Fits perfectly to the opening line of youtu.be/eFMpfeskqRg?... (not the Tarzan bit)

#Gambling - an industry out of control doing enormous damage to individuals and communities. "Betfair may have made £200,000 commission on bets that Morford lost between 2018 and 2024, overlapping significantly with the period of his fraud." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

It's simple. Just take a photo of everyone who does want pizza but not anybody who doesn't want pizza. If the photographer wants pizza make sure they're in shot, or if that's too hard, ask someone who doesn't want pizza to stand in. If everyone wants pizza and the photographer can't fit in shot, ask

Help! I can't stop thinking of someone taking a photo of the group rather than counting how many people want pizza.

Some *free* weekend reading: our special report on the Teesside regeneration scandal ⤵️

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

I honestly can’t work out how we’ve still got another two weeks of January to go but yet Christmas was about 4 months ago.

Green Party calls for under-22s to get free bus passes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Typo of the day "...moist welcome to join..." Is it the weekend yet?

Alt text for image: Bob Mortimer reading from a card with "would I lie to you?" printed on the back.

Essential services should not be run for profit.

Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch. DMs open.

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

Outstanding.

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

RNC student Oscar will be on BBC Radio 4's In Touch tonight at 20:40, chatting with Sound Without Sight and @lachimusic.bsky.social about breaking barriers for V.I. creators in the music industry. Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... or catch up on BBC Sounds!

And thanks for spreading word of what I'm doing; I'm doing the same for others. No regrets about bailing from Twitter but anyone in my area will tell you, there *was* a time it was incredibly helpful for finding your audience. Bluesky isn't quite like that yet, but no real reason it can't get there.

The UK National Health Service has very clear information on all major medical conditions. It is browsable by all Never EVER rely on an LLM for health advice www.nhs.uk/conditions/

There are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs 🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs 🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs 🟢 All the 4 Green MPs 🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs ➡️ No Reform MPs

Check out this outstanding #Tortoise quilt, made by my mate Dave. Modelled by the actual Doug McCombs, seemingly in his driveway. www.instagram.com/p/DTYuJA_kgI...

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

Hamnet is devastatingly good. If you're not a fan of crying, don't see it.

The Daily Telegraph really is the gift that keeps on giving

The sheer irony.

Well that's #StrangerThings done and dusted. Mildly disappointed in the final episode like everyone else. However, overriding feeling is relief at finally getting to the end of the whole thing and not having another series. Ever.

I went to a toddler class today and there was a toddler called Keith

There's already a fully developed product for facial gesture and head-movement input using a standard webcam. It's called SensePilot sensepilot.tech #AssistiveTechnology #disabilities @disabilityscoop.bsky.social

“Pay me $8 a month and you can use my tech to create child sexual abuse imagery” might not be the PR win Elon Musk imagines it to be, y’know.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

The start of this academic year has been the busiest in my 25 year career. The number of students who tell their university they are disabled continues to increase exponentially. That's a good thing, but also a bad thing...🧵 wonkhe.com/blogs/disabi...

Good 👍 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What could possibly go wrong..?

Possibly the most ominous Frog and Toad bot line ever.

’I inexplicably detest Mr Brightside’. That's not inexplicable. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Broke my toe while running across the room to turn off The Archers.

No.

Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

X/grok creating and platforming sexually explicit material of children isn’t just a lapse, it’s criminal. Elon Musk and his companies should be held to account. It’s been over a year since I dumped X. It was the right decision then and even more so now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s also misleading because a formal diagnosis is not needed in law for a child to have SEND - needing provision which is additional to/different from.

I’m really surprised by this headline from The Sutton Trust. Children don’t get diagnosed with SEND. SEND is about provision. Children get diagnosed with ASD/ADHD/dyslexia/DLD etc which MAY lead to them having SEND.

Sgurr an Airgid. Catching the sun on the way up, losing it on the way down.

Hark! The gods smile upon us again by giving us tactile buttons! Blessed be

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

'Is there a more consistent singer-songwriter operating today than Bill Callahan? 'Lonely City’ is yet another melancholy masterpiece.' #BillCallahan - Lonely City is a Quietus Track of the Month for Nov/Dec buff.ly/anIfoc6

"While it wasn't his first climbing experience, with Nathan previously completing the three peaks challenge in Yorkshire". Yorkshire 3 peaks ain't climbing. It's a long walk.

One reason why UK #AidCuts are incredibly shortsighted. Security is about a lot more than military spending, and diplomacy is also being cut www.ft.com/content/f388...

Christmas Day sausage sizzle

If you're wrapping presents and NOT listening to Christmas Cookin' by Jimmy Smith can you possibly even be entering into the spirit of the thing? tidal.com/browse/album...