Sam
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big, multicultural cities - they're good!
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
big, multicultural cities - they're good!
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Reading @londoncentric.media and reflecting on how everything wrong with Britain can be seen through Deliveroo:
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech
October 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Reading @londoncentric.media and reflecting on how everything wrong with Britain can be seen through Deliveroo:
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech
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"It’s a canopy. A f***ing canopy. That everyone thinks is a perfectly reasonable thing. And it’s taken five years, three planning applications, god knows how much expense, and now hundreds of pages of forms and three separate consultancies just to install something to stop the rain."
A pub in London Fields is trying to put up a timber canopy over its outside seating.
The planning process so far has taken FIVE YEARS. That’s longer than it took to build the entire Hoover Dam. capx.co/nimby-watch-...
The planning process so far has taken FIVE YEARS. That’s longer than it took to build the entire Hoover Dam. capx.co/nimby-watch-...
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Hackney council is coming down on a popular East London pub
capx.co
October 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"It’s a canopy. A f***ing canopy. That everyone thinks is a perfectly reasonable thing. And it’s taken five years, three planning applications, god knows how much expense, and now hundreds of pages of forms and three separate consultancies just to install something to stop the rain."
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It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
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Never do this. Never submit to the accusations of bad actors. Never address their false claims. They will ignore your evidence and double down on something else. You are affirming their power by acquiescing in this way.
Macrons to submit scientific evidence to US court to prove Brigitte was not born a man
Macrons to submit scientific evidence to US court to prove Brigitte was not born a man
French president and wife allege rightwing influencer Candace Owens is using defamatory attacks against them to boost media profile
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife plan to present scientific evidence to a US court to prove that Brigitte Macron was not born a man, the lawyer representing them in a defamation suit has said.
The couple filed the suit in July against Candace Owens, a rightwing influencer, and her business, alleging continuing defamatory attacks against them in order to boost the profile of her media platform, gain more audience and make money. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Never do this. Never submit to the accusations of bad actors. Never address their false claims. They will ignore your evidence and double down on something else. You are affirming their power by acquiescing in this way.
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Waiting for that tipping point when most sensible people realise that transporting a single 80kg person in 2.5 tonnes of SUV was not the height of technical advancement but peak stupidity for the human race.
Tax SUVs out of existence
Tax SUVs out of existence
Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn
Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Waiting for that tipping point when most sensible people realise that transporting a single 80kg person in 2.5 tonnes of SUV was not the height of technical advancement but peak stupidity for the human race.
Tax SUVs out of existence
Tax SUVs out of existence
This will almost certainly come with some flavour of useless ai chatbot bolted to it too
spotify launches a new "spam" feature www.theverge.com/news/765771/...
Spotify is adding DMs
A new way to bug friends with song recsommendations.
www.theverge.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This will almost certainly come with some flavour of useless ai chatbot bolted to it too
It's wild how there is now a genuine free speech and civil liberties issue in the UK - but the people who have made shouting about free speech their entire personality have been absolutely silent about it because it mostly effects people they don't like
August 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It's wild how there is now a genuine free speech and civil liberties issue in the UK - but the people who have made shouting about free speech their entire personality have been absolutely silent about it because it mostly effects people they don't like
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A thing I've long suspected but never got round to rigorously checking is that the Local Democracy Reporting Service is, effectively, structurally nimby - because a disproportionate amount of the available material if you're covering "local democracy" is planning objections
If BBC local news gave even a fraction of the attention it gives to nimbyism to the dual climate and biodiversity crises, it's just possible there'd be less nimbyism.
Hundreds sign petition against Cornwall solar farm plans
Residents say the plan, equivalent to 69 football pitches, is inappropriate for the Lanreath area.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A thing I've long suspected but never got round to rigorously checking is that the Local Democracy Reporting Service is, effectively, structurally nimby - because a disproportionate amount of the available material if you're covering "local democracy" is planning objections
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If you own a car you are spiritually suburban
August 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you own a car you are spiritually suburban
Remember when bots were something social media companies actively tries to prevent?
Now they're a feature
Now they're a feature
August 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Remember when bots were something social media companies actively tries to prevent?
