John King

So much valuable culture lost, now that Rathergood's flash animations don't work.

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT? Tim Harford investigates closing schools, X users, Covid deaths and churchgoers

More or Less did a good analysis of this. It involves special needs provision, decreasing school age population, and yes, financial viability.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Oh go on then

You (and I, as it happens) have been here for 16% of it, which seems like a lot!

hairy maclary from donaldson's dairy

Look into my human eyes. See my human smile. Is this truly the face of a reptile?

Jouer des coudes!

Bonjour!

Goebbels:

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

(Though originally it was Hitler's theory in Mein Kampf)

Your husband is (a) correct and (b) on-brand

This is really not hard. We know much of the harm arises from the algorithmic manipulation of people's feeds. Just ban that, let users see what their friends post and what they search for.

Glasman is all "here's a big opinion and why it's right." I'm sick of this. Where are the thinkers weighing things up, analysing the strengths and weaknesses, looking at evidence?

His island sounds like a really shit version of a festival, but full of hedge funders and trafficked minors.

It would be fascinating to see a chronological list of things they felt they should discourage you from saying.

Utter bullshit of course but if it were true he's on pretty thin ice if he's claiming to be the Ubermensch, he looks like Plug

It's such childish language. She went to Oxford. She allegedly has vocabulary. And yet she's one step away from "you're a poopoo". I can think of many words for a sinister network of elites embedded in society. For example, "lattice"

Kwasi should join for the lols

There's a lovely, underrated film, Son of Rambow, that nails the tendency of some Brits to see anything French as super unattainably cool.

Thank you, reminded of @reproutopia.bsky.social Enemy Feminisms. Look forward to finding more of his work.

...or more vapey-looking campaign leaflets.

Do you have a plan for that special day?

Joybuy UK? But might be just as bad as Amazon.

Their naked self-interest is exactly why nobody trusts politicians. It's meant to be a duty, not a trough.

In the same way, I have "fallen out of love" with Pat Boone.

Looking forward to this even more keenly if Nostalgia features!

Indeed

My dad intermittently stopped me watching Dr Who because it was too scary. Little did he know this book was giving me horrors!

I preferred it to the 'OMG I'm going to be sick' moment in Rule 34. Thanks for that @cstross.bsky.social, turns out you can get flashbacks from a book.

Let's call it Doctorow's Law - the time to enshittification is halved with every tech bubble

They should send her a replacement for lols