Michael Harris

Now to the sushi

Angry Birds

#angrybirds

More gin cocktails.

Have you got a video where Emma Thompson looks really hot and records words from an article you wrote? No? I do 🥰

There’s a naval ball right next door, complete with piper playing.

Many “full of seamen” jokes to be made.

It’s the Bird of Paradise at Archie Rose.

Bird of Paradise Fizz at Archie Rose.

Gin cocktails for date night.

Very important thread if you've never tinkered with the moderation settings.

Half the point of Bluesky as a social media platform is having control over your algorithm(s), after all.

"Grok, I'm warning you, one more time and we're done, I swear ..."

what if popularists just lie

The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.

@andrewstafford.bsky.social re our recent discussion of Joni in the context of the musical giants of the 70s.

Martin Wolf on the economics of populism

Excellent podcast from the FT in which Martin Wolf patiently explains that populism causes fundamental damage to economies even if they continue to grow (aka the counterfactual) and that such damage is difficult and painful to reverse when it finally becomes apparent open.spotify.com/episode/679f...

Nice. Well done.

In the past, in my experience, bad customers were mainly either drunk and entitled or else minor celebrities, the kind who have tasted just enough fame to be complete arseholes; Graham Linehan, for example, seemingly made a point of always coming in five minutes after lunch service had started and asking for breakfast while his companions ordered from the lunch menu. “They’d tell him to fuck off at McDonald’s,” we’d mutter, but make him his bacon sandwich anyway. In fact, we would have told him to fuck off too (rather more politely) if he hadn’t been then-beloved sitcom writer Graham Linehan, years before his reinvention as extremely divorced transphobe. We should have realised.

Fantastic little vignette about Glinner from today's @vittles.bsky.social newsletter (I highly recommend subscribing btw, if you're in any way interested in food).

Yeah I was wondering ... this was helpful ...

Omar is a good person, the best person. A great poet, a great advocate, and a caring parent with a child who's just been diagnosed with leukemia.
It's taking a lot out of their small family. Please donate to their GoFundMe below.

*nervously, staring down at feet*

What … what is BOFA?

Space Elevator Take a trip to space!

I fucking love this... this is what the internet was meant for neal.fun/space-elevat...

Zohran Mamdani is not the main story

*looks around suspiciously* … BOFA?

“The nation’s peak adviser on infrastructure said it was not possible yet to make a confident assessment of the project’s cost-benefit ratio until there was more certainty about its cost.”

This is the incredible insight we pay a peak adviser to have.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

YouTube video by Mr. Cardamom Mr. Cardamom - Nani (starring Madhur Jaffrey)

While we wait, let’s all watch the bizarre spectacle of the potential next mayor of New York rapping with the legendary chef Madhur Jaffrey

youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE