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I think the fact they had to work so hard to get Pollievre to agree is probably the best thing I've ever read about Pierre Pollievre
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
Billboard for Shadowlands, showing Hugh Bonneville and Maggie Siff.
Shadowlands @aldwychtheatre.bsky.social - a sharp script and brilliant performances, esp from Maggie Siff, save this from over sentimentality. Although the play focuses on the relationship between the two leads, I particularly appreciated its portrayal of lifelong male friendships. #LondonTheatre
I'm always amazed when a see a truly dark splotch in a JWST image. The 'scope detects infrared light which can get through dense dust that's opaque to visible light, so how dense is that little cloud such that it can *entirely block the light from material behind it*? Yikes.
Whoever designed the BBC iPlayer interface for the #WinterOlympics has apparently never to talked to anyone who likes sports. They’re putting the results on the programme selection screen, so there is no way to catch up on events without finding out who won before you watch! ☹️
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton - it’s unreliable narrators all the way down in this brilliantly twisty post-apocalyptic thriller. Turton’s 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle was 1 of my top reads last year & this one more than met my v high expectations. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview
Congrats on the recommendations and also on your Philip K Dick award nomination!
Adding one of their cartoons to illustrate this point because I like it.
Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
Possibly the most important discovery since Piltdown Man's cricket bat
A large great gray owl is silhouetted as it spreads its wings high above its head in the reddish glow of the setting sun as it balances atop a thin spruce tree.
I've been lucky to have had the opportunity to photograph great gray owls many times, but this moment was really special. #birds 🌿
if you want to throw a few bucks to an organization that is doing really great work against ICE here in Portland, this is a Willett family rec
pircoregon.org
First page of The Zorg by Siddharth Kara, which begins, “If you have heard anything about this story, it is probably that there was an eighteenth-century British slave ship named the Zong, and that its captain, Luke Collingwood, ordered the murder of scores of Africans on board. Although this has been the prevailing account for more than 240 years, virtually none of the information is accurate. The truth is, there was never any British slave ship by the name of Zong. It was a Dutch ship, the Zorg, which means "care" in Dutch-an unintended irony. As for how the Zorg ended up in British hands and the role Luke Collingwood played in the subsequent massacre, there were deeper truths waiting to be uncovered.”
The Zorg by Siddharth Kara - difficult to say I ‘enjoyed’ a book about the horrors of the Middle Passage, but this is a gripping account of the terrible events on the Zorg and their aftermath, when the ship’s owners tried to claim the value of murdered slaves on their insurance. 💙📚 #BookReview
First page (after the prologue) of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, which begins, 'Do anything nice over Christmas?' This time the assistant doesn't answer at all. She just stops typing, dead in the middle of a word, and stares at Quinn. Quinn says, 'Did I ask you that already?’ ‘Twice,’ the woman says. Exasperation and puzzlement. 'We already had that whole conversation. And we also already had the conversation where I told you you already asked me that and you apologised.’
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm - Both mindbendingly absurd and a brilliant page-turnery thriller. Imagine if Douglas Adams had written Slow Horses… 💙📚 #BookReview
* The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (I think my absolute favourite book of the year) * The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty * Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky * The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones * King of Ashes by S A Cosby * Five Families by Selwyn Raab * River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar * The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton * Hope Dies Last by Alan Weisman
My top books of 2025 (details in the alt text).
"Instead, it presents it [coming out and authenticity] as an ongoing negotiation between safety and truth. Between aspiration and risk. Between what you are allowed to be and what you are willing to sacrifice."
The blurb describes it as: Humanity is under assault by malevolent antimemes - ideas that attack memory, identity and the fabric of reality itself.
There’s a lot more, but the bit that really got me was the end of the blurb: Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No this is not your first day.
Goliath by @tochitruestory.bsky.social - This tale of racism and gentrification in a near-future post-apocalyptic United States is an uncomfortable but incredible read. Its non-linear plot allows the characters’ stories to unfold and wrap around each other in a very satisfying way. #BookReview 💙📚
A pile of books, a mix of hard back and paperbacks, some with the protective plastic covers of library books. From top to bottom: Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi, The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, There is no Antimemetics Division by qntm, Hard Times by Charles Dickens, The Zorg by Siddharth Kara, 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Holiday plans (always like a nice bit of Christie and Dickens for Christmas):
“I imagine myself, child and adult, curled up in an armchair, reading and being told (as a child) or invited (as an adult) to go out and do something. I cannot think why a person sitting with evident contentment in an armchair causes the desire in others for their immediate activity.”
SET PHASERS TAE MALKY
Agreed, cities are great for introverts. I want someone to help me if I fall down and leave me the eff alone otherwise. There’s too much noticing of other people’s business in suburbs and rural areas.
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
This.
Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"
We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"
Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
When everyone knows that the past tense of knit is knat!
