World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

Lot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.

The crash, it is coming

A lot of maddening discourse today. The political commentary version of Everythingism.

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

Well that’s both the poem and the song utterly ruined forever

I think we talked about this about 17 years ago in the Dolls House. Still don’t know the answer.

Stop pretending a wealth tax is a serious idea It brings me no pleasure to say this.

Stop pretending a wealth tax is a serious idea

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/wealth-tax...

But isn't the point that lowering the affordability criterea on a per project basis means more housing gets built, making it more affordable generally? Like, it's not a 'fuck the poor' move... it's a 'how do we build more houses' move... Or am I too @jamesomalley.co.uk pilled?

I would assume it meant head count, because I’m not a loon. Jury’s out on the Lovecraftian horror though.

Genuinely, what are you talking about? If I said “the band played to a bigger crowd in New York than in San Diego”, would you not know what that meant?

Just logging on to see the level of intellectual debasement people will publicly submit themselves to, so they can get mad at @whstancil.bsky.social.

No one has read Finnegans Wake. It cannot *be* read. Its existence as a text is a deliberate defiance of the notion of ‘reading’.

Jesus Christ!

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An Elliott Smith-ified version of OutKast’s Hey Ya.

(Liz Uninvited is great, and you should go follow her.)

This is exquisitely done.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

It’s the Portland way.

Just a quick moment out of my day to find out in percentage terms how many CEOs I’m smarter than

“A longtime admirer of Broadway productions” sounds like 1960s country club slang for “gay”

Properly great. Political sketch writing as art.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

I love that they can’t quite decide if Fun Home or Gender Queer is the 7th or 8th most radicalising.

I suppose the Bryson DeChambeau lesson is that hitting a ball really far and being a complete twat does not, in fact, win golf matches. Which is no doubt devastating for golfers across the world.

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

a big hamburger

Elton John voice:
It seems to me / that you lived your life/ like a fuckin piece of shit

Fucking *hell*