I learnt my way round a car engine in the 70s from NFDad. We seemed to have our heads under the bonnet of our dark grey Volvo 144L (MSG 394G, fact fans) every chuffing weekend. All knowledge that's absolutely useless now that you can't even look at a car engine without a PhD in computer science.
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Absolutely excellent piece. As Carville might have had it, it's the employers, stupid.
Sam FreedmanNew post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Watch out folks. If I start posting po ruskyy you'll know it's not me.
David WaldmanJuice! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
OK, yes, this particular detail had passed me by. That is out of order. Completely.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret DevereauxWorth responding to this 'on main.' If Wilson's review had made all of the same analytical points, concluded that the movie wasn't for her and that it was a weak adaptation, that'd be one thing. Instead, she wrote, "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script." That's different!
Has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Absolutely off-the-scale levels of fuckwittedness. I think now Google is actively trying to pollute every clean information source on the internet.
Joseph CoxNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Blimey, this is starting to put Zelensky in a bit of a spot.
The Kyiv IndependentUkrainians gathered in Kyiv on July 31 for what organizers described as a "march for dialogue and reforms in defense," renewing demands that President Volodymyr Zelensky reinstate former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
#NowPlaying William Shatner and Steve Village - "Rocket Man" I hadn't this one of Owd Bill's before, but for him it's really rather good. Hillage doing His Thing on guitar. Give it a go. youtu.be/WYUUEH8Xsu0?...
#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory Just realised that now I've managed to change my chemo days, I am now officially free for the Hammill gig in September. Whoop whoop. That's the victory. The bad news is, sorry for TMI, I've got the trots aGAIN. More changing bedsheets and bedsheets and olfactory distress