Rick Crawford

This is like when ISIS went to war with the Taliban

Remember, the Chancellor of Germany is in the Lincoln Bedroom while all this is going down.

German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary." Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day." German Chancellor:  "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."

@Noahpinion Coolidge has already invented the technology.

By the way, the most important thing we can do to solve divorce is to invent a technology that defeats the Coolidge Effect.

TONIGHT Researchers do stand up comedy. Including a special guest appearance by Pythagoras. Be there, or be the square on the hypotenuse. #BCM47

This is an interesting piece, on the underlying reasons for high UK energy bills. Consumer prices come later - its all driven due to gas (we need to delink our electricity prices from the gas price urgently)

Elon seems to be under the impression that most people hate Ukraine and blame it for the war. He doesn't realize he's taking an unpopular position. And I think it's because he takes the Russian troll accounts in his replies to be real American individuals.

If you've ever posted a single word about "chesterton's fence" you should be deeply alarmed about Elon Musk's total incuriosity about the ground level problems in departments he's hollowing out.

you snivelling fucks would have surrendered at marathon/thermopylae/etc and we wouldnt have any fucking western civ for you to jerk yourselves off over

Totally seething levels of anger from British military contacts about this, by the way. A feeling that losses the British military took fighting alongside America in Iraq and Afghanistan (at American request) have been written out of history; their dead comrades disrespected.

I think people sometimes fail to comprehend how fortunate the world is that the owner of Wikipedia hasn't gone down the right wing rabbit hole that so many tech founders have gone down.

Twitter has so far failed to reinvent itself as a primary source of content, or implement the necessary features to become a YouTube killer. But it's not even the right goal, because Twitter's value was always as the place where anyone who was famous anywhere else still had to be. Twitter was never the largest driver of web traffic, but it was definitively the place where The Conversation was happening. If you followed a streamer or podcaster on a dedicated media platform, you also followed them here, to keep up with events and observe them participate in the culture. By making Twitter a walled garden content platform with no means of egress, Elon has destroyed the rationale for the majority of the world's established creators to be here and develop their brand. This turns Twitter into a dying mall that has lost its anchor retailer and is inhabited only by weird off-brand mall stores and sleazy merchant stalls. But more than that, trying to make Twitter "the destination" has associated the Twitter brand and sense of place with the specific platform-native content that flourishes and is rewarded here, which is highly skewed, insular, and controversial. So anybody who isn't interested in Elon's political thunderdome for highly online degenerates feels alienated in what used to be the town square, however mismanaged it was.

It's genuinely astounding how Trump's main thing is that evil foreigners are coming to the United States to rape American women and yet they pressured Romania to release a serial rapist and sex trafficker so he could go to the US and rape women there

There’s something sick in Western commercial real estate where the rent does not simply “go down” in totally abandoned spaces like this I don’t exactly understand if it’s black finance magic, or just desperately holding the bag, but somehow the rent never goes down

I don’t know how people can honestly tell themselves building housing doesn’t reduce rents anymore

Europe is, of course, big enough and rich enough to defend Ukraine without US help. If we want.

Going to #scicommburrito for the first time in a long time.

@sandycann2 @jessicaelgot Everyone hates on social workers, but no one else will do what they do

@RickCrawf @jessicaelgot Of course I totally trust SWs to have an ethical stance 🙄+ have had dealings with some and certainly wouldn’t call them experts !

EXCLUSIVE Kim Leadbeater will scrap the sign-off from a High Court judge for assisted dying. She will table amendment to replace it with expert panel - senior lawyer, psychiatrist and social worker. Judge-led commission will oversee panels. Full story in tomorrow’s Guardian

@edwest Sure. But what's wrong with Asian mini-marts?

Will Lloyd on Birmingham as a symbol of Deep Decline England