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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Have started watching Parade's End (it's Stoppard season) and it is wonderful, it is so so good, Downton Abbey could never
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Today, in The Times, there is an attempted hit piece on my employer – Good Law Project.

It is *incredibly* weak, and perhaps the biggest compliment really is just how little they have to accuse us of. But it also promotes the Trans Mission concert – to which you should buy tickets!

Thread 🧵👇
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The thing about immigration is that xenophobia and racism are the elite centrist position. Here's a senior fellow at Brookings, spouse of CRFP head Maya MacGuineas, explaining the mere presence of foreigners in Germany is a "problem" that someone must solve with "speed and determination."
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Doomed out? @flaminghydra.com is a doom-counteracting machine. Help us spread solidarity, egalitarianism, camaraderie, and human values.
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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have written that piece before but there's a whole lot of "oh wow this generation of kids are fucked" and nowhere near enough "huh what exactly have that generation of parents been doing and how can we not do that, going forward"
People are very hard on young people on here, lack of critical thinking, lack of responsibility etc, and then you see something like this and it all makes a different kind of sense.
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It is essentially a fantastically useful but normal, boring tech whose most promising use case appears to be that it can make other pieces of (normal, boring) tech. It's a fast stamping machine for turning out code that can be used to make applications that consumers use.
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Went for a walk in the Peak District
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC.

We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Cyclocross under the lights
(in the mist and fog)

📷 Pentax K3 mkiii monochrome
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.

merl-shop.co.uk

(and, yes: we ship internationally!)

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November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Collapse of a civilization
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.

The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.

Also missing: the text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy”
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacentres, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The only good Star Wars films are those which are direct ripoffs of better Kurosawa films

So basically Star Wars
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM