There’s an overwhelming amount of news (and noise) in these times… and this means some of the best and worst discourse gets submerged. If you read one thing today, it should be this; highlighting both ends of the spectrum, and underscores values we should collectively cherish and protect.
Joby Catto
Today's newsletter. Cheery topic!
In history, curtailing religious freedom has only ever been the road to horror — the Tories can choose not to repeat it
Troubling, powerful testimony from @otoolematthew.bsky.social and deep, level-headed historical parallels perspective in this Half Pint from the ever-excellent @passportirish.bsky.social Thanks for recording and sharing this.
Joby Catto
Eliot Higgins
Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase.
www.ft.com/content/88ce...
Reform UK leader has said he did not use £5mn gift from crypto billionaire to buy Surrey property
ðŸ‡ðŸ‡º First visited in summer 1990, last visited in 2010. Time to go back for lángos, beer and a side portion of democratic retribution, methinks…
3D gaussian splat of Orchan Rocks near Todmorden. Data set from last year, but newly reprocessed using the new MRNF strategy in LichtfeldStudio v0.5.1.
#gaussiansplat #lichtfeldstudio #3DGS #outcrop
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Listen more, say less, lads…
Wading in, full cowboy boot-deep into a complex part of the world with overlapping, nuanced, highly sensitive issues *really* is not a good look…
Pure Trump 2.0 MAGA-centric vibes though, so no surprise…
Joby Catto
Joby Catto
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IP vs process knowledge. You can monetise/exploit the former (but also exist without it) , but you'll really rue the lack of the latter when you need it most.
This thread reinforces what I've learned over my professional / creative lifespan. Intangible, accreted, contextual knowledge is king.
I bloody love trig points
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Alright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse:
Bluesky is a record store
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...
Joby Catto
Joby Catto
Grim new episode open to all.
@otoolematthew.bsky.social describes sheltering families fleeing their burning homes in his constituency office during the horrific riots in Belfast last week.
We discuss the broader societal and historical context:
www.patreon.com/theirishpass...
www.theguardian.com
Pillars at Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, and Thorny Gale, Cumbria, bookended the project that modernised mapping
Halfpint: Racist riots in Belfast by The Irish Passport Podcast on Patreon. Join The Irish Passport Podcast's community for exclusive content and updates.
"Intellectual property" was once an obscure legal backwater. Today, it is *the* dominant area of political economy, the organizing regime for almost all of our tech regulation, and the most valuable - and most controversial - aspect of global trade policy:
pluralistic.net/2026/04/01/m...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
Naomi O'Leary
Dave Karpf
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
