Ian Betteridge
@ianbetteridge.com
He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people. Come for the headlines, stay for the Gramsci.
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Ian Betteridge
@ianbetteridge.com
· Dec 15
People have a right to speak. They don’t have a right for anyone else to have to listen. That’s why block lists etc exist. I don’t give people the benefit of assuming good faith in the same way I wouldn’t if someone followed me down the street demanding I debate them. I’d call the cops, to be honest
Pinning this one to my profile for the hard for reading.
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"Hormone Therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time, extending prior findings with a larger sample and longer follow-up." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
"Hormone Therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time, extending prior findings with a larger sample and longer follow-up." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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There is something wonderful about living in a world where, whether etched into knackered slabs of dusty vinyl sixty years ago, or a swirling stream of immersive audio data created yesterday, music still has the power to make me feel my life has changed utterly on a regular basis.
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
There is something wonderful about living in a world where, whether etched into knackered slabs of dusty vinyl sixty years ago, or a swirling stream of immersive audio data created yesterday, music still has the power to make me feel my life has changed utterly on a regular basis.
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Yup. A lot of publishers made a great deal of money from affiliate ecommerce revenue. How much? Well, in 2024 Future made over £303m, 38% of total revenue. That easily eclipsed advertising (£225m).
Fuck me, RIP to Future's business model, I guess
OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Yup. A lot of publishers made a great deal of money from affiliate ecommerce revenue. How much? Well, in 2024 Future made over £303m, 38% of total revenue. That easily eclipsed advertising (£225m).
Remember the happy days when you could install software on your own hardware which let you do pretty-much anything you wanted with it? And all without the hardware maker trying to sue you? Good times, man, good times.
web.archive.org/web/20060823...
web.archive.org/web/20060823...
IpodPort < Main < TWiki
home download documentation mailing lists wiki IRC forums daily builds CVS builds feature requests bug reports patches
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Remember the happy days when you could install software on your own hardware which let you do pretty-much anything you wanted with it? And all without the hardware maker trying to sue you? Good times, man, good times.
web.archive.org/web/20060823...
web.archive.org/web/20060823...
Clever use of what I think of as the "Deliberate Betteridge Maneuveur" here.
(There figures of £331m seem to be about £260m too high)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
(There figures of £331m seem to be about £260m too high)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK claim to have saved £331m at English councils – but do the numbers stack up?
Experts say councils face limits on cuts as Reform’s savings on IT deals, office moves and EV projects are disputed
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Clever use of what I think of as the "Deliberate Betteridge Maneuveur" here.
(There figures of £331m seem to be about £260m too high)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
(There figures of £331m seem to be about £260m too high)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
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Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
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This is a lovely and insightful bit of writing by Charli xcx on her new substack itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realit...
The realities of being a pop star.
According to my experience...
itscharlibb.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This is a lovely and insightful bit of writing by Charli xcx on her new substack itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realit...
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Here's the Health Secretary Wes Streeting explaining that a clinical trial of a safe drug used in the UK and across the world for decades is necessary in order that it can be banned.
He wants to be PM.
He wants to be PM.
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Here's the Health Secretary Wes Streeting explaining that a clinical trial of a safe drug used in the UK and across the world for decades is necessary in order that it can be banned.
He wants to be PM.
He wants to be PM.
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Not content with selling out Ukraine to Russia and thereby putting the security of America’s allies at risk, the Trump regime is trashing the reputation of US science and risking the health of its children by rewriting the CDC website to suggest a link between vaccines and autism
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Not content with selling out Ukraine to Russia and thereby putting the security of America’s allies at risk, the Trump regime is trashing the reputation of US science and risking the health of its children by rewriting the CDC website to suggest a link between vaccines and autism
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I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
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Mark Zuckerberg is profoundly evil. This has been incredibly obvious for a very long time
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mark Zuckerberg is profoundly evil. This has been incredibly obvious for a very long time
When Musk said he wanted to use ideas from the tech world in making rockets, he probably wasn't thinking about "move fast and break things".
