Fantastic to have all the TM’s up at Jurby today with Andreas Racing Association for their yearly assessment on their new BMW’s! 🇮🇲 #ara #jurby #motorsport #iomtt #TT2026 #OrangeArmy 🧡

Fantastic work by @ledbydonkeys.org

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w... A lot of this shared with @iandunt.bsky.social's views on why Westminster doesn't work

Britain is a wealthy law-abiding country, with a long shared history, a vibrant civic society and robust institutions. It is not in any way ungovernable and suggesting it is lets the people who should be governing it off the hook.

The French scholar Damien Charlotin is doing gods work in compiling every AI-hallucinated case featured in recorded cases around the world. www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Y'know how the right always say if you put taxes up for the rich, they'll just leave? Not true Turns out even millionaires aren't as venal and self-interested as the right assumes everyone is www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Entries are now open for the 4th round of the ARA Motorcycle Championships in June! 📣🇮🇲 #ARA #July #motorsport #iom

<much too obvious> The Rolling Stone Roses

He didn't actually say the word "white", but I'm pretty sure everyone knows that is what he's talking about

And tbh, I really don't get why I should be the only person saying this stuff. The people who get paid the big bucks have access to the same data. If you simply split councillors along Right-Left lines, there is barely an observable change.

This. A thousand times this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Aux armes, les citoyens! French national anthem remains an absolute fucking banger. Anthems should make you want to start slitting the throats of your enemies, and La Marseillaise is the absolute best at doing that.

One of the coolest experiences in MotoGP will always be La Marseillaise on the grid at Le Mans, with 110,00 French fans singing their hearts out!

Important guide for the many new councillors elected this week.

Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough. 100 years old today. Passion, sincerity, empathy and very funny. Aren’t we lucky to have lived in his time ♥️

Neck and neck promotion fight in Hell's Ironic Punishments Division between the devil who cursed Reform voters with the agony of living in areas run by Reform councilors, and the imp who cursed Reform council candidates with actually having to do the hard, boring, thankless jobs they campaigned for.

@theregister.com treating claims from AI companies with the appropriate level of seriousness (ie not very much) www.theregister.com/software/202...

Imagine being the richest man on earth, and responsible for the deaths of 400,000 children

You know, if I had a billion dollars I might not even know what to spend it all on. I might have to give some of it away.

Just imagine what the next election will be like if this model of threatening voters takes off.

100 years ago today the General Strike began. Why not learn all about it in 81 minutes? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

It's a good while since I last rode my bike in Belgium The driving hasn't got much better The roads have got much worse

One for the Bork! Bork! Bork! desk @theregister.com Seen in the window of a vape shop (I think) in France

I've just this minute finished reading this, and it really is very very good indeed. Highly recommended

I guess she was using an academic marking scale.

This is such an unintentionally revealing piece by Hodges (on, I believe, DAY 2,719 of trying to destroy Angela Rayner for having a curry). He seeks hilariously to preempt accusations that he objects to Rayner for being a woman or working class or someone who occasionally has fun, by listing 1/

In a post promoting the British Army and their actions, Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, actually used footage of Bloody Sunday. There are no words.

Humanists UK have been pioneering positive social change for 130 years! From fighting for women's suffrage and decriminalising homosexuality, to abolishing blasphemy laws, and winning equal marriage – learn more on the 130th anniversary of #HumanistsUK. humanists.uk/2026/04/30/h...

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

Interesting reference just now to "the left-leaning Daily Mirror" on the Today Programme. I hope this practice is going to become routine, & that we'll be reminded of the political affiliations of The Daily Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Express & The Times. It would actually be quite healthy.

Season 9 has begun! @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social start with the story of European Union. How did war and peace turn utopian dreams into political reality? Stream part 1 now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

This is not a recipe for a successful nation www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

About my fondness for TV with subtitles. open.substack.com/pub/rostaylo...

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it"

Don’t forget entries are open for the next ARA test and race weekend on the 9th & 10th May. There are boat deals inplace from anyone who wants to race with us outside of the IOM. Chris Kinley will be away on NW200 commentary duties so we have commentary legend Roy Moore standing in for him. 🎙️

I'm a supporter of the Lords and in particular of the way that it controls its own timetable. But this is a constitutional outrage and it cannot stand humanists.uk/2026/04/24/a...

One strand here is a change in how we think about democracy. For most of the C20th, all the main parties engaged in "political education" - & they used that term explicitly. In other words, they took for granted that voters had to be "educated" & that politics was a form of teaching. 1/2

If a party talked about "educating the public" today, they'd be monstered as "elitist" and "patronising". The language of education has been replaced with that of consumerism, in which "the customer is always right". The "focus group" has replaced the "pulpit". It's not been a positive change. 2/2

Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

Not only is AI shit, it's going to have to lock you in, and then charge you a *lot* more for those tokens. And don't ask what a token is One for the @edzitron.com songbook www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/i...

@excelpope.net You need to see Friday's Claudia Winkleman show. In the first 30 seconds, she meets the current Excel world champion. And the guy who commentates on it

Not even trying to hide it now.

Another reason not to use Amazon www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Who says the British are uncultured? Glorious.

This government's anti-immigration agenda will starve Britain of skilled labour and global talent for decades to come inews.co.uk/opinion/reev...

AI is shit (continuing series)

And it was chosen because he thought the Japanese character for 10,000 "万" looks kind of like a little running dude

Trump is now one of the loneliest figures on the world stage. One by one, his admirers have turned their backs on him: Meloni, Le Pen, Farage, Badenoch inews.co.uk/opinion/sten...

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...