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This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
Not typically my genre but this was easily 2025's song of the summer - immediately takes me back to the best parts of my time working in America
link.deezer.com/s/3202eD3eFm...
link.deezer.com/s/3202eD3eFm...
The Days
CHRYSTAL - song - 2025
link.deezer.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Not typically my genre but this was easily 2025's song of the summer - immediately takes me back to the best parts of my time working in America
link.deezer.com/s/3202eD3eFm...
link.deezer.com/s/3202eD3eFm...
I love how throughout Drive My Car people talk about how great of a driver Misaki is but in the first scene of her driving she reverses using only mirror observations, which the DVSA would consider a 'serious' mistake on the UK driving test
December 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I love how throughout Drive My Car people talk about how great of a driver Misaki is but in the first scene of her driving she reverses using only mirror observations, which the DVSA would consider a 'serious' mistake on the UK driving test
just remembered that a film based around Peter Andre pretending to be Jamaican actually came out *this year* and wasn't just a fever dream I had
December 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
just remembered that a film based around Peter Andre pretending to be Jamaican actually came out *this year* and wasn't just a fever dream I had
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"one of my hobbies recently has been shouting at pedestrians on my bike" - things you only overhear in Cambridge
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"one of my hobbies recently has been shouting at pedestrians on my bike" - things you only overhear in Cambridge
absolute scenes in Cambridge this afternoon (whole city centre gridlocked due to a badly parked van on Hobson Street)
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
absolute scenes in Cambridge this afternoon (whole city centre gridlocked due to a badly parked van on Hobson Street)
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One thing that powerfully reminds me of how long ago 2003 was is that nobody pushing this today seems to remember how long and sustained the pr campaign to build support both domestically and internationally for the Iraq War actually was
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One thing that powerfully reminds me of how long ago 2003 was is that nobody pushing this today seems to remember how long and sustained the pr campaign to build support both domestically and internationally for the Iraq War actually was
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Wait this can't be right, I was told that the tariffs and mass deportations would lead to tons of good jobs for americans
Excluding covid, the unemployment rate is at its highest level in over 8 years.
The labor market is deteriorating particularly quickly for young workers, who are facing a 10.6% unemployment rate.
The labor market is deteriorating particularly quickly for young workers, who are facing a 10.6% unemployment rate.
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wait this can't be right, I was told that the tariffs and mass deportations would lead to tons of good jobs for americans
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what would you have to do to get a lifetime driving ban exactly
December 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
what would you have to do to get a lifetime driving ban exactly
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carrie: big is moving to paris
bluesky user in her replies: plus there’s a CHEETO 😡 in the damn WHITE HOUSE 😡
bluesky user in her replies: plus there’s a CHEETO 😡 in the damn WHITE HOUSE 😡
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
carrie: big is moving to paris
bluesky user in her replies: plus there’s a CHEETO 😡 in the damn WHITE HOUSE 😡
bluesky user in her replies: plus there’s a CHEETO 😡 in the damn WHITE HOUSE 😡
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wish I had seen this before I finished all my Christmas shopping
December 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
wish I had seen this before I finished all my Christmas shopping
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This reflects the way a lot of monolingual Anglophones think about bilingualism, however. They can imagine speaking one language fluently and knowing a bit of some others, but cannot really understand that many of us are actually *fluent* or indeed are *native speakers* of more than one language.
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
December 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This reflects the way a lot of monolingual Anglophones think about bilingualism, however. They can imagine speaking one language fluently and knowing a bit of some others, but cannot really understand that many of us are actually *fluent* or indeed are *native speakers* of more than one language.
back from my annual festive trip to Norwich. every time I visit that city I spend most of the day wondering what compelled me to decide not to go there for uni and instead study in Coventry
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
back from my annual festive trip to Norwich. every time I visit that city I spend most of the day wondering what compelled me to decide not to go there for uni and instead study in Coventry
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the state of Luigi discourse on TikTok
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
the state of Luigi discourse on TikTok
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
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The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)
The price of aid cuts.
The price of aid cuts.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)
The price of aid cuts.
The price of aid cuts.
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cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
just thinking about how disgusted my late uncle Tony - lifelong trade unionist and Labour councillor - would be with the state of the party today
"He wanted the deportations of people born in Britain to be “as voluntary as possible”. So not "voluntary" then.
Labour and Reform are essentially aligned on anti-immigration. The only difference being that Labour claims its xenophobic cruelty is "progressive".
archive.today/6jlRL
Labour and Reform are essentially aligned on anti-immigration. The only difference being that Labour claims its xenophobic cruelty is "progressive".
archive.today/6jlRL
December 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
just thinking about how disgusted my late uncle Tony - lifelong trade unionist and Labour councillor - would be with the state of the party today
*in the cadence of the SpongeBob SquarePants theme* Starmer's Substack
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
*in the cadence of the SpongeBob SquarePants theme* Starmer's Substack
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He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
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Humphrey Bogart, Finn Wolfhard, Ross Gellar and the main guy from Squid Game have been added to Fortnite in what Netflix calls an "unprecedented gift of franchise synergy"
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Humphrey Bogart, Finn Wolfhard, Ross Gellar and the main guy from Squid Game have been added to Fortnite in what Netflix calls an "unprecedented gift of franchise synergy"