2026, how many more will tread this path?

Terry and Dune

Sabalenka and Kyrgios in a cynical cash grab played in a soulless arena for a bunch of bored locals and tourists. Shame on you BBC.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

Merry Christmas everyone, especially anyone poorly, alone not out of choice, or who’ve spent at least part of this year trying to make other people’s lives better in some way.

Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived

Everyone banging on about Bazball being the problem and “that reverse sweep”. Just not enough domestic red ball cricket played on proper dry midsummer pitches against quality players, combined with pitifully inadequate preparation. McCullum partly to blame, but this is mostly on the ECB.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Polar bears miss out on Christmas Dinner

George Osborne joins OpenAI. I think that's all we need to know about George Osborne, and all we need to know about OpenAI.

We had an AD&D DM guide in lovely condition donated to the shop today. It’s now listed online for £35. Good job I spotted it when it came in.

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

Live a life so that when you die, they celebrate your life (Reiner), not celebrate your death (Trump).

AI’ is becoming shorthand for ’We don’t care if it works, we just don’t want to pay people to do it properly.’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

Choosing to focus, on hearing the news of Rob Reiner's passing, to remember this moment where he was so overcome with joy and laughter that he - the director of the movie - was one of many people banished from the set in order to finish filming.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Today at the Oxfam bookshop signing up a new gift aid donor. Me : First name? Him : Trevor Me : Last name? Him : Steven Me : As in the footballer? Him : Yes <clang, the sound of a penny dropping> Lovely bloke, now CEO of a charity for mental health in the construction industry. Great donation too.

"You boy, have you seen Alistair Sim?"

Five of the anti genocide protestors on hunger strike that the British govt have held as terrorists have been hospitalised. This Scottish newspaper is the only news outlet in GB that thinks this is newsworthy.

Dib Dib Dib Dob Dob Dob Wgah'nagl Fhtagn! Sounds ace. The Elder Sign

Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.

Christopher Robin was slightly disappointed to see the effect of inheritance tax on his father’s estate.

"The new “mansion tax” announced by Rachel Reeves in last week’s budget is estimated to affect around 165,000 property owners, and on current trends the British media is forecast to have interviewed every single one of them by the end of the year." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That begs the question: why has everyone lost their damn minds? And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.

No-one who enjoyed or understood D&D would ever write that headline.

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

Green for go. Dragonmeet here we come. #Dragonmeet

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members. What an own goal! Geddit?

Wake up to 400 emails on how I can hide my money from the Chancellor and, as ever, it's good to see the generous, warm-hearted, UK press in action.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Kicked off Sunday with a couple of 80’s gems. A bit of a musical contrast.

I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

We need to ensure our elected officials are acting on the best intelligence when it comes to tackling the climate crisis . It's why I'm opening the National Emergency Briefing on 27 November , ensure your MP is attending at nebriefing.org

Haven’t been to the ExCel since the Olympics. Is there a bar? The previous venue had drawbacks but at least there was somewhere to drink and talk bollocks. #Dragonmeet #GetYourPrioritiesRight

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

The Billionaires destroying the planet with their private jets, and greed, want you to blame the refugees and not them. For every Billionaire reduced to poverty; thousands of lives can be saved.

Are there any traders at #Dragonmeet who are likely to have copies of Shadowdark for sale?

Today I saw three kids -- boys, maybe 12, 13, 14 years old -- riding bikes, and they were holding fishing poles and one had a bucket, and they said "hello!" as they passed. Then I, a Normal Adult, yelled after them, "Looking for Ray Brower down by the train tracks?" and they uhh rode away faster.

billboard seen in London.