguards for you. People with ties to various nations should reflect on that.
Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
December 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Begum car also highlighted that if the Home Secretary can claim an implausible case that you are eligible for citizenship elsewhere there are no safeguards for you. People with ties to various nations should reflect on that.
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This Tribune story, unlike so many from mainstream press outlets, does not mince words, and the authors do not pretend to hide behind the “objective” wall. This is how reporting on fascism must be carried out.
December 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This Tribune story, unlike so many from mainstream press outlets, does not mince words, and the authors do not pretend to hide behind the “objective” wall. This is how reporting on fascism must be carried out.
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The Ellison push into maga and media may/may not prompt a look at the TBI and its role in British politics
December 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Ellison push into maga and media may/may not prompt a look at the TBI and its role in British politics
The calculation will be different in the UK (and for different renewables) but the fact that this is not a major point of discussion tells you a lot about how short-term our political and economic discourses are.
$100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated
That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed
Another one of my charts of the year
That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed
Another one of my charts of the year
December 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The calculation will be different in the UK (and for different renewables) but the fact that this is not a major point of discussion tells you a lot about how short-term our political and economic discourses are.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but I think we need to notice that “enjoys a text based microblogging platform” is probably quite correlated with “not that interested in video.”
I understand that YouTube is the dominant cultural delivery method of our age but i genuinely don’t understand it. I don’t want video of my audio entertainment. I listen while I’m doing other things. I don’t even know what the use case would be for me.
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
December 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I don’t necessarily disagree, but I think we need to notice that “enjoys a text based microblogging platform” is probably quite correlated with “not that interested in video.”
Part of this is that it is cheap TV, but it also points up how poor the non-fiction TV offerings are at the moment (very much connected to the streaming era).
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Part of this is that it is cheap TV, but it also points up how poor the non-fiction TV offerings are at the moment (very much connected to the streaming era).
Pity the NYT couldn’t find it in itself to refuse to surrender.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“As 2025 limps toward its end, there are reasons to be hopeful,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “That’s because of millions of people throughout the country who have refused to surrender to this administration’s bullying.”
“As 2025 limps toward its end, there are reasons to be hopeful,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “That’s because of millions of people throughout the country who have refused to surrender to this administration’s bullying.”
Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger
It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Pity the NYT couldn’t find it in itself to refuse to surrender.
If Britain had an industrial policy, it would be all over this.
Previously, I posted that Na-ion batteries were likely to reach Li-ion battery energy density faster due to the prior advances and experience from Lithium work. Well, that’s appears to be the case. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.uh.edu/news-events/...
Breakthrough New Material Brings Affordable, Sustainable Future Within Grasp
Researchers have developed a new material for sodium-ion batteries, sodium vanadium phosphate, that delivers higher voltage and greater energy capacity than previous sodium-based materials. This break...
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December 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If Britain had an industrial policy, it would be all over this.
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Previously, I posted that Na-ion batteries were likely to reach Li-ion battery energy density faster due to the prior advances and experience from Lithium work. Well, that’s appears to be the case. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.uh.edu/news-events/...
Breakthrough New Material Brings Affordable, Sustainable Future Within Grasp
Researchers have developed a new material for sodium-ion batteries, sodium vanadium phosphate, that delivers higher voltage and greater energy capacity than previous sodium-based materials. This break...
www.uh.edu
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Previously, I posted that Na-ion batteries were likely to reach Li-ion battery energy density faster due to the prior advances and experience from Lithium work. Well, that’s appears to be the case. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.uh.edu/news-events/...
Watching the Italian Job
a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Watching the Italian Job
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Sorry, clarification - I have an immediate need for an
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Any artists out there got an available (non AI) picture of what could be a bioengineered seal/aquatic human?
December 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sorry, clarification - I have an immediate need for an
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
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I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
You can tell Bluesky doesn’t quite have juice because I am yet to see a review of the Baileys X Terry’s Chocolate Orange special edition.
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
You can tell Bluesky doesn’t quite have juice because I am yet to see a review of the Baileys X Terry’s Chocolate Orange special edition.
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As the president touts GDP numbers, I keep coming back to this: economists need an economic well-being index—a transparent composite that tells us how the economy, with a focus on the income distribution, not just on average.
#EconSky #Economics 1/9
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December 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
As the president touts GDP numbers, I keep coming back to this: economists need an economic well-being index—a transparent composite that tells us how the economy, with a focus on the income distribution, not just on average.
#EconSky #Economics 1/9
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