Nick Brooke

BELOW: When you desperately want to talk to your best friend but you had him killed in his cell.

One good turn deserves another.

I have never been disappointed by anything I’ve ordered from Cottage Delight - their sriracha chilli & garlic sauce is phenomenal, and goes well with steak, or fish, or just about anything, really.

www.cottagedelight.co.uk

“- those pecorino biscuits that go well with gin” ?

Sold!

"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany. The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.' The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community. I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

Losing everything they’ve ever put into ChatGPT? Permanently? With no warning?

PERFECTION lmao

screen shot reads Melania is out now The star rating for this film was corrected on 2 February 2026. A formatting issue led an earlier version to be awarded one star, when the reviewer’s intention was zero.

The Guardian has added this erratum to its review of Melania

A great series you should be reading about Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and everything in-between.

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

It doesn't always cover itself in glory but one thing the American legal profession has going for it is most of them have seen Judgment at Nuremberg.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

Jeffrey Epstein operated within a world that he cannot be credited with creating and which endures after his death.

I thought Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play was vastly improved when they bolted some metacurrencies onto a grimly perilous (that is, swingy and brutal) rules framework.

“If you weren’t a protagonist, you’d be growing tentacles / an eviscerated corpse by now” is a neat message, when you think about it…

#GVerse Watch as an inflatable frog in downtown Portland literally gives Federal Officers the Slip! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

reposting with alt text for accessibility:

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Epstein 🤝 Rowling
Constantly thinking of children’s genitals.

It really is a month for the classics - The Complete Earthsea by UKLG, with illustrations by the mighty Charles Vess. 99p for Six novels, 4 short stories & an essay. Why wouldn't you?

www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Earths...

(£21 on Kobo! Might come down in a couple of days though)

"Dad, open your Christmas presents!"
"Not now, I'm emailing Jeffrey Epstein."

OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in.

*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"

The Times, 30th January 2026: "All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why. A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now." Source: https://archive.is/hvRv2

"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs."

archive.is/hvRv2

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Hampstead Heath Ponds to remain inclusive The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive

The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive

goodlawproject.org/hampstead-he...

The climatologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.

The epidemiologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.

The activist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.

The historian told me
that nobody
listens to historians.

painted set of beastmen and beastwomen.

our goatkin are ready to give your adventurers a broo-sing

As an ex e-learning developer, I can confidently say this will be a terrible learning experience. I cannot wait to rip it to shreds.

Here's what the Free AI Training will look like 🧵

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Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."

Bovino is relieved of his duties? That man can’t relieve his duties without 8 other CBP agents protecting him in the bathroom.

To the extent you have any education, consult with any legitimate news sources, know anything about what's happening in the world, you vote Dem. To the extent you don't, you vote Republican.

The fun thing is watching pundits strain mightily to cast this as something *negative about the Dem Party*.

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

Good. We hate you. Everyone hates you. Even you hate yourselves.

Another failed Tory MP jumps ship, as Suella Braverman defects and presumably becomes a customer of Reform Ltd.
Leaving just 4 of Johnson’s 2022 cabinet as Conservative MP’s