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Can never see Bono without thinking of Marina Hyde's immortal remarks on him living tax-free in Ireland:

'Driving around on roads paid for by teachers, and nurses and plumbers - the very people he'd appeal to for donations when an African village needed a well. Or indeed, a road.'

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

Not just any editor. A former GM of Murdoch-controlled News International.

Love that after a Prom you have people of all ages walking north through Hyde Park. At 10 o'clock at night. Summer nights in London ❤️

Wonder how many lone young men at the Imperial War Museum are there for the images that are banned elsewhere. Saw one looking a little too intently at the fallen Reichsadler before photographing it. Looked like his arm might levitate.

Worth going to the g bros gig last night just to hear Noel singing DLBIA. Seemed he connected to something deep inside with this one song, and really meant it. Like when Mark Knopfler sings Romeo and Juliet and he goes to a place.

My 85 year-old mother regularly wanders around the West End post theatre.

YouTube video by In Context A man walking his dog captures footage as the tsunami strike Kamchatka’s coast last week.

TSUNAMI: video of the recent Kamchatka tsunami hitting a nearby shore with ocean-facing cliffs. My sense of how high is "safe" just changed 😱, and this was likely a good deal smaller than the Cascadia tsunami (OR/WA) will be

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CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.

Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.

Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"

I originally thought it a good thing when dog-whistling politicians finally allowed their racism to show overtly. I thought they’d be seen for what they were, booted off the media and thrown out of their parties. I was a fool.

Leaving Wembley tonight, genuinely thought for a sec that the cops were shooting at somebody when the fireworks started.

one thing I wish more people knew is that many offices have such poor air circulation that CO2 levels in meeting rooms can rapidly exceed 1000ppm, the point at which people start to get groggy and sleepy

people are literally suffocating in offices every day & absolutely no one talks about it

Left Stereophonic after Act II. That play could easily run for 30 mins less, without the self-indulgent pauses throughout. (Songs were good though.) Had a great time watching a dance party on Trafalgar Square instead, and chatting about Nelson with my OH.

Yes it IS a problem that if men perceive they have insufficient power over women they are willing to toss the very concept of democratic society in a blender, but the solution to that problem isn't "more respectful pick-up lines"!!!!!!!!!!!

We are in the middle of historic rights rollbacks and ascendant patriarchal entitlement to women's reproductive and sexual labor, but the only way some people can even think about the problem is in terms of soothing and mollifying men for that entitlement instead of deconstructing it!!!!

BREAKING: Has Mayor Daniel Lurie’s eagerness to partner with powerful corporate players landed him in legal trouble? Another Planet Entertainment (APE) was one of the many contributors to Mayor Lurie’s lavish inauguration. (1/5)

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.

Also, Yo-Yo Ma is playing Elgar's Cello Concerto with the SF Symphony at Davies in June 2026. Wth are the prices though, starting at $335??

Pounced on a few more Proms tickets, so now will hear The Planets, and Dvorak's 'New World' too.

millenial problems in a gen z world: where do i get a letter-writing set? the places i used to get one are now doing protein bowls

Kent's association with violent right wing groups in the Portland OR including the Proud Boys would for a normal person in a normal time be an issue just getting a security clearance.

Instead, he'll be in a position to designate liberal protestors as terrorists and protect the Proud Boys

BBC calling 16 year old girls ‘young women’ rather than what they were: children.

The masala dosai at Tamila is very good. Proper sambar too. (Note about pronunciation, because I've heard people say 'tameela'. Stress is on the first syllable: thá-mi-laa.)

San Francisco Chronicle SUMMER SALE! 3 Months for 25¢ Sign in OPINION // OPEN FORUM Cancel the 2028 L.A. Olympics Hosting an Olympic Games requires working with a lawless U.S. regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as they openly wage war against California. By Joe Mathews, Syndicated columnist The image shows a packed Coliseum from the 1984 games, alive with color and motion from track and field stars running by

MARKETPLACE Search For & Place Classifieds VC Star. News Sports [ Opinion ] Entertainment Education Advertise Obituaries Newspaper Legals Mathews: L.A.'s Olympic show must not go on Joe Mathews Zócalo Public Square July 24, 2025, 9:00 a.m. PT This show must not go on. It's time, right now, for Los Angeles to halt all preparations to host the 2028 Summer Olympics - and find a different world city to take them over. Not because we don't love the Olympics. We are a proud Olympic city, shaped by the 1932 and 1984 Games. In normal times, our incomparable international connections, entertainment assets, and sports facilities would make us the perfect host for what LA 28 chair Casey Wasserman calls "the largest peacetime gathering in the history of the world." But it's no longer peacetime in Los Angeles.

bakersfield.com Opinion Home / Opinion NEXT UP Commentary: What California still doesn't understand about m... > JOE MATHEWS: LA's Olympic show must not go on By JOE MATHEWS Jul 26, 2025 Listen to this article now Powered by Trinity Audio 00:00 1.0x 05:06 f X 心 This show must not go on. It's time, right now, for greater Los Angeles to halt all preparations to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Let's turn over these Games to a world city better positioned to host them.

This compelling column by Zocalo's Joe Mathews was syndicated to many major California papers: the San Francisco Chronicle, the Ventura County Star, and even Bakersfield.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Where I can't find it: in a newspaper published in the host city of Los Angeles

Lovely chat at my local bookshop with a guy who's a huge fan of Chad Robertson. He and his wife actually ran into him once in the Mission, and CR was apparently really nice to them.

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro

The OG sexy, sarcastic nerd icon ... the Earth will miss you, Tom Lehrer. #rip www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDE...

It's a conscious choice to have serial liars on cable news programs

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

"I think we were seeking the truth – that’s really the purpose of a university, and it includes the truth about ourselves as well as the truth about anybody else."