France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

Energy companies in this country really are a stain on our society. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Top news story on the BBC… “There is currently no news or story about the thing we want to keep as our top news story”

Feeling rather out of patience and out of compassion today. A lot of us have had a lot of shit in life, we didn’t all vote for the far right. What the fuck are people doing

Turkeys voting for Christmas.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

It's happening! 📢 On Tuesday, MPs will consider an amendment to enable local leaders to ban pavement parking in their area. We need you to help us get this amendment on to the Bill. Ask your MP to agree to Amendment 265 when it's considered on Tuesday: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4tMU2Uq

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

Samuel Beckett waited outside Lidl to do the same but his supplier never turned up

My painting SEA PINKS

Israeli police shoot a five year old child dead and their seven year old brother, and their parents. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Listening to Radio 4 Today programme is a rollercoaster. Jeremy Bowen delivers a moving, insightful and brilliant report on the Middle East that makes you proud of the BBC. Immediately followed by a reliably incoherent and amateurish interview from Emma Barnett.

Walking to work this morning a car drove past with Adele's 'Someone Like You' playing. It reminded me just how exquisite a piece of songwriting it is.

Last night, I got properly "doored" for the first time. A car in the road to my right paused, and the rear left passenger threw open his door without looking, right into my path. I ended up on the floor, badly winded but ok. If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.

Thinking about how slow some people (who would love it) have been to get on Bluesky, and it occurred to me Twitter was 5 years in before it really took on household-name status. I've persuaded two people to join today. I challenge you to do the same. (No dicks.)

Sure is a good time to be a piece of human garbage who is dumb as a piss-drinking dog

Just found the video of my first paid acting job. youtu.be/1tV0QarGvNU

Wow… xkcd.com/3172/

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deleting my Deliveroo account once and for all.

If every arts org must pass a self imposed moral purity test for sponsorship, most won't survive long enough to be patted on the back for it. theartofaleader.substack.com/p/the-parts-...

Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Attention is a luxury good. feeds.feedblitz.com/~/926434598/...

Grown Man Licking Ice Cream Cone Placed On Sex Offender Registry https://theonion.com/grown-man-licking-ice-cream-cone-placed-on-sex-offender-registry/

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

Not an ad for a course btw… gregmorris.co.uk/buy-my-course/

Had insomnia Tuesday night and only managed a few hours sleep. Pushed through yesterday, fell asleep quickly, and was then woken at 3am by neighbour's car alarm which went off for an hour. After that, couldn't drop back off. Today I'm at work but barely functioning.

People seem to spend longer on the toilet if they use a smartphone while sitting there – and all that scrolling may be boosting their likelihood of getting haemorrhoids

St. George was Palestinian. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (And an immigrant) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A truly great ‘Today I learned…’ to send you to bed x

An exhausting thing about this alt right stuff is how insincere it all is. These people aren’t ideologues. They’re morons. They’re internet trolls. They call for things they know will stir outrage - for fun. We give them too much credit. And it has warped our sense of humanity.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Ozzy Osbourne at the dentist. youtu.be/bQjmVvP7LFM

Fantastic series Love Adam Curtis’ work. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Tig Notaro is very good youtu.be/9kxO2Xes31A

All of this.

Whoever put the b in to subtle really knew what they were doing

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Trek," "Star Wars," "Dr Who," or "Transformers."

Saw this image on an article about the 7/7 anniversary, which I think neatly sums it up - even 20 years ago news was still travelling so slowly compared with now.

“One in 10 men and boys and one in four women and girls with ADHD will at some point try to take their own life”. Meanwhile, it’s now impossible for over-25s to get an ADHD assessment on the NHS in some areas www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It appears people are reading the Mediacore manifesto again: betarish.medium.com/mediacore-an...

A small earthquake in Germany, six years ago, proved to be the spontaneous detonation of a #WW2 bomb. (Apparently happens once a year.)

Beautiful