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The pound fell to record lows this week, prompted by a tax-break filled Tory budget. Some mortgage lenders have temporarily withdrawn their products from the market in anticipation of rising interest rates and one economic commentator said investors view the Conservative Party as a 'doomsday cult'.
posted by roolya_boolya at 10:28 PM PST - 148 comments

...as an opt-in setting, with community flagging and human review. Here's the staff post about it. [more inside]
posted by subdee at 5:37 PM PST - 54 comments

After dealing with a number of personal and social issues throughout the pandemic, Innuendo Studio has another part to the Alt-Right Playbook, in which the way in which white supremacy is handled between white moderates and conservatives is broken down, and how the marginalized become the tokens in a game between those two groups. [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum at 2:19 PM PST - 7 comments

jazz - a 1-minute twitter video
posted by aniola at 12:30 PM PST - 16 comments

As predicted in 2020 by futurology site Hard Drive, Brian David Gilbert spends 30 minutes explaining the basics of U.S. Health Insurance.
posted by simmering octagon at 11:27 AM PST - 41 comments

The Guardian excerpts "Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries." Alan Rickman kept a diary and shared his thoughts on Harry Potter, Love Actually, 9/11, 7/7, and much more. Yes, it's all as dry, withering, and human as you'd expect. Glorious! [more inside]
posted by zooropa at 11:19 AM PST - 33 comments

For more than two decades, Kurt Steiner has dedicated his life to skipping rocks. His record of 88 skips may never be touched. But spend a little time with him, and you’ll realize it’s not really about records. Stone skipping is so much more than that. Skipping has brought Steiner respite from a life of depression and other forms of mental illness. It has also, in part, left him broke, divorced, and, since the death of his greatest rival, adrift from his stone-skipping peers. Now, in middle age, with a growing list of aches and pains, he must contemplate the reality that, in his most truthful moments, he throws rocks not simply because he wants to, but because he has no choice. [more inside]
posted by AlSweigart at 8:51 AM PST - 30 comments

The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

Giving no restrictions on era or genre, we ended up with an eclectic list where the wholesome children’s television institution Sesame Street finished one spot ahead of foulmouthed Western Deadwood, while Eisenhower-era juggernaut I Love Lucy wound up sandwiched in between two shows, Lost and Arrested Development, that debuted during George W. Bush’s first term.

Rolling Stone updates their 2016 list of All Time Best TV Shows.
posted by Frayed Knot at 7:11 AM PST - 163 comments

Someday aliens are going to land their saucers in a field somewhere in New Jersey and everything is going to go just fine right up until we try to explain our calendar to them: a Twitter thread that casts our calendar in a whole new light.
posted by tommasz at 5:48 AM PST - 110 comments

Hello, gadders-about; welcome to Monday, where this poster will be living rent-free in your thread. [more inside]
posted by taz at 3:34 AM PST - 93 comments

'No one in physics dares say so, but the race to invent new particles is pointless' by astrophysicist Sabine Hossenfelder, writing in the Guardian.
posted by tavegyl at 2:33 AM PST - 57 comments