This is excellent

binface vs farage vs lawrence fox is like el classico for “different ways your mate’s dad could end up taking the divorce”

Peerless data journalism here from the FT, 10/10, no notes www.ft.com/content/e68d...

fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule

For those who may not be aware, Count Binface is actually a serious comedian and historian, Jon Harvey, who did a very interesting series on BBC Radio 4 about the origins of democracy a few years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Bluesky this morning:

VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

What an INCREDIBLE game

Hamish is a most excellent cat who lives in the Outer Hebrides and sleeps on Harris tweed

Feline help needed! Any advice on what to do if your cat keeps begging for food at 4am? If we ignore him and close the door he starts banging up against it. We’re in a one floor flat so hard to shut him away - here’s the culprit

Annie Nightingale, Patsy Kensit, Bonnie Langford, Zoe Fairbairns - and Dirk Bogarde

I think this is what you call over sharing

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Gosh no one else has ever done an article like this have they www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Slipped a disc in my back bending over to stroke my cat before leaving for work one morning

Advent calendar- Day one. Though Monte feels only 3 treats per window is a bit of a con.

🗣️ "In the US, Wall Street investors are worrying about an AI bubble - maybe they have pumped too much money into the big Silicon Valley companies. "Across the western world, people are fretting about AI’s potential to act autonomously and take control of our lives."

The guardian seem to think Ken Clarke presented Civilisation …. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

In Luxor at a fish restaurant and this beauty decided to adopt us

@jim.londoncentric.media as you know…. E-bike injuries are a massive burden, say surgeons www.bbc.com/news/article...

@thecatreviewer.bsky.social exceptionally friendly cat in Nohedes, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, southern France. He even has a street named after him! 10/10 for local hospitality

Everything is too much for Monte

Clearly starved

Our report last night. Such a harrowing case - and incredibly sad one - to be in court at, for the hearing.

Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions

Final aside on big tech, btw: the data centre energy use to supply streaming for TikTok, youTube, Netflix, iPlayer, your smart TV , etc, *vastly* outweighs what LLMs use. As does the 'normal' AI power needs to sort search results, scoial media algorithms, online shopping, etc (for now).

This is incredible

Assuming the 10 billion figure is correct, that makes data centre usage is 27 million litres a day. Versus a projected UK shortfall of 5,000 million litres a day by 2065. So 0.5% or so of that projected shortfall. It’s just not a major part of the problem, at all.

Feline fans: A) Have any of you got your cat a cooling matt and b) crucially, does your cat use it?

Manchester United’s open-top bus parade in Kuala Lumpur after finishing 15th in the league followed by their defeat by an assembly of random locals is absolutely the ending this season merited.

The idea that people think these accounts are legitimately from Gazans is crazy to me. We live in an era of extremely low social trust—*except for complete and total strangers on the internet spamming threads asking for money*

Sea lions!

Come to Ecuador. See a black cat

At Madrid airport yesterday on a flight bound for Quito - a priest got on the plane, and as he walked down the aisle the cabin burst into spontaneous applause.

Britain's puffin population has received a huge boost - thanks to Brexit. Alex Thomson explains why, as the annual count for this vulnerable 'sea parrot' takes place on Northumbria's Farne Islands.

This is a great use case for generative AI - do give it a read. Also worth noting that it's being used to triage, not do the actual fact-checking. The humans do the proper knowledge work, as should always be the case (via @alic.bsky.social)

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? @hannahritchie.bsky.social answers a #QTWTAI Very Small Compared With Most Of The Other Stuff You Do www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...

Monte in his bow tie to celebrate our wedding

An exclusive poll for the Channel 4 News Special 'Election 2025: The Debate' reveals 'none of the above' as the most popular leader choice with voters. Read more here and watch our debate with politicians and voters in Hull tonight, at 7pm.

Make streets safer for cycling, you get more cycling. Astonishing stats from the City of London: 🚗⬇️ Motor vehicles down by 34% from 2017 baseline 🚴‍♀️139,000 cycle journeys per day (up from 89,000 just two years ago) 🚲🕗 Massive cycling peaks at commuting times; bikes making up 56% of all traffic

Monte contemplating the plants

Wow! Biggest increase in cycling in the City of London since records began💥 🚲139,000 people cycling a day ⬆️ 50,000 more than 2022 ⬆️Cycling up 70% since 2017 ⬇️Motor traffic down 34% Building cycleways is working! Inspo for @citywestminster.bsky.social next door? 😍 More info: bit.ly/3RzS4FY

CPJ has issued a safety advisory for journalists traveling to or entering the US: cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...

Volume Up 🔊📢 This is the sound of a Bus Gate working Hackney, London Fields

Bless them 😢 "Our centres are full of black cats which sadly no one wants to adopt". www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2508220...

Europeans are cancelling their travel to the United States

Ever since AI took off, I've been trying to nail down one question: what's the climate impact of this technology? The initial impressions are not good. A new IEA report this week is the gold standard and shows emissions from data centres rising significantly: www.economist.com/science-and-...

A fantastic talk by @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social on poetry and war at @journalismfestival.com Really worth a watch

Fascinating thread on AI and climate. Read beyond the first post!