Dave Richardson

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

My kid made cinnamon rolls and I am here to tell you that teenagers are pretty awesome.

If you're deep in the trenches of baby and toddlerhood, hang in there. Eventually they learn to bake.

Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform The party leader will claim today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists

Snowflake. Farage doesn’t like to be held to account for his racist policies, his divisive rhetoric and his grifter politics - well bad luck because there is lots more to come www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

But of a test here for what remains of the British news media. These proposals are mad, racist and economic suicide. Will they be reported as such? Or will they be reported as a reasonable suggestion?

I was expecting the Reichstag Fire parallel to be made, but I did not expect it to come from the right.

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.

“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.

Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Nigel Farage says “We are not very far from major civil disorder” but forgets to add “and I’ll keep doing all I can to ensure we get there”.

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

The question bears repeating: why are the establishment UK news media continuing to claim that mass anti-migrant protests are erupting across the country when they are simply not?

Aussie unions don’t beat around the bush.

just saw a part time curator job for 20k a year in central London. tbh it’s at the point now anytime a cultural institution advertises a role they may as well just say “those who require a salary to live need not apply”. every year it gets worse, and we’re seeing how arts and culture suffers for it!

The Baulk Path: will it help more people to cycle? Camcycle asked the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) to progress the Baulk Path proposals, on the proviso that:

This link works: www.camcycle.org.uk/blog/2025/07...

I'm hoping that when they start to play Wonderwall, Weezer arrive and escort them from the stage

I walked to Ely from Cambridge a few years back. It's an incredibly dull landscape and seeing the Ship of The Fens emerge on the horizon is a definite highlight of the route.

More of this tone please 😏

This paragraph is on point. Having known many people whose mental and even physical health issues are CAUSED by work.

The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within (eBook) | Edward Tufte In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall. For many years, overhead proj...

Tufte is good on this topic: www.edwardtufte.com/book/the-cog...

Caption: “The work was hard and the hours were long, so on sunny days, the professor allowed the team to leave the lab and research their viruses outdoors.” Image: Scientists in yellow hazmat suits work with chemicals, glassware and machinery in the dappled shade of some old trees on the university lawn.

A summery cartoon for @newscientist.com

One lesson I've learned the hard way, not being a pain in the ass to work with goes farther than almost anything else in life.

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the cinema #FilmSky

The moon floats in a Cathedral, flanked by a series of archways. People stand around, staring at it.

I love these installations. This is from Ely Cathedral.

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064