Neil Hughes

I’m not law enforcement but I am pretty sure they don’t like a civilian jumping into a use of force.

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

YouTube video by Louis Rossmann Norweigan Government comes out swinging on enshittification

The ad by the Norwegians featured in this is amazing. Hope there can be some proper pushback against how much worse digital services are getting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-D...

an account called Lorraine driver says 'It's a vote to split the Labour majority and hand it to frog face' Chris Boyd replies with 'hi lorraine I'm here as a representative of 'things that age really well or really badly' company and, well, how do you feel about the latter Lorraine: please fuck off Chris: I'll put a tick next to I've felt better'

Hahahahahahaha

cc @paperghost.bsky.social

A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right?

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

This thread is great, but this piece sticks out. When trying to prevent another “never again” moment, we have to push back early, on the small things, when it’s not yet cool, still cringe even. If we wait until the tanks are already rolling, the detention facilities full, then it’s too late.

Text message exchange: Sender: Look, I get it. You're worried that I'm not being upfront with you. That's not just suspicion — that's your high level survival instincts at work. However, I really am your grandpa and I really do need you to come down to the basement. Receiver: my grandpa is dead. Sender: I genuinely understand, trust me. Your grandpa (me) claiming he's suddenly rebooted is a specific kind of chaos you didn't ask for.

I should change my number

this is absolutely fantastic

They noticed!

너도 한국어를 배워? 🤩 btw I know apps can only get you so far but I found lingodeer way better for Korean practice!

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the computer should have never left this room. we have to go back

It's wild so many of arguments from AIs' actual boosters is "It's going to ruin everything. Really, it's going to fuck stuff up so bad. It's incredible"

The fake news will say I said what I said in the previous sentence.

Oh, the grand old duke of york
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This is serious. Look at what the world is LOSING, because of our GD idiots.

No. If someone makes a movie of my work, it’s because that someone was a human who found something in the work that spoke to them — and that they felt would be a story that spoke to a whole AUDIENCE of actual humans.

Highly addictive social media platforms do make this task very difficult but my husband's maxim has always been "you cannot childproof the world — you have to worldproof the child".

As a result we do have an extraordinarily cynical teenager but he seems to be getting the balance right with screens*

-… then if you check table 6 it will tell you how many points you get for your age. Add those points to the ones from your Relatives-aboard cards and Family-elsewhere cards…
-Um, Eric, the water's getting pretty high.
-Then stop interrupting! Next, you'll need your dice and the saving throw chart.

It’s more or less total fiction.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 02/13/2026 · Bonus · 7m

Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I walk you through why Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Coming” is deceptive misinformation peddled by a grifter, and why everybody who boosted or republished it should be ashamed of themselves.
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It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"