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The nights are drawing in, which can only mean one thing... dark skies season is upon us! Explore our Dark Skies hub for information and inspiration: buff.ly/tF5TSPK ✨ 📸: Piers Fearick

I have deleted the emails that were in my inbox and which you were probably sending for reasons Forgive me they were annoying so many and so long

So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28

A haunted house where you keep running into people explaining the rules of board games to you

A haunted house in which every room messages you as you leave it, asking for a star rating and a few sentences of feedback

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Person who wrote the layout engine for Microsoft Word: absolutely not

BOB THE BEER DROPPER: I make the worst decisions ME: hold my beer

UK, London: Women in STEM and gender equity in the workplace. Suw will address the SCTE’s Quantum Computing event and introduce presentations by women in the broadband industry. 22 Oct, 9am-6pm, £10. #ALD26 https://findingada.com/event/women-in-stem-and-gender-equity-in-the-workplace/

RIP Margaret Hamilton. Properly amazing, what she did, back when there was very little established understanding of what 'good' meant in software engineering. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Is there a word for people who refuse to look up from their phones while moving through crowded places, like city streets or train stations? 'Cause those bastards are *slow*, and I want a convenient way to swear about them in my head while I'm trying to get past them.

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now! Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... (The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

OK now I'm back at work I want to talk about GB Grid. I think the govt did the best it could at communicating this announcement but it's quite technical and you need to understand the energy system to fully get it, so it's almost impossible to sum up in a soundbite. Let me explain as far as I can:

Man, I really hope this isn't how coffee is made

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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The Prospect paywall is down!! Head to our website to read all our online content FOR FREE until Monday 5th October. lnkd.in/eUYscDfv This includes our entire current issue: www.prospectmagazine...

Microdosing reality by looking up from my phone occasionally

Just saw someone referring to Daniel Thomas's Patriot Platform Blackshorts army as his "PeePee Boys" and I feel this should stick.

This week on Origin Story: The life & ideas of John Rawls, the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the post-war period. These are some of the most beautiful arguments in progressive thought. We do it as a one hour crash course. Everything you need to know. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

Doing some vibe coding with Claude, and the main thing I've learned so far is that I want my own personal status notification that says "Working through a complex response..."

If you want a Sunday morning longread I wrote up a rough version of the talk I gave at LDX3 this week on the Manager's Path in the Age of AI skamille.medium.com/the-managers...

LOLing at these

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

This is literally a plot point in “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935, it predicts the rise of a fascist populist who promises each family $5,000 per year if he’s elected.

Apparently we've got a very rare and expensive cask of amontillado in our collection, whatever that is. We're going to try find it and will report back.

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

I saw this post and wanted to address it. If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want

Introducing Fork 2.0! Exciting new cosmetic options, new hand interface technology and quality-of-life improvements such as haptic feedback, VR support and a farming minigame. Terms and conditions apply. Fork is no longer compatible with spoons

Everyone's seen how the most powerful tycoons in Silicon Valley have manipulated politics (and society) to their will. But we're stuck thinking of them as "VCs". They're not. They evolved years ago into something far worse, which we could consider Cancer Capitalists: www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/c...

PhD researcher Stephanie Lamy’s forensic breakdown of exactly what happened to Prof Jason Arday should be required reading. Explains how he was targeted by a well-funded, racist, eugenicist network and why his fear and ‘paranoia’ were completely justified. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

If you haven’t heard, @trufelman.bsky.social and I started a new podcast about fashion and philosophy. Each month, we read canonical text — Voltaire, Rousseau, Hegel — and talk about how the author's ideas help us understand why we dress the way we do.