As Attlee said to Harold Laski, "a period of silence from you would now be welcome". www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

I see we have just about pulled it off #TheFootball

I am not watching #TheFootball but my neighbours are screaming - is this good or bad?

Compilation edition to song 2

At the start of June, I interviewed my cat Luna 🐈‍⬛ about the 100km in 30 days challenge for Marie Keating Foundation. One month later, our team has travelled 3,085km, while Luna took a more relaxed approach. Support us (and Luna) by donating here: fundraise.mariekeating.ie/fundraisers/... #SpeirGorm

*Teresa May has entered the chat* An election would be fucking madness at the moment. Plus whoever is the leader, we elected the party, not the individual. The party has the mandate.

It's a parasol. You've found people using parasols. For goodness sake. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

My afternoon is going to be editing this piece and trying to stop Daphne from dribbling on the trackpad.

My hydrangeas are spectacular this year 😍

Everyone is rightly focused on his "low wage foreigners" comment but I'm infuriated by the "we're going to restore dignity to the working class by bringing back manufacturing." NO YOU WON'T. MASS HIGH WAGE FACTORY EMPLOYMENT FOR NON-COLLEGE EDUCATED WORKERS IS NOT COMING BACK. YOU KNOW THIS.

it's only 55 minutes long, she doesn't appear in the first half - wtf?? Absolutely taking the piss.

This is an absolute shambles. It was bad enough at Christmas, when I nearly missed a flight home from Milan because the booths were crap and there were only two humans stamping passports out. It's going to be carnage over the summer holidays. www.ft.com/content/54ad...

Meanwhile, happy 39th wedding anniversary to Scott and Charlene

I didn't know about this feature in Chrome, a pity Firefox doesn't have similar BUT prepending "qr" to a URL in the DuckDuckGo search box will generate a QR code for you as well.

You can also create a QR code natively in most browsers. Here's how to do it in Chrome

"Volunteer role" 😑

Well, this is shit. It's ridiculous that the two councils had been lumbered with this - it's not just a local issue. At the least, TfL/the GLA should be involved in sorting and funding this: it's caused traffic havoc, and other bridges are also closed to traffic so it's a growing London-wide problem

THIRTY NINE YEARS AGO???

Ok, who broke the Piccadilly line?

At this rate there aren't going to be any bridges open across the river. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

Have Americans considered, rather than court-packing to outnumber the court-packing the other guys did, simply not having politically appointed judges and instead having an independent judiciary? Radical, I know.

I see Putin's useful idiots in Stop The War are being useful idiots again.

it's not a "basic literacy failure": this sign is absolutely clear and so it fulfils its function. Apostrophes are tricky; it's not the end of the world if it gets left off like this.

Must we turn the brutal, squalid death of a young woman at the hands of a sleazy, violent man into C O N T E N T?

Surely centrism by its very nature cannot be "extreme"? 🤷‍♀️

I am, to say the least, Burnham-sceptic, and this kind of rhetoric sets him up for failure. I don't think any political leader - with the exception poss of Obama and Thatcher - have really delivered the change they've spoken of in campaigning. Anyone else just sounds arrogant/delusional/populist

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron over high memory prices. The lawsuit argues that the companies must be colluding to restrict supply as none has ramped up production. Someone should explain you don’t build factories overnight especially when it’s a bubble

So the Tory candidate for GM mayor is apparently Phil Eckersley (my former councillor). Can I suggest to any journalists who follow me, that you trawl though his social media output (especially X) because there have been some quite eye-opening things on there over recent years.

Bad Cat just casually sitting in the garden like he owns it 😬

for my money this is the absolute pinnacle of bluesky scolding:

Huh. I'm not a "garage tinkerer" because I don't have those skills, but my day job involves seeing what is and isn't working in enterprise bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass

Pretty sure this show, which is brilliant, btw, is not "the future of entertainment". It's one very clever and engaging show, but it's also wildly expensive to create and relies on the band in question being utterly iconic. There are very few bands that could replicate this. The Stones, maybe.

The Guardian has been doing some fantastic reporting on the appalling "free birth" stuff

IMO medically unqualified 'birthkeepers/doulas' who make home birth decisions, or claim skills - subject to police & coronial findings - should be charged with fraud or manslaughter. 'Free birth' creates childless mothers & motherless babies. It's a scam and a trauma factory run by deluded grifters.

Good morning Callisto

if this is your response to people not being best pleased that Burnham didn't take any questions today, you then don't get to complain about a politician you don't like failing to answer questions. It's bad whichever politician does this.

Starlings are basically fractious toddlers who've had too many e-numbers and need a time-out

I'm broadly fine with these delivery robots so long as they're not a PITA on the pavements, and mostly I'm wondering how they're going to cope with my basement steps www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

And you feel the need to display this above the cakes because?

Hello, Bad Cat. It's a good job Daphne is asleep and hasn't noticed you in her garden.

you could argue that the Milibands are a kind of proto William and Harry: one brother is a leader-in-waiting, sticking out the eternally long lives of a couple of prior incumbents, while the other one flounces off abroad.

oh nooooooo news.sky.com/story/dame-p...

I know most of you are young and groovy and watch streaming stuff, but some of us still quite like a bit of linear telly, so I am here to 🙄at the schedules for the next couple of weeks which are all either Wimbledon or the football. Guess I'll be dusting off my streaming subscriptions.

I guess I've already had my say on the whole AC discourse. The way I see it, if it's acceptable for poors to have heating in winter, then it's ok for poors to have cooling in summer. The key bit that seems often ignored is that AC *can and should* run off solar/renewables.

I do pretty ruthless clearouts regularly, so most of my clothes are reasonably new but I have a rather nice collection of vintage dresses that I've bought over the past 20 years or so, and I'm pretty sure most, if not all of them, are older than me. I wear them, too.

Shitwits: wHy dOeSn'T tHe mEdiA hOlD pOliTiCiaNs tO aCcOuNt mOrE? Also shitwits:

I increasingly really dislike Burnham.

This is almost as shit as a Banksy and I'm starting to wonder if it might in fact be a Banksy

Marching into a small industrial unit in Crawley and demanding the employees (all six of them) turn over their produce to the state