Max Dunbar

Enjoying HIGH POTENTIAL so far. Good cases and gloriously silly - there's even a clue from the moon in one episode as in The Simpsons MacGyver ('Don't thank me, thank the moon's gravitational pull')

Not only that, but if German elites (esp von Papen and Hindenburg) hadn't caved, Hitler wouldn't have been chancellor. People think Hitler rode into office on some big democratic wave, when in fact he snuck in through the side door due to the incompetence of a few men.

The Tories always seem to start from the position of 'What's the best way we can lose this argument?'

AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans

I see the NIMBYs now cannot be bothered even to write their own objections! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🤬🤬russians struck a gas station in the Kharkiv region with a KAB - five people were injured, including a police officer

House of leaves:

Electricity is back! Yay
Oh, and fuck russia!

PLURIBUS

1) I was expecting an ABQ Manifest - something meandering and hard to follow
2) but it's compelling - like a Stephen King apocalypse novel
3) hard to see why critics describe this show as 'slow burn' given the dramatic events of episode 1
4) Mike would have sorted this out in no time

I don't normally read autobiography or life writing but wow Fern Brady's STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER - a bitter, riveting memoir that explained an autistic perspective to me better than anything else I've come across. Recommended

❗️Russian Shahed drone struck a residential building in Dnipro.

Baseball and the free city The beauty of the Dodgers and Los Angeles' ungovernability.

This is an amazing, economical post by Matt Pearce, with a great Pericles quote: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/baseball-a...

Evening.

Still, we have things to look forward to

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First draft of the John Lewis ad

This is a particular favourite - the idea that some voter in Crewe or Carlisle will remember in 2029 that their MP sent a tweet congratulating the newly elected New York Mayor and judge on his record accordingly, guys most people barely know who the Prime Minister is, you have Twitter brain rot

At least Nigel seeks the opportunity to win power through democratic means. Many on the right seem to want mass civil unrest/civil war in the hope they'll be able to form a government when the smoke clears

Is this for real?

The Club If the doors to the Cheers bar stand always open, and everyone inside knows your name, then the gateway to the successor show is a little harder to navigate. This dialogue is from the first episode…

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Interstellar Object Is Spraying Something Weird, Scientists Find The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is absolutely blasting out water at a staggering rate, astronomers found.

Not now, interstellar object spraying something weird futurism.com/space/inters...

Please help at bit.ly/frontlinedef.... Our delegation is currently on way to Ukraine, driving two vehicles + aid for various destinations

Shortly before leaving we significantly expanded the aid we're taking. Funds needed to cover the costs

We're £2,332 short of new target

Stephen King: Why I love 'Breaking Bad' EW's pop culture columnist explains why AMC's strange, violent crystal-meth drama is his pick as the best scripted show on TV

This is King on Breaking Bad: ew.com/article/2009...

Stephen King on the brilliant new season of ''The Wire'' Stephen King on the brilliant new season of ''The Wire'': EW's columnist explains why he's entranced by the gritty HBO drama -- and why you should be watching

Though it seems much of King's EW output was silly, this was one of the best things I've read on The Wire, a show which generated a lot of ink. ew.com/article/2007...

Stephen King's Entertainment Weekly column was the best worst thing Stephen King's Entertainment Weekly column was the best worst thing

The AV Club remembers Stephen King's Entertainment Weekly column: www.avclub.com/stephen-king...

Psycho Killer, Qu’est-ce Que C’est? Much has been written about our love for true crime, most of this framed as a modern morbidity. True crime documentaries proliferate on streaming. Perfectly normal people get home from their ordina…

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Probably late to the party but just discovered @aptshadow.bsky.social, whose CITY OF LAST CHANCES I thoroughly enjoyed - everything you need for a strange world you can lose yourself in. Recommended

And then allowed two completely unaffordable tax cuts as a desperate election ploy, screwing up the public finances while leaving the overall tax burden still at a high.

City University student allegedly threatens to behead Israeli professor - Jewish News 'City Action for Palestine' has conducted a campaign of targeted harassment against Professor Michael Ben-Gad

'Another told the students in the lecture, many of whom looked confused or otherwise resigned to the disturbance, that 'This lecturer served in the IOF! They are a part of the genocide in Gaza'.' www.jewishnews.co.uk/pro-palestin...

Trump’s America: Thousands of furloughed federal workers in Hyattsville, Maryland waiting in line for food.

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