Half empty ground for this meaningless end-of-season dead rubber #cpfc

Clash of the Seasons Mid-May snowfall is not that common in the hillside areas of Central Europe - but yesterday I could capture the rare combination of fresh greens and even more fresh snow. Germany #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #fog

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Meant to say 2. Begin the process of negotiating terms immediately...

And so the revenge bot is born and the ratchet turns yet one more notch. www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/ai-can-...

Even Ocado is going to Leipzig... #cpfc

1. Pledge to join the EU as soon as possible after the next election. 2. Negotiate terms with EU immediately, subject to a referendum 3. Something something Gaza Something Then with the culture war back on, go ahead and fix social care.

Status Quo Vadis

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At this point I'm fairly sure Polanski not paying some council tax on a houseboat will get more coverage in most of the press than this

Social care reform, immediately. Bon the commission, give task force 3 months to propose final recommendations building from Dilnot proposals, implement immediately with penny on basic and higher rates of income tax to pay for it. Immediately transforms local govt fortunes too…

Outside No.10, the ridiculous hog that is our media is rolling in its favourite muck. And it's hard for such apparent enjoyment of this setting not to add to a suspicion that it is now a default and deliberate destination. That in this clip we see Patient Zero in the UK's chronic contagion of chaos.

First time visit and wander around Kinclaven Woods with the fam at the weekend, looking resplendent with it's rich carpet of violet and blue 😀🪻 #Scotland #Perthshire #Kinclaven

Stop reporting it as if it's a new series of The Traitors, for God's sake. So tired of this really important stuff being treated as some kind of panto put on for the enjoyment of the political hacks/bloggers/podcasters.

And we’re off. Real world response to Labour’s current psychodrama: bank stocks are being sold off, gilts spiked 10% at opening and the pound fell 0.5% against the dollar.

The Ecstatic Mondays

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Wow! Looks like a sketch - that's lovely.

Frustrated with the election pundits talking as if votes only 'swing' from one party to another. I did some analysis of the results, and my modelling (based on votes only, not polls) suggests that the largest movement since 2024 local elections (by a long way) is from 'Did Not Vote' -> Reform

I changed GPs this year after moving house and my previous GP has forwarded nothing to the new one. Years of historic test results, scan reports and consultant letters just gone. I had to fill them in on my repeat medications - including the dosage - and could have literally told them anything.

I wrote this about how stupid it is that politicians are looking for antisemitism everywhere but amongst the Nazis (including quotes from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @david-k-clark.bsky.social ) - tashthinks.substack.com/p/its-stupid...

Field geometry

From the sketchbook

Crystal Palace Women: The Eagles 25/26 Get 10% off until midnight with the discount code: THE-EAGLES 🛒: www.matthewjiwood.com/subbuteo-tea... #CPFCW @fiveyearplan.bsky.social @nyeagles.bsky.social

I honestly don't know what it means to be "credible" on immigration when neither falling numbers nor extremely hostile rhetoric seem to make any difference whatsoever

Well, that was the first time since I gave up my season ticket that I felt properly jealous of not being at Selhurst Park - the atmosphere looked and sounded amazing last night #cpfc

Well, some of the details are correct, Grauniad.

It's kind of amusing that all broadcast media have to cancel all political coverage (except pictures of dogs at voting stations). Yet a political party can buy the front page of a newspaper on the same day.

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

Spring awakening

First light over Llyn Padarn, Llanberis #Wales #Snowdonia #Gwynedd www.damianshields.com

It's International Icelandic Horse Day, or something like that, so here's this B&W (massively processed!) horse profile, from Dec 2020 again :) #Iceland #IcelandicHorse

"Mr Nobody" has lost his Oscar! Lufthansa made Pasha Talankin remove the statuette from hand luggage for his JFK flight last night, but lost it by the time he landed in Frankfurt. Talankin's secret recordings of living under propaganda at a Russian school won best documentary for Mr Nobody v Putin

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

The game is up. Palantir says that I once looked up the football scores when working from home once in 2015 so I must be guilty of a work-from-home violation and must resign in disgrace.

I was just thinking this morning how much I would like to see a LinkedIn update saying 'X has been demoted'.

Years ago, a "Things We Say Today Which We Owe To Shakespeare" meme used do the rounds every April 23. It was always quite tedious, so...

Yellow tulips on the countryside and in the city.

'The Dalek Invasion of Venice'. @bigfinish.bsky.social I have booted up my computer and I am ready to start work...

Scotland The Third Rainbow. Just back from a magical tour to the Hebrides, the western Isles of Scotland. The Callanish Stones, a 5k years old stone circle, were high on our list. #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #outerhebrides #callanishstones

Here’s some of the senior officials that Starmer has sacked. Just trying to work out what seems to be the problem here. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

Starmer is a decent person who just doesn't have what it takes to do the job. That's the unglamorous truth. The trouble with building moralistic scaffolding around it, pretending he's The Devil just to make ourselves feel a bit better, is that after he's gone, what will remain is our own dishonesty.

I'm delighted to be able to add the word "Space" to my job title as I start a job at the OU in the Centre For Electronic Imaging tomorrow 🙂

Oh, this has to be the definitive Starmer/Mandelson cartoon. Superb!

The words "come on Brighton" involuntarily came out of my mouth earlier. Not sure that has happened before!

Meanwhile, at Anthropic www.politico.eu/newsletter/f...

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