It’s been raining for 41 days straight and yet with the mere sight of this guy I’ve never been so dry.

TFW two people beat you into the door of the coffee shop by microseconds and proceed to order something matcha with nineteen ingredients

Starmer won a thumping majority 18 months ago. He’s the PM, not whoever’s managing Watford this year. Seven PMs in a decade is objectively ridiculous.

Love how the “caricature of me and my work” trend has turned into an informal audit of who’s ignoring their company’s ChatGPT ban.

I bought 40 tulips from my local market last weekend for €18.

This week: decisions, consequences, and the delusion that SharePoint is free. Also: making things with my hands, uncomfortable documentaries, and fully accepting my fate as an insufferable self-promoter. Weeknote: sharonodea.com/2026/02/02/w...

I’ve gone round to a mate’s to watch the Take That documentary and we’ve had to pause to scroll, agog, at the Epstein release. I miss Old Twitter on occasions like this.

Last day for #CampDigital early bird tickets. An amazing lineup, including: @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @himal.bsky.social @laurayarrow.bsky.social @dasbarrett.bsky.social @lisariemers.bsky.social and of course @sharonodea.com returns with lightning talks www.nexerdigital.com/camp-digital...

Every communicator's worst nightmare: people learn of their imminent layoffs via a draft email sent out by mistake. This, people, is why you need to do the dull governance stuff. When it works, it's invisible. When it doesn't, it's news. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Those of us who have lived in multiple somewheres are masters at making connections wherever we end up. eg By the end of week 1 in Japan I ended up at someone’s Shabbat dinner, replete with challah made in a rice cooker.

How will we defeat this international conspiracy of convenience?

I've had loads of nice feedback on the Ai expenses thing. Is there any interest in a thread/post on building your own agent, for people who can't code but hate admin as much as I do?

This week’s weeknote: AI, trust surveys, agentic systems, video scepticism, and the difference between efficiency that sounds impressive and efficiency that actually makes your life better. Relatedly, I finally did my expenses without crying. sharonodea.com/2026/01/25/w...

Stop it, Alex. They’re not going to let you see the bairns. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Carney at Davos: "And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself." Trump at Davos:

We didn't have this problem when it was still called Bejams. Just saying.

Never thought I'd be nostalgic for the days of performative gender equality chat and Will-i-am wearing a daft hat, but here we are.

Switzerland's head of state, "a woman"

Imagine having this deranged, narcissistic lunatic as your head of state. I would simply die of embarrassment.

It's five years since I quit smoking 🎉 They say you should pick a quit date and stick to it. I chose the date Trump left office, because it marked it marked the day I'd never have to hear the whiny cunt on the telly again. Had I known how it'd work out, I might not have bothered tbh.

Edelman says we trust our employers more than anything else. That’s not because work is going well. It’s because it still pays the rent. Some uncomfortable thoughts from me on trust, power, and why “dialogue” isn’t the answer - now in Strategic ⬇️ strategic.global/Employers-ar...

Good grief absolutely not

This thread is wild. I assumed fictional but there is VIDEO.

I know they share an airport, but Leeds and Bradford are still technically two different places.

I went to a talk with historian Timothy Snyder last week, in which he said that Trump doesn’t understand sovereignty as a concept, he only views things as private property. Which made his recent moves make some kind of strange sense.

This week featured people in rooms, ideas landing, and work briefly acquiring physical form. Also: Infozempic, nomad work scepticism, Ukraine as Europe’s hinge point, and the joy of discovering your collaborators aren’t an elaborate catfishing scheme. Weeknote: sharonodea.com/2026/01/18/w...

An excuse, not that one is needed, to recollect how free speech warrior Toby Young blocked me on Twitter because I called his personal ego vehicle free school a "Twat Madrassa".

Mine and @digitaljonathan.bsky.social's book has been submitted to the publisher. It's out in July but now it's on pre-order, so it's all starting to feel real now. Eek! www.koganpage.com/marketing-co...

I guess the irony is that if what it takes to ensure a peaceful transition of power and the safety of Venezuelan people is giving a big orange man-baby the toy he wants to keep him quiet for five minutes, this proves her worthy of the prize.

Jenrick to Farage

That we all lived to see this, a real headline

This is a fundamental problem for government. Crime and immigration are both falling, but people *think* they're both going up, and vote on that basis.

Just read John Harris in the Guardian on the collapse of the UK high street - and why Reform is feeding on the wreckage. It reads like a crime story. So let’s analyse it like TV detectives do: Means. Motive. Opportunity. 🧵

This week’s weeknote is about letting go. Of drafts turning into artefacts. Of things you could keep perfecting forever. Of the comforting illusion of control. sharonodea.com/2026/01/11/w...

In my former life, I wrote lengthy business cases persuading companies and gov depts that they needed to be on Twitter, and put resources behind doing it These days I can't see any justification for continuing to use that site. It's supporting THIS, but - crucially - for NO upside.

It may be too early to declare 2026 my year, but I just had every Sonos device in my home work perfectly right away, so, you know.

Delighted to see Diary of a CEO is finally getting cancelled over on TikTok.

I can’t see how any public body justifies continuing to post on X. Not only are you supporting this, you’re getting nothing in return as posts are essentially invisible, reach-wise.

I might argue that nicking food from shops when you’re broke is morally justifiable, but we don’t just get to follow laws we agree with and this is a deeply unwise precedent for a politician to set. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I got my nails done to mark ten years this week since Bowie gave us Blackstar, and then died two days later and suddenly it was a completely different album.

Over at the Bad Place, they’re trying to blame the NL New Year Fireworks shambles on immigrants. Of course they are. 🙄 (The people setting off fireworks in the street, and yeeting them under cars, in post boxes, at buildings were - as they are every year - mostly 13 year old boys)

The cognitive dissonance of the public, in a nutshell: people think the pension system is unsustainable, while at the same time complaining it’s not generous enough. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Good morning from me, a smug bastard who kicked off Christmas Day by doing a spin class. If this doesn’t get me on a hundred block lists, nothing will.

Shout out to the client - a very large company - who asked me to invoice two days ago, and has already approved for payment. The spirit of Christmas, right there.

Overslept and missed putting the bins out on the last bin day before Christmas. 😭😭😭

Well who could have predicted this? (Everyone)

Yesterday I had to leave M&S empty-handed because they didn’t have anything much in a size 8. My very first time experiencing a Thin Person Problem. And today I got IDd buying prosecco in the supermarket. Christmas has indeed come early round here. 🎄

Ok so there’s deffo something wrong with his right hand

It is December 17th and I’m aboutto start my Christmas shopping. Can any correspondent report a slower start? Anyone holding out for the 23rd?