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This is the last thing the BBC needs
June 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This is the last thing the BBC needs
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i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation
May 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation
The replies to this are fascinating. So glad I did my IR degree in a relatively sane period.
The A level economist in the house complaining bitterly that the free trade module he's been taught - about how the US successfully uses trade to make friends/ bestride the global economy like a colossus etc - is going to look pretty stupid when rehashed for an exam in June 2025
April 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The replies to this are fascinating. So glad I did my IR degree in a relatively sane period.
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think we should turn this into a global thing, once a week Jeffrey Goldberg gets to hang in a different group chat, then maybe at the end of the year he can write about what he's learnt
March 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
think we should turn this into a global thing, once a week Jeffrey Goldberg gets to hang in a different group chat, then maybe at the end of the year he can write about what he's learnt
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I thought this about The Idea Of You too.
It's only a reversal movie if you don't make a big deal about it. It's a reversal when Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothee Chalamet play a happily married couple who...
- get kidnapped by killers
- are secretly spies
- form a band
- host the party from hell
It's only a reversal movie if you don't make a big deal about it. It's a reversal when Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothee Chalamet play a happily married couple who...
- get kidnapped by killers
- are secretly spies
- form a band
- host the party from hell
Gwyneth Paltrow is doing one of those 'older woman shagging younger man' films with Timothee Chalamet who is 23 years her junior. Meanwhile in Robert De Niro's new film his wife is played by Debra Messing who is 27 years younger than him but this is obviously not a plot point in any way because men.
March 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I thought this about The Idea Of You too.
It's only a reversal movie if you don't make a big deal about it. It's a reversal when Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothee Chalamet play a happily married couple who...
- get kidnapped by killers
- are secretly spies
- form a band
- host the party from hell
It's only a reversal movie if you don't make a big deal about it. It's a reversal when Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothee Chalamet play a happily married couple who...
- get kidnapped by killers
- are secretly spies
- form a band
- host the party from hell
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Let’s file the dating history of Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, as ‘a mixed bag’
March 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Let’s file the dating history of Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, as ‘a mixed bag’
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This line from Shostakovich's memoir (fantastically bitter and waspish, recommended) hits hard: "It seemed things couldn’t possibly be any worse. (Later it turned out that they could be a lot worse.)”
February 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This line from Shostakovich's memoir (fantastically bitter and waspish, recommended) hits hard: "It seemed things couldn’t possibly be any worse. (Later it turned out that they could be a lot worse.)”
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People keep sharing this Sam Fender quote from the Sunday Times and while I think there is something in this – it feels bizarre that, in the midst of what is fundamentally a backlash against feminism + LGBT rights, everyone is so eager to dance around the obvious answer, which is primarily misogyny
February 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
People keep sharing this Sam Fender quote from the Sunday Times and while I think there is something in this – it feels bizarre that, in the midst of what is fundamentally a backlash against feminism + LGBT rights, everyone is so eager to dance around the obvious answer, which is primarily misogyny
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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
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This is actually accurate to the period because the artist for this fan poster, just like someone in the Late Bronze Age, knows nothing about the Greek alphabet.
February 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is actually accurate to the period because the artist for this fan poster, just like someone in the Late Bronze Age, knows nothing about the Greek alphabet.
Where should a person eat if they have a couple of nights to fill in Manchester?
February 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Where should a person eat if they have a couple of nights to fill in Manchester?
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put the fucking salaries on the job ads, for the love of all that's unholy. Have some respect for the people who'll apply for these bloody jobs, eh.
February 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
put the fucking salaries on the job ads, for the love of all that's unholy. Have some respect for the people who'll apply for these bloody jobs, eh.
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This piece seems to conflate actual busy-for-the-sake-of-looking-busy busywork that genuinely drives people mad, and "jobs I don't understand and am too clever to bother with understanding", thereby pissing off people who do actual jobs such as HR, comms, logistics etc.
February 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This piece seems to conflate actual busy-for-the-sake-of-looking-busy busywork that genuinely drives people mad, and "jobs I don't understand and am too clever to bother with understanding", thereby pissing off people who do actual jobs such as HR, comms, logistics etc.
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Europe should continue exporting aluminium, and say but these tariffs are for aluminum, we sell aluminium
BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will announce 25% tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum on Monday.
Trump Plans to Announce 25% Steel, Aluminum Tariffs on Monday
President Donald Trump said he will announce 25% tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum on Monday.
www.bloomberg.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Europe should continue exporting aluminium, and say but these tariffs are for aluminum, we sell aluminium
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I don’t think I anticipated so much of parenthood involving waiting in cars in the dark while my offspring get to pursue their hobbies. (Tonight, piano.)
January 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I don’t think I anticipated so much of parenthood involving waiting in cars in the dark while my offspring get to pursue their hobbies. (Tonight, piano.)
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friends, in the northern hemisphere we have now *done* the darkest *eight weeks* of the year. the next 44 weeks are all lighter than this.
(please: no replies to this pointing out other stuff that is still bad. I'll just block. we must be allowed to rejoice in at least *the return of the sun*.)
(please: no replies to this pointing out other stuff that is still bad. I'll just block. we must be allowed to rejoice in at least *the return of the sun*.)
January 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
friends, in the northern hemisphere we have now *done* the darkest *eight weeks* of the year. the next 44 weeks are all lighter than this.
(please: no replies to this pointing out other stuff that is still bad. I'll just block. we must be allowed to rejoice in at least *the return of the sun*.)
(please: no replies to this pointing out other stuff that is still bad. I'll just block. we must be allowed to rejoice in at least *the return of the sun*.)
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i think every anti-WFH argument i’ve ever seen invokes “isolation” as a reason commuting into offices is apparently vital but a societal push to reducing work hours and promoting engagement with local community activities instead never seems to be suggested, i wonder why that is
January 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
i think every anti-WFH argument i’ve ever seen invokes “isolation” as a reason commuting into offices is apparently vital but a societal push to reducing work hours and promoting engagement with local community activities instead never seems to be suggested, i wonder why that is
I’ve read this quote several times now and can’t for the life of me get it to make any sort of sense.
January 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’ve read this quote several times now and can’t for the life of me get it to make any sort of sense.
Anyone else’s kids choose half an hour *after* bedtime to have their existential crisis, or just mine?
January 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Anyone else’s kids choose half an hour *after* bedtime to have their existential crisis, or just mine?
The farm shop / boujie deli / coffee place at the end of the road is shut for a fortnight and I honestly don’t think I can cope with January now.
January 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The farm shop / boujie deli / coffee place at the end of the road is shut for a fortnight and I honestly don’t think I can cope with January now.
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Pretty sure it's not up to women to "think carefully" about taking a higher-paid job than their partner. It's up to their partner to get the fuck over himself and be pleased for her.
January 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Pretty sure it's not up to women to "think carefully" about taking a higher-paid job than their partner. It's up to their partner to get the fuck over himself and be pleased for her.
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Thank you for contacting the abyss. Your scream is very important to us.
January 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thank you for contacting the abyss. Your scream is very important to us.
Have just done an amazing glycolic foot peel; for the next week, I shall be half woman, half lizard.
January 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Have just done an amazing glycolic foot peel; for the next week, I shall be half woman, half lizard.