Matt Ⓥ

Welcome! It’s great to have you 💚

My landlord just said ChatGPT told him my rent should be much higher. What do I say to that?

Gemini says I get 4 months free rent a year?

Finished reading: The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage 📚

What a gorgeous looking book. Just looked it up, not sure I can resist. How are you finding dipping in to it so far? ☺️

Thank you @tamhauyu.bsky.social and others at @greensorganise.bsky.social for a very enjoyable conversation with Owen Hatherley. Really interesting stuff! Let's be loud next time! 😆

Reform operational plan discussing deportation command.

Our politics is heading in an increasingly dangerous direction.

We must, and will, resist.

Nothing is ever going to change...

Unless we organise.

Find out your Green role at greensorganise.uk/your-green-role , and get involved with your local party today.

Finished reading: Crudo by Olivia Laing 📚

Read in one sitting - easily done with such dreamy writing. The chaotic feeling of 2017 described perfectly, reminding us it only feels worse now.

100% this. GDP is not the ultimate goal. A healthy, flourishing, equal, compassionate society in balance with its ecosystem is the goal.

Our political class have forgotten this - cajoled by think tanks, donors and “the city”.

A country can have an excellent GDP and be terrible to live in.

Another book hunt today. Brick Lane Bookshop and Foyles mostly. Picked up Credo by Olivia Laing (because I loved The Silver Book so much) and Sarah Ahmed's No Is Not A Lonely Utterance.

Almost grabbed a copy of everything else I saw but decided not to.

Congratulations for it all 🙏

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Boxing Daying solo today, started off with a bit of cleaning and now, of course, football. Hoping for a good result for The Hatters #COYH ⚽️

Let's choose kindness in 2026.

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Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

And to you! 😊

Watched: Urchin 🍿

Because for some reason I want to remove hope from life at Christmas. Apart from that, quite a piercing watch, great lead.

I went for Nick Cave’s “The Death of Bunny Munro” just based off of liking his music. Not my usual thing but I’m open minded 🙃

I’m heading in to Cambridge with multiple agendas, one being to replenish my fiction pile for the Christmas period. Any burning recommendations?

Really nice overview of the Fediverse in numbers for 2025 (via predictions!) from @tchambers

www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/2…

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Gosh you do love the life don’t you Caroline! Hope you’re enjoying 😊

Finished reading: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico 📚💙

If you’re over 30 and struggle to tell the difference between what you like, and what you like to think you like, this one’s for you.

I actually let out a little cheer when the commentator speculated about “weeks out”!

Not for long sadly! 🥺

Why Rory Stewart might need to self reflect...

Greens 💚 - vegan or not yet! - please consider supporting and adding your thoughts to this conference motion.

It aims to clarify what vegan rights look like under the Equality Act and provide guidance to everyone of what is expected

springconf2026.greenparty.org.uk/std/Vegans-R...

#GPEW #Vegan

"The Silver Book is a beautiful novel that I couldn’t, won’t let go of. Queer love intertwined with 1970s Italian filmmaking, and the march of fascism in the background."

My thoughts on a gorgeous novel 📚 mattharwood.com/2025/12/16/t...

Could you expand on why you conclude LLM results are "trustworthy" please @mozilla.org ? Serious question...

BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith lecture Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit

Terrible - BBC now overreacting to anything controversial - removing a sentence from Rutger Bregman's Reith lecture was bad enough!!!
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...