This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

"I've got this idea for a bike stand" "Sheffield stands?" "No, it's kind of out of the box thinking, and..." "Sheffield stands" "No, more arty than that, sort of... "Sheffield stands" "No, like an installation..." "Sheffield stands" "Well..." "Sheffield stands" "Er..." "Sheffield stands"

I'm not sure of the context of this but this reads like it was written at 4am by someone on a lot of drugs. This was put out by a *company*?

Good morning, please enjoy this panoramic picture taken from the highland wildlife park, showing all the weather, all at the same time. Thumbnail does not do it justice!

🥳Nice little email this morning that the Causewayside Lads' Club building has survived attempts by developers to demolish it and has successfully been protected by listing. More on the story of this place and its unusual founder here: threadinburgh.scot/2024/04/13/t... cc @edinburghminute.com

📣Your attention please! 🚪🩷The Pink Door House is up for sale. 🚨This is not a drill, I repeat, the Pink Door House is up for sale! cc : @spurtle.bsky.social www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Did an excellent walk at the Uath Lochans yesterday

TBF only one manifesto to date doesn't mention potholes. We've checked.

What is 'the data show people havent got poorer'? This seems to suggest that people are expecting to have stuff they didn't used to, and maybe that's part of it, but also absolutely everything, including all unavoidable things like childcare, housing, food *are actually* more expensive?

In the spirit of this I am giving up on this book (feersum endjin, that should have given me a clue) after struggling through one chapter of this character. It's Iain Banks and the story otherwise seems great but I cannot deal with this for pages on end

Text written in a dialect does nothing other than just take me out of the story by making me consider how *i* would personally pronounce that combination of letters

Made a couple of things and wrote them up #garmentsewing #sewsky www.applefranca.com/home/heavy-t...

So taskmaster last night. Not my favourite group of contestants so far but first time in ages I've been gripped by a final game

Genius move. Make officials 'find another route from Granton to the city centre'. And how precisely are the poor buggers going to do? Only logical thing to do is to restore the old railway line and do it now. Anything else is political weakness. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

Daniel Johnston is canvassing in my street, i.e. filming an interview with some Mormon looking young people, then ringing one (1) doorbell in the middle of the street, before walking off I can't imagine that this is an effective campaigning strategy

Frohe Ostern / Happy Easter.

FFS. The answer is to get people to drive less and more economically, not make it cheaper. Idiots area already causing shortages by panic buying. This won't help. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remember this? Well, this could now be us. We need to travel for a funeral, husband is in the process of renewing his British passport. His other one is Irish though, so theoretically no entry restrictions. But can we risk it? Absolutely wonderful to have be worrying about this in a bereavement

This is such incredible abject nonsense. If the straight stays closed ordinary people will have to use less oil and gas. Price is the fairest rationing mechanism that incentivises people who can to switch and to reduce consumption.

And the washing! It is seemingly illegal to hang out washing in enough places that this keeps coming up as a reason for why Americans tumble dry absolutely everything

It’s true. My Belgian boss shot my missus in the face because she’d never heard of Plastic Bertrand. Harsh but fair.

Our annual viewing of the Brutalist Easter Bunny in Jyväskylä, Finland. www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/v...

You can put lipstick on this pig but the fundamental flaw is no matter how many millions you save here to it make it more “efficient“ it will still induce more demand than present. Any amount of money moved from any scheme here to public and sustainable travel is money saved

Even fools know that you don’t solve congestion by increasing capacity. Nice April Fools though : No active travel facilities at all, and can you imagine the horrific 70mph head-on crashes there’ll be when one driver makes a simple mistake?

Let’s hope this time the TEC puts the safety of local residents who walk, wheel and cycle in the Braid Estate ahead of the additional 4,000 drivers that were expected to return to our residential streets had the 2024 vote been implemented. It should save £££s too!

Something on a stick day!

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

Yesterday I learnt that both Livingston and Falkirk are within the East coast chippy sauce zone. I wonder what the furthest west you can get it is?

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

There’s only one elegant solution to this problem of increasingly stupid audiences, and that’s to mandate that every film ends with a closing rap song that lays out all the moral lessons of the movie. There will be a government office that reviews the songs for aural and pedagogical value.

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

I have been thinking about what they were thinking with this advert for a good ten minutes now. Going to go out on a limb and say that Riga is probably not all that much like Madrid

I don't know what linked or queens game is and have never heard of the ranking descriptions but I agree! Our pub quiz guy does it this way and it does lowkey annoy me. If there's four teams in join second, and three in third (this happens all the time), the next team along is 8th, not 4th!

Huge escalation for UK school library censorship. Nearly 200 books targeted in one school, with the excuse of “safeguarding”. A librarian has lost her job & can never work in schools again. The fate of the books remains to be seen. @indexoncensorship.org www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

We need to take kid to a place in Livingston on Sunday and husband, looking up directions, has just referred to this as the 'roundabout of flower hell'. I think it should be renamed officially!

Well all these passport stories have made me check our passports and sons British one runs out in September, so will need to get it renewed for our June flight to fit within the EU 3 months expiry rule. Should be fine to travel on the German one tbh, but taking no chances at this point

Nick Clegg unveiled a portrait of himself at the National Liberal Club yesterday and it's hard to tell which one looks less like Nick Clegg, the portrait of Nick Clegg or the actual Nick Clegg

The other thing I keep harping on about re this dual national travel thing: if the airlines are going to be asked to enforce this nonsense, they really need to change their systems so you can but both passports in. Cos at the moment there is only space for one

Jesus Christ! Nightmare situation. So she has less rights in the UK being British and Norwegian than just Norwegian. Excellent work everyone, just absolutely flawless

I’m gonna say something that’s going to upset people: the current oversize sweater trend is because there are a bunch of people designing clothing who do not understand how to construct clothing correctly, and because constructing clothing correctly takes time we have decided we don’t have.

I am very sad to not be participating in the Eurovision build up this year. I haven't even listened to all the songs, just feels a bit pointless

Had a lovely time on my bike commute today, the temperatures are really up and all the cyclists are out. So fun to be riding in a mass!

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

My older's scouts are raising money for homelessness projects, and are unfortunately way off their fundraising target. If anyone feels like sponsoring them even a small amount, that would be much appreciated. It's a great cause! www.justgiving.com/page/28th-br...

Watched the Louis Theroux documentary, didn't find it very illuminating at all, but loved the HS guys mum making him mop up, and then having a go at LT for being just as bad as the you tubers for profiting off outrage

My lunch is a giant bowl of brussel sprouts with like two spoonfuls of rice. This is not a complaint!

$100k is £75k which is just under 90th percentile

Haven't posted an outfit for ages. For the #garmentsewing people, this is the Homer and Howells cissy and the fabric is a Robert Kauffman flannel. Wearing this costume the temperatures have dropped again but I refuse to get my winter coat out again

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

Up in Scotland we are wondering what all the fuss is about.