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Southampton thrashing Charlton Athletic.
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Southampton thrashing Charlton Athletic.
They didn’t like it, but they had to go along with it.
This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
The Ban
www.newyorker.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
They didn’t like it, but they had to go along with it.
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'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Cloud Provider Region Where This Regularly Happens
Amazon is still working to recover from a major service outage in US-East that started around 2 am ET. Thousands of sites affected, including several large European banks.
“The UK government has said it is in contact with Amazon over Monday’s outage.”
health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
“The UK government has said it is in contact with Amazon over Monday’s outage.”
health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
Amazon Web Services outage hitting platforms around world ‘showing signs of recovery’
Problem that originated in US and affected Snapchat and Ring among others appears to be IT issue rather than cyber-attack, says expert
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Cloud Provider Region Where This Regularly Happens
extremely exciting to see Labour doing a worse job pushing ID cards than the imaginary Labour did in the first episode of series two of Stephen Fry and John Bird’s underrated Absolute Power
Absolute Power - S2E1 - Identity Crisis
Dailymotion video by muriloethelyn9298
www.dailymotion.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
extremely exciting to see Labour doing a worse job pushing ID cards than the imaginary Labour did in the first episode of series two of Stephen Fry and John Bird’s underrated Absolute Power
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dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers
June 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers
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"I couldn’t possibly know what works best in an office building that I never intend to have to be in, but I can tell you what looks good, and that’s a large space filled with miserable people."
I’m the Person Who Designs Open-Plan Office Spaces, Despite Never Having Actually Worked in One
I’m the person who designs offices that have no walls or sound barriers so you have a tighter sense of community while you and your coworkers shout...
buff.ly
May 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"I couldn’t possibly know what works best in an office building that I never intend to have to be in, but I can tell you what looks good, and that’s a large space filled with miserable people."
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Not to take anything away from a smart, effective interviewer, but: the reason Isaac Chotiner is so feared is because he prepares for the interview and asks follow-up questions, techniques that make him like unto a cat on an island of flightless birds
I want to reiterate that I think journalism is important, and political journalism -- the question of what people want to do, how they plan to do it, and what the stakes are if they succeed or fail -- is extremely important. At a lot of the major news organizations, it basically doesn't exist
August 9, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Not to take anything away from a smart, effective interviewer, but: the reason Isaac Chotiner is so feared is because he prepares for the interview and asks follow-up questions, techniques that make him like unto a cat on an island of flightless birds
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‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
March 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff
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Paul Verhoeven is one of the only filmmakers to correctly predict how fucking stupid and tacky modern American fascism would be.
March 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Paul Verhoeven is one of the only filmmakers to correctly predict how fucking stupid and tacky modern American fascism would be.
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Fact check: Liberals say that Trump is like Hitler but Trump is only planning a reich that lasts 100 years.
March 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Fact check: Liberals say that Trump is like Hitler but Trump is only planning a reich that lasts 100 years.
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This is what happens when you don't tax rich people, I'm dead serious. You have to keep the money moving in rational ways or it all devolves to hustle
this is a good joke but this also speaks to a truth about 2025 America: the growing, horrible sense among many people that running scams is the only path to basic financial stability
this is, of course, utter poison for human society
this is, of course, utter poison for human society
Feels like I'm leaving money on the table by not doing a scam or swindle of some kind. Would you guys buy a car for $100,000 if I pretended it can drive itself. What about a fake currency
March 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is what happens when you don't tax rich people, I'm dead serious. You have to keep the money moving in rational ways or it all devolves to hustle
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Hey remember that time a bunch of losers got mad at a lady who made a video game about depression and it led to several thousand federal employees losing their jobs
March 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hey remember that time a bunch of losers got mad at a lady who made a video game about depression and it led to several thousand federal employees losing their jobs
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the media: the trouble is, no-one’s giving advice to men!
loads of people: be fun. wash regularly so you smell nice. learn to cook. take pleasure in giving other people pleasure. be interested in other people.
the media: so here’s a man who says you should become a human trafficker.
loads of people: be fun. wash regularly so you smell nice. learn to cook. take pleasure in giving other people pleasure. be interested in other people.
the media: so here’s a man who says you should become a human trafficker.
