Steph Boland

requiem for vanished birdsong

This is great - hadn’t thought of it, but yeah… she was more afraid of what her viewers would think if he killed the dog. Thanks for recording and sharing your thoughts

In bed with the right, episode 124: Wuthering Heights.

*Kate Bush voice* New episode!

Asch had demonstrated three things. First, people will go against the evidence of their own eyes if contradicted by a unanimous group. Second, group pressure is much weaker if even a single person dares to disagree with the group. Third, and most remarkable: it does not matter if the dissenter is mistaken; dissent punctures group pressure either way. People are liberated to say what they believe, not because the dissenter speaks the truth but because the dissenter demonstrates that disagreement is possible.

Great piece from @timharford.ft.com on the famous Asch ‘conformity experiment’. Yes participants conformed with the group. But it only took one dissenter to make the participant much less likely to conform - even when the dissenter is wrong!
Lesson: Let’s value dissent!
www.ft.com/content/f94c...

14 Tips That'll Trick Others Into Thinking You're A Mesopotamian

14 Tips That'll Trick Others Into Thinking You're A Mesopotamian
1st Jun 2016
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ROUND AND ROUND NEW ORDER

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a cloud egesting a blue raindrop, a gray asterisk and a gray...diamond?

precipitation shapes are getting out of hand imo

Special shout-out to Julian at Condor - who put the best orange bar tape on my Fratello as a tribute to the Ford GT40 - and Ian at the Cyclery in Lewisham, who knows everything there is to know about material, colour and finish. Recommend them both.

Cycling’s great secret is every bike shop has a staff member with design expertise to rival the average Cooper Hewitt curator

Cross-section of road layers titled "A SLICE OF THE A303". Shows historical road types from modern to ancient: Modern 'A' Road, Turnpike Road, Medieval Cart Track, Roman Road, Bronze Age Trackway, Buried Turfline, and Natural Chalk. Each layer is illustrated with corresponding transportation icons, from cars to prehistoric animals.

Revealing cross section of a road in England

"With a pint of green Chartreuse, ain't nothin' goin' right
You buy the Sunday papers on a Saturday night."
Tom Waits - Til The Money Runs Out.

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

L.S. Lowry died of pneumonia on this day 1976 at the Woods Hospital in Glossop, Derbyshire. He was buried in Manchester’s Southern Cemetery, beside his parents.

I’m delighted @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social also saw a touch of Adam Ant about Jeff Buckley in _It’s Never Over_ www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

I've been meaning to run this analysis for a while: the probability of voting Labour at GE2024 in seats *gained* by Labour was higher for people who were younger, more liberal, on the left economically, more likely to favour immigration, do not think immigration is the most important issue, etc.

Wrote about the quiet death of Britain’s buses, and why data sometimes leads to bad decisions. open.substack.com/pub/oliverfr...

My culture* deserves representation

*Slightly odd-looking women from the North

People are way too focused on Margot Robbie being too old to play Cathy, and not on the fact she doesn’t look weird enough

I for one back the good doctor, who makes a strong point about other staining liquids, and is also right about Cromwell

*decor theme?

Ash Wednesday is humbling because you find out which of your colleagues would and wouldn’t tell you you have something on your face

This Colombian media outlet translates economics with a dash of memes and humour “We want to be a bridge,” says María Camila González, co-founder of Economía para la Pipol, the team doing explainers for more than 200,000 followers.

💸What if tax reform, inflation & interest rates were explained with memes, not jargon? The 🇨🇴 outlet Economia para la Pipol is translating economics into everyday language. In a new interview, we spoke with its co-founder María Camila González

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/colombi...

Trains

If I Had Possession over Pancake Day

Are there any other Pancake Day songs? open.spotify.com/track/4CUUTu...

GP health record - NHS App help and support Information about viewing your health record, using the NHS App or the NHS website.

Hadn’t realised I could view my immunisation record back to 1991 in the NHS app - but I did, found a couple of boosters I should have, and got them booked, all within hours 👇 www.nhs.uk/nhs-app/help...

Not sure what’s more upsetting: this shift or the abject lack of Scotch pancake representation in the next chart

Wuthering Heights (2026)

Maybe I saw “Pillion” too recently but I’m not sure they quite pulled this off either tbh