Afternoon!

Reggie has eaten all of the expensive cat dental snacks 😑😑😑😑😑

Suede’s best lineup: Brett Anderson (vocals), Bernard Butler (guitar), Mat Osman (bass), Simon Gilbert (drums), Stephen Fry (euphonium), Ian McKellen (kazoo), Pam St Clement (vibes).

Asking Awkward Questions As A Service is back for IWD. If you'd like me to ask an awkward question of your employer (or former employer) this weekend, nominate them here 👇 iwd.momentusco.org

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Not gonna lie, I dance like Andrew Tate 😬😬😬😬😬

I. Fucking. Hate. Teams.

BBC Four is repeating This Life to coincide with its 30th anniversary, beginning with a double bill on Wed 18 March with a new filmed intro from Daniela Nardini. #ThisLife

Me: A person that likes to think I make rational decisions. Me in Lidl: I definitely need an industrial paint stirrer

*bursts in, sweating, out of breath* “Drop everything, fish doorbell’s back” visdeurbel.nl/en/

📢Launched today at the Economist Impact's #WorldOceanSummit 🌊 Scientists are creating comprehensive maps of #VulnerableMarineEcosystems ( #VMEs ) across the #AtlanticOcean - using #AI to unlock decades of unexplored #DeepSea imagery: 🔗 pml.ac.uk/news/deep-vi...

‘Making’ chess pieces from Lego. Wow ! Source / Creator: Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee, in collaboration with LEGO

"Why are you crying? It's just a kids movie." The movie:

Look upon my works ye mighty and despair!

Two Englishman are in a restaurant in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. One says to the waitress “can you very slowly tell me the name of the place we’re in?” to which the waitress replies “ BUUUURRRRGGGGERRRR KIIIINNNNGGGG”.

We've hit FORTY-THOUSAND entries on openbenches.org 🥰 All contributed by people like you. Thank you to all our wonderful supporters, brilliant photographers, and open source coders.

In a garden centre and they're playing the eels 😵‍💫

okay, here it is, the five key takeaways from this by-election: 1. Denton Kebab House 2. The Crispy Cod, Denton 3. Reddish Tandoori, Gorton 4. Cottage Chippy, Gorton 5. The Continental Takeaway, Denton

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

All plans to be productive this morning are scuppered

Labour should have focused the campaign more on what voters really care about: the licensing terms of critical national geospatial datasets.

James Cameron Reveals Next ‘Avatar’ Movie Will Focus On Vast Menagerie Of Sodas Available On Pandora https://theonion.com/james-cameron-reveals-next-avatar-movie-will-focus-on-vast-menagerie-of-sodas-available-on-pandora/

Obligatory Dawlish shot

This might be the most sensible thing I've read in months.

I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.

🚨 Calling UK tech startups !!! Especially if based by the coast 🏖️🌊 Niche request, but I'd like to speak to digital nomads who have set up or moved their businesses to a seaside town/rural area in the last few years If that's you/someone you know, please get in touch in the comments or via DM

In September, I was asked to give some thoughts about the NHS 10-year plan based on some of the principles in Platformland. Here are the slides and speaker notes: www.rpp.works/ways-of-d…

Good day for you if you want to read brilliant things about how transformation and the NHS as I think you'll agree @jamestplunkett.bsky.social has done a superb job in pulling together this reflection to complement Richard earlier today.

Evening!

As a society, we need to move beyond films that are 2 hours 40 minutes long

The City of Sunderland is being transformed by investment in arts, culture and creative industries. You could weep @paulcallaghan.bsky.social?

I love them

Fair play to the green army, I'm about 2.5 miles away from the stadium and just heard that goal celebration. #PAFC

Anyone know how many people in the UK use a wheelchair? Had a quick search and no clear answer came to hand #UK #disability #wheelchair

Tuesday.

Pancake on the streets of London. Pancake on the streets of Birmingham.

P-p-p-p-p-pancake day! youtu.be/gj_aHCpZl4k?...

3rd annual Agile in the Ether, In Real Life meetup was this month! As always, I left with piles of things I want to look into further. neil-vass.com/a-list-of-li...

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Livin in a box #Caturday

O Brien’s Third Law of Data was written on a whiteboard in a meeting room in a phone company 25 years ago: If you automate a badly designed or understood process running on badly understood data the process will create bad shit faster than you can keep up. (And that’s bad)

I sometimes think climate action would get better support in the UK if we renamed the phenomenon Global Raining.

Happy strange ball of fire in the sky day to all who celebrate!

Obi Wan Kenobi was a total snob. Mos Eisley wasn't a "hive of scum and villainy", it was just a working class stopover. Even had a decent band on.

This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.