Spoonbill feeding on Cowpen Marsh this afternoon @teesbirds.bsky.social

These look nice

I love a news story which is so obviously not the full story but you can basically fill in the gaps for your own amusement.

OK got my @psbhq.bsky.social tickets - really excited for the show. It sounds like it's going to be super special: publicservicebroadcasting.os.fan

Public inquiry into how every Traitors task is mysteriously completed exactly 25 seconds before the end.

On reflection, the absence of saying this is really the only way you can tell the difference between “someone who is bad at the game” and “someone successfully winning by being agreeable”.

yeah i'm gonna have to go to this

I’m not gay I’m

10/10 no noots

Have had to work on a lot of trains the last few weeks and my current ranking of wifis A tier - SWR trains (this is really impressive, like a coffee shop wifi) B Tier - Avanti (def better than it used to be) F Tier - EMR (both mobile signal and onboard wifi is just useless - impossible to work)

Fire on London's Loughborough Estate this morning. Seemingly now under control per @pollysmythe.bsky.social who is there on the ground, but will focus attention on an estate we've investigated wild claims of corruption and illegal chemical storage: www.londoncentric.media/p/the-london...

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

I need the most “the problems with police culture in England and Wales” paragraph you can find:

Unsafe power banks are a safety risk, yes, but airlines that do not offer onboard power charging at every seat — yet insist passengers use fully mobile travel processes (boarding cards, streaming entertainment to devices, etc) — should not be allowed to ban the use of all power banks on board.

Minister of State Alex Norris tells the BBC he won't personally come off X because it's important for communicating with voters. None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.

And London, where it did not snow,

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

Ah it's time! Lovely to have Shaun back on my radio - now it really feels like Christmas.

Very much enjoyed this last night and looking forward to next years' already

It's the most wonderful time of the year. (I'm definitely giving Robyn some love this year, and Lily Allen and a bit of Sabrina Carpenter in there too among others )

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

I'll take people who have never read FT's alphaville blog for $500

One for @jim.londoncentric.media - had my phone stolen yesterday by someone on a bike. Just had the police get in touch to say they've recovered my phone! (Actually an iPhone this time - so no idea if it was discarded or they caught someone?)

I've written about the Farage antisemitism allegations - and my dismay at the behaviour of some who, now that the accused is more to their political liking, seem keen to sweep this all under the carpet. www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...

We're probably going to miss our target... donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... But if you donate to this excellent cause by noon today your money will be doubled and (if you drop me an email) I'll give you free access to the members-only London Centric stories I'm working on.

Bertvent is a countdown of my favourite books of the year. Every day until Christmas Eve, the first customer to spend £20 on books will get the chance to unwrap that day’s title and keep it for themselves at no extra cost.

A sad respectful clap for the keeper who came up with the brilliant name 'Claude' for an alligator

I think this is a mistake and it sums up what's wrong with accountability in the British state. Why does he take 'full responsibility'? Surely the person who actually *manages the OBR's website* should take some responsibility:

Zipcar pulling out of the UK is really bad news, i hope that someone is able to buy up their UK operation. It's the thing that makes it possible to live without a car as I know i can hire one for v short trips when i need one.

the best time of the year

No, I love this, the mismatch between 'how the fuck up happened'* and 'the experience of the person they've got to investigate it', it's like if a secondary school hired Arsene Wenger to be a PE teacher. *They hit 'upload' when they really shouldn't, 9/10.

Welp, I appear to have something in my eye.

yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal

I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights

Am on this ep doing my favourite thing, trying to interpret the intricacies of EBU announcements and rule changes.

The EBU has announced a number of changes to the voting procedure at Eurovision in response to criticism. The number of votes per payment method will be reduced to 10 (from 20). Juries will return to the semi finals, and juries will be increased from 5 -7. At least 2 jurors must be 18-25

What is going on with email marketing right now. Is everyone ok?

Waitrose why you being creepy?

Read this for the analogy and insight but DO NOT MISS the short film review at the very end. Had to explain my loud laugh to my boss

Now here’s Collaterlie Sisters with the financial news

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The real patient zero is “la, a note to follow so”, the first time a placeholder line became a major hit on the global stage.

Times journalists urged to make ‘basic’ checks after two ‘humiliating’ hoaxes - the so-called royal cleaner revealed by Press Gazette, and last week's Bill de Blasio 'interview' pressgazette.co.uk/news/times-j...

Anyone fancy buying a rail wagon? auctions.ramco.uk/auctions/944...

Please kill me

do you think the nyt puzzles people saw the only connect wall about them

A superb read (and London Centric is the easiest substack subscription to recommend - such great stories)

This is INCREDIBLE: My headteacher at primary school was v into trains and arranged a trip for the school and chartered a tube train for it. IT MADE THE NEWS. And i'm pretty sure my brother @olibradley.bsky.social is in the clip (at 50 seconds) .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvgNFwyOVyI

Has anyone done a gif of the Tom Daley side eye yet?