Happy birthday to Sarah Cracknell. Here are Saint Etienne performing You're in a Bad Way at Glastonbury in 1994. The full song is at youtu.be/BGBnbIaYHFI

📅 1 month since publication!

Just got back from the N America leg of the promo tour—thanks to everyone who came out in NYC, DC & Toronto—and in London, Oxford & Cambridge before that.

Also everyone who has read, supported, blurbed and shared such great feedback. Very grateful

There are no ninjas

Ava Santina wins the prize for most downright bizarre intervention of the day

Paul McCartney playing music for children with Autism as music therapy (BBC’s “Power of Music” documentary, 1988)

From now on, I'm instantly blocking any British person who unironically tweets 'y'all'.

It's coming for us all...

Today's word for the embarrassed covering up having got a scandal spectacularly wrong is Toxicity. So the debate was 'toxic' - which overlooks the reality that those who warned were shut down, blocked, cancelled, trashed. Dr David Bell explained it very well on Channel 4 News.

Ian Leslie It's the bit just before the clip above starts that should be highlighted... he states the reason for the toxicity is 'that some people think that transitioning is impossible, that you cannot become an err.. woman if you were born a biological man.'

Masterclass in ‘how to be right’

So, you mean pointing out a huge medical scandal around the mistreatment of vulnerable children wasn't just 'culture wars'? Well I never.

Not saying anyone in particular needs to read this but you know who you are philpapers.org/archive/NEUOS.…

I think I prefer Claude to ChatGPT although that might just be down to its font