As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
discover feed is down for all users. we have a hypothesis for what the problem is and getting a fix out.
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. π§΅
Iβm very comfortable and cozy on the D-list, being known mostly by children and bisexual librarians, but every now and then I think it would be fun to be famous just for one or two reasons, and this is never more true than when I remember The Muppet Show
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: thatβs a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? π
Let's do this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
Sad news from Wikipedia. Following lengthy discussion on the talk page, they've removed Matt Goodwin's claim to be the first in his family to go to university on the grounds that it [checks notes] isn't true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ma...
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
Started up blogging again last week. I've been kicking things off with some recommendations. blog.williammorland.com/5-things-i-l...
βPsychoanalysis can help us better understand how the world, including our oppressors, works, and so what we might do about it, and them; and what wishes we might have for collective life, and which of these the reality principle demands we set aside.β
Amia Srinivasan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
"I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time." werd.io/i-want-you-t...
Suspiciously non-Jewish actresses Lily Tomlin Rachel Sennott Rachel Zegler Rachel Brosnahan β’ Patti LuPone Kathryn Hahn β’ Tracey Ullman Bernadette Peters β’ Zoe Kazan Gaby Hoffmann
Update
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you donβt often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.
A fabric badge with a red padlock and random hex characters
Anything involving a badge is exciting to me. I would be an eager beaver if I could get a cybersecurity merit badge. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/t...
"...you're left having to reinvent an awful lot of in-house expertise that didn't want to participate in your RTO games, or play Layoff Roulette yet again this cycle. This doesn't impact your service reliability β until one day it very much does, in spectacular fashion. I suspect that day is today."
"Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout" from @quinnypig.com www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...
I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Posting this without a link to an example is cruel π₯²
This is one I've been thinking about for a long time, and I do hope you'll read it, and share it. The stakes have never been higher, but it'ss never been clearer: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is exactly what NYC's entrepreneurial community needs. www.anildash.com/2025/08/20/z...
No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out
Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025
ππ¨ New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far π§΅
the new york times got rid of its public editor some time ago, so I took the position out for a spin www.theverge.com/culture/7000...
The heavens have opened and I know I'm getting old as I am thrilled for my garden. I spend yesterday afternoon weeding and deadheading the roses π
