One of my favorite parts about the 90s is we just ate whatever food we wanted. Food was food. No one argued about what food was bad and what food was healthy. We just minded our business in general. At least that’s how I remember it

Just remembered the world sauna championship. Was one of the most interesting things I've read about It used to be hosted in Finland every year until the incident in 2010. Rules were that it started at 110°C (230F). Then 1 litre of water was poured onto the stove every 2 minutes The last person to walk out under their own power won In 2010, both finalists had to be dragged out The russian finalist died, burned all over, and the reigning Finnish champ went into a coma and woke up 6 weeks later with 70% of his skin burned, kidney failure and his airways completely roasted One peculiar thing about it was there were no prizes. Only in one particular year did the winner get 1 small prize, some special heat resistant speakers that could be used in a sauna But despite this, participants went to the edge of death every year and would do insane stuff like grow their hair out long specifically to cover their ears so it didn't get burned by the boiling water vapor It was interesting to me because it's another piece of evidence that as soon as you create a ruleset... no matter how ridiculous it is, no matter how small the group of participants, no matter the extremely chance of death, and no matter a total lack of prizes. There will always be men willing to compete to the point of actually killing themselves The male brain enters a kind of hypnotic trance where it will completely convince itself of the worthwhileness of the task, so long as it begins to venture seriously down the path of a competitive interest It's kind of like a hijacking of the programming evolutionary mind, where no incentive makes sense but it happens anyway. You can find a million examples of this for every male interest on the planet. Just the simple act starting down a path confers it meaning to the person, and the more they are surrounded by other men who care about the same thing, the more they learn and compete, the more entranced by it they are, until their identity is fully subsumed by it and stuff like these sauna deaths happen Seeing lots of things like this taught me to be very careful when I start down the path of any competitive interest or business, because getting hypnotized by what you are doing is essentially guaranteed. So it's good to assume it'll happen and be totally sure the outcome is worth your potential self-destruction

LEGO has unveiled Sagrada Familia At 12,060 pieces, it has taken the crown of the largest LEGO set ever made It’s being released in honor of its architect, & also the main building’s construction completing only just this year 12,060pcs (the most ever) $800 November 1st

This story in today’s Sunday Times shows how dire the situation for graduates is now. We have done everything right - everything asked of us. Blair’s obsession with 50% of the population going to university was insane, but that’s not the fault of once 18-year-olds who had at least a decade of being told our only route to success was a degree. Now facing huge debt (and a prospective effective marginal tax rate of 37%), we can’t find jobs. For every 1 of us that does, 27 young migrants are employed (and this isn’t unique to grads - if you’re wondering why there are no Saturday jobs for your kids while doing their A-levels, look no further than that 27:1 figure). And for the rare few who somehow manage to get an offer for a place on a gold dust graduate scheme (grad schemes and the size of their cohorts have shrunk) - there’s a chance the offer gets rescinded just as in this case (by email no less), with AI to blame. You’re literally replaced by AI before you’ve even started the job. So, young Britons - both grads and non-grads - basically have two choices: 1) be replaced by an immigrant, or 2) be replaced by a robot. It all feels so hopeless for many Zoomers in Britain right now.

NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve_news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Nigel Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. By @charlienotold & @LuciaOC_ 1/

🚨 BREAKING: Net migration to the UK fell to 171,000 from 331,000 in the year to December 2025 - the lowest point since 2012

David Barker topped the poll in Deptford & Hendon ward, Sunderland, on Thursday. Reform UK took control of the city from Labour. We've been through his Companies House record. Barker was director of two companies registered at 2 Albyn Gardens, Sunderland SR3 1UR. DBB Recruitment Ltd (incorporated 22 August 2023). DBB Group Ltd (incorporated 21 August 2023). Two companies. Incorporated on consecutive days. Neither company ever filed a single set of accounts. DBB Group Ltd: First Gazette notice November 2024, dissolved January 2025. DBB Recruitment Ltd: First Gazette notice November 2024, dissolved January 2025. Both compulsorily struck off by Companies House within a week of each other. Four months after both companies were dissolved, Barker stood as a Reform UK candidate in Sunderland. He topped the poll. Hope Not Hate has previously reported on a 2019 conviction involving Barker. That reporting stands on its own record and we direct readers there for that detail. Our interest is the public corporate record. Two companies. No accounts ever filed. Both struck off. Now a sitting Reform councillor. Reform UK did not respond to a request for comment. Source: Companies House, DBB Recruitment Ltd and DBB Group Ltd.

If you live in areas that have elected a Reform council, this is where you all come in. Report every pothole, broken pavement, keep them on their toes and make their lives intolerable.