"Cognitive insult" - a good description of how I feel after five days of work in January after a week off! 😵‍💫

I actually quite like Davos' transition from bland neoliberal third way bore-fest to end times slugfest between fascism and liberal democracy. Though it would be more entertaining if it wasn't so fucking scary.

China has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.

@peterloomemorial.bsky.social Another Peterloo in Rock gig in Glossop... coming soon!

I find the AI approach to enshittification curious because they are starting with a product that is already shit! Where do they go from here?!

We should 100% boycott the World Cup!

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

Regional names for alleyways…

North Wales chippy: Cheese fry it and 'foot long' veggie sausage 😎

North Wales chippy: Cheese fry it and 'foot long' veggie sausage 😎

3 years of Carrick at #Boro and aside from the excellent @borobreakdown.bsky.social rarely see any tactical analysis of the way we played. Within 24 hours of signing as manager for Man U I've read about a dozen, in depth long reads on our tactics, formation, build up, OOP! All a bit late for us! 🤪

We've gone from: "AI will revolutionise the way we work and make everyone redundant" to "AI is the reason we fucked up but what can you do?", classic accountability sink as described by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social ! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Sunrise

This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication. I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵

Morale improves under Milliband! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

January...

And not just China, the transition is gaining momentum, the US is stuck in a doom loop... “We are now seeing the China EV story being replicated in other parts of the world, and very interestingly, more so in the global south than the US and European countries,” Shuo said.

Misty morning in the city

There are no trains, THERE ARE NO TRAINS, (There are no trains). - traditional Northern Rail haiku

Oh my, a huge list of reasons why not to use this feature 👌🏻

Reform voters are really quite odd people when it comes to cultural issues - and an effective electoral strategy shouldn't pander to them. benansell.substack.com/p/odd-ones-out

"Now, some doubts appear to be surfacing about the imminence of AGI, and whether the term is meaningful in the first place." If you are structuring a grift maybe position its fulfilment in the mid-distance, like 5-10 years rather than the year after next! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pink glowing hills

Snow day

I tend to agree... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I've seen a lot of comments about the Swiss Club fire spreading due to wooden panelling/boarding, whilst there's an investigation pending, it's far more likely that the lethality and spread of the fire was due to the presence of polyurethane foam, absolutely horrible stuff

Does Trump know we can hear what he’s saying?

Saltburn by moonlight

Sunrise over Calderdale

Big skies and open moorland in Calderdale.

In news that should surprise no one…

It's hard to think of another policy that is so fundamentally a free lunch as congestion pricing is

Using my new VPN service to watch Ken Burns docs on PBS. This is how we roll... 😎

The Muslim Cowboy, another great fiction book from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social, this one exploring post war Iraq and the impact of conflict on the country and the people who live there...

Don't even know what a Grinch is and too embarrassed to ask now.

Bunkers, Saddleworth, painting by Russel Howarth, 1927-2020.

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Post truth politics becomes post truth warfare, shame there's real wars going on in need of real solutions. Given what Trump is saying about Ukraine god help us!

@marchudson.bsky.social in and upset for the books England have won the series 1 - 3 ! 🧐

Looks like the US spent a few million dollars successfully bombing an empty field in Nigeria into submission! 👏 Protecting a village that has never been attacked 👏 www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

King delivers inspiring Christmas message of "toughen up" and "your on your own now guys, see you later!" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lil fuckin dipshit

Repeat after me: greater granularity of modelling data does not automatically mean greater 'accuracy'. It really could just mean you're equally (or more) wrong, but with more data points!

Happy Solstice 🌚🌞

Happy Solstice!