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
Newest Starship booster is significantly damaged during testing early Friday
SpaceX had big plans for the upgraded Starship vehicle that failed on Friday morning.
arstechnica.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
When Musk said he wanted to use ideas from the tech world in making rockets, he probably wasn't thinking about "move fast and break things".
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
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30 years ago I wrote a chapter in a book on civil liberties and the internet, saying that if we didn’t make our rights work offline, we wouldn’t be able to make them work online.
The same goes for anti-trust and monopoly-busting, whether it’s the Mail buying the Telegraph or MS bundling SharePoint.
The same goes for anti-trust and monopoly-busting, whether it’s the Mail buying the Telegraph or MS bundling SharePoint.
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
30 years ago I wrote a chapter in a book on civil liberties and the internet, saying that if we didn’t make our rights work offline, we wouldn’t be able to make them work online.
The same goes for anti-trust and monopoly-busting, whether it’s the Mail buying the Telegraph or MS bundling SharePoint.
The same goes for anti-trust and monopoly-busting, whether it’s the Mail buying the Telegraph or MS bundling SharePoint.
The AI bubble is looking a lot like 1999, but with more GPUs and less revenue. In this week's edition: the coming pop, the end of entry-level jobs, and why Tim Berners-Lee can't fix the broken web with a memoir.
www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-lin...
www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-lin...
Ten Blue Links, “Pop goes the bubble” edition
1. Being a Luddite is cool, actually For years, calling someone a “Luddite” was the ultimate insult in Silicon Valley—a shorthand for being backwards, anti-progress, and probably afraid of your own…
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November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The AI bubble is looking a lot like 1999, but with more GPUs and less revenue. In this week's edition: the coming pop, the end of entry-level jobs, and why Tim Berners-Lee can't fix the broken web with a memoir.
www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-lin...
www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-lin...
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genuine appeal to feminists who are haven't realised it yet: trans women are on your side. TERFS aren't
No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
genuine appeal to feminists who are haven't realised it yet: trans women are on your side. TERFS aren't
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Reform's former Welsh leader gets ten years for being bribed by Russia to bsck the Kremlin line while one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs for Ukip.
Others in ukip group spoke sympathetically of Kremlin arguments, including Farage. It is possible his were sincere pro-Russia views
go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...
Others in ukip group spoke sympathetically of Kremlin arguments, including Farage. It is possible his were sincere pro-Russia views
go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reform's former Welsh leader gets ten years for being bribed by Russia to bsck the Kremlin line while one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs for Ukip.
Others in ukip group spoke sympathetically of Kremlin arguments, including Farage. It is possible his were sincere pro-Russia views
go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...
Others in ukip group spoke sympathetically of Kremlin arguments, including Farage. It is possible his were sincere pro-Russia views
go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
Comment is Freed is one of the best value subscriptions out there. Highly recommended.
The Witkoff-Dmitriev plan is even more amateurish than I imagined. It favours Russia although does contain elements that Russia will not like. Premature leaking means that it is no more than work in progress. Here is an annotated version (This is free). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?
The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated
We now know a bit more about the process which led to the new peace plan and we now have a copy of its contents, to which I will turn soon.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Comment is Freed is one of the best value subscriptions out there. Highly recommended.
What was it that snitches get, again?
Snitch. They mean they had a snitch.
The FBI said the information came from a “sensitive source with excellent access...”
The FBI said the information came from a “sensitive source with excellent access...”
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
What was it that snitches get, again?
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This is dismal from the Google Play Store. Search for ChatGPT and top of the shop is another AI app with a similar logo that I bet tons of people click on accidentally.
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is dismal from the Google Play Store. Search for ChatGPT and top of the shop is another AI app with a similar logo that I bet tons of people click on accidentally.
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Oh, look. That thing that was always going to be a total disaster turns out to have been a total disaster.
I will never not be angry about this.
I will never not be angry about this.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oh, look. That thing that was always going to be a total disaster turns out to have been a total disaster.
I will never not be angry about this.
I will never not be angry about this.