No Body’s Perfect his tennis elbowwas his Achilles heel and his Achilles heelwas on his athlete’s foot and his athlete’s footmade him down in the mouth and though the down in his mouthhe took on the chin, it became less a shot in the armthan a chip on his shoulder – so that when the…
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Update 3: Attacks continue on Lebanon and Iran, from Israel. Iran let two ships thru, then closed the Strait again. The original announcement from Pakistan said that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire, but then Israel said it didn’t, and now Trump says the same. As ceasefires go, this isn’t one. I’ll probably write a new […]
Where it is, and how it got there
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An interview with a loneliness researcher about the varieties of social isolation
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These scientists are proposing a new law of nature
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We’ve come a long way since then
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Calm down. I don’t necessarily see what all the fuss is about. In all honesty, I also read the Dread Lord Nyarlathotep’s post this morning and was surprised by it, same as you. We all know he’s the Crawling Chaos, and that title implies a certain degree of unpredictability. But even for him, his vow to “gorge on the carcass of humanity itself” unless his latest (albeit nebulous) demands are met is pretty intense. I can’t remember the last time that an elected US official said something so unconscionable and nightmarish.
Didn’t Nixon say something similar? No? Hmm.
Anyway. I’m not endorsing what the Dread Lord uttered in a series of cacophonous, guttural snarls and clicking noises at the press pool yesterday. I don’t think “wholesale existential negation” is a particularly effective geopolitical strategy under even the most normal circumstances.
The former lead lawyer in a right-wing effort to block a Maine law limiting corporate and billionaire influence in elections is now a judge on the federal court ruling on the measure, thanks to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
The totally ace online booksellers BookKind have chosen ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ as their Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April. This is doubly good news because every copy sold via BookKind raises money for charity – just select from a range of charitable organisations when you order: https://bookkind.co.uk/book-of-the-month-home/ In…
After a top reporter at the BBC drew outrage for publishing a quote demanding Iran be nuked, she’s been revealed as a dedicated regime change activist whose career was launched by a CIA-founded propaganda network. Serious questions remain about the BBC’s editorial process. On April 6, 2026, horrified social media users began drawing attention to an extraordinary statement allegedly provided to the BBC by a twenty-something Iranian: “About them hitting energy infrastructure, using an atomic bomb, or leveling Iran – […]
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Peter Jukes and Nafeez Ahmed reveal how James Orr, Nigel Farage's new head of policy, is the key religious and ideological linkman for Palantir's Peter Thiel and Sir Paul Marshall's GB News
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McSweeney’s contributor Johanna Gohmann channels the chaos and charm of life with a toddler into All Toddlers Are Scorpios a hilarious astrology guide illustrated by cartoonist (and McSweeney’s contributor) Emily Flake.
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt today from the book’s opening chapter. All Toddlers Are Scorpios is out now and available at your nearest bookseller.
When my country attacked my country, I cheered with enthusiasm and gasped in horror. “Now they’d get what they deserved, those bastards,” I said in the angry tone of the men I’d watched in black-and-white movies about World War II. Then I beat my chest and wailed and tried to pull out my own hair like I’d seen my grandmother do when my grandfather died. Of two minds, two hearts, and two stomachs, I walked around the house in a frenzy until I settled in the kitchen to make a breakfast of hot black tea and Lucky Charms.
If you are not a pilot or a drone operator or a person having their house blown up, there is not a lot to do in a war. I refused to give up my routines, even as bombs destroyed everything around my aunt’s house and then everything around my uncle’s house and then everything around my niece’s house, empires of rubble spilling out where there used to be hospitals, playgrounds, schools. Rubble rubble rubble.
Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence
- by Mette Leonard Høeg
The Crime and Policing Bill, which seeks to reinforce sections of the Public Order Act 1986, has had its third reading in the House of Lords and will soon become law. One crucial aspect of the legislation is policing the ostensible ‘cumulative disruption’ of protest. While not yet codified in law, forms of ‘cumulative disruption’ […]
EXCLUSIVE: Welsh Green leader says the party’s support in a potential coalition "doesn't come free"
(A piece I wrote for the Guardian) A couple of weeks ago, just before my 70th birthday, I completed the Mooloolaba standard distance triathlon (1,500m swim, 40km cycle, 10km run). There was nothing exceptional about my performance, placing 1,509 out of 1,730 overall and 14th out of 18 in my 65-69 age category. But not […]
Smart people can’t handle Trump. He say something, or does something. On the face, it seems stupid, so they go into pattern matching over-drive, looking for a reason. You see it with the “they’re attacking Iran to screw up China’s access to oil and because America has so much oil and natural gas now.” Well, […]
The racist origin story of the most common college entrance exam
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Insects just aren’t what they used to be
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When a father of astronomy wrote the first science-fiction book about the dark side of the moon
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Suggesting deep evolutionary roots of rhythm in animals
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Timing is key
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#File: exist.female
#Last Updated: Before you were born
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#Effective Date: Immediately
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#Note: You did not click anything.
#Note: It’s still your problem.
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