jon mclean

Nato/euro heads of state just kicking the can until he kicks the bucket.

Reading through the FT at the moment is a strange experience: revolution, war, disaster, brutal autocratic oppression, mad dictator shit....and then "markets continue to thrive"; "record profits".

This post is for the determined little blood clot trying to make its way to a vital organ inside the most vile and putrid creature who breathes: I know you tried for the heart and couldn't find one. Don't be discouraged. Your job is too important. Just move toward the pudding. That's the brain.

Oh I thought this was the McDonald's conference but no, they're letting him do this again somewhere else

stop using spotify

Still thinking about this 3 hours later. I actually shouted "he's not a radical left winger" at the radio

Recruitment not a problem if you bring back the draft

I read "moment we're in" in klein's voice

taking biscuits back to the 18th century

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

A mobius strip of conspiracy

A geomagnetic storm large enough to fry all the computers would fix us.

He was a racist podcaster

Left my phone in a cafe en route to Cornwall and enjoyed a perfect 72 hours by the sea without it. Now it’s back in my hand, I think I need better strategies to mitigate its use.

So many good takes on ai on this website

is it because her friend bill clinton is on the list?

Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.

Europe appears to just have given up on doing anything technical. Perhaps we should stop pretending & speed up getting to our eventual destiny of a full time holiday destination for American, Chinese & Russian tourists. And that is the best outcome I can see right now therecord.media/spain-awards...

I'm firmly in the 'Neil Young was absolutely the right musician to headline Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage on Saturday night' camp, in case anyone was wondering.

She’s phenomenal

Just a wonderfully satisfying, emotionally resonant, politically relevant, thoroughly entertaining Saturday at Glastonbury. (Wish I was actually there).

In the literature/canon, does the antichrist know they are the antichrist?

I mean I'm a hardened atheist who at this point believes like 80% unironically that Trump is the/an antichrist, so...

Well I love Huey Lewis and the News, so I feel this is predominantly a personality issue

I am clearly wrong www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

I knew they would be shit, but is the worst #Glastonbury headliner of all time?

Christ, the 1975 are fucking diabolical.

Really enjoyed wunderhorse’s 90’s grunge vibe on the park stage too

ffs.

Screen shot from episode 5 of Adam Curtis's Shifty, showing former prime minister Tony Blair staring at a two-tone brown capsule he is holding between his thumb and forefinger. Text across the image reads "TONY BLAIR INSPECTING A CAPSULE OF MDMA"

Might print this off and put it on a t-shirt.

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