- EU reset deal puts Britain back on the world stage, says Keir Starmer | Brexit | The Guardian
As a pal put it – in the last couple of months Labour have: coped as well as could be asked with Trump's tariff madness, secured a trade deal with India, and now, made genuine progress on rectifying (some of) the damage of Brexit.
This does absolutely nothing to offset the damage of the transphobic shit going on, the anti-migrant rhetoric, and all the other things they're doing that I loathe, and I still don't know if I can vote for them at the next election, but I just wanted to take a moment to feel something that isn't total despair about my governement.
- An Instagram Reel of 'Chad the Bird' talking about Star Wars fonts
A sweary bird puppet talks about the typography of Star Wars. Either that sounds like fun to you, or you may be dead inside.
- I'm a nanny on £150k – parents don't treat me like a human being
Interesting/terrifying (tiny, carefully chosen for sensationalism) glimpse into the world of the ultra-weathly. There's a line from a Gibson's Count Zero that it reminds me of "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
I just cannot fathom raising one's kids like that. I can understand having a nanny to take the pressure off, and to enable the work-oriented lifestyle that made the family rich. But surely the point is then to also have the kids raised *right*?
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Bookmarks for May 2, 2025
- They are just like the Tories – Joxley Writes
Like the writer of this piece, I don't believe our current Labour government is "just like the Tories" (although in some areas…) but this piece does a really good job of nailing why they *feel* like they are.
Bookmarks for May 1, 2025
- Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case
A genuinely solid write up, that explains how we got here, and what I very much hope will happen next – and/or the possibly scary consequences of further political cowardice from the Labour Party.
- Daring Fireball: Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Rules, in Excoriating Decision, That Apple Violated Her 2021 Court Order Regarding App Store Anti-Steering Provisions
A judge in the US has just ruled that Apple have to drop a lot of the measures that prevent apps from linking out to alternate payment methods, and that payments processed externally don't need to have a cut paid to Apple. I find myself quite happy about this. Gruber's analysis is, as ever, pretty bang-on.
Bookmarks for April 30, 2025
- Why translating Chinese food names into English is ‘an impossible task’ | CNN
Fun insights into Chinese food culture.
- Google announces 1st and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in October 2025 – Ars Technica
So, on the one hand, they're not saying it'll stop working. Just that it'll only have more or less the same features that a non-smart thermostat has. But still – I'd be pretty irked, if I had one. This is, broadly, the peril of buying smart home gadgets. and why my rule of thumb is that I want them to be able to perfom most of their functions without internet access – in case the company behind them goes bust, and the infrastrcuture vanishes. But Google haven't gone bust. There's no suggestion that the couldn't, if they chose, keep these running. They're just not. Unimpressive.
- Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’ | The Independent
Because, well, yeah, it really is. It's justghastly stuff, and I just do not understand these people with hate in their hearts who are determined to drag us all backward. On this issue, and so many others.