every christmas they play that song on the radio and you wonder: why does new york even have a pedo choir?

Continuing the habit of lifting the lid of my skull and seeing what the squirrels running around in there have on their minds. #UnorderedNote #Weeknote ames.world/en/posts/uno...

Morning!

If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.

Just found a double decker in my coat pocket! Today is going to be a good day!

Buckle up friend it’s time for bread made out of crisps 🍞 🥔 Full disclosure it was not a flawless first attempt. The aim was to make a loaf of bread where the majority ingredient is crisps. 1. Buy 450g of crisps, without shame

First mince pie of the season lads!

P-p-p-poper face, p-p-poper face

No.447 is a bit of a DM special --> newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...

End of the week, downloaded my brain into markdown: ames.world/en/posts/uno...

If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

This is the 446th edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs - newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-... I'm going to try and do a DM 'special' at the weekend so please let me know of any agile delivery vacancies you see out there.

During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”

Not really in a spot where I can #WeekNote openly at the moment (and haven't been for some time), so I'm trying something different, not talking about specifics but more the abstract problems looping through my head each week an #UnorderedNote if you will. ames.world/en/posts/uno...

... "Twenty years is not a probation period, it is a lifetime." ...

Good lord people… “Product-led” was never meant to mean “Product manager-led” 🤦🏼‍♀️

Hey, hive mind! I’m looking for a new rucksack (big enough for laptop, water bottle, cables) that can also be clipped onto a pannier rack, that *isn’t hideous*. Please send me your recommendations…

Every ad now

🗣️“Cutting support does not lead to people getting work. Those of us pushed into work by cuts will end up in precarious jobs, we will be there for a few months before the work has made us even sicker.” DR UK campaign Mikey quoted in @theipaper.com today 👇 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Was any of last nights briefing from Number 10 done with the public in mind? Hard to think of a more perfect example of why so many people are now thinking, whatever the risks we may as well roll the dice on Reform/the Greens/someone else because it’s perma chaos as it is.

I was today years old when I learned Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden was on the Sooty show! 😍 youtu.be/j4RULCFhh2Y?...

Today's attire: -Stripey t shirt -Black shorts -Boots Oh shit I'm Pugsley Addams!

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

Floella Benjamin for DG.

On this day 1989: The Berlin Wall falls as thousands of Germans unify in a desperate attempt to flee the singing of David Hasselhoff.

Current mood

This is quite the graph and reinforces my view that Bluesky is actually quite revolutionary.

I have an idea!

Friday

There are no words for how evil this is

Hello what no sorry I can’t hear you I’m saving up to buy this now and everything else is a footnote. £349 is a perfectly reasonable price to spend on an ornament what no sorry can’t hear you.

Joe's going to go full Mad Max

Someone gif that Nick ‘oh fuck’ please. #CelebrityTraitors

How HOW did Alan win? Astonishing, fair play

Come on Claude hold it together

Absolutely fucking terrible Faithfuls, my God #CelebrityTraitors

NICK!

UK address data is expensive, hard to access and hard to correct. This holds back businesses and organisations that rely on address data. One tiny act of rebellion: Go add the addresses near you to OpenStreetMap using MapComplete. The more of us who do it, the more useful it becomes. 🙌 #OpenData

The Motability scheme is not “low-hanging fruit” for public service cuts The Motability scheme is a lifeline for some disabled people like me but I hope you never need it @westenglandbylines.co.uk @lizziejones.bsky.social westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/equ...

DX's latest study into AI-assisted coding says the same as DORA's recent report - AI won’t save you from your (broken) engineering culture. But it goes further: the biggest gains come from better ways of working, not AI. Wrote up my analysis here 👇

Filming people without their consent to shame them on your socials is absolutely weapons-grade arsehole behaviour. Even if you don't show their faces. It makes the world that bit worse and compounds the arseholery that you're shaming.

Inspired by The Jase's video, I realised that the Mr Blobby song also works quite well with the John Lewis advert. But then it took a dark turn...

Picturing a big chart in the headquarters of Saatchi and Saatchi "90s club banger" on one axis and "suitable for Christmas ad" on the other

Yeah, no, I'm sold. The John Lewis ad would have been improved by committing to the bit and having the record be Ebeneezer Goode by the Shamen.

In case anyone complains, it's a bag of ibuprofen which is what all men of that age want

God bless pragmatic civil servants who get stuff done. After a lot of blockers it is always a welcome change.

as far as i can tell this is what new york is facing right now and im wishing you all the best