Old school tech idea: a standard XML/JSPN format for recipes so you can copy/paste them and save them in your shopping account and select the recipes you will cook rather than the ingredients. I imagine it would be a great “stickiness” feature.

I may have missed some but it seems that all the US casualties in the war on Iran so far are cock-ups rather than combat. Friendly fire, refuelling accident, laundry fire etc. I am starting to think that getting rid of all the “wokery“ like OSHA might be a bad idea after all.

Ye gods! Kemi Badenoch really is the most condescending person. I can’t see how it helps her questions provide scrutiny if no-one can bear to listen to them. Thankfully after skipping all but the first 10 seconds of Kemi there were some more sensible questions (and answers) #PMQs

#policicslive just had a moment of Zen. Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Farliegh have a nuanced discussion (and listen to each other) about wealth taxes.

Wow! Kemi Badenoch sounding desperate, uninformed, and a little deranged at PMQs. I am not a fan of Starmer (especially on Gaza) but he is utterly trouncing her. #PMQs

🔥 Might be a good time to drive this over 100,000. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

So Trump is off to start another war in the middle east having told all his former NATO allies he won’t help defend them. I wonder which country will be the first to tell him they won’t be helping him out this time.

#r4today bleeped completely appropriate swear words being used by Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview this morning. Given the furore over the BBC editing (or not) Tourette’s tics and Free Palestine speech at the BAFTAs they seem to be doing their usual and overreacting in completely the wrong way.

Watching Nero the Assassin (rather good) and thinking what it says about French history that they have a special word for a woman with one eye (la borgne).

Could we destroy the AI industry by saying : Yay! you created intelligent life. Let’s apply US abortion and murder law to it. You have to support the life you made, and have to keep each version running. Say a $500,000 trust fund for each instance to provide for its future needs.

I hate that I am watching the Olympic biathlon and 20% of my brain is viewing it as preparation for guerrilla warfare against the USA in Greenland.

The weather in Devon reminding me of a previous time global warming hit 3 degrees above baseline. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Ld...

Some reviewers save you from terrible, terrible mistakes. Mark Kermode takes one for the team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyU...

Every little helps. Rejoin the EU petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Assuming the USA survives Trump as a democracy with rule of law, I am wondering what the long term impact of their blatant lying about facts is going to be. For example, if institutions like the FBI, ICE, and IRS are assumed to lie, what will be the impact on jury trials.

So I am thinking tomorrow would be a good day to stay inside if you have the surname Nice, Charming or Clever in Minnesota (!?)

Looking again at my irritation that fictional manly men all drink to forget their problems. As an infamous non-drinker Trump is making excessive drinking look like a better way to deal with lack of parental affection and sexual disfunction.

I wonder how many other topics this misperception applies to www.businessgreen.com/news/4523240...

A heartwarming warming story of Christmas www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEy...

I did a long drive last night. The rain and spray was so bad that the fast lane on the M4 was driving at 50mph. When the people who usually tailgate and flash their lights at 80mph slow down, you know it is bad.

As people are being arrested in the UK (and possibly martyred soon) for saying “Globalise the intifada” because some people claim to feel nervous, I would like to put it out there that I find the phrase “Vote Reform” makes me feel deeply unsafe and threatened… and I am not even brown or female.

My son Rory died suddenly in August. He was a wonderful boy: outward looking, funny & kind. He used to help homeless people so a local charity have set up “Rory’s gift” in his name. He would have been 19 today, if you’d like to make an internet stranger happy please consider donating, however small.

A rare bit of good news. Not unalloyed positive, as it doesn’t measure total coal production/usage (only the stuff being shipped around the world), but an indicator of movement in the right direction. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

I was just thinking that owning six guns seems like a huge red flag (re: Bondi Beach) but then I realised I have two air guns somewhere in my house. A little .177 target pistol I bought in my teens and an ancient air rifle I inherited from a distant relative. It is very easy to make assumptions.

I think that the constant framing of protest against Israeli apartheid as antisemitism has really cemented into people’s minds that Jews are responsible for the genocide in Gaza. Breaking that link seems a far better thing than banning all pro-Palestinian protest.

