Patch Thompson

Grindcore is the new hustle culture In Silicon Valley, long hours have fused with a monastic male wellness aesthetic

I read this, and I am freshly reminded that one of the most important insights in humanism is that this our one and only life.

Yeah, that is also a fundamental problem here.

Anti-Natalist 4 Starmer, a new pressure group launching in 2026!

Was your supervisor Matthew J Goodwin then?

No one tell Rachel Reeves, Jacqui Smith or Johnathan Hinder about this.

In a quest to appear tough on students (lol), you are completely undermining one of the foundations of social democratic politics. In fact, of broad brush liberalism. Just pack it in already.

This would either break, or maybe fix, academia.

Charlotte, I feel like I'm going insane.

What gets me about Reeves' here is why bother to be a member of a social democratic / left of centre political party if you're going to make this argument? Just pack it in and go be a libertarian or something??

Editor: And this 'Tom Bombadil is important...why?'

JRRT: 'Yes'

Oh good!

'Millennials are causing murder rates to drop by staying at home and not going to the pub' opinion column coming soon!

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

GenAI can ruin historical documentation in many ways.

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No thank you.

Only half joking when I say that it's mostly the fault of Adobe Flash Player getting axed.

Quite a telling quote from previous coverage. Men being disengaged from the real world is a big multiplier for social media brain.

If I were smarter, I'd try to work out how this is meshed with a) a lot of older people now having proper online lives and b) the internet somehow having become a more boring place, despite the near exponential growth of information available on it.

Awkward.

That's actually a painting of their entire complement of cavalry

I accused a police officer of rape, but I ended up on trial How a secret audio recording played in court helped clear a woman accused of making a false rape allegation.

This is completely shocking. The police and CPS prosecuted a woman for allegedly making up rape allegation, despite strong evidence that she had been raped.

It should have ended people's careers. It hasn't.
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*nasal libertarian voice* How would you tell the difference?

Look, as someone who was paid cash in hand working behind a bar as a teenager, I can\t imagine why a landlord wants more cash in the till!

Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay The measure, unexpectedly approved, comes as other countries are cracking down on immigration.

Breaking News: Spain issued a decree allowing hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to apply for legal residency. The measure is bucking a trend, as many Western governments have cracked down on illegal immigration.

As someone with a History degree from a second-rate university, this is a clear illustration of what happens when your mother coddles you and your friends don’t mock you. A lesson for us all.

Centrist ideas no longer wanted in Conservative party, says Kemi Badenoch Party leader tells MPs that one-nation Tories doubting her rightward direction ‘need to get out of the way’

Story from Kemi Badenoch's speech.

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LIVE FROM THE TARMAC

Local Facebook group is enjoying unearthing classic Goodwin content. In this video Matt says he was "lucky or unfortunate enough to be in Manchester a few days ago" and that "the energy in this room is ten times what it was in Manchester".

*A gif of Lister from Red Dwarf holding up a sign saying "smeg"*

Incredible

Thinking about the piece on the failure of 'Ed Tech' I've been reading recently. For no reason.