Nick Hill

friday challenge: you have to make a youtube video with a target audience of 11-16s without using any of the following phrases: "this is insane" "whaaaat" "oh - my - gosh"

Someone at Bjorn should really check the emails they're sending out, because this isn't message they probably want.

if we could all please remember to join hands and help wake up Billie-Jo Armstrong today. Tea & biscuits will be provided

this is like fining me 0.1p for illegal fly tipping

my theory about the Voynich Manuscript is that whoever wrote and illustrated it was just on a very very long phone call

"Can I talk to the press?" "Perhaps this foghorn will answer your question"

Reminds me somewhat of Hemingway's quote about going bankrupt: "gradually, then very suddenly". (Morally, of course, Trump has always been bankrupt.)

Got one of those "updated T&Cs" emails today (September 21st). It apparently comes into force on September 15th, so it seems I've already agreed to it before I knew anything was happening.... Doesn't seem to be anything controversial in it, but what if there was?

Here's a quick calculation of the total donations to the five national UK parties from July 2024 til Sep 2026, as registered on the Electoral Commission website. Reform's total donations are about 45% of the entire total, and their average donation size is 9 times that of the next highest (Labour).

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Always a good idea to proof-read things and ask yourself: "Is it realistic that anyone is planning to build a data centre 9 times the area of London, in London?" That said, I wouldn't put it past the AI bros, given time...

Jason Arday's utterly sad death holds a stark mirror up to the dehumanising political-media-societal culture we are in – one we must all be honest about being complicit in – which forgets there is a human being at the centre of a story, a case study, an issue, a scandal. It is dehumanising.

but let's build more fucking data centres and drill baby drill

Really do wonder why so many of these people are happy to lose their £500 deposits, just to make a point that will inevitably get lost in the Binface/Cuntface battle

This was about as good as it got where we were

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

Forget terraforming Mars. Just stop venusifying Earth.

I'm in the UK. Is there some kind of committee preparing a set of suitably sombre street parties for when the orange guy joins the choir invisible? Maybe samba bands, flypasts, a free bar, that kind of thing?

I made this one for Linkydink, but here it is without the tediously mandatory "what I learned about b2b sales" stuff. A quick comparison of IMAX vs other formats, for The Odyssey.

Oh my god, there are some absolute corkers in here. www.404media.co/these-are-th...

George Toycar

People of Clacton: You know what you have to do. At least you know the bins would be collected on time.

Context like this is so important any time there's a large number in public life. The average maths GCSE doesn't really help you visualise 000s

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is accidentally making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax better than anyone else could.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

I was bought a book by a kind stranger. Can confirm this is a genuine thing. I very much enjoyed the book, too

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Going to start describing anything made with AI as a "token effort"

I'd go as far as to suggest that our outstanding university sector has been the lodestone of UK soft power since the collapse of empire. Think of all the cultural, financial & political leaders from all around the world who've been through UK universities

So Iran gets to carry on doing the stuff it's doing, and agrees not to start doing stuff it wasn't doing anyway, and in return it gets all sanctions lifted and $300bn towards reconstruction costs?

seems our new alien overlords also subscribe to the new yorker

Iran is awarding him the FAFO Peace Prize.

Polls show that only 15% of Americans approve of yesterday’s UFC spectacle on the White House grounds. But in this Palo Alto brothel/ketamine bar, that percentage feels much higher

love it when a website unintentionally shortens something the wrong way

my stock response to anyone who says "i'm using AI to do [...,], why aren't you using it?" is "because it's shit and I have taste"

I don't really get what it takes to get an agent to actually read your submission. Have had 5 hard "no"s and 9 ghosts so far out of 27 agents submitted to. Either they're not seeing what I'm seeing, or I'm not seeing something that they are

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and again, i find myself coming back to the question: why does he care? what is it about the far-right and hobbyhorses?

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

i don't really like this heat much. not a big fan

I hear Chris Nolan used actual cyclopses to avoid any cgi

Robot legs are here and they aren’t going anywhere. [booing begins] Whether you like it or not we are going to cut off all of your legs and arms [booing intensifies] and heads and replace them all with robot legs and only robot legs [shouting over boos] well I can see you aren’t ready for the future

am gonna lie, that hat looks really good on you

Breaking: World's 10 Richest Billionaires Now Worth More Than Poorest 50% of Billionaires