clamplifier

contrary to common belief the martin lewis “moneysavingexpert“ character was not originally invented by the uk treasury to help smooth the public rollout of their budgets

Saw a market stall on a beach in Cyprus years ago with a sign advertising its wares that I found doubled as one of the most profound statements on existence I had ever seen.

if i were asked to name three geniuses i probably wouldn’t say einstein, newton…you know. i’d go: pitch curator in durban, pitch curator in gqeberha and pitch curator in cape town

marco jansen dismissing cameron green…it’s @runeberg.bsky.social’s world

of course the cut in standing charges saving the average household £45 a year is welcome reform but without a robust industrial policy to develop high quality british made shmups for a government backed nintendo switch e-shop all the money saved will simply end up being sent straight to japan

feels like negligence to leave out the numbers here left: FT/right: Folha de Sao Paulo (not really Lula fans) #sackmichaelpooler

waiting to see if the chancellor was being honest when i agreed to defend the governments stockpiling strategy on bluesky in exchange for the treasury purchasing the massive yellow wind turbine towers in leith as permanent sculptures for the city

Feel like at some point in the 2010s a lot of people started thinking that TV shows allowed more room for concepts, ideas to breathe and grow than movies and you have to say that was an immensely harmful mindset.

ridiculous how my wife gets away with reading choices and vicious opinions towards particular writers which would immediately mark me out as a reactionary bore…and apparently you can’t even complain just because of the violent misogyny underpinning all facets of society across all of human history??

sorry i know it’s a busy day in the imaging department and you have a lot to get through but do you mind if i just spend a couple minutes admiring the big scanning machines after my appointment ?

it called a bolsonaro worth ethic, get the presidential election lost nob of to america

Think you could construct a pretty good Mountain Goats song just using UFO Sightings Bot

as part of his apology to china, kylian mbappe has agreed to appear in a duet video with lamine yamal singing a spray of plum blossoms

nevele ice rink, ellenville, new york, 1978

A lot of disrespect to the contributors, many of whom are people I detest

dysfunctional political settlement where devolution provides new political opportunities for successful regional leaders but limited powers granted leaves them woefully underprepared for no.10. if burnham had spent years practicing with a local manchester weather machine we wouldn’t be in this mess.

He's just like me fr

bluesky has four types of users

last one laughing generally a wretched show but reece shearsmith genuinely very very good in this halloween series

You'll all see the wisdom of this take next week when your timeline is full of the sorry spectacle of Brits with Strong Opinions about how different messaging could have prevented Randy Bumgardner from winning Iowa's 4th congressional district

starting to regret some of my lifelong hatred of traditional celebrity culture now i end up hearing discourse about the relationship dramas of streamers and podcasters. at least brangelina had glamour.

as far as i can tell the most popular use case at the moment of the latest advances in easily publicly accessible LLM’s is making crap blurry ports of later console games for the 3ds. the version of fallout 4 looks strangely compelling tbf.

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another defeated Bolsonaro was made.

notion that there are four seasons is a common misconception. there are in fact two seasons of variable lengths - “the dog constantly makes your flat mucky” and “the dog doesn’t make your flat mucky“

That’s enough men’s mental health awareness for a lifetime I reckon

Gustave Baumann Autumnal Glory, 1920 Color woodcut on tan laid paper Art Institute of Chicago

lovingly adopt a tone of gentle exasperation at your usage underpinned by a mixture of genuine concern at your inability to shake off your bad habits and awareness that you can sometimes be embarrassingly prickly about it when the topic is raised?

love these issues so much. a poetry magazine which doesn’t feel like a poetry magazine (complimentary) and makes you want to read more poetry by simply being fun and engaged. fits nicely in your back pocket too!

me when the person who runs the edinburgh morning newsletter goes on holiday

“wor tree is doon”, the most powerful human impulse, now hitting my inlaw family groupchat

FIFA have confirmed Balogun’s suspension has been lifted and he *will* be allowed to campaign to annull the results of the Brazilian Presidential Election

great personal charisma to be able to do both the politics of joy (“the right to barbecue on the weekend”) and this and be right about both