I guess they won't need those 'boots on the ground' after all....

My daughter has asked me why I call a bike seat a saddle & I'm now suddenly struck by what a stupid term it is, having never questioned it before.

Actual ad in my LinkedIn timeline.

Got on a bike tor the first time in 6 years, preparing to cycle to the station again instead of taking the car. I'm definitely into the 'electric assistance' category now, though also hoping it shifts a few lbs too.

Important new job news from the week that I forgot to share: the cutest dog in the world but I only managed a crap picture and the fruits of a fact-finding visit from Gail's Bakery.

Anglia Water: "we need to cause absolute chaos in the neighbourhood with a 4-way traffic light on a roundabout for essential works" The essential works:

PSA: Simon & Garfunkel: The Harmony Game just started on BBC Four about the making of Bridge Over Troubled Water album.

Also, this was nice from one of the founder/directors at my new place.

Week two in the new job, already I've got a glamorous* business trip next week. *Farnborough

Just checking to see if anyone knows how this is going.

This particular 'find out' stage comes with an extra helping of "did you not look on a fucking map?"

Anyway Cory Doctorow explains it better than me, in case you're in doubt. And he's certainly no shill for Big Tech.

I'm seeing a lot of upset & agitation from people that "the government is changing copyright to allow AI models to train on artists work" and I'm here to tell you they absolutely are not. Because there's nothing copyright laws can do to stop copyrighted work being used to train AI.

Phase two they're going to start bombing blue states...

Lovely lunch with The Boy & his girlfriend at an Italian trattoria he found approximately the size of a living room. But sumptuous spicy sausage ragu & sweet pistachio gnocchi for dessert 👌👌👌

Manchester United fans unveiled a pro-immigration banner during Sunday’s fixture against Crystal Palace in response to comments from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe. More from @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

Anyway. Everything is terrible but I am going to London to have lunch with my son, so that's nice.

New Instagram account idea: time lapse of clearing and tidying an overgrown garden, but you deliberately miss a bit.

Well, that saves me the bother of working out who Josh Simons is/was.

Strong chaos with Ed Miliband energy.

This won’t age well.

Looking forward to Colchester bins not being collected because the Reform councillors can't be bothered to turn up to meetings.

Saying the quiet thing out loud again...

I reckon these flights might be even lower now. Never let a crisis go to waste, as they say...

I gotta say, if these two issues were so easy to resolve for OpenAI but not Anthropic, I guess it must be that Anthropic have really dumb lawyers... ...or else Altman is lying through his teeth.

Quentin Tarantino should have been run out of town for speaking ill of this man

Those who can't do it, teach it. So what happens when you can't do either?

I can't believe the Green Party made it even harder to find a plumber in Manchester. Why do they hate Britain?

This kind of stuff isn’t going to work when the new Green MP is a white working class plumber.

Lads, lads - if I vote Reform on May 7th, Colchester Council is going to stop the boats AND lower my energy bills.

Good news is it's the first night this week I've not been working on my sofa at 8pm. The bad news is that's because I left the office at 8.15pm

The Onion is remarkably high quality, sustained over years, but honestly sometimes I find it hard to differentiate it from the actual news.

Hello, old friend, I've missed you...

Also, new Lana Del Rey single dropped today, presumably TEASING US with the prospect of the next album that was definitely coming out last May & then September...

Another job, another MacBook. (This means I'm now up to 4... 🤪)

All the joy of discovering the optimum route to your new office. I'm due in for 10am, first day and all that, but inevitably am 40 minutes early...

I have to say, though there is much to despair at in the world today, the 5-year-old inside me rejoice at the mainstreaming of pistachio as a flavour and general topping.

Peter Sutcliffe interview: "People sent me hate mail because they hate lorry drivers"

Excellent dessert was also consumed.

The sun! The sun! A religious miracle! #VisitSalisbury

Uh oh. LinkedIn has gained self-awareness...