Tom Freeman

"Is that the sound of silence you’re hearing? I’m not talking about the Simon and Garfunkel classic, but rather the noise emanating from the official Jewish community in studied non-reaction to the long line of people – now numbering more than 30 – who have accused Nigel Farage of tormenting classmates with racist and antisemitic abuse back when he was a pupil of London’s Dulwich College."

Obviously this is a serious issue that deserves to be addressed seriously, but that intro is extremely #AccidentalPartridge
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There's an air of suspicion associated with being a freemason, and it's hard to shake.

Software update

Quite a bit of this mindset in UK politics too

tbh I'm always looking for new ways to get people to read my posts

NEW POLITICAL RHETORIC RULE: Any policy that reduces an alleged "black hole" must be described as "Hawking radiation", and anything likely to increase it as an "accretion disk"

COOKERY TIP: Do *not* be misled by the term "tray bake", you actually have to put ingredients in the tray first otherwise your guests will be quite disappointed

We'll see what comes of this, but the framing is already a plea for defeat. Half-heartedly dancing to your opponent's tune just doesn't work. David Cameron's minuscule "renegotiation" of the terms of EU membership only irritated wavering Tories and nudged them towards leave.

omg warn them about Trump

*extremely bluesky voice* Actually y'all are being highly problematic in mocking a couple of young people who just want to educate themselves about the holocaust

Thumbnail for a YouTube video, titled "The Death of the Solar System (Simulation)"

Reassuring clarification there

omg 50 grand for an actual sea fort

"3 sunken barges and part of the estuary included"

But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.

"On Friday, I briefly cosplayed working in a cafe, which was a pretext to claim that I had gained an insight into what ordinary people's jobs are like, an insight that happened to confirm my preconceptions, which I am now going to recite to you."

A secondary meaning of bullshit ties in to that: "this is such bullshit" when you're being treated unfairly but not necessarily misled. Bullshit requires contempt for the recipient, or at least indifference. (And the fact that BS is a verb too but HS isn't maybe suggests something about intent)

How would you define the difference between bullshit and horseshit?

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Not sure about this new trend of making ads using AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4MT...

It is not entirely clear to me why, if these two people were to commit a crime together, one but not the other should be stripped of citizenship and deported.

Feeling extremely meh this evening

what the fuck does that mean

Headline: "Hegseth said US military should refuse ‘unlawful’ Trump orders in unearthed 2016 interview"

This was actually the last recorded occasion on which he was sober

OK fine *I'll* buy Warner Bros, I've got £5.60

Are you an Americano or an Americanto

Cormorant taking off. In slow-mo, you can see that it's getting just enough lift from its wings to basically jump along the surface of the water. #NewRiverBirds

omg I hadn't clocked that! That's painful, even aside from the fact it's not what you said. Severely unidiomatic, bordering on ungrammatical. Clumsily overapplying a style preference regardless of whether it makes sense. "The govt do/does" can work either way, but "a govt" really should have "does".

I just got curious and compared the clips you posted a few days back with the Hansard. Some of the smaller changes they made seem like legit tidying-up, but on the whole they've made you sound more formal, less conversational. This is the realm of rhetorical choice, not grammatical error. A shame.

I can never remember whether s'mores is short for sycamores or sophomores

This might get some use.

The start of every Bluesky beef.

This genuinely is an important part of a newsletter! You do need to have some sense of “I am getting this from a person”. This is one reason why I ripped off the bottom of John Authers’ newsletter. (The others being that the world is depressing and I wanted there to be some joy in it)