Clanker! This slur against robots is all over the internet – but is it offensive?
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Clanker! This slur against robots is all over the internet – but is it offensive?
Storm Stevie is my drag queen name.
Just watched Eddington. More like "needs editing" amirite?
Work with Hitchcock was fruitful for Benny, Who scored loads of his movies, but then he Really wasn't that certain About doing Torn Curtain And thereafter he didn't score any.
It’s to Coppola’s credit that he put no conditions on Figgis and let him do what he wanted. Sa result the film is so much more revealing and interesting than your standard making of doc.
I spoke to Mike Figgis about his new doc on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's notorious Megalopolis - which is in many ways more fun than the movie itself. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.” And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out. What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is Britain's most popular media outlet. Not a single aspect of this headline is remotely true, and I don't know anyone in economics or industry who would recognise these statements as having any relationship with reality.
Don’t know who made this but thank you
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If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
DeepMind's Demis Hassabis said a similar thing to me a few weeks ago. When I asked him about datacentres' huge energy demands he kind of replied "well, fusion". As if we're gonna crack that in time. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
DeepMind's Demis Hassabis said a similar thing to me a few weeks ago. When I asked him about datacentres' huge energy demands he kind of replied "well, fusion". As if we're gonna crack that in time. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The government continues to use as its primary social media platform the one most responsible for introducing children to porn, not to mention fascism and all that
Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.
⚡️Do NOT let Musk get his hands on British utilities. He’s applied for a license to supply energy here. ✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that: www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...
Epic series of tweets by Gavin Newsom. He nailed the style perfectly. Hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣
We are in the upside down.
hear me out: Kobi Nazrul primary school in London's East End is the first in the UK where *every* pupil is bilingual here.
Lately, Reform UK have claimed that their hostility to migrants stems from an overwhelming desire to keep women safe. But have they been equally concerned when the threat to women comes from someone they see as on "their side"? I took a quick peek at their recent record. ~AA
Sadiq Khan was right! - the anti-20mph/Ulez haters were wrong (though you won't hear any of them admit it). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is v good, in both argument and presentation. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Salman Rushdie on what people often misunderstand about “Slaughterhouse-Five” and its refrain, “So it goes.”
"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.
Excellent story from @jemima.bsky.social on.ft.com/3J5yuk0
love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes
In June, for the first time ever, solar was the largest source of power in the EU.
Is it just me or is British pub food going downhill? Spoiler: no and yes. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I interviewed Google/deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who’s very upbeat about our AI future. Let’s hope he’s right. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Hello. After 11 years @theguardian.com & @theobserveruk.bsky.social I am now freelance and available for commissions. I do features, profiles, interviews, reviews, comment pieces, editing and more Here are 10 pieces I'm proud of:
"We have since learned new information, including from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that Anne Frank was suffering from typhus, and have updated our story to add context about her health problems."
✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ LUSH In response to Executive Orders targeting DEI, LUSH has renamed three of its bestselling bath bombs: diversity, equity and inclusion. "We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion are essential in building justice and belonging in the workplace — and beyond."
When I did a story on conditions in migrant hotels, there was a woman who would have to wash the spicy sauce off the pasta - in the sink - because there was no meal suitable for her toddler. She felt like a bad mum who couldn’t feed her own child
Can't say THE NAKED GUN is much of triumph. Liam Neeson perfect casting, Pamela Anderson v game (esp her scat singing), occasionally funny but the gag rate is just not high enough and the plot pretty rote, despite Danny Huston's Musk-alike baddie. Makes you realise how hard ZAZ must have worked.
Here's my piece on how Boston, one of the most vulnerable cities in the US, is defying the Trump cuts and preparing for the climate emergency. Amazing what you can achieve when your local government is unified, committed and sane. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I wrote a piece about comedy in Ukraine. The stand-up scene is flourishing! A lot of dark humour about bomb shelters (“even if you tell a bad joke, people will stay”) and Joe Biden (“He’s very similar to Ukrainians. He looks like he can die at any second.”) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
he's lost the QAnon Shaman
Just watched FANTASTIC FOUR. Or was it a live action remake of The Incredibles? V similar vibe, 50s design, family superpower dynamics but with a bit of old school Marvel instead of Pixar genius. Even a nod to The Underminer!
Oh lovely stuff
Overhearing the loud music from the children's nursery up the road. Intriguing playlist: the Macarena, Who let the dogs out, and … Kendrick's Not Like Us 🤔
“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.
@radiotimes.bsky.social You might want to rethink the wording here.
You know what will hurt the economy a whole lot more than Net Zero? Net Positive. #Decarbonization #ClimateCrisis #ExistentialThreat
Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media. But I decided to teach it anyway. So I built a school, instead. 500+ students online and in person. My first independently operated course and lecture begins TONIGHT! WE MOVE!! karenattiah.substack.com/p/resistance...
Edward Lear doing Latin brainrot 136 years ago.
We've now arrived at the Tiananmen Square phase of the Trump administration
Holy fuck: “Renner’s left eye had landed on the ice; he could see it with the eye that was still in its socket. (Amazingly, he could also still see with the eye that was hanging out.)” 😱😱😱 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
Love the way Skarsgard talks about working w Bergman and Von Trier but still gets described here as “the Mamma Mia! star”
“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
I was never going to buy a Tesla, but after reading this damming report I’m never even riding in one again. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Will you join me in signing this petition calling for a strong Global Plastics Treaty? This week, UN delegates are meeting to negotiate the solutions to our plastic pollution problem. This global crisis needs global action, so we need as many people as possible to take part! act.gp/42LGcHV
Idea: The Merlin bird app except for human accents.
