John B

I don’t think he serves a full term. He is visibly deteriorating, the Epstein shit isn’t going away, the economy is in the shitter *before* the AI bubble bursts, he’s surrounded by schemers and incompetents, and the best card he’s got is “ain’t it weird the starfish owns a few modest skirts?“

Les Misérables lyricist Herbert Kretzmer 'felt lack of credit', archive reveals Herbert Kretzmer said his version was "virtually a new, rewritten show" compared with the French original.

He was right to do so www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fascinating perspective on this Soviet map from the WWII Museum in Gdańsk

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

Night in with Polish champagne and goose sausages, plus an enormous tomato (the entire dinner-plate sized salad contains said single tomato). The wine is genuinely very good, as perhaps less surprisingly are the sausages and tomato 🍾🪿🍅

Senator Jim Banks V @SenatorBanks Follow g.. The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it. Zinited Statcs SScnate MASHNORON DEYNN October 6, 2025 an. Thow arewutn Socretary U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, DXC 20230 Dear Secretary Lutaick: I urge you to investigate and correct erroes from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionntd political power to Democrats and illogal alicns. The Census Burcau adoptod a now and opaque voting districts. As preparod by the Biden administration, the 2020 Censas roports miscountod the population of fourteen states, ' wrongly allocating six congressional scats aod Electoral xx conwuu tmora uy, toc taroro tu mot đoo tnn Cunu lc pung t imber of votine districts. And the reoorts de aniovety inchaded ilecnl nhens widhout track those aliens' citiz enship status, If left uncorrected, these erroes will coetinue diluting the political power of American citizens. Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding Under the Constitution, cach state gets Congressional represcotutives and Electoeal College votes- based on "the whole number of persons" within the state." The number of persoes is in tum clabaabod by a consttubocalty-mandalcd dcccacaal ccavas. Pcual agcco nely on census data to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding, much of which hinges ee opulation. And states use consus data to deaw congrossicnal and voting districts, »hich the The it eiy of tie soaren alie n tor dur at ce hor inc ae oam toy ee n nght wilbout statsica ly signilicant ciroo. Diffcrcntial privacy is opaque and liable to mistakcn count totals. Sure cnough, the 2020 Ccnsus ovarocunted the noculation in cicht states and undercounted it in six." Tihe most extrcmi andercount was Arkansas, at 5.04%, and the larg…

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

The title of this German guidebook to Gdańsk seems a bit off, kind of like publishing a British guidebook to Harare and calling it "Salisbury"

Ah, I see Big Tomato has got to you

I agree a lot with this and it gets to an older understanding of liberalism I've mentioned before. It is more primal and "no kings" is actually a great slogan for it. The problem is "a king can do whatever he wants to you."

What’s especially depressing about Jenrick’s racism is he was born 35 years after Len Goodman. He was still a teenager when 9/11 happened.

'as the descendant of early homo sapiens, my family understands what it is to struggle'

both the mainstream pro- and anti-AI arguments are entirely various types of cope

Among other things the reason is apparently "time spent looking at the CCTV footage", indicating that BTP have *still* not understood the binary chop algorithm despite having it explained to them by numerous angry computer science professors.

Just boosting this one

Hello friends/well wishers/not actually enemies of me and/or @johnb78.bsky.social we will be in London next Friday 17th doing drinks in Shoreditch. DM one or other or both of us for pub name. 🥂 🍻

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Reform are currently the preferred party for c.20% of likely voters. The gap vs their 30% headline poll number is due to unprecedentedly high levels of non-decided likely voters (mostly ex-Labour). Fucking up councils won't lose Nigel his base, but will make it hard to win those people, who he needs

Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

The good thing about UK electoral cycle length is that plenty of people in seats vulnerable to Reform are likely to experience this before the next GE

Just as the level of 'the basic quality of what they produce', not on a 'do I agree with this?' basis the Tory party is coming out with stuff far beneath the quality of what the Lib Dems 2019-24 managed when their 'costing process' was 'one bright guy called JJ'. Where does the Short money GO?

Cheese and egg khachapuri (Georgian pizza/pide equivalent)

Cheese and egg khachapuri

Definitely adding Georgia to the list of future destinations

A huge piece of amber that kind of resembles a big loaf of farmhouse bread

A huge piece of amber that's opaque and kind of squidgy looking

A case containing a huge variety of differently shaped pieces of amber

A labelled case showing a huge range of different colours of amber

Visiting the amber museum followed by its gift shop really confirmed my view that amber is cool and most modern amber artefacts are quite tacky

A wall with 66 hard hats hanging on it in a 5x11 rectangular grid

Also a rather good collection of hard hats 👷 - both in the Sala BHP, now the Solidarność museum, at Gdańsk shipyard

A goat labelled "Lublin" in cursive writing, which resembles "dublin" in normal writing

Cartoon by Jim Benton in which a wizard has accidentally summoned a lemon due to a similar cursive confusion

This souvenir from Poland and not Ireland briefly confused me until I remembered the cartoon

Correct yes!

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

If anyone acting in good faith still believes the Cass review has the slightest merit, this removes all reasonable doubt www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

The idea the UK civil service can go back to its pre Brexit size notwithstanding all the things Brexit added to the UK civil service’s in tray having previously been done elsewhere is a mark of how unserious the Tories are

Contemptible