Hoping someone on here follows me and understands the intricacies of train tickets refunds v delay repay… If you start your journey but end up giving up and going home, which is the right option? Refund via ticket supplier says you must not have used your ticket, which we technically did, but…

Disappointed this isn’t a Hamish Macbeth crossover event tbh

Not sure Tyrrell’s thought this messaging through as much as they could have

Quoting this as a prompt to note that there’s been a swell of articles about alternatives to US tech recently but not the one I want most which how to de-amazon your life - I would read the shit out of something that could propose solid alternatives to the beast

Last sun of 2025/first sun of 2026 Hoping 2026 brings good things for the world

Praying for 2026 to be the year we turn the corner

Some of these are *chef's kiss* but I reckon the UK local papers might still have an edge. 1/

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Local government types: I am interested in examples of systems for sharing outputs from engagement exercises broadly across an organisation (or at least making them accessible and searchable) - does anyone know of good work in this space?

Local government types: I am interested in examples of systems for sharing outputs from engagement exercises broadly across an organisation (or at least making them accessible and searchable) - does anyone know of good work in this space?

Seeing the guy who spoils the #Strictly results having a meltdown over the BBC not doing a DO this weekend warms my cold heart

A total and utter hero

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

I think the different reality shows should mix and match their different themed weeks occasionally. I’d love to see Strictly do bread week.

Ooh this is fun- I would go and visit all the transport projects announced as part of Network North that were not, in fact, in the north

Thoroughly enjoyed @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social ‘s incomplete guide to chamber music @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social this evening - so much music to explore afterwards!

blimey, Thomas is making John Sergeant look like a deft and fluid dancer #Strictly

As someone who finally read the book recently as part of periodic attempts to read things I feel I should have by now, I can’t emphasise enough how much this is true. The tropes are such huge cultural reference points I felt I knew the story and couldn’t have been more wrong

Slightly diminish a book: The Ending Story

Georgia Gould to DfE and Jim McMahon out of govt. Worrying news for the place-based public services agenda

Penny for @hpiandycowper.bsky.social ‘s thoughts on this. In fact I’d go so far as a pound

Just got round to reading this and it’s typically excellent and thought provoking

I find it really interesting that people like this never seem to ask themselves “how do I know what information I need?”

It’s odd that tech wonks keep insisting that customers want entertainment tailored exactly for them, which nobody else has seen, when for decades the worst thing anyone could hear was the phrase “except for viewers in Scotland who have their own programmes.” Nobody wants “their own programmes.”

Please read this thread. All of it.

A core feature of the Trump regime is its embrace of "authoritarian democracy", as a battering ram with which to demolish any obstacle to its power. The very notion of "authoritarian democracy" can sound contradictory. But it's an old & dangerous idea, that needs to be better understood. [THREAD]

*slow handclap*

God this is endlessly sad. If you don't understand that a core aspect of friendship is someone who can choose not to be your friend, you are missing something very important in your life.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Wooah. 18.5% reduction in sick leave reported. (And this was pre-Covid: "Our sample periods for the LEZ and ULEZ analyses are 2005–2009 and 2016–2019, respectively.")

I have been to and run workshops in a range of venues but this is very much a restriction that I have not previously come across

Struck by the sudden thought that these people are approaching Canada through the lens of mergers and acquisitions

This is as good a thread as everyone is saying it is, but I think there is another point that really matters for AI and art - it’s that generative AI tools are prediction machines, using their training data to drive those predictions. But the history of art is littered with huge paradigm shifts,

"I am one hundred per cent a Faithful."

“I will demonstrate support for personal liberty by restricting what my columnists can write about”

Pretty sure I saw something the other day about Musk being upset about not being invited to an EV event by Biden - how much of this chaos is down to two emotional toddlers having their egos pricked?

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

Imagining a parallel universe where Apprentice presenter Alan Sugar runs Britain with the shadow of tech bro Clive Sinclair looming over him.

Someone could make an shitload of money right now, by releasing versions of apps and software that just don't use AI.

Me at the Hacienda in 1988: Is this pure MDMA? I can’t imagine ever feeling better than I do right now. Me at home in 2025: Were these pyjamas left to warm on the bathroom radiator? I can’t imagine ever feeling better than I do right now.

A few photos from sunrise this morning at Lady Cannings #theoutdoorcity

They've automated cultural appropriation

Definitely the most "Torment Nexus" thing AI has produced so far.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it? ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974

We wish you a devo christmas We wish you a devo Christmas We wish you a devo Christmas With no more two tier I’m so sorry

Terrific thread on racism and social norms.

I’ve started a health and race equality starter pack. Please respond below if you want me to add you! go.bsky.app/7RRacQP

Super useful starter pack

FRIENDS, COMRADES, last night @nickywoolf.bsky.social and I went to the bar and we asked ourselves the question: could you readapt the Pournelle chart but for sitcoms? should you? we decided that we should, and BEHOLD, here before you is The Ultimate Sitcoms Chart: