Those who are newish here (including @imcmillan.bsky.social) may not have come across my thread of Leicestershire villages, including guest appearances from Laurel and Hardy, Lady Jane Grey, Handel, Queen Boudicca, Chris Kirkland, Rachel Parris, King Wiglaf, Ada Lovelace, and of course Richard III.

hey remember when Microsoft tried to change all of Windows into this format saying that the future of everything was going to be tablets and touch screens, then everybody said nah it will not you're just wrong and pretty bad, then it mostly of got phased out, anyway that but now for AI in everything

Fundamentally what I think separates Millenials from Xers is Xers came of age when things were getting worse. Millenials came of age when things were seemingly getting better and had that ripped away from them.

this is my kitchen on drugs literally, this is how I have managed to keep it, without taking psychic damage, for two weeks now, thanks to a tiny stimulant pill honestly, it's being able to wipe the surfaces that keeps making me burst into tears

It's going to be funny when they realise that despite being Very Special Boys with Superior Brains, they are still subject to the same laws of nature as the rest of us Even funnier when you realise that yes, some animals do live a long time and you know what their secret is? Doing very little!

Every year, I seem to be paying more tax than I was last year, but the public services always seem to be worse than they were last year. Sorry but genuinely what the fuck is all of our money being spent on?

This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.

Then spend your declining years mumbling “I created a lot of value for the shareholders” as a care assistant sponges you down and puts a new pad on.

The city of Florence revoked Dante’s death sentence in... er, 2008, which is funny in itself, but I would argue even more so for the fact that “The motion to rehabilitate Dante was passed by 19 votes to 5”. Presumably, those five people thought it was a bit too soon to be sure

New rule. Journalists aren't allowed to post puff pieces about impossible work and fitness schedules without asking stuff like "who does your laundry? Who cooks your steak and eggs? How does your dusting get done if you're out on a long run?"

Miep Gies, who helped hide the Franks, repeatedly said she did not want to be viewed as a hero because she did what she expected any normal person to do.

As someone who works in construction, what I find extra mad about those lads who climb buildings without ropes is that they put so much faith in people who work in construction.

Shout-out to PowerPoint for flagging the word "bespoke" as too difficult for my presumably idiot audience.

the key thing to understand is that the primary reason that venture capitalists turned hard right-wing is that MeToo removed the only thing they care about: the ability to rape their subordinates

When I was small, a family friend asked me why I was gazing at my water glass. I pointed at air bubbles in the ice cubes and said they were beautiful. She looked at me with confusion. I kept my observations in my head after that in case it was just me. But now I know many of you see such things too.

Including the very LLM responses like ‘Oh yes, I see that <thing that was fundamental to the argument> is wrong, I’ve removed it. Here’s something else’

Important vintage how-to books

You tell them Chuck

Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him.

Country diary: In my moment of loss, birds came like gifts | Amy-Jane Beer

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

10/10 no notes

You probably saw this, but I liked something Jamelle Bouie said about it being "cargo cult authoritarianism": they're not capable of doing the work to create a regime, so they're just doing things that look like authoritarianism and assuming it'll somehow conjure a regime out of nothing.

This is a fun thread and reflects what people outside of finance have been saying for years. “More than a car company” is classic Elon nonsense. It’s barely a car company. It’s a battery company with cars and rubbish software.

To love anything as much as a journalist loves to post a full page of text and then alt text it as "letter" or "page of book" or "transcript" or the entire long image URL which a screenreader reads out character by character Suck less, journalists.

I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.

It’s going to be Free With Prime within weeks. Probably free without Prime, come to that.

A hagiographical "Donumentary" about the first lady - Melania Trump - has been released in UK. So far the Vue in Leicester Square has managed to sell.... ONE ticket. Clearly Mr Farage toom the afternoon off from Cameo. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

congrats to the people who gave their email instead of mine at Wells Fargo several years ago for finally paying off their mortgage 🎉

I have this (sadly completely uncredited) cartoon on my office wall and it’s always been true

I wish Josie George was in this place. Her way of seeing the world is beautiful and balanced and hugely inspiring. If you can find her in other places online, I recommend looking her up.

It’s not even that big. That head’s what, a hundred miles or so? So even if it’s in the same proportions as a python or anaconda or such, it’s not going to manage to eat very much any time soon. The world’s pretty large!

a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)

This was the situation for those of us trying to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge in the mid-to-late 1980s. The “Peace Convoy” (as they called it) wasn’t an organised group, and there were no leaders. But it seemed to be impossible for police, politicians, or the Press to understand this.

47 years ago today!

There are a lot of men out there who do not see any of the logistics happening around them and they're like "wait, where the fuck did these hand warmers come from?" Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Shovelling is such a bullshit concept, what happened to patience, like we're too good for the sun now? It gives us life it will take the snow, you cannot be impatient with a god

The classic Victorian trope where you need to send a character an impossibly long distance away so they can't possibly interfere in the plot, so they go from London all the way to exotic Birmingham

Not municipal-related, but this important document arrived today: #crisps

"Why not just stand as an independent candidate, Andy?" "Nah, I don't think I will, erm .." "How come? You'd still be representing the people of Gorton & Denton, wouldn't you?" "...technically, yes, I suppose..." "And that's your only reason for wanting to be their MP, right?" "Sure, of course..."

Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.

I was asked to look at this post! And while the story obviously has important context that’s missing from the headline - which I’ll cover obvs 😜 - what’s more important is to question why this is being posted! And what to ask yourself when you see something like this… 1/12 🧵

Part of the current trend to see everything in summary is the lack of awareness that great writing tends to already be in its simplest, most accessible form. It may simply take 800 pages to state the simplest version of some ideas.

i am not convinced the north london skydiving centre truly counts as being in north london

“Exercise commanders had to ask Finnish reservists, the most formidable Arctic warriors, who were playing the role of invaders in the war games, to go easy on the Americans,” the source said. “The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them.”