He typed better when high.

Not by accident, but these people are imagining flags in increasingly peculiar places.

Might have been checking out the sleeper train timetable earlier...

And now for the dodgy governance bit. All combined authorities need an equivalent of the London Assembly. There is a huge democratic deficit in the way they are set up.

I was following one proposed data centre near the M25 and now the news algorithm gives me every proposed data centre near the M25. And there are a lot of them.

⚡📮Nice work @royal-mail.bsky.social, who have just announced the launch of a new fleet of over 100 micro electric vehicles, replacing 52 vans. Better for the climate and for deliveries. This is exactly the kind of move we need to see for cities free of diesel vans! #ElectrifyLondon

UK government publishes "AI Growth Zones" strategy - essentially places where they'll make it easy for data centres to connect to the electrical grid, plus other perks. 3,000-ish words, no mention of "green", "net zero", "climate". One reference to "clean energy". www.gov.uk/government/p...

Funeral procession goes past. The Thorn Birds music plays in my head.

A plain A4 placard in our archive reads: Nothing about us without us. Five simple words, one powerful idea behind decades of Disabled rights activism. And that reminds decision-makers today that real change must be led by us. Learn more about our history: https://bit.ly/4h8NHOe #ThrowbackThursday

A look around Kidbrooke as 6,500 new homes being built (or already built) Southeastern Metro as poor as ever. No staff seen. Ticket office closed. Then station shut entirely. Still managed as though its the 1990s rather than site of 6.5k new homes www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/11/13/b...

Problem for replacement is metro mayors do not align to police boundaries, but there are various ways you could deal with that...

I thought we'd debunked "frontline" wrt services.

Playing over and over in my head. "Marge, I would appreciate it if you didn't tell anybody about my busy hands. Not so much for myself, but I am so respected it would damage the town to hear it." Little will come of this because it implicates too many of the powerful.

Never noticed this until I wanted to use the branch on a Tuesday. I guess this little known backwater can't support a bank branch five days a week. www.se1.news/lloyds-bank-...

Never met a night club promoter.

I'm doing some walking tours of Seven Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Saturday Nov 15. Come for coffee, cheese, & overpriced street food, stay for overexcited historian, whistle stop tour of the Dials, & sideways look at 1920s and 1930s London. www.stanfords.co.uk/event-songs-...

If discovery of a load of written evidence changed anything they'd all already be locked up.

Yes but they have some really great bits of legislation. 🫠 Come on now Timmy, eat up your legislation, don't let it get cold.

Lucky for the BBC he got distracted by killing off the country.

"Some areas could see a month's worth of rain in 24 hours"

Much decentralised.

More things I want to see. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/...

If we abolished them we wouldn't have to worry about this sort of thing.

Dad went in for an outpatient kidney stone procedure. The machine broke down so they sent him home. Now he has received a letter with a new appointment for the same procedure but with an overnight stay. Sections of the letter have wavy lines though them. Hopeless.

Left the room before Streeting spoke on ITV to preserve what is left of my mental health on this day.

I don't think the technology is the story (it is probably a spreadsheet or maybe several spreadsheets). It is the mindless politicians and gormless press who think it is useful to describe things as "AI" without any elaboration. They don't sound clever, they erode respect.

ofcom is absolutely useless at doing any regulating, but firing up some AI garbage to make your life worse? aye, it can do that

Calling for people to defend institutions that have contributed to your marginalisation. Your privilege is showing.

The one holding the dagger rarely succeeds. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

We need to build a second internet.

Algorithms are "AI" now. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The regulator, rather than the government. This sounds like terrible overreach.

I passed a hotel that, before the current madness, used to fly a national flag on a flag pole in a vaguely normal way. Clearly that's no longer adequately patriotic and it is currently flying some kind of soldier/poppy/battlefield flag.

Looks like the refurb of Fenchurch Street has now been abandoned and they are trying to let one of the retail units that was due to be demolished. www.lsh.co.uk/find/propert...

This is all extremely shady, but also: the former *governance lead* at OpenAI? The company that consistently utterly fails with any kind of governance framework? On top of any other horrible corruption going on, Leung is clearly utterly incompetent.

She really is struggling to find something to leave her stain on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The biggest change in that area in my lifetime is more middle class white people. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

This is a hundred ancient woodlands all over again.

And yet the world has continued to spin without it. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

When my bank forces me to read a statement online, that's when I learn the current location of my branch.

Good to see it being called out for what it is at least.

Accidentally deleted all my repeating tasks and was delighted to find someone created an application to restore them, called GTasksToolkit.

Oh dear.

People say this website doesn't do comedy.

Oh god not this. She was murdered for being trans. This mobile phone campaign doesn't sound like a healthy activity for anyone.

The fools! They'd be so much happier now if they had just talked endlessly about battery trains and hydrogen.

I do hope he isn't talking about Gelupo.

A warning for organisations who think they can remain indifferent. You can't. You either pick a side or one will be picked for you.

This is the Crazy Town section of Hell.

The worst part is learning who Robbie Gibb is. Possibly re-learning. Ageing has gifted me with the wonderful ability to completely forget that people existed and I'm at peace with that.