@markhaddon.bsky.social
Stockholm based. Brit-Swede. Northampton Saints and West Ham fan. Great fan of dystopias except when living in them.
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‘when history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered‘
This hit hard.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered‘
This hit hard.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Colin Sheridan: Ireland is moving so fast, it's forgotten its people
We are a rich country masquerading as a poor one, run by people terrified of annoying people even richer
www.irishexaminer.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
‘when history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered‘
This hit hard.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered‘
This hit hard.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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Hey! Lots more fun here now.
Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.
open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.
open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
Where nobody knows your name...
Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hey! Lots more fun here now.
Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.
open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.
open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
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My theory about the FT, and why it’s the paper I choose to read for news, is that it’s designed for a readership who are making multi-million pound decisions which require a working knowledge of what is ACTUALLY happening if they’re not to lose Leeson levels of moolah, so it can’t afford to spin.
There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.
August 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My theory about the FT, and why it’s the paper I choose to read for news, is that it’s designed for a readership who are making multi-million pound decisions which require a working knowledge of what is ACTUALLY happening if they’re not to lose Leeson levels of moolah, so it can’t afford to spin.
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RIP Allan Ahlberg. Gorgeous, resonant, timeless work that will live forever.
July 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
RIP Allan Ahlberg. Gorgeous, resonant, timeless work that will live forever.
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STOP what you are doing, find some headphones or a secluded location, and watch this. I am crying with laughter and admiration at an idea seen through to its (nearly) bitter end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3Q... Sound--as they say--on.
Hlavní nadraží Praha - znělka 02 (Dlouhá verze)
YouTube video by Pavel Jirásek
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
STOP what you are doing, find some headphones or a secluded location, and watch this. I am crying with laughter and admiration at an idea seen through to its (nearly) bitter end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3Q... Sound--as they say--on.
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CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.
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beaver's return
![Comic by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. Script as follows:
Scene is a British WOODLAND by a RIVER. A NATURALIST is stood next to a cage, and TV NEWS REPORTERS are filming him and the cage.
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NATURALIST:
And now It is my great honour
2
NATURALIST:
to reintroduce the first wild beaver
back into Britain
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[Cut to the BEAVER’S CAGE. Its door is open and the Beaver is leaned nonchalantly up against the opening, smoking a cigarette.]
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BEAVER:
Well, well, well.
5
BEAVER:
Look who's come crawling back.
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BEAVER:
Got a rubbish ecosystem have ya?
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BEAVER:
Not happy with the *critical anti-flood infrastructure* engineered by the flippin *badgers*?
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BEAVER:
I almost didn't recognise you without one of my ancestors on your head…
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BEAVER:
First you wipe us out… now you ask us to come back and build dams for free…
You actually expect me to be *pleased* don’t ya?
NATURALIST:
I'm so sorry I…I…
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BEAVER:
“Ooh la la, the Brits have come crawling back…”
Do I look like *Michel flippin’ Barnier*?
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NATURALIST:
I-if there’s some kind of… *remuneration* we could offer I-I’m sure…
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BEAVER [throwing cigarette to the ground]:
Unlimited pond weed, two tickets to Abba Voyage.
NATURALIST:
Done.
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreihs2p5lw7psgwmqpzruuvd42k54oippf6wwx5glghmewzjj4w7tne@jpeg)
March 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
beaver's return
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I'm sorry - are we just allowed to set up companies that aren't legally affordable? What are you? Thames Water? If you can't pay for what you use, you don't get to use it. You get to make money off the back of the work of people whom you don't pay? Get absolutely fucked. Go disrupt your own anus.
OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:51 PM
I'm sorry - are we just allowed to set up companies that aren't legally affordable? What are you? Thames Water? If you can't pay for what you use, you don't get to use it. You get to make money off the back of the work of people whom you don't pay? Get absolutely fucked. Go disrupt your own anus.
5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by:
John le Carré
David Lodge
Jane Austen
Iain Banks
Philip Pullman
John le Carré
David Lodge
Jane Austen
Iain Banks
Philip Pullman
December 20, 2024 at 5:35 PM
5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by:
John le Carré
David Lodge
Jane Austen
Iain Banks
Philip Pullman
John le Carré
David Lodge
Jane Austen
Iain Banks
Philip Pullman
And breathe.
November 10, 2024 at 4:04 PM
And breathe.