Now they're a feature
Now they're a feature
Twitter in it's current from rewards cruelty, the payouts for the $8 blue ticks incentivises making hateful provocative replies that get engagement
At some point clubs need to realise they're complicit in the abuse their players receive by continuing to post on that platform
At some point clubs need to realise they're complicit in the abuse their players receive by continuing to post on that platform
August 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Twitter in it's current from rewards cruelty, the payouts for the $8 blue ticks incentivises making hateful provocative replies that get engagement
At some point clubs need to realise they're complicit in the abuse their players receive by continuing to post on that platform
At some point clubs need to realise they're complicit in the abuse their players receive by continuing to post on that platform
It's so funny that the same right wingers that talk about being scared of London are the same people that consider themselves hyper-masculine alpha males
You're afraid of streets with pret a mangers on them
You're afraid of streets with pret a mangers on them
August 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It's so funny that the same right wingers that talk about being scared of London are the same people that consider themselves hyper-masculine alpha males
You're afraid of streets with pret a mangers on them
You're afraid of streets with pret a mangers on them
I had my post surgery xray yesterday - i wish i remembered to take a photo of it, the 2 screws holding my shoulder together are ENORMOUS
we like to think we're complex physiological beings crafted through centuries of evolution, but we're basically just ikea furniture with anxiety
we like to think we're complex physiological beings crafted through centuries of evolution, but we're basically just ikea furniture with anxiety
August 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I had my post surgery xray yesterday - i wish i remembered to take a photo of it, the 2 screws holding my shoulder together are ENORMOUS
we like to think we're complex physiological beings crafted through centuries of evolution, but we're basically just ikea furniture with anxiety
we like to think we're complex physiological beings crafted through centuries of evolution, but we're basically just ikea furniture with anxiety
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in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...
August 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...
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Megaprojects like high speed rail or nuclear power should be commissioned and funded on a rolling annual basis, not a per-project basis. Spin up your High Speed Department and give them £10bn a year to build railways until you say stop.
August 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Megaprojects like high speed rail or nuclear power should be commissioned and funded on a rolling annual basis, not a per-project basis. Spin up your High Speed Department and give them £10bn a year to build railways until you say stop.
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Mad that George Osborne ruins Britain then goes and works for a company that runs an ad campaign based entirely on the premise that you should buy crypto now that Britain is ruined
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Mad that George Osborne ruins Britain then goes and works for a company that runs an ad campaign based entirely on the premise that you should buy crypto now that Britain is ruined
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These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
August 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
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Surely the most Simon Jenkins take that Simon Jenkins has ever Simon Jenkinsed
August 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Surely the most Simon Jenkins take that Simon Jenkins has ever Simon Jenkinsed
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“I went to Oasis at Wembley. Two days later I went to the biggest trainspotting event in a generation in Derby. Within these crowds of tens of thousands of men I found the answer to England’s masculinity crisis.”
Please anyone with a Sunday newspaper budget commission me I can make this piece work.
Please anyone with a Sunday newspaper budget commission me I can make this piece work.
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“I went to Oasis at Wembley. Two days later I went to the biggest trainspotting event in a generation in Derby. Within these crowds of tens of thousands of men I found the answer to England’s masculinity crisis.”
Please anyone with a Sunday newspaper budget commission me I can make this piece work.
Please anyone with a Sunday newspaper budget commission me I can make this piece work.
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“You don’t owe anyone anything”
10. What is the most toxic trait that is often sold today as 'self-love'?
July 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“You don’t owe anyone anything”
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Enough is enough - we won't stand for having our posts hijacked by homophobes and racists
Today we take the unusual step of naming and shaming some of the worst offenders.
WARNING - article contains offensive language
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-op...
Today we take the unusual step of naming and shaming some of the worst offenders.
WARNING - article contains offensive language
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-op...
Enough is enough - we won't stand for having our posts hijacked by homophobes
Today we take the unusual step of naming and shaming some of the worst offenders - WARNING - article contains offensive language
www.bristolpost.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Enough is enough - we won't stand for having our posts hijacked by homophobes and racists
Today we take the unusual step of naming and shaming some of the worst offenders.
WARNING - article contains offensive language
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-op...
Today we take the unusual step of naming and shaming some of the worst offenders.
WARNING - article contains offensive language
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-op...
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This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.
July 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.