Okay, fine, but I’ve been driving cars powered by mashed up dinosaurs since I was seventeen and never once did I wear gloves while filling them.

The film #Crime101 has many gorgeous shots of the titular freeway as it runs through downtown LA.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Dear Guardian. Stop with the British exceptionalism. They're immigrants. Calling them expats just demonstrates your racism and ignorance.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂 Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…

Just being on Bluesky makes me feel like more people read books than I ever thought possible, so thanks for making a librarian happy. #BookSky

Personal computers: Perhaps unwisely, the brain is subcontracting many of its core functions, creating a series of branch economics that may one day amalgamate and mount a management buy-out.

Ursine community regularly engages in woodland defecation, jury finds

Ugh.

I’ve ditched #Audible for #Libro. - they seem to have the same vast library and monthly credit system, but every subscription and purchase supports a local (or otherwise) bookshop of YOUR choice. A very easy switch. Take a look! libro.fm/referral?rf_...

When I am PM/President/Emperor/whatever, drivers of small cars will be compelled to tow a one-metre long trailer adorned with a flag, so that nobody ever again suffers the emotional rollercoaster of thinking a parking space is free, only to discover it is occupied by a Fiat 500. Day one.

Mix in the Glatritch

To have all of this, just a 20 minute drive from the capital area, still blows my mind. We are so lucky to live in #Iceland.

Of course, here at home in Iceland, Eurovision is being sat out this year. Over in the UK though, the entry is the love child of Howard Jones and Delia Derbyshire, imbued with a touch of the Stockhausen-meets-ABBA vibe that OMD once said they wanted to shoot for. It’s all completely bonkers.

Are the trains not running?

I might get a t-shirt made which reads, “it’s a referendum on continuing EU accession talks, not on joining the EU”. Hardly the stuff of Katherine Hamnett, but I suspect it’ll save me saying it out loud rather a lot.

I was born in Inverness, UK. This is filmed in Inverness, CA. (And nearby Point Reyes.) We’ve tried to visit the lighthouse twice now, but it was closed both times. I watch this every Halloween and put the Christmas decorations up the very next day.

Relatedly, anyone whose social media biography gives as their alma mater, “the school of life”, invariably then expresses views of manifest and imbecilic worthlessness.

Excellent advice right here.

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

Played this Air album for the first time in literal decades today. However, I’d forgotten that side two had been pressed so queasily off-centre. The last track sounds like Ivan Wyschnegradsky. I suspect it’s a bit late to return it now.

Blinding Lights is a pop song that will outlast time itself. It is a machine-tooled, bulletproof, utterly inevitable thing.

The long 2010s are finally over

Farmer to ‘review equine accommodation security’ after repeated mass breakouts

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Lists are fascinating; one could almost do a list novel.

Schools of architecture and design like Art Deco and the Modernist movement were engines running forward into the future.

I daren’t check just how old Melody AM actually is. I don’t think its release date starts with a 19, but I can’t be entirely sure.

A wonderful building, now properly protected. Probably disliked by dull philistine Charles Windsor; always a strong sign of architectural merit. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/brutali...

I don’t understand sport but the final score of Bad Bunny 128, Kid Rock 6, seems pretty decisive.

I presented a UK commercial radio breakfast show from 1996 to 2003. It was not a good period for pop music: Steps, Westlife, Bob The Builder. Truly however, the nadir was reached by Kid Rock’s All Summer Long; a record of such unending stinking hatefulness I swear I could actually taste it.

Yes, this is fine. I'm sure this is fine. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Fallegt Borgarnes

Perhaps only gratuitous madness can define who we are.

Just a Þorri snack, really.

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

I suppose it might be theoretically possible to give less of a shit about the Beckham family, but I genuinely can’t imagine what that would feel like.

I still think GPS is one of the greatest and most astonishing inventions. Pure and utterly fanciful Q-gadget sci-fi fantasy somehow became ubiquitous reality, in large part thanks to this genius.

This is the kind of journalism we need

There is, of course, no tunnel between Iceland and the UK, despite the ludicrous implication of this ludicrous headline. The tunnel is in, and arguably under, the Faroe Islands.

Bluesky! Is this gaffer tape, or gaffa tape? They sound identical, but in written form one is surely wrong?

The UK drink-drive limit is to be cut. Excellent news; long overdue. I don’t drink - haven’t done so for about 5 years - but when I did, I never combined it with driving. What’s the point of having “just one or two” and then fretting about whether you’re over the limit? Drink or drive - pick one!

Flying Tiger in Kringlan (and I assume Smáralind too) are shifting loads of their festive tat at 70% off. 1100 ISK for all this. Feels almost illegal.

Christmas may be over, but the work never stops: he’s planning this year’s already.

I was only checking my Saga points balance. Icelandair’s website seems to have interpreted this as a plan to book a “getaway” in Iceland. Um…

They're in flight from the real.

I bought a “new” copy of Sophie B. Hawkins’ “Whaler”, an album of which I was very fond, when back in the UK. It certainly looks brand new; no marks or scratches, and the disc was shrink wrapped. However, what just fell out of it, makes me at least suspect otherwise. I wonder if she’d write back?