If Zoe had added Munich, everybody would now talk about Pop Music....
Graphic artist Chris Ware has created a set of 20 stamps for the US Postal Service’s 250th anniversary in his iconic style. The stamps will be available in July but you can pre-order them now. [kottke.org]
This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.
Everything you wanted to know about 28 Years Later's notoriously well-hung zombie, but Variety weren't afraid to ask. variety.com/2025/film/gl...
I interviewed Clovis Salmon a few years ago, when he was a sprightly 94 year old. His films are a valuable resource - as much outsider media collage as record of Black British life. Gratifying that they (and he) are belatedly getting the recognition they deserve. www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oc...
RIP Clovis Salmon, UK's first Black documentary film-maker, who filmed the 1981 Brixton riots and the community from the inside (in between building and fixing bicycles). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
From the "the official Twitter of the U.S. Mission to the EU." Good job to the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" dipshits for helping authoritarians target their critics.
Not quite that unsubtle but there is a burning George's Cross flag at one point.
28 YEARS LATER is uneven and laughable in places, but I found it agreeably bizarre and unpredictable (and some good jump scares). But is it really Brexit the movie? Isolated, insular, paranoid Brits holed up against enemies without. Think of it as the flipside to Boyle's Olympic opening ceremony.
It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.
If I worked for Penguin I would try to figure out a way to make custom meme covers of Penguin Classics.
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Actions have consequences and Trump is dealing with the consequences of tearing up the Iran Deal for no reason except his hatred of Obama.
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'
I bade farewell to the peerless, fearless, thoughtful and thankful Sly Stone. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously
the family called Al, Ali, Alexandra, Barry and Harry? hahaha.
The life cycle of an 80s pop song. 1. Release. 2. 12 inch 3. Cover version 4. Re-release 5. Sample in rap song. 5. Sad emo version on movie soundtrack 6. Closing number in musical about band. 7. Performed on Jools Hootenanny by aged original singer. 8. Karaoke 6. DFS ad.
In the midnight hour she cried Moore, More, Moore With a rebel yell she cried Moore, More, Moore
As the mixed-race son of a technically "black" British mother, whose children would identify as "white", this report is laughable at best. It's the comments underneath that terrify me. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
Churchill ‘not white British’ The Telegraph. 2025.
I watched this happen on the morning of 4 June 1989 in Chang’an Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, the morning after the night’s massacre. Don’t believe the propaganda lie that no massacre took place: I saw 40 people killed in front of me before giving up counting in despair. pic.x.com/zhqZhT6iPB
Weirdly enough, when I wrote about Calatrava's opera house in Valencia (key Andor location) 20 years ago I described it as "something Darth Vader might wear to a nightclub." Clearly the Force was strong in this one. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
One of the joys of ANDOR was spotting familiar bits of architecture reconfigured as alien worlds: Brunswick centre, Barbican, a bit of Lloyds building, Foster's McClaren centre, plus Calatrava's Valencia city of arts and sciences. Would happily read more on this. collider.com/where-was-an...
"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered." @michellegoldberg.bsky.social nails Musk's cruelty, incuriosity and (yes) his idiocy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Late to the party I know but ANDOR is just the ticket. Escapist yet revolutionary. Epic and intimate, such a wealth of characters, scales, locations, emotions. I always say it’s a good sign when a series ends and you know, like, 20 characters.
All you need to know about Elon Musk’s stunning success is that he lasted 2.65 Liz Trusses and lost 150 billion dollars.
Elon Musk has a favorite phrase when making bold promises: “Next year.” From Full Self Driving and Hyperloop to robotaxis and literal robot armies, we traced his timeline of big talk and missed marks—because in Elon’s world, hype usually outruns reality.
Must-read for anyone with, or thinking of starting a Substack. "Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in service of cross-promoting attacks on the vulnerable."
I'm sick & feeling sorry for myself, so to cheer myself up here's my favourite story about film & TV censorship James Ferman was the Director of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) from 1975 to 1999. And he was terrified of ninjas 1/9
Good visual showing the churn of UK voters since last year’s General Election.
Looking for the worst possible take on the legacy of BLM? Let me save you some time... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
This is genuinely so bad, he can’t even answer basic questions from budding teen atheists lmfao. It’s like that scene in game of thrones when all the children ganged up and stabbed grand maester pycelle to death
RIP George Floyd, who was horrifically murdered in Minneapolis 5 years ago today. Here's my recent interview with the inspirational Nekima Levy Armstrong, civil rights lawyer who was instrumental in the subsequent protests and convictions. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
This is my piece on the Birmingham 4 Case, which bears an eery resemblance to the Birmingham Six. Thanks loads to Jon Robins for his help – Jon wrote a great piece on them for his fantastic @justicegap.bsky.social website www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...
I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit. Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.” that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
Picture this: a doctor kisses her husband & their ten children goodbye to go to work. She returns home to find that 9/10 children have been killed. Her husband & remaining child are injured & might die. This nightmare is Gaza’s reality. 16,000+ children have been killed there since Oct. 7, 2023.
So you can be positive nearly two weeks before you can be negative? That's fucked up!
Now I have to watch Charlie's Angels again just to appreciate the significance of this scene. youtu.be/-Ir_B6hyqDU?...
This is such a great piece of rabbit-hole investigation into something pretty pointless yet totally fascinating.
MAJOR SPOILER: The mission does, in fact, turn out to be possible.
Abigail Dombey 
