Rob Cawston

I would pair There Will Be Blood with The Brutalist for two epic tales of the foundations of the “American Dream”. No Country for Old Men is really great though (and much shorter)

Poem about the wasp museum

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

#WarRavagedPortland

YouTube video by talkSPORT "APPALLING STANCE!" Simon Jordan rages at "COWARD" Gary Neville after Union Jack REMOVAL admission!

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again.

As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers.

And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it.

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BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Whether it's Republicans flagrantly abusing Articles One and Two of the Constitution or Democrats being bad at messaging, both parties are pushing America to the brink.

The median voter is by definition just one voter. Happy to take the hit if it means we can call out racism.

A very good thread making key points the Royal Society has missed.

Stretching the definition of “social” to breaking point…

I’m still 100% convinced that a manual switch is the best way to control devices in the home.

Lessons from a (much more) privacy conscious country

To get this narrow approval the Swiss system was made free, optional and entirely publicly run

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Contentment is 90% who you chose to stand next to.

The smart play is to have an iPhone is too old to support iOS 26.

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

I refused to placate the bully. Then I refused to placate the institutions who placated the bully. Then I refused to placate the shills who placate the institutions who placate the bully. I'm still standing; the rest are down.

Never placate the bully.

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Royal Society to debate throwing out Elon Musk One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday.

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“Hey, man. Stop being weird.” - the key line to deploy against men’s high-performance influencers

Historical Tech Tree Interactive visualization of technological history

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Deleted Twitter. Amongst many reasons, the man who owns it is a fascist.

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

Elon, speaking at the Tommy Robinson march today: “This is a government against the people and not for the people, this is why everyone is gathered here today…we don’t have another four years…there’s got to be a dissolution of parliament”

And the government just…continues to use X.

Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).

Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X

This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament

YouTube video by David Byrne David Byrne - 'Who Is The Sky?' YouTube Listening Party!

Sunday album: Who is the Sky? David Byrne 🎶

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A photograph of a cricket scorebook, donated by Cricket Scotland and now part of the National Library of Scotland's collections.

We’re delighted that Cricket Scotland has chosen the National Library to be the new home of their archive 🏏

The records cover the history of the Scottish Cricket Union and Cricket Scotland, from 1908 to the present day.