January 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
the media: the trouble is, no-one’s giving advice to men!
loads of people: be fun. wash regularly so you smell nice. learn to cook. take pleasure in giving other people pleasure. be interested in other people.
the media: so here’s a man who says you should become a human trafficker.
loads of people: be fun. wash regularly so you smell nice. learn to cook. take pleasure in giving other people pleasure. be interested in other people.
the media: so here’s a man who says you should become a human trafficker.
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"Abortion was made legal underwater nearly 50 years ago in Salmon Roe v. Wave, yet there is still a stigma attached to what is no more serious a procedure than allowing a goby fish to clean the parasites from my gills."
theonion.com/if-fema...
theonion.com/if-fema...
If Females Could Get Pregnant, There’d Be An Abortion Clinic On Every Coral
Despite the tide of aquatic opinion flowing in favor of reproductive rights for all, marine society still gives male seahorses very little say over what happens to their own bodies. Instead, we are treated as passive baby-making machines. Meanwhile, if it were the female seahorses who could get pregnant, there’d probably be an abortion clinic […]
theonion.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Abortion was made legal underwater nearly 50 years ago in Salmon Roe v. Wave, yet there is still a stigma attached to what is no more serious a procedure than allowing a goby fish to clean the parasites from my gills."
theonion.com/if-fema...
theonion.com/if-fema...
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"Rolling Stone, WIRED, Teen Vogue, and your favorite tech blog leading the charge against fascism while your parents' Very Serious Papers of Record dig their own graves" sounds like cringe Millennial fan fiction from the Livejournal of someone whose parents banned them from using Limewire, and yet,
I've been a fan of Mike/Techdirt for years - he championed a lot of the adaptive stuff we were doing with NIN in the 2000s against the grain of the industry (embracing torrents, Creative Commons, pay-what-you-want albums, etc).
Great to see Techdirt firmly meeting the moment. Hopefully more follow.
Great to see Techdirt firmly meeting the moment. Hopefully more follow.
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
March 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"Rolling Stone, WIRED, Teen Vogue, and your favorite tech blog leading the charge against fascism while your parents' Very Serious Papers of Record dig their own graves" sounds like cringe Millennial fan fiction from the Livejournal of someone whose parents banned them from using Limewire, and yet,
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the purpose of banning section 230 is to ban all political, sexual, or critical speech from the internet
this is to silence grassroots movements that don’t have the explicit sanction of the wealthy and powerful
you are an abject moron or a liar if you believe it has any other purpose
this is to silence grassroots movements that don’t have the explicit sanction of the wealthy and powerful
you are an abject moron or a liar if you believe it has any other purpose
It’s time to repeal Section 230. We must be able to take social media companies to court for addicting kids and enabling drug trafficking on their platforms.
Sen. DURBIN: Fentanyl often gets to our kids and young people through the internet.
Section 230 absolves social media companies from any responsibility. “That has got to end.”
Section 230 absolves social media companies from any responsibility. “That has got to end.”
March 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
the purpose of banning section 230 is to ban all political, sexual, or critical speech from the internet
this is to silence grassroots movements that don’t have the explicit sanction of the wealthy and powerful
you are an abject moron or a liar if you believe it has any other purpose
this is to silence grassroots movements that don’t have the explicit sanction of the wealthy and powerful
you are an abject moron or a liar if you believe it has any other purpose
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When you've lost GrowingDaniel...
March 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
When you've lost GrowingDaniel...
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@helldude.bsky.social has managed to personally make a sitting vice President go and tell the papers that he isn’t mad. Incredible.
March 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@helldude.bsky.social has managed to personally make a sitting vice President go and tell the papers that he isn’t mad. Incredible.
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just put it together that a big chunk of Musk’s attitude towards federal employees probably comes from Snow Crash too
February 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
just put it together that a big chunk of Musk’s attitude towards federal employees probably comes from Snow Crash too
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
February 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.