Amol Rajan updating his CV

BBC DIrector General and News CEO gone: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Breaking news (apparently)

This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?

When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.

When Rory Stewart isn't talking, Rory Stewart powers down

Roblox

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Oobah Butler's got a new documentary on Channel 4, and within the first 10 minutes he's inspired by Steven Bartlett to hustle and so starts a child sweatshop, lovely work no notes

Some light reading in this coffee shop

Updating my Goodreads every Monday evening to mark my progress on Paradise Lost

This is a story about cliches. But it's also, a story about more than just cliches. It's about introductions to multi-part. narrative documentaries. It's about how we all understand things start. And it's also about what it means to be human, probably.

In fairness, "Have I Got News For You" can actually be read as a question, and it just turns out the answer is "no, no I don't have news for you"

I still think about this Onion headline *at least* 10-15 times a week

I'm going to start a Facebook page with fake screencaps of unsolvable The 1% Club style questions, and it's going to become the most commented on page in the country

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Incredible NFL coverage on Channel 5. They heard your feedback about not liking the weird game show things so decided fuck it what if it was worse and we couldn't keep the live feed from the States stable at all

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

I went outside for a lovely walk this afternoon and I come back on line to read a) Virtual Boy Is Back and b) Notices Bulge was on a casing and I'll be honest parsing reality is a bit of a struggle

V&A East Storehouse is a pretty cool spin on museum stuff - you've got to be ready for it to be a bit of a grab bag of items without themes, sections etc, but if you want a wander and an 'oooh', fantastic

Only Connect mentioning NYT Connections was exactly what I was hoping for

The BBC News obsession with a live blog hits new heights as from the title I presume this blog is going to be running long non-stop for the next 3 months

Started the fans, please and thank you.

In a shared office for the week and genuinely just heard and is an accurate description of what happened is "Santa's here, he's delivered the tiramisu"

I don't want to say Manchester is a parody of itself but it's raining inside the station

You may not like it but this is what peak posting performance looks like

Well this is mad and fun

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Day 2 of the Big Swedish Church Move and the SVT live stream is interviewing the team in the catering tent about how many cups of coffee they'll make. Continues to be must-watch TV. www.svtplay.se/video/KMyy33...

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

Entirely baseless assumptions I have made up #73: Søstrene Grene shops are actually just a front for a cult.

I’m doing a printed mag of type-in web pages (like ‘80s computer mags did with BASIC programs) and it just occurred to me that one of them could be an image Any illustrators fancy the challenge of making an image that’s (a) a fun surprise when you see it, & (b) a very small SVG file when exported..?

you're telling me all along thames water could have just cleared their spam folder

My favourite thing in Brighton? Beach goths.

I sent this briefing pack from @transsolidarity.bsky.social to my MP in my last letter, I recommend looking at this to help draft your letter www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

There's a slightly backwards ad campaign for WhatsApp in the big weird screen thing at Tottenham Court Road So WhatsApp can't see your messages, they're all private, right, that's the message So message WhatsApp and we'll show it to the passing public of London on a big screen

Naked Gun is incredible. There's one sequence in particular which I absolutely cried laughing at. Big recommend. ❄️

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I presume they mean "Telegram", but...

Lovely day to go for a walk and see some sights across London

BBC Two currently showing Live Aid on a 40 year delay in order to meet Lisa Nandy's new demands for all music performances to be vetted before broadcast

3 tickets off a major milestone for us volunteer organisers! Tell your lovely developer and designer friends, we'd love to see you at Front End North 🙌 £75 - 8 talks - video game social - Sheffield - tomorrow! frontendnorth.com

An unexpectedly bold phone-in topic on Irish TV there

Met a new neighbour. Forgot to ask their name. Did ask for their dog's name. Going well.

I have had my mobile for almost five years and I have just this morning learnt the ringtone I have set is the same as my alarm. It's the first time I've heard it be called.

Hardcore gigs are always the most entertaining.

Pokemon - Season 1 Episode 56 - The Ultimate Test Frame 577/1753 Caption: Identify this Pokémon. Timestamp: 00:08:13.81

I keep getting YouTube ads for the Ninja Creami, which starts with someone freezing a quite yellow looking liquid Yes I have spent at least a month now singing songs like "freeze all your piss, would you like to freeze your piss" to the music in the ad

When I've done training and cover push notifications, my main advice is to treat them as interruptions. If you're sending one, you're interrupting someone's day and what they're doing. So if you're going to, make it absolutely worth it.