X should be banned in the UK and/or directors held accountable for enforcing the law.

My Google Timeline Unwrapped: WALKING: 558.8km IN_PASSENGER_VEHICLE: 5721.1km IN_SUBWAY: 404.9km IN_TRAIN: 4399.3km CYCLING: 2175.7km IN_BUS: 299.5km MOTORCYCLING: 0.4km FLYING: 5597.0km IN_FERRY: 67.0km IN_TAXI: 3.9km

I was at a book signing for Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper Jones new book, "This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong" but was too shy to ask them for a selfie, so got a selfie with Foreman's parents instead.

I saw Mick Jones of The Clash chatting to two fans on a street corner. If it wasn't for my friend pointing him out, I wouldn't have recognised him, he's aged a lot since the "Should I Stay or Should I Go" video, weirdly.

Charlie Brooker once held the gate open for me as I went into a playground with my son. My son completely ignored his despite my suggestion "go and play with that boy over there, his dad is really cool!"

I took a call from Norman Lovett (Holly from Red Dwarf) on a tech support line. He didn't understand my answer and called back in the hope of speaking to someone else, but got back to me (there were only about 12 of us working the shift)

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On my Fairphone 5, every time I switch away from an app for more than a minute, it seems to just lose the current state of the app so I need to restart whatever I'm doing. It makes the phone almost unusable. Am I the only person this is happening to?

It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too. Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.

Santa can keep the toys… What we really want for Christmas: people before algorithms.

Many of us would, I’m sure, like to think we’d be brave (and smart) enough to do something like this in an absolutely terrifying moment like that. But I can only imagine the mental and physical effects you have to overcome Intense respect for this man, Ahmed Al Ahmed. An honest to goodness hero.

Unsurprised to discover that targeted homophobia by a UK citizen against another UK citizen doesn't breach Facebook's community standards. 🙄

Have Google removed the option to sort Google Photos by size, helping to free up space? "Don't be evil" is a very long time ago, isn't it?

These are the two nearest Lime bikes to me, a five minute walk from home. Neither is ridable, one has a completely flat tyre, the other has no chain. Lime know this because I tried renting both and ended both rentals immediately with a fault report. But screenshots were taken after the report.

This is a brilliant book full of surprising and amusing stories of how the borders we take for granted ended up where they are. I feel like I understand the world a bit better having read it!

I hate riding on the pavement. When I'm riding southbound across Kew Bridge, I stay in the carriageway because there is enough space (though I imagine it annoys some drivers).

In case anyone is thinking of switching to the Three mobile phone network, it's one of those networks that when you call customer services, ensures that you can never speak to a human being. Steer clear!

True, but the point here is that scrapping floating bus stops doesn't address the issue that Zebra Crossings across roads are the same danger, yet my campaign to replace all Zebra Crossings with instant response pelican crossings is getting no traction from the anti-bus stop bypass crowd.

"Floating bus stops need to be banned because cyclists don't stop at crossings"

A really thought provoking article about river catchments and one of the reasons our rivers end up so polluted: actforealing.org/2025/10/28/u...

I've had to complain to Lime for the second time about an unhandled path in their rental terms. Ealing now has designated parking rules.

This is why the police need to arrest tweeters, because Elon Musk will do fuck all to take down incitement to violence.

I saw Nish Kumar interviewing Jimmy Wales yesterday at the Royal Geographic Society. Wales was asked for his favourite Wikipedia page and offered this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...

I saw Nish Kumar interviewing Jimmy Wales yesterday at the Royal Geographic Society. Wales was asked for his favourite Wikipedia page and offered this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheren...

🤦‍♂️ Slow handclap, SNCF.

I've made the mistake of offering to help an elderly neighbour get her SkyTV working. It's reached the point where we've twice needed to reset her Sky Q mini box, so I believe the system is malfunctioning. Does anyone know how to speak to a human being at Sky?

Tomorrow is voting day in Switzerland, with proposals on the ballot at the federal, state & local level Ever wondered how much power Swiss #directdemocracy gives to its voters? Just look at the city of Zurich, where citizens will decide whether to ban leaf blowers outside of fall season #Laubbläser

This Lime bike is missing a pedal but, despite me reporting it, Lime still leaves it available for the next customer's time to be wasted. @londoncentric.media

@dashlane.com Why do you make it impossible for customers to speak to a human for support enquiries, while making it so simple for them to end up subscribing twice? Please get someone other than your chatbot (which is awful, by the way) to contact me.

I thought maybe they were demolishing it, or the scruffy scaffolding was some post-modern architectural statement, but after more than four years under wraps, the covers are finally coming back down off Arc Tower in Ealing. Have people been living in it the whole time?

10 yr old then comes downstairs and says look at this. It’s the video of Charlie Kirk being shot in the neck. When I tell him it’s real, he is genuinely upset and said he thought it was AI. Yes, he is using TikTok on restricted mode, but the parental restrictions are basically useless.

So that's a problem. Luckily for us, it's currently an American problem. But social media is undoubtedly corrosive of civility in any political system.

Of course there are idiots, as there will be on any site with millions of users. But in the age of Musk's X, the idea that it's *this* site which is promoting extremism, radicalising opinion and driving political violence is a fantasy - and it's sad to hear a Today presenter casually pushing it.

I'll merely note that today, like all days, is a great day to stop posting on Twitter, a platform whose owner force feeds this slop into people's brains with an algorithm designed to boost his views and trample yours.

I think I might just have seen a video of someone being shot dead on Twitter and the "Report" functionality demands more evidence. "Are you sure they are actually dead?"

Hi @willnorman.co.uk , I need to get from West Ealing to Kew. I'd normally use a Lime bike when I can't use my own, but though Lime bikes are in my area in a usable density, my journey takes me through Hounslow so I need to use another.

So that you don't have to go to the Daily Mail to help the police identify these people

This seems like a potentially quite useful and straightforward automation. I just don't trust my kids not to do the bare minimum to keep the WiFi running - the dishwasher's finished, we have to switch it off to keep the WiFi running!

"As many of them expected, the latest reports do not address systemic discrimination against gay or trans people, and they remove observations about rape and violence against women."

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. Then the harassment began. Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel. Six credible threats to his life. More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

@fairphone.com I bought the Fairphone 5 about 6-8 weeks ago. I've been checking your online store occasionally for a spare battery and it's been out of stock the whole time. When is it likely I'll be able to buy one? Could you add a notice to the page clarifying the supply issues?

#openstreetmap moments: I added a note about a path I thought was labelled incorrectly (the main section of the route up the mountain has been closed for 20 years, now considered too dangerous because of rockfall). This is reflected correctly in the tagging, but has left stubs in unexpected places.

Every time the kids ask for an account to be added to the Playstation (or something similar) I get angry at quite how difficult a huge corporation like Sony can make this. They exist in a world before UX testing.

It seems to be increasingly common to have to upload all personal details to a website to rent an AirBNB too. It would make me feel more confident if the websites looked like they had been created by someone with web development skills. One website also allowed us to unlock the apartment we rented.

Probably foolishly, I've signed up to cycle from London to Amsterdam next month, to raise money for London Cycling Campaign. Please sponsor me! ❤️ london-to-amsterdam-2025.raiselysite.com

I'm at the first concert I've been to in months and I need to remember to do after-school club bookings at 8pm. Don't let me forget!

This little patch of land next to West Ealing station is surrounded by walls on three sides and would be a perfect place to park for mixed mode travel, so of course parking is denied here and you have to cross a busy road and park 100 metres away.

"Actioned it accordingly" = let the account carry on & limited the visibility of one of the many racist posts "We encourage you to reach out again if you see any potential violations" = a joke platform operating lawless protection of unlawful hateful abuse

My main concern is to collate clear evidence that Twitter/X will quite obviously never now even make tokenistic efforts to try to operate within the UK law without external intervention by those with the power and responsibility to intervene (ECHR + Ofcom) The party culture insight is a byproduct

Here's the map Luke FitzHerbert submitted with his proposal for the creation of the Brent River Park. Come and celebrate this leap of imagination at our 50th Anniversary at Churchfields Recreation Ground on 29th June from 12 until 5pm. Walks, talks, stalls, workshops and more!