Bet there’s zero consequence

No govt wants to be the one that approves billions for it, or decides to move, so they’ll keep putting it off til it burns down

I saw an excellent starting up offer to subscribe to The Beano last week and almost went for it for my kids. This image might just have sealed that deal.

Funny how all these awful shits banging on about "core British values" always mean racism. They never mean the post-war consensus of a welfare state, NHS, social housing that dominated and transformed the lives of most people currently alive in the UK.

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

A beautifully filmed look back to the inaugural journey of the #BluePullman diesel train between Manchester and St Pancras. 🚄 BLUE PULLMAN (1960) 6:30pm documentary short for all train lovers on #TPTV

He's good, it's true. I don't think my Ian McKellen anecdote has made it over from Twitter, so:

If much of your political persona was built on the interrogative skills learned as a barrister, saying you believed the statement of a serial liar without asking any additional questions doesn't hold much water, does it?

Really pleased the Throttle House guys have officially got the Grand Tour gig.

Fun At One - the story of comedy at BBC Radio 1. If you spent your evenings listening to Mark Radcliffe, Lee And Herring and Collins And Maconie's Hit Parade, this book is for you! Paperback (10% off code READERCOPY10) or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/fun-at...

It’s that two weeks every four years where my better half disappears and all I hear is murmurs like “you need to knock that stone out” or “they haven’t protected the house properly”. Yup, Winter Olympics curling is on and my main job for the next 14 days is bringing food and cups of tea.

It's incredible how Paris has just absolutely smashed down air pollution (and congestion) in a relatively short time, by taking simple measures like building a truck load of cycle lanes. Lessons to be learnt

Hugeey annoying that Lucy Darling is doing a show in Manchester the day after I fly out on holiday. (Go see her, she's ace.)

What's happening to you, Milton? It's a big old Guardian feature, that's what. With a film about Ted, made by his own family, coming soon, I chatted with him about his poetry, puppetry and wayward life and times, with Roger Law of Spitting Image spitting facts www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Forgot to hashtag it. I’ll never graduate from influencer school. #burnleyfc

Vlogs up. Featuring happy thoughts of trees and clouds and fluffy kittens. "Enough is Enough" - youtu.be/yL_rraFAdqs

Thinking of vlogging later. Just to let off steam.

He's going to blame the lack of transfer business, isn't he? #burnleyfc

Peter Mandelson chooses to leave the Labour Party eight years after going on the radio and boasting that his mission in life was to prevent Labour winning the next general election, a statement which was greeted in the media by widespread approval.

Nice opinion on trans people, did a billionaire pedophile give it to you?

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

I have complete faith that Lord Mandelson can bounce back from this episode and that he has the fight in him to resign in disgrace at least one more time.

Bloody hell, Bruins!

I wrote an Opinion piece for @theguardian.com about extortionate gig ticket prices (prompted by Harry Styles' Wembley Stadium residency). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I don't have a problem with Harry Styles, by the way. He seems like a decent enough guy and his music's fun. Just the prices.

Most important game of the year

It's new video Sunday! We use "bits" to define a console generation. But is this really a good way of doing that? youtu.be/3p3TFnMn7qs

He’s fucking done it again! The same bloke who regularly travelled North on safari and every single time Just Happened to find racists and anti-Corbyn Labour supporters is going “oh woe, whatever can be done about this? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker

The Big Brains of Football Journalism are always *this* close to understanding the problems in football are always caused by the various glass ceilings that the biggest clubs have put in place and the ladders they have pulled up behind them. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Depends. Whose head am I doing it on?

Animalgesics. #art #pills #moles

Amazon has placed a VERY specific product warning on the published edition of the Kenneth Williams diaries. The incident that prompted this surely deserved more media attention.

Interesting sight while out this weekend. Lampposts around the primary area for the flag shaggers have very clearly had the flags cut down. The people who did it have left the cable ties and bits of the flags, so when Barry Racist gets his ladders off the van, he'll have to cut the rest down.

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Did the classic thing when taking an electrical appliance apart to fix/clean it. Put it back together. Switch it on, it’s dead. Ah hell, thinks I. I was careful and triple checked everything. It can’t be broken completely. Had I plugged it back in? No, I had not.

No, *you've* been singing "Keep your distance walk way don't take his bay-ate... don't you straaaaayyyy from the narrow waaaaayyy" far too loudly this morning.

RIP Catherine O’Hara, who was never less than effortlessly hilarious.

Fantastic, pointed, and written with furious élan. She v good. open.substack.com/pub/grainnem...

Free AI training for everyone in the UK. From the same people who six months ago were trying to get an all in one digital ID off the ground.

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

All you need to know about user focused development tools. Trying to do something in PowerApps. Sketch out idea, use CoPilot and MS docs to check. Paste into PowerApp - shows an error. Except my notes are right. Copilot is right. The DOCUMENTATION tells you to do it this way. And yet it errors.

Tell you who we don’t hear from so much any more. People who told us Brexit will be fine because “we’ll just forge a closer relationship with the United States”.

be nice if Chris Mason et al were able to pause their attempts to write soap opera storylines and paid attention to their favourite boy’s plans

Vlogs up. Quite a frustrated one really, about #burnleyfc being the one thing we should never be. "Skipping Breakfast - Burnley 2 Tottenham 2" youtu.be/PhF4Y4QR6Mg

Vlog encoding, better half on a webinar later so two hours available later on Grand Theft Horsey. I fancy hunting me down a serial killer, like Cowboy Columbo.

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The AI evangelists want us all to conveniently forget that they were all telling us we had to buy bored apes or we would be left out of the Economy Of The Future four years ago.