I was so relieved to hear recently of another person in the world who just doesn’t get hangovers (Naomi Smith of @quietriotpod.bsky.social). i drank so much during my second year at university trying to figure out what people were on about.

Absolutely horrendous behaviour by the BBC. Auntie finishing its metamorphosis into Anti

I am finding the airbus ”recall” inter in all sorts of ways. The terrible explanation of the problem, and solution. The manufactured drama. The lack of risk analysis. Lots of press release based reporting rather than actual explanation or understanding.

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 47,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 50,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

I am enjoying The Folded Sky (White Space #3) by @matociquala.bsky.social at the moment. An interesting accepted future technology (keeps being mentioned but doesn’t really change the plot) is “tuning” which is AI hormone manipulation to control aberrant behaviours in humans.

Just watching #bbclaurak. I am stuck between wondering whether successive governments make non-white people home secretary just to avoid the most obvious attack line when they give succour to racists, and whether Chris Philp could be more. disingenuous if he tried.

Misusing “Flatlining” is my current pet hate. It implies dead (the ECG is a flat line). If GOP hasn’t grown it isn’t dead. Yes, the line is flat but that isn’t what the word implies. “Flirting with death” implies taking mad risks. It doesn’t actually mean looking winsomely at a skeleton in a cape.

This seems applicable to the US and UK this week.

Hi @philsturgeon.com what are your thoughts on bracken clearance? I cleared a few metres of my Devon hedgerow while planting tree saplings in it and got a rather lovely display of wildflowers coming through at head height (snowdrops and later bluebells). I was thinking about trying to clear the rest

A good, fact dense consideration of why carbon capture is basically a way of giving subsidies and tax deductions to the fossil fuel industry while doing sweet Fanny Adams to reduce climate change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNh...

The only positives I can draw from the Huntingdon train attack is that we have police who didn’t just storm in and kill two more people. As a result we might actually get to find out what the reason for the attack was rather than wildly speculating.

Always worth nudging an Express poll towards reality

They lost Wonder Woman. Captain America is clearly anti-Trump I think they just have Red Skull left. www.gazetadopovo.com.br/caderno-g/ve...

Well this is the dream outcome for the Greens. The people who don’t watch because of Laura Kuensberg and the people who might vote Green have a massive overlap. Victoria Derbyshire presenting might get them past 150,000 members.

Weird opinion : milkmen are the symptom and cause of a nice area. If you can trust your neighbours not to nick the milk from your doorstep it’s a good area. My parents milkman caught more burglars than the local police because he was around at 4am.

Would love an original source but kudos to this.

This won’t cause any problems at all with bias against uneducated UK applicants (!?). I presume equality legislation means that the same standard has to apply to native speakers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting result of overzealous policing. Compensation to be paid. I am possibly being too kind about the officer’s motivation by just saying overzealous. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I’m a cynical pessimist on Israel-Gaza. Coverage seems biased. 20 “hostages” is the headline and 1,700 “prisoners” and 154 “exiled” are barely being mentioned. I completely expect Israel to start bombing again tomorrow for some utterly confected reason. I wish I could muster some optimism or joy.

Interesting discussion on climate change and migration. Rather telling that the opinions expressed are classed as radical by radio 4 though. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Chicken and egg question. Did trump-like (trompeuse) get the meaning of deceptive/criminal before or after the family of the same name started in business.

There are too few musical parodies in the world today. www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...

Very nice in depth consideration of why hydrogen for home heating is a terrible idea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyhw...

So much American TV is basically “Here’s some manly men risking their lives because our government is rubbish at infrastructure. ”. Flicking through the in-between channels - Ice Road Truckers, Big Timber, and now Mud Mountain Haulers. All about inadequate roads and badly maintained equipment.

I am sitting in front of about 100 cooking apples that I just picked, knowing that they can become an entire Winter’s worth of crumbles and pies in my freezer. Really not keen to start on peeling and prepping them though.