will lewis resigning to spend more time with the darkness

LOLnope (paging @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social)

Whatever it is I'm not following it...

The Future, when I was a kid: Going to Mars! Personal jetpacks! Robot housekeepers! The Actual Future: Dismantling packaging to separate the bits that can be recycled from the bits that can't be recycled.

I am surprised and delighted to report that it is not actually raining in London right now

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Don't use gerunds in headlines and crossheads, for the love of God."

Buses should have windscreen wipers for the top deck so that if you're pretending to drive from the front right you can see where you're going...

the FT had by Saturday night broken two stories showing that the Mandelsons had taken over $100,000 from the world’s most famous paedophile by Monday we were all writing various stories about him leaking sensitive state secrets to Epstein they could have easily pulled this puff piece in time

I have a temporary work laptop while I wait for Lenovo to bestir itself to come and fix my work ThinkPad and it is a truly horrendous piece of shit from HP with a horrible low-res screen and a terrible keyboard

“I will not turn round and look at Schrödinger’s dish, in case the answer is disappointing. It is up to you to master the paradox and see to it that the dish is as I want it to be. Also stop photographing me and putting me on the fucking internet, bastard”

I would die for Cable Car 😻😻😻😻

Several people in the train carriage I am on agreeing loudly with the conductor's announcement that 'noone sitting near you wants to hear the YouTube tutorial you are watching, so wear earphones please'

I did this arriving at Milan Linate on Christmas Eve and while I managed to register, the bloody gates didn't work properly and about half of us had to then queue up to get our passports stamped at one of only two booths that had a human in them 🙄🙄

number go ... um, not up ...

shifted my bird-listening & detecting over to Birdnet-Go from Birdnet-Pi, for a better interface & ability to add my Unifi outdoor cameras as audio streams and it's just told me it's heard a tawny owl, which sounds kind of amazing for west London. @levparikian.bsky.social, is it likely to be right?

I am quite happy for these photos to remain unseen, at least by me, thank you.

anyway, thanks to the surfeit of news, I have had this earworm plaguing me for the past few days so I think it's only fair I inflict it on you, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvGp...

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

I mean, basically "all normal humans" are under-represented in the think-tank sector.

Great piece from Josh that sums up the taint Epstein placed on everything he touched, literally and metaphorically: "From an expression of the soul to a line on a balance sheet."

I see we are potentially memeing another indentikit middle-aged white man into the Labour leadership.

This feels like massive hyperbole. Was it deeply stupid and a huge failure of judgment to appoint Mandelson to, well, anything? Yes, thrice yes. Was it up there with the expenses scandal, or partygate, or Windrush, Owen Paterson, or Tulip Siddique's still murky source of money? I don't think so.

Space nerds (that's you, @spacekate.bsky.social) has anyone done this deep dive?

<nerdpost>Upgraded my @raspberrypi.com @flightradar24.com flight tracker from a Pi4 running off an SD card and USB DVB stick to a Pi5 with an SSD (running on an @pimoroni.com NVMe base) and the Nooelec Flycatcher hat. Here's what my antenna is seeing right now

There is something exceptionally fucked up about the owner of the biggest online book store killing the books pages on his newspaper.

Not surprised Rob sounds mighty pissed off here: this leaflet from the Greens is at best cheeky and at worst dishonest.

I would not use the concept of "calm" to describe this massive pilled-up cat staring at you.

Forbes Billionaires List, called Maslow's Hierarchy of Greeds

A treatise on the best accompaniments to haggis: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Neeps.

Loaves: the art of meditative pummeling Maslow's Hierarchy of Kneads

Everyone's Bluesky poasts, ranked: Maslow's Hierarchy of Skeets

A ranking of all the hire vehicles: Maslow's Hierarchy of Fleets

Update:

A guide to the kilts of Scotland: Maslow's Hierarchy of Pleats

A rigorous comparison of the writings of @ldfreedman.bsky.social and @samfr.bsky.social: Maslow's Hierarchy of Freeds

The Natural History Museum's complete inventory of predatory arthropods, called Maslow's Heirarchy of Centipedes

A round-up of the best Muslim family get-togethers, Maslow's Hierarchy of Eids

A shop that sells just the right kind of power cable, called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Leads

A new guide to horseracing, called Maslow's Hierarchy of Steeds

A list of the finest honey-based drinks, called Maslow's Hierarchy of Meads

A guidebook to the best small places to stay in France, called Maslow's Hierarchy of Gites

Increasingly feel like I never want to Epstein, Mountbatten-Windsor, Ferguson or Mandelson faces ever again, so RTing this splendid mog to leaven the parade of photos of them

Time we stripped the Prince of Darkness of his royal title. He should simply be Peter Mandelson-Darkness from now on.

Big thanks to Caleb @gurgleapps.bsky.social for going above and beyond on customer support when my lovely little rainbow clock was playing sillybuggers. gurgleapps.com/shop/product...

God, the torrent of sleaze around Mountbatten-Windsor and Mandelson feels never-ending.

I see @radiotimes.bsky.social has a) overhauled its website and picked a font that doesn't seem to render properly on Windows and b) is doing the truly obnoxious "pay or be tracked" shakedown, which can absolutely fuck off until the end of time.

"America's deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." Articulate, righteous disgust here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/3f82...

my work laptop is making ... noises. 😬😬. It's either the fan or the HDD. Either way, I think I will be taking it in to Canary Wharf tomorrow ...

not the main point, but can we not use the American word "jaywalking" about UK pedestrians? It literally doesn't exist as we don't have laws against crossing on red or at points other than an actual crossing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Crypto strategy for dummies: nUmBeR gO uP! HODL! bUy! Crypto analyst, yesterday: “Their entire business strategy is to accumulate ether, and help build a narrative that ether should go higher.” Actual crypto: number go down. Oops.