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· Sep 26
Music for Sleeping Cats by Steven Poole
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my new album, MUSIC FOR SLEEPING CATS, is out today album.link/musicforslee...
this seems like a weirdly sexist headline: none of the women quoted in the article is "furious"; they are simply making reasoned arguments
February 11, 2026 at 7:24 PM
this seems like a weirdly sexist headline: none of the women quoted in the article is "furious"; they are simply making reasoned arguments
if i were the prime minister i would simply not resign just because Chris Mason has a weirdo boner for my defenestration
February 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
if i were the prime minister i would simply not resign just because Chris Mason has a weirdo boner for my defenestration
omfg 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
omfg 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
surely it's finally time to try chaos with Ed Miliband
"Stability with Starmer or chaos with anyone else" might need a bit more work. This is a PM whose authority had been shredded by a series of policy U turns and now the decision to appoint Mandelson. Starmer won't be able to drive any meaningful change www.ft.com/content/c855... via @FT
Starmer camp warns leadership challenge risks economic chaos
Investors also signal concern at prospect of a more leftwing government
www.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
surely it's finally time to try chaos with Ed Miliband
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
i feel like the bar for calling something a "craze" might now be unreasonably low
January 30, 2026 at 6:38 PM
i feel like the bar for calling something a "craze" might now be unreasonably low
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
fuck off
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 10:06 AM
fuck off
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To repeat myself - Andrew Wakefield should spend the rest of his life banged up in prison, the lying cunt
⚠️ BREAKING:
UK Loses Measles Elimination Status After Nearly 3,000 Cases Reported in England and Wales
The World Health Organization says the UK has lost its measles elimination status after nearly 3,000 cases were reported in England and Wales in 2024.
UK Loses Measles Elimination Status After Nearly 3,000 Cases Reported in England and Wales
The World Health Organization says the UK has lost its measles elimination status after nearly 3,000 cases were reported in England and Wales in 2024.
January 26, 2026 at 4:57 PM
To repeat myself - Andrew Wakefield should spend the rest of his life banged up in prison, the lying cunt
Oh no. RIP 🖤
Desperately sad news about Deborah Cameron today. She was such a brilliant, incisive presence in the world of linguistics and particularly language and gender. Don't know what else to say but I'm sure there will be many tributes paid to her and her work in the days to come.
January 21, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Oh no. RIP 🖤
to be fair, you can't imagine Liz Truss using the word "discombobulated"
🇻🇪 Trump on Venezuela: Two weeks ago, they saw weapons nobody had ever heard of. They weren’t able to fire a single shot at us.
They said, ‘What happened?’ Everything was discombobulated. They said, ‘We’ve got them in our sights, press the trigger,’ and nothing happened.
They said, ‘What happened?’ Everything was discombobulated. They said, ‘We’ve got them in our sights, press the trigger,’ and nothing happened.
January 21, 2026 at 7:48 PM
to be fair, you can't imagine Liz Truss using the word "discombobulated"
thinking of starting a business whereby i rip out dumbfuck "smart home" switches from the houses of people who don't understand why their lights aren't working
January 21, 2026 at 6:55 PM
thinking of starting a business whereby i rip out dumbfuck "smart home" switches from the houses of people who don't understand why their lights aren't working
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Robert Potts, former editor of Poetry Review and a critic who inspired me when I was starting out, has started a Substack about John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs, after learning them all by heart. I just bought an old copy on eBay to keep to hand as I read along every week substack.com/home/post/p-...
'Dream awhile'
In which the project is introduced, and we consider our resources
substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Robert Potts, former editor of Poetry Review and a critic who inspired me when I was starting out, has started a Substack about John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs, after learning them all by heart. I just bought an old copy on eBay to keep to hand as I read along every week substack.com/home/post/p-...
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the thing is if you want a university orientated around the classical curriculum and the Great Books, St John's already exists! but what they wanted was somewhere where they could be intellectually fellated 24/7. this is the opposite of an actual classical education, which should be humbling.
This story is so funny because all these people including journalist writing it are such total fraudulent imitations of intellectuals that among them Niall Ferguson passes for a "mind"
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:21 PM
the thing is if you want a university orientated around the classical curriculum and the Great Books, St John's already exists! but what they wanted was somewhere where they could be intellectually fellated 24/7. this is the opposite of an actual classical education, which should be humbling.
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"Jenrick" would be an excellent name for a Dickensian undertaker, all pallor and fawning, lurks a little too often around the coffins of the younger ladies
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
"Jenrick" would be an excellent name for a Dickensian undertaker, all pallor and fawning, lurks a little too often around the coffins of the younger ladies
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I must not add the word PILOTS to these posters around London
January 14, 2026 at 6:17 PM
I must not add the word PILOTS to these posters around London
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Personally, I don’t think you should spend time learning how to do something that’ll make users hate your app and that’ll be abandoned in 8 month’s time
January 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Personally, I don’t think you should spend time learning how to do something that’ll make users hate your app and that’ll be abandoned in 8 month’s time
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"genAI" doens't "learn" (tech execs' term) since it has no brains. Instead, it stores and regurgitates - PLAGIARISM....
"many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."
"many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."
New research presents the most compelling evidence yet that generative AI directly stores and reproduces material used to train it—a finding that could have massive legal consequences for the tech industry, Alex Reisner reports.
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 7:56 AM
"genAI" doens't "learn" (tech execs' term) since it has no brains. Instead, it stores and regurgitates - PLAGIARISM....
"many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."
"many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."
here i am in the WSJ on ALIENS www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘The Giant Leap’ and ‘The Pale Blue Data Point’: Adventure Is Out There
Plus Jon Willis’s “The Pale Blue Data Point.”
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM
here i am in the WSJ on ALIENS www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/
wait, i am absolutely not "embracing the 'workation'"
January 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM
wait, i am absolutely not "embracing the 'workation'"
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
here i am in the Torygraph on NAZI SCIENTISTS www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
How the US took Nazi science and turbocharged it
Operation Paperclip skilfully updates the story of post-war, Nazi-inspired research into biological and chemical warfare by the US
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 1:53 PM
here i am in the Torygraph on NAZI SCIENTISTS www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...