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Links for 09-11-25
“Alternatives like Signal, Wire, and Element prove that secure communication doesn’t require monetising our attention. They’re no harder to use. The challenge lies in convincing your social circle to move with you. The real choice sits between convenience and conscience, between what’s easy and what’s ethical.”
Documentally on Meta’s Big Brother
In Pictures: London’s Lesser-Known Art Deco Gems
One day I will get to live and own the dream.
Yeah, right.
Jetpack Tools Every Blogger Should Be Using in 2025/2026
Sunday morning listening: Nobukazu Takemura’s mixtape, via the always wonderful #latejunction
Are “mind-altering” shoes the next big performance gain in cycling?
Don’t be a daft twat.
Links for 08-11-25
The left can beat Reform if it embraces class conflict
Don’t compromise - FIGHT!
Links for 07-11-25
Racism ‘baked into the institutional design’ of Metropolitan Police, review finds
No shit, Constable.
The Green surge is about to break Labour
GOOD.
The Game at the Centre of the UK’s Culture War
This is what we’re up against.
“As Nuno toils at West Ham and Forest contemplate a relegation fight, do he and Evangelos Marinakis secretly wish they could have settled their differences?”
Links for 06-11-25
Links for 04-11-25
“I am committed to getting around the silos of the owners of social media, and making it possible for developers and users to build their own networks with their own rules, and not have to wait for corporate programmers to give them the tools, we need to be able to make them for ourselves.”
Dave Winer on big tech and silos. Wise words.
“Cities, by contrast, are messy places: places of fluidity and freedom and possibility, places of chaos and collaboration and conflict. And sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t, but we embrace them nonetheless because in their forced intimacy, in their inexorable flow of ideas and influences and cuisines, they are the fullest expression of what it is to be human”
Wonderful words from Jonathan Liew.
Bike lanes crucial to preventing cycling near misses, major new study suggests
🐻 💩
Links for 03-11-25
Links for 01-11-25
“Across our communities, we share the same priorities — making ends meet, accessing healthcare, decent schools and secure homes. We need to end scapegoating and look for solutions.”
Twelve Months in Essex trailer
One month is enough. Arf.
It’s Your Party, and I’ll Cry If I Want To
How the hell did they fuck this one up? Oh, y’know. The usual left in-fighting - which is also present within the right wing of the Labour party, but they somehow always seem to come out on top. Fancy that.
“All of this will leave ordinary members and supporters of the project confused, if not desperately disappointed. Some will consider giving up, joining the Green Party or concentrating on building local community organisations. They come from a political culture where internal rows and backstabbing have become normalised as politicians vie for influence and build their careers.”
Ain’t No Party Like a Your Party Fuck Up
No Gods. No Masters. And no leaders?
🤦🏻♂️
Links for 31-10-25
Links for 29-10-25
“We are embracing class war, and this time we plan to win it.”
Tell It Like It Is, Zarah
A prog heavy Oddcaste from Mr Mule. Plus an opening track from Half Man, Half Biscuit - which is always welcome.
“YouGov’s figures show that 25% of all voters aged 18-49 would vote for the Green Party at the next General Election – putting them in first place for the entire cohort”
“We’re very optimistic people” - Israel floats possibility of future Tour de France Grand Départ