John B

They could give 'em nukes I guess

Surprisingly good ad www.facebook.com/share/v/1AyB...

@mattiecamp.bsky.social, anyone else?

12.30 start confirmed

They didn't even invent Soda Stream, they just bought the UK company's brand and tech out of bankruptcy

It is, but at the same time it's consistently applied - she was trying to get expelled and wouldn't have been if she'd gone on the telly and declared From The River To The Sea

The Israeli government is sickeningly evil by any reasonable standards. It's fairly average by the standards of sickeningly evil governments that the West has backed for strategic reasons, but the peculiar thing there is that it has nothing to offer us, only a perpetual cost sink in $ and goodwill

Didn't she break the party whip, the one thing that has explicitly been an expelling offence since the earliest days of Australian trades unionism?

Hey - are we good to do lunch at El Loco at the Excelsior in Surry Hills (5 mins to Central) at 1pm on Sunday 17th? Anyone you want to bring is very welcome
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Mysterious!

laughable www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

It is persistently obtuse to read how the government genuinely believes it was elected chiefly on the promise of not raising taxes, rather than improving public services (by any means necessary).

Never has an election been so misread by the winning party.

There’s this weird tendency to respond to critiques of twitter by noting that bluesky is insufferable but like. I don’t care. Go to threads. Post on somethingawful. Get into carrier pigeons. Your brain is rotten and will get worse til you leave there

Constantly having to tell people still on twitter that I don’t care whether or not they join bluesky I just judge them for being there

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social rtyi

Screenshot of a North Wales Weekly News article from 1949 discussing wind power tests in Dolgarrog

North Wales has been the heart of electricity generation and innovation in the UK forever.

First public supplies in the Conwy Valley.
First commercial offshore wind farm.
First UK tests of wind power in 1949!

That looks amazing

I think a 20 year production life would have been well up there in their positive scenarios, with 40 years as really quite a pipedream

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Why Might The World's Most Versatile Widebody Aircraft Have Boeing Worried? The Airbus A330neo has quietly become one of the most important aircraft in the industry, impacting the widebody short to medium haul market.

I don't think anyone in their right mind working for Airbus in the late 1980s would have predicted that the A320 and A330 families would still be knocking it out of the park in 2025
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Her brain having been eaten by worms meanwhile

Mr Benn and he shopkeeper standing in the costume shop from Mr Benn.

As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared.

"I'm terribly sorry, Mr Brooks, but it's time to go now..."

RIP Ray Brooks

Biddy Baxter was a trailblazer in a time when women were routinely sidelined and patronised: Blue Peter was and remains innovative TV that shows the world to children.

A good excuse for my favourite 'Conservatism in the UK in 2025' image: first story is from 2022, second is from autumn of last year.

She didn't sell the film rights until the series had already taken off, so she retained an unusually large amount of editorial control - it's why all the leads were British and the filming took place in the UK

crisis has a way of exposing some people and giving others a chance to rise to the occasion and in no instance can I think of a more compelling example than this woman and the Governor of Michigan

“President Deploys Military To Streets of The Capital” is one of those headlines that you generally only get when things are going poorly for the President, and I think that’s still true here

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration

Payola. That supposed new US "global" trade system seems to have as one of its core anchors simple bribery. www.ft.com/content/cd1a...

email to me: Our disabled son has CP and bladder spasms so urologist is recommending Botox treatments and we read your article and are concerned about the presence of mRNA in the Botox. Is mRNA in all brands? How can we know if it is in there? Is there a safe brand you recommend? He has to have this so what do we do? Thanks

my reply: personally, i'd recommend you follow the advice of your doctor. but what do i know, i'm just a random person you emailed. I have no more formal education around botox than the author Naomi Wolf, whose advice I assume you were actually seeking. but since you emailed me, my suggestion is that you listen to your kid's urologist, who is a trained medical professional, rather than seeking out medical advice from someone with an english degree and a history of making significant errors in her research. best of luck!

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

I think it is incredibly fucked up that the leadership of the largest socialist organization in the US uses a website that a Nazi billionaire turned into Stormfront as its main communication platform, and its own internal forums are somehow worse.