Simon Waldman

Punchline: and you've been married for twenty years?

A party that controls every institution of government, including majorities in both chambers of the parliament, should be able to keep the lights on & the airports running. Malevolent incompetence.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

Tory policy would deport about 5% of the UK population.
"This scale of population movement is comparable to that which happened with the partition of India and Pakistan and the foundation of the state of Israel."

Eight Sleep pod users extra cranky after AWS outage makes beds go haywire Eight Sleep, the makers of an AI-powered sleep monitoring bed, apologizes to users after the AWS outage triggers the $200 per month sleep pods to go haywire.

"My $200/month subscription bed won't work without the internet"

😂😁😂😬

cybernews.com/privacy/eigh...

The Jolly Roger flag

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”

First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.

With me so far? 1/x

I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”

why did this take two fucking days though? did the Prime Minister have his notifications switched off? was he stuck in the bath? why, exactly, is this obviously true thing something that apparently needs running past the boss anyway? what is *wrong* with their comms operation?

It is the official policy of the Conservative Party that their leader should be deported. It is the official policy of Reform that their leader's wife should be deported.

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

Add me to the list of people who were delighted by the first eight words 😁

Oct 18th. No Kings. I'm not sure if there's a significance to the date, but anyway.

American friends, I hope that you are both safe and effective, and that when there is a tradeoff between the two you are able to strike the balance that you choose. ❤️

I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London.

I said:

"No. It'll be ULEZ."

(The low emissions zone)

Eh, that could totally be Pulp lyrics from something like Wickerman. 😂

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Seeing game devs take a "the customer is always right" approach to feedback is so sad because like I get it from a PR perspective, but...

1) The customer is always wrong

2) Your customers are gamers, so they're twice as wrong

The EHRC removed the "interim guidance" that has been devastating the lives of trans people for months from it's website.

We wonder why...👀

Having a day of extreme cognitive dissonance today. On the one hand, I'm going to Parliament for a Westminster Hall debate in honour of Ada Lovelace Day, a thing that I created in 2009 and that I'm very proud of.

Otoh, I'm broke.

By many measures, ALD was a huge success — people picked up the...

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

I think we're one or two bad polls away from someone in the government promising to deport any immigrants who won't get rid of their accent.

Someone really needs to take Starmer aside and have a quiet word about not being so bloody stupid.

"Are we going to abandon people whenever the rightwing press demands it?"

Husband came down with vase fatigue in the British Museum. At first he was like "whaaat? are they giving each other HANDIES?" and then by the 20th or so room of red figure vases was all "oh. Gay spitroast," in the jaded-to-numbness tones of Malcolm MacDowell's Caligula.

I think the only character I ever designed to be “sexy” is Lucifer and the man has no fucking nose. Like guys??? Traditional sexy is never in my design notes 😂 I like gremlin men

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

No one still alive has seen as much of the Tory party as Heseltine. He was involved in Concorde negotiations… When I research More Jam Tomorrow, he keeps popping up.

Watching the Conservatives’ extinction must hurt him profoundly in ways it’s hard for Bluesky to imagine.

Judge’s $1.5m home destroyed in huge fire as her family is rushed to hospital Circuit court justice Diane Goodstein, who ruled against Trump administration last month, was out walking when mansion erupted into flames

Judge ruled against Trump admin a month ago. Yesterday, her house burnt down. We do *NOT* currently have evidence that it wasn't an accident.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Today, Stephen Miller said a different judge who ruled against misuse of National Guard was "an insurrectionist".

Elon Musk and Stephen Miller both tweeted against judges today.

A South Carolina judge's house burned down and almost killed her family.

Context: a judge’s house blew up today.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following