Trying to find out details of an indoor track race in Boston today (not the New Balance meet, I'm watching that) and I ended up on this site which is giving me Geocities flashbacks https://lancertiming.com/

In #minnesota, citizens require have a permit to legally carry a #handgun in public, acc/to the Minnesota Dept of #publicsafety. The permit does not require the weapon to be concealed & it also serves as a permit to purchase a #firearm, meaning holders don’t need a separate purchase permit […]

Leaving the Ace of Spades on the dead bodies of enemies is a psyop tactic that was used in the Vietnam War. There is no reforming a culture like this. Abolish ICE.

Land of the free, home of the brave 🇺🇸

It's all a bit much for the fluffsters this afternoon #caturday

If anyone would like last week - and next week- explained, this book has the key. As a side bonus, I now have limitless respect for Starmer not calling Trump an entitled nepo baby and throwing us into a nuclear war every time they meet. Good lip biting, Keir.

This will not stop until the users doing this and Elon Musk and his X developers are prosecuted and jailed. What are we waiting for?

Biathlete spotted #juggling pre-race. Not a terrible hand-eye coordination warm up #biathlon

Cameron Ponsonby pointing out the problems with Brook's timeline and how it's made the ECB look foolish #cricket https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/nz-confidential-how-harry-brook-s-tangled-timeline-leaves-ecb-in-a-bind-1520599

Artemis was appalled this morning that I elected not to have the blanket over my lap #caturday

Grateful for #parkrun teams checking their courses earlier: diverting from plan A to plan B because of an early cancellation.

Weird, these protesters haven't been arrested, tried, and jailed without being allowed to mention at their trials the reason for their actions. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3688lx6z1lo where are the people complaining about the traffic delays, about how ambulances might be delayed?

Oh yeah, if you're annoyed that the models can't predict where the storm will go, you can thank Trump, Musk, and the Republican administration for cutting back weather monitoring for the past year. And yeah, the models aren't going to be more accurate for a few years to come. (Make sure to […]

Nice to see a bit of unicycle hockey on the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/crrnk4120jko

Was this in their election manifesto? Who asked for this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwnn10rgk4o

Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System "Your Ring camera is an ICE agent." https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-ring-cameras-ice

if anyone can beat the three compass directions in the South East Northumberland Rail User Group, I'd be very happy to see it: https://www.senrug.co.uk/

Finally packed away my sewing machine, overlocker, and the pattern pieces from the last things I sewed back in November? So of course now I start feeling like maybe I could sew something. Only shopping from stash though (fabric and patterns).

In other news, the Guardian is now running scam ads. This is what happens when you choose to data harvest your readers with surveillance adtech & run shitty programmatic ads…a literal fake BBC news report (starring @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com) embedded into an actual news report

Is the world in a bad place when you start thinking of ways to obtain and distribute @simple_sabotage that don't leave a digital trace (like this does)? Alas Waterstones offers to order it from the publisher rather than letting you check in store stock and purchase with cash.

Cloudy and light-polluted here, but watching some #aurora webcams from my nice warm bed.

Hello Britain and northern Europe. If the skies are clear where you are, go outside and look north. Now. #auroraborealis #auroraalert #aurora #northernlights

I'm having more luck teaching my giant baby to share and not hit than America is right now.

I don’t ordinarily link to substack newsletters but this is essential reading, from Paul Krugman. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/big-business-should-end-its-faustian

Seeing as @BBCNews failed to quote the #greenparty on the #6oclocknews just now (giving second place quote to #reformukltd (other political parties are available you know BBC, but you'd never guess), here is Polanski's comment from earlier today (from BSky - I know I know 🙄 I'm trolling him re fedi)

Personally, I don't think Trump is insane. I mean, deluded, narcissistic, and immensely stupid (I mean, unbelievable so), but that is just what it takes to get on in politics. No, I think his problems are twofold: 1. He is is serious cognative decline. Alzheimer, dementia, no idea what. But he […]

I'd rather look at that wall than the road crossing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c620nyr1p9qo

Not entirely sure how Starmer expects the UK to 'pull together' against Trump's tariffs. Nice rhetoric, but what does that even look like? Pretty sure everyone's already pulled together on the fact that Trump's a toddler, do we all just need to post more memes about it? What does he think the […]

Starting the week with neighbours complaining about upcoming bus diversions related to some roadworks. Some people are never happy: they complain about the work needing to be done, then complain when it is done too. Apparently repairs, maintenance and improvements should magically be done […]

So, watching Antiques Roadshow. Someone has brought in his ancestors diary from the Somme. His "pals battalion" - so a group of people who will have known others. Out of 650, only 45 survived. The one day. And they are talking about how fortunate he was. How Kitchener was encouraging pals […]

FFS, I was looking for something else (about sports clubs poaching members) and found 3 recent cases of coaches sexually assaulting their athletes/creating indecent images of children: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2026/01/16/james-russell-jailed-child-sex-offences-uk-athletics-coach/ […]

During the McCarthy era, my dad — a University of Michigan professor — was asked by the FBI to name communists or other subversives at the University. He refused. He told us they came several times to his office to pressure him, even threatening him with being called before the Committee (a […]

Well done to those strangers (p.s. not an EV) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgjvrggnvno

Got ripped off on an online purchase over the holidays for about $44.00 Sent dispute to bank/visa. Bank disputes my dispute and rejects. Just got off the phone to learn the person who reviewed my dispute lied about the answers I provided in their dispute form as cause to reject the dispute […]

OK then, for this afternoon's distraction do I go 2 Broke Girls (problematic stereotypes but comedy) or How It Feels Like For A Girl (dark themes of sex work, drugs & abuse)?

I am once again begging journalists and the panels of employment tribunals to understand that when a witness (or 'expert') self-identifies as being 'gender critical' in relation to any trans issue, that this is akin to them saying that they are anti-semitic and then going on to talk about the […]

RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/115900683422500840 The deeply flawed trial hasn't even started and they have already decided the result. Fuckers.

Finally. Some good news. "A 92-year-old woman has won first prize at a national Scrabble tournament. Diana Beasley from Exeter took the B Division crown at the Final Fling event in Reading, finishing with 10 wins and a draw across 15 rounds" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0erp79v4p9o

Quote from a friend: Email signature block that says, "please consider the waste of natural resources before asking an AI to summarize this email"

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Yesterday I lost a client. And I couldn't be happier about it. It's a long-standing client, but the management changed a few months ago. On Monday, they requested an emergency intervention, which I handled immediately. On Tuesday (yesterday, evening), they asked for a non-urgent enhancement to […]

In the example given. It would be far better to say "no problem, can you do it by wednesday next week?" And then the engineer does it by Friday. They are calm, relaxed, and able to do the job properly without any shortcuts. There's even time to write documentation. Artificially creating urgency […]

Seems like Labour will u-turn on anything except allowing trans kids to have the same access to the same medication as cis kids https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o

Yes, finally a Pratchett question on Pointless yesterday #discworld

If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Watching the Stranger Things documentary, in awe of all of these creative people (as usual) and particularly liking the t-shirt of one of the sculptors. In the style of the Hellfire Club t-shirt, instead it says 'Hot wife club'.

50 to 70 free parking permits a year is a lot. When I lived in Reading you could get a book of 12 scratch off permits where you wrote in the number plate and scratched off the date, but I don't recall there being a limit on how many extra books you could buy […]

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10

I wonder if UKIP will even bother to try and hide behind weasel words for its new Iron Cross logo (see https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-registration-and-regulation/political-party-registration/current-applications-update-party-registrations) since Hitler turned it into a […]