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At last! Now they've finally realised what AI is for, perhaps they'll stop trying to foist it on every other aspect of our lives

to Agatha Christie (v.tr.) The conversion of nouns to verbs (to impact, to medal, to leverage, to architect) is a continual object of criticism and word rage. But language has been verbing for as long as it has languaged. In…

"Language has been verbing for as long as it has languaged." New post on Agatha Christie – as a verb stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/t...

£22 for a burger? Fuck me

tbf so has every publication on Earth

yeah, London and NYC had loads of EVs (and charging stations!) at the turn of the C20; it was only the discovery of massive oil reserves in the US that made the ICE powertrain substantially cheaper

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latest tune from my synth-addled alter ego, Mr. Fist: youtu.be/RERdrGShIdo?...

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Hymn

i too am surprised and disappointed that the pop singer T. Swift has not included in her new album a sophisticated new literary-critical interpretation of Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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TENET obviously

Never say 'The last time I checked' if you have never, ever checked.

ah, i see the giant plagiarism machines have realized they have no business model other than more and more giant plagiarism

hello my name is ezra klein and today, on my show How Difficult It Is To Be Ezra Klein, i will be talking to a guy about how the most important topic in America today is how difficult it is to be ezra klein

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An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

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look, poverty simply can't be an important driver of crime, because i know some honest poor people

here i am in the Graun on reasons to be cheerful about the climate www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

why are Americans obsessed with going out and "hunting" deer with rifles? like, if no one did that, would the entire country be overrun with deer?

it's interesting to compare the trajectories of Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson, one of whom merrily propagandized for an aggressive war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, while the other had regrettable taste in friends

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Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

what if America, but they don't keep shooting each other

Boris Johnson was paid £240,000 after Maduro meeting, invoice shows Johnson’s office sent invoice to hedge fund manager, which was paid, weeks after meeting Venezuelan leader last year

This feels like the biggest story from the Guardian's Boris leaks... he took £240k from a Venezuelan hedge fund after meeting Maduro. And having denied he was paid.

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does a croupier reshuffle the cards after a hand or does he simply shuffle them

an interesting example of the euphemism treadmill being put into reverse. Departments of Defen(c/s)e have always been departments of war, and were so named up until the mid-C20

but the first shuffle is always also called a reshuffle

why do they call it a "reshuffle" when it's just a shuffle

Armani, Armani, Ah-Ah-Armani 🤘🏻🖤https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/sep/04/giorgio-armani-elegant-determined-a-little-unknowable