The differance between the reality of the climate emergency starting to properly hit us... ... and where the debate has got to (seemingly with little referance to public opinion)... Is utterly infuriating. We've barely even tried

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

This is what a winner looks like. Bosses who micromanage are doomed to fail, but those who hire smarter people than themselves to do the work are on the way to the top. Stay out of the way and pay someone else to make you look good is excellent advice no middle manager can grasp

Many of you (complimentary)

Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..

Ahh the end of a heatwave in Bristol signalled by the smell of weed drifting in through the windows

Oh no 48/52 the doomed result

There is no such rule, unwritten or otherwise. This is constitutionally and historically illiterate.

this is incredible

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Essential public service for fellow Londoners 🪭🧊🍦

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Looks like there's a storm coming!

i think, if I tried to boil it down to a sentence, it'd be: "All politicians are hated by their opponents - but Starmer went out of his way to be hated by his supporters too."

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

We live in the worst possible age where obvious serial offenders get millions in slush money & get to trample on rules of society & where bland people like Starmer somehow end up the villain of the piece.

As a writer I can only aspire to create a single sentence this dense with implied horror

Hormones will have u crying hysterically Somberly eating a bunch of bread And then laughing 15 minutes at a stupid picture like this

Russia exists to keep the Finns and Ghurkas from meeting, falling in love, and raising the most cherublcally murderous folk the world has ever seen. Change my mind.

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

I appreciate how people are conducting themselves here

While the football is kicked I have noticed that Kinshasa is extremely close to Brazzaville - in fact they’re the closest two national capitals in the world - but I noticed on a map that there is no bridge between them over the Congo River. Why? WELL it turns out that [v complex political reasons]

It is now illegal to post this image with the caption “become ungovernable.”

Once more for the slow learners: alt text improves posts for everybody

Three Lions (1996) is now as old as England winning the World Cup (1966) was when Three Lions came out.

I had no idea men played soccer, too! Good for them! Go boy soccer!! ⚽️

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

I was at a staff meeting on my first day of a new job. Looking around, a lot of people in their 40s, 50s, 60s. Four people in their 20s, maybe early 30s, walk in together. I think “Oh, there’s some people my age.” I was 54 years old.

I did make it to the nursery where I met this guy, whose hobby is starting fights with dogs

Just in general?

It's just intrinsically funny to be doing this from an OpEd in the Telegraph - like the question is answered by the mode of its being posed, and answered in a way that negates the need to ask the question in the first place!

Are they "just asking questions?" Are they "just using headlines to grab people?" Or is a predominantly white and privately educated sector getting ever more right wing to the extent where they're spreading fascist conspiracy theories through their articles?

My policy pitch: give everyone in their twenties an affordable place to rent, and bring alcohol prices back down to Nineties levels, and reopen all the pubs and bars and clubs that have shut, and I *guarantee* you the shagging will pick up

How can publications run articles like "Gen Z aren't shagging cos they're deeply boring" alongside ones explaining "Gen Z are living with their parents cos they can't afford to rent" and not connect the dots? How many randoms would YOU bring back to your parents' place and bonk next to their room!

Please, please start putting iced buns on lampposts

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Don’t leave drawers open, you get drawer goblins

I don't, but if you are that worried about "getting caught" maybe don't tell the Times?

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

@tripeuk.bsky.social I was reminder of you when listening to this today www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

I’m still amazed this obvious piece of cheating wasn’t discovered.

*rolling my bouncy guillotine up the bouncy castle as the children run screaming*

The most British thing about this scandal is the tone of "I can forgive the embezzlement but I draw the line at poor taste" and not only am I here for it but I've rarely felt more patriotic

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

first wrote about this in 2022 but I maintain that though yes, sure, Britain isn't really built for heat, there's also the big problem of *British people* not being built for heat - if it gets very warm you do just have to adapt and build your life around the weather! and people here hate it!

I’ve done something terrible