"Why is the NHS so expensive?" A question I get asked more than I would like, and one that's really not as simple as some folk would have you believe. It's not foreigners though. One societal issue though that is a major cause of NHS cost: Healthy life expectancy. A short thread: 1/6

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

Any pubs showing the nuclear war tonight ? Not looking for anywhere ticketed not worth it.

Definitely coming back here when I unlock bombs.

So, are US Christians generally ok with their President ranting about sending an entire nation to hell on their most holy day? It seems like the sort of thing where you'd need to make outrageous mental contortions to justify it

the ancient curse

To those who celebrate it...

I'm not an economist. But I know that trying to subsidise demand in a supply crisis is one of the stupidest things you can do, and every major party in opposition is wanting to do it

It's annoying that for the last seven hours of the Avatar story there isn't any being an avatar. It's just a long story about how bad whaling is. #MisSold

The kids are alright, part 94. It’s us old guys that are the problem.

Just remembering how good Bowie was at losing his marker.

Every sentence brings something new to the madness. Stick it on CEEFAX.

Blimey, Al Carns really isn't very good at talking to people. On Channel 4 News he couldn't deal with pretty obvious questions. I don't think he is going to be Labour's random army man saviour

Has anyone asked Pope Leo what he thinks about Daredevil? He’s the first pope who might plausibly have Daredevil opinions

OK, time to put away a 30 year disdain for the League Cup behind me

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

Today in ‘things that are funnier than they should be…’

I nearly took another man's drone out, with my drone, on the canal at Kings Norton today. It was like the front lines in Donetsk but you had a clear view of Lifford Lane tip

Recently found out that Chris Downing aka @littlecd1975.bsky.social is here on Bsky! Here's a couple of tracks he contributed over the years to our comps/samplers D.N.P. - Thank You James (Gone in 60 Seconds - Vol. 4) iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/d-n-p-...

Hang on a second … Reach, home of the unusable websites, generic national advertorial on local news sites, omelette-brained clickbait and paywalling LDRS content, is accusing the **BBC** of making local news provision worse?! ‘kinell 🤦🏻🙄 via @pressgazette.co.uk pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...

This from @hpiandycowper.bsky.social is something I just have never been able to understand even once in my 12 years in the NHS. “Just tick that box and do lots of things and you’ll be fine.”

So, Michael B. Jordan ends up being the first of the Friday Night Lights cast to get an Oscar (I think) Surprising given it was greatest group of acting talent ever assembled

HE JUST LEARNED TO WALK AND NOW HE’S SCORING IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE

I didn't realise Alan Milburn was running the NHS, Social Care and getting young people back into work. That's a lot to be doing at 68

We could say that Trump is like a windsock. But the flip side is that this is just what "strategy making" looks like in hyperconnected AI driven contexts. Hegseth provides the targets. Trump set out the narrative(s). I wrote this. It might provoke? smallwarsjournal.com/2026/03/10/t...

I'm a big fan of most things that Baby Audio make. Grainferno is no exception. Fantastic granular fun babyaud.io/grainferno

This BBC story is framed weirdly. Oil prices fell because the markets believed, or want to believe, that Trump is bored now. Not because he made even more ridiculous threats. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some footage of seals at Sovereign Harbour in Eastbourne

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I think it's my first time I've heard Al Carns talking about policy-related stuff on Channel 4 News. I've seen his videos about Selly Oak before, and they were fine. He's massively underwhelming on actual politics, isn't he?

@sazsesos.bsky.social Have you read this? https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/yorks-cafes-inside-the-collapse-of-a-coffee-kingdom/

For me remembering that Nicolas Anelka and Thierry Henry never played in the same Arsenal team is like a Stegasaurus never meeting a T Rex

Maybe people like the idea of voting for other people who just seem nice

Writing on a padded envelope. That's an under rated skill

so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

Amusing when you realise that sorting out our run down high streets and 15 minute cities are basically the same thing.

The ref cam does not a flatter a referee with an above average snozzer

If you make a TV programme that describes your characters as a "gang"* then you should be tried at the Hague Exceptions for Always Sunny, Press Gang, The Red Hand Gang, The Wire etc. Mainly just Shrinking. That's not a gang it's adults who work together and live near each other. It's not kooky

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Registering deaths seems to be oddly preoccupied with what people did for a living

As it is Ash Wednesday today, this might come in handy moselele.co.uk/individual_s...

Back home in Birmingham, and the end of a pretty horrible chapter for us. Dad finally passed away after a horrible three and a half years (probably more) living with Lewy Body Dementia. Which is obviously a deeply sad family moment but also signals the end of my relationship with Eastbourne

It was sunny yesterday. We went to see the business end of the River Cuckmere youtu.be/3S9jWmEZcRU?...

This is insane. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Thoughts in Brief: - Even if AI can do a job, humans may still be able to provide a premium service. - Modern depictions of the Victorian era. - How lack of trust leads to fettered discretion. www.edrith.co.uk/p/thoughts-i...

I'm going to guess that if migration becomes a net negative this year and we still have people seeking asylum after arriving on small boats, then people still won't be happy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

i often think about this review

My valentines gift to y'all. #mixtape #valentinesgift #gothicana www.mixcloud.com/bert-p/inten...

Given the date you might need this today moselele.co.uk/individual_s...

Huge,if true