Nick Daly

Where have all the Patricks gone? The rise and fall of a name The Patricks of Ireland have left a formidable mark, but new parents appear to have moved away from using that name

Great rejoicing in the snake community

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Up to 3.2 million people displaced across Iran amid US-Israeli attacks: UN

Up to 3.2 million people displaced across Iran amid US-Israeli attacks: UN https://aje.news/qbbo0g

Victorian Women's Tattoos From initials to butterflies, Nastasha Sartore explores Victorian women's tattoo choices.

How have women on the margins of urban society used tattoos as a form of self-expression?

@nastashasartore.bsky.social considers the cultural significance of tattooing in Victorian Britain.

Taco on Iran will come too late for Trump The US president has already done lasting damage to international trust in America

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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

‘The gift of Andy and Fergie, which comes at too high a price, has been to bring the antiseptic of daylight to the culture of royal privilege.’

Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, online early from the next issue.

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A photo of a toad I met while gardening a few summers ago. Look at his beautiful coppery eyes!

Bow down before your local toad today and respect his supreme leathery authority. There is no time to waste.

There are films in the 80’s and 90’s with this as a plot point precipitating some global crisis (also this one deserves better dvd box art)

The idiot plot definition

It’s the idiot plot come to life… god help us

Spoiler: clickbait, and reading lifestyle stories

Severe energy crisis beckons

Is there something to be said for not putting an addled narcissist in charge a very large army?

Crufts 2026: Clumber spaniel named Bruin wins best in show Handler Lee Cox said Bruin was the "dog of a lifetime" as he accepted the award.

That is a fine-looking dog!

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Presumably adapted from a tale by Balzac

What to know: Downtown Anchorage braces for a canine takeover as the...

And so it begins: the interspecies war we have long dreaded

A print from a lithograph of a painting, depicting a huge borown horned ox, behing which a man can be seen apparently measuring the beast, while another stands nearby noting down its immense statistics. It is entitled ‘Portrait of T. W. Coke and North Devon Ox’, by W. H. Davis, c.1837, animal painter to the Queen from 1839. The ox was bred at Holkham in Norfolk and was considered to be the perfect specimen. Image courtesy of the Museum of English Rural Life, obviously.

119 years ago today, that most prestigious of journals Nature published Francis Galton’s account of a visit to the West of England Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition at Plymouth. You may know the story... 🧵

Sorry, that should be “Boffins Baffled…

A sunny day in the park

Scientists baffled as Ireland bathed in mysterious radiation for second day

"The data labelers in Kenya described seeing footage of people naked, watching porn, and talking about crimes and protests. Faces are often blurred, the story said, but sometimes are visible, depending on the lighting."

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

The media always treats the more sensational Trump accusations in the Epstein files with a level of skepticism that would be appropriate for Jimmy Carter, not the guy who bragged about sexual assault on tape, was adjudicated guilty of sexual assault, and is currently overseeing murder dot gov.

They will struggle to make it a more right-wing paper, but I'm sure they will try

Just not him, or anyone he cares about. Sorry, that’s still just him.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

Gonna start a second war to distract people from the first one.

Quaker Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again Yesterday evening, 5 March 2026, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there, on the...

The Quakers were the first church in the UK to openly state that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Since then they been on the Labour Friends of Israel shitlist. They are banned from providing aid in Gaza and the West Bank and are accused of antisemitism.

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I think of it as Asshatistan

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
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Everyone should note that shortly after asking for Ukrainian assistance in drone technology we sold them out in a futile attempt to tamp down the run away oil spike.
We are the baddies.

Screen shot of text from the end of an email that reads: If you want, I can also write a much sharper version (still legally safe but far more cutting) that will really land with him and his solicitors.

Pro tip: if you're going to send someone a nonsense letter that you hope uses enough serious sounding "legal" language to be taken seriously, you should probably make sure you delete the bit at the end where ChatGPT offers to write a different version lol

JFC. He really does think he is King of the World now