Should probably have checked this sooner but just realised the qualifying period for Making Tax Digital was the 24/25 tax year - not 25/26. So i haven't hit the threshold and don't have to do it this year. So I have a further year to get my head around it

My shower in Malaysia has an option I don't really want to try

My parents’ camera bird box is back in action this spring.

My details are clearly on a PR database and very out of date as to what I do. But every time a PR sends me a pitch i reply asking politely to tell me who they used so that i can get my details updated and just get radio silence. Incredibly infuriating as i want to stop them wasting their time

why does this look like a mugshot though?

that’s quite a short flight, even for twenty five quid

Does anyone have any thoughts on ultra-wide monitors? Particularly if you do anything like video editing on one. For a new office set up i might not have room for my dual monitors, so wondering if a good ultra-wide might be a reasonable compromise?

yep - same happened to me. My phone just did the tech equivalent of mashing the 'visibly over 25' button

Well after what seemed like a bit of a mess with the LTA Wimbledon resale i ended up managing to get a pair of good tickets for the middle Sunday on Centre Court :D

Has anyone got any advice on how to get your details removed from PR database services? My entries on there are clearly very up to date so I'm getting useless pitches for jobs i haven't done in a very long time wasting all of our time.

yay - actually managed to get a Robyn ticket for the Hackney Empire gig next week

Have been watching How To Get To Heaven From Belfast and really wanted to enjoy it, but struggled so much with episode 5 (the one in Dublin). I'm all for suspending disbelief, but there's only so much of that you can do in one episode before you just don't care anymore.

'Yippee ki yay, motherfucker,' he said. 'Language,' I said.

I did not see this coming but i'm here for it

🎯 FAR OUT — Mar 4 Q1: 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 -0 Q2: 🟡🟡⚪⚪⚪ -11 Q3: 🟢🟢🟢🟢⚪ -1 Score: 88/100 🔥 Play at faroutquiz.com

This is fair. But who would the Sandi Toksvig be in this situation? Richard is quite unique in that developing game shows (and testing them) was his life before he became famous for it. Stephen was key to QI but wasn't really what made the show work

Richard Osman leaving the House Of Games surely has to be the end of that show then? It's a shame, but his hosting is part of what makes the programme work. I suppose they'd probably try a new presenter but there's just no-one I can see that would fit.

Access to a thesaurus does not make one a good or stylish writer.

I'm sorry - what on earth is a Potemkin economy and are we all supposed to understand what that means ?

Odd question - but does anyone here book train tickets on Uber and have you ever managed to make it work whilst adding a two-together railcard? Trying to work out if this is a common bug or just me.

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/25/h... Lets go to the cottage!

Oh this is a very fun thread!

Me: I would like Churros, I will go to bar Churros, it gets good reviews Bar churros: We do not serve churros between 1245 and 1630

This rings true to me - most of the time when i'm listening it's a pain to skip ads, so i'd have to feel like the ad break is going to be super long or annoying to bother to do it. I wonder how this compares to video podcasts where it's so much easier to skip an ad wearebumper.com/blog/podcast...

This is where I think current orthodoxy among chief constables in the UK about where to spend the marginal extra pound is just wrong - most “low impact” crime is done by career criminals who also do the “high impact” stuff.

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...