Edward Taylor
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🇬🇧🇮🇹 Touriste-routier. Cycling without getting run over (Active travel). Brexitology. Personal account. https://linktr.ee/edwardjtaylor
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The Critique of Pure Reason has a tech tree. Everything by Virginia Woolf has fog of war. Infinite Jest has both
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Critique of Pure Reason has a tech tree. Everything by Virginia Woolf has fog of war. Infinite Jest has both
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but the question remain, who does Tim Davie will regenerate as?
Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
but the question remain, who does Tim Davie will regenerate as?
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A bit long term, but my favourite version of "how poor the past was" is in this chart.
Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.
Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A bit long term, but my favourite version of "how poor the past was" is in this chart.
Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.
Working hours go up (peaking at a 66 hour week), real wages go right.
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This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.
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Pitch for new DG:
- Bring back Grandstand
- Bring back Grandstand
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Pitch for new DG:
- Bring back Grandstand
- Bring back Grandstand
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If you liked that chart you may like this cartoon
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If you liked that chart you may like this cartoon
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New social media aesthetic just dropped. Typography having a day.
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New social media aesthetic just dropped. Typography having a day.
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Also in June, Christopher Bonanos at @curbed.com did a deep dive on the Zohran graphic design and typography
“What a Mamdani graphic doesn’t look like, particularly, is a standard campaign logo.”
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
“What a Mamdani graphic doesn’t look like, particularly, is a standard campaign logo.”
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.
www.curbed.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Also in June, Christopher Bonanos at @curbed.com did a deep dive on the Zohran graphic design and typography
“What a Mamdani graphic doesn’t look like, particularly, is a standard campaign logo.”
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
“What a Mamdani graphic doesn’t look like, particularly, is a standard campaign logo.”
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
If I don't have a carousel, how can I carouse?
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
If I don't have a carousel, how can I carouse?
Photography is a well-named hobby.
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Photography is a well-named hobby.
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The man who did this just received a $1 trillion pay package.
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The man who did this just received a $1 trillion pay package.
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Europe’s airspace chaos, the new commonplace
Europe’s airspace chaos, the new commonplace
Europe is patently unready for even one zone of conflict, let alone several. Heightened drone activity has created enormous disruptions at great cost. And the reputational damage is even worse, as Europe doesn’t seem to have a clue what to do
dlvr.it
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Europe’s airspace chaos, the new commonplace
one of these days...
a man riding a motorcycle on a dirt road with the words cycle world visible
ALT: a man riding a motorcycle on a dirt road with the words cycle world visible
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
one of these days...
This guy is a master communicator.
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This guy is a master communicator.
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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Cllr Garnett is now reading from JRR Tolkien’s 1960s satire on Oxford traffic, recently published as the Bovadium Fragments: www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
New Tolkien book – <em>The Bovadium Fragments</em> – is satire on industrialisation
HarperCollins has announced that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Bovadium Fragments will be released on 9 October 2025.
www.tolkiensociety.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Cllr Garnett is now reading from JRR Tolkien’s 1960s satire on Oxford traffic, recently published as the Bovadium Fragments: www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
It was a hard pill to swallow.
hard pill to swallow for some technologists/futurist tech fetishists out there that the most efficient, greenest form of land transportation was invented 200 years ago and it just keeps reinventing itself
Love this Eco friendly message brought to you by Japanese Railways.
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It was a hard pill to swallow.
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Audrey Tang uses her hacker skills, her IQ of 180, and her position as Taiwan’s minister of digital affairs to make the internet a safer place.
For ‚advancing the social use of digital technology to empower citizens, renew democracy and heal divides’ Tang has won a 2025 Right Livelihood Award.
For ‚advancing the social use of digital technology to empower citizens, renew democracy and heal divides’ Tang has won a 2025 Right Livelihood Award.
Audrey Tang, hacker and Taiwanese digital minister: ‘AI is a parasite that fosters polarization’
The technologist, one of the winners of the 2025 Right Livelihood Award, promotes the social use of technology — a mission that has led her to develop, among other projects, a system to combat online ...
english.elpais.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Audrey Tang uses her hacker skills, her IQ of 180, and her position as Taiwan’s minister of digital affairs to make the internet a safer place.
For ‚advancing the social use of digital technology to empower citizens, renew democracy and heal divides’ Tang has won a 2025 Right Livelihood Award.
For ‚advancing the social use of digital technology to empower citizens, renew democracy and heal divides’ Tang has won a 2025 Right Livelihood Award.
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Soft secession. Blue states building parallel systems, withholding cooperation, and creating facts on the ground that render federal authority meaningless within their borders.
“Without state cooperation, much of the federal government’s agenda becomes unenforceable.”
“Without state cooperation, much of the federal government’s agenda becomes unenforceable.”
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
medium.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Soft secession. Blue states building parallel systems, withholding cooperation, and creating facts on the ground that render federal authority meaningless within their borders.
“Without state cooperation, much of the federal government’s agenda becomes unenforceable.”
“Without state cooperation, much of the federal government’s agenda becomes unenforceable.”
Aha, cities with slums exist. Brown skinned people live there. You look at them and conclude the only solution to slums is to build a wall and thereby ensure that the slums are out of sight. You are an urban development genius.
November 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Aha, cities with slums exist. Brown skinned people live there. You look at them and conclude the only solution to slums is to build a wall and thereby ensure that the slums are out of sight. You are an urban development genius.
JK taketh away but also giveth back Basement Jaxx Red Alert with this remix.
youtu.be/M48gMh5zeR8?...
youtu.be/M48gMh5zeR8?...
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
JK taketh away but also giveth back Basement Jaxx Red Alert with this remix.
youtu.be/M48gMh5zeR8?...
youtu.be/M48gMh5zeR8?...