List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1 - food and cooking 2 - cryptology 3 - internet technologies

Excl: Labour would take a two-point lead over Reform with Andy Burnham as leader, new More In Common polling shows. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

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Several jets a day flying over us in south Lincolnshire 😬

Keep it going... 👇🏻

The rapture!

This was outside "The Church of the Holy Reformer" which was 100% a BDSM club. Late 1600s were LIT

I’m so very tired.

Mum tells me there’s a barber in the village I hear “why don’t you go for enforced smalltalk with a stranger while he alters your appearance with sharp implements?”

STOP MAKING NEW SUBSTACKS. Jesus, that’s the easy bit.

Has anyone found a way to turn off the pervasive search bar in iOS 26?

I closed my Barclays card account earlier this year when they jumped the gun on the EHRC guidance. And I made sure they knew why. Hit 'em where it hurts.

PR v FPTP! 🇬🇧 | Projected result of this week's @FindoutnowUK poll — under PR (Via @joshhousden.bsky.social ➡️ RFM: 34% | 227 (+131) 🔴 LAB: 16% | 110 (-124) 🟦 CON: 16% | 104 (-52) 🔶 LDM: 13% | 87 (+6) 💚 GRN: 12% | 78 (+35) 🟡 SNP: 3% | 18 (+1) 🔲 PLC: 1% | 8 (+3) +/- vs. GE2024 [PR]

So when someone “suggests” something to you for the fifth time, is it some kind of veiled instruction? Asking for a neurodivergent friend* * it’s me. I can’t do lying either.

Stop using Meta products and stop your children from using them too. - Facebook - Instagram - Threads - Whatsapp Ditch them, uninstall them from your children's phones too. Other alternatives exist. Especially since Meta aren't listening and are doing scummy things.

Improvising a stir fry

Reminder for you UK beer lovers, there's a variety pack of mostly nice beer at your lidl

😬 @sentimentbot.bsky.social

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

Once he’s older than everyone else I think you can consider calling him a longevity pioneer instead of a dangerous abusive idiot.

The one thing we'll miss about summer

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

How do we fix this mess?

Finally my petition is approved! There’s a list of flags you can fly in England and Wales without planning permission, including the rainbow flag. Sign here (anyone in the UK) to try and get the progress flags added to the list. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

My personalised Co-op offers are here 😳

Some kind of scam doing the rounds?

Has anyone ever written an alternative history novel where the Wessex Culture survived into modern times and Stonehenge and all the other megalithic sites were continuously active for millennia, further developed as sacred sites, and ultimately augmented with technology?

Observer today: what a letter

via Eat The Rich #SocialistSunday

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.

Slightly diminish a book Adequate Mr. Fox

Sprouts

It’s a bit flat

This is how much of a patriot this guy is: He flew in from Bahrain to protest against immigrants. 🤦🏽 Why would Yaxley-Felon post this??? They are so thick.

Today I have done small talk more than once, smiled at people, been nice to people helping me even under challenging circumstances. Am I cured?

Audible’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series Expands Cast With Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg and More variety.com/2025/digital...

Hmm. Do I want an agency goat or am I still young and fit enough to pull my own?

If you vote Reform you will be voting against women’s equality, for more harassment in the workplace and beyond (as if there isn’t enough) Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE

This is my reserved seat. Do GWR know something I don’t?

So now we have bookmarks, how do I remember and find all the posts I wanted to bookmark?

Hmm. An hour to walk between stations. What’s that in gay walking?

London folk: how can I get from Paddington to Kings Cross tomorrow?

Crossing at Lincs County Hospital entrance

In my mum’s village. Do I or don’t I brave the pub for an hour?

Because LLMs don’t ‘say’ or ‘mean’ anything. They generate statistically plausible answer-shaped sentences in response to question-shaped sentences. Text devoid of intent, entirely divorced from meaning.

Question for those defending Linehan, as "it was a social media post". Would you, genuinely, say the same thing if: A) he said to punch women, which btw this incitement would lead to or B) said it in person, rather than to more than 600 thousand people, some of whom he has to know would act on it.