People talk a lot about CEOs being out of touch, but it's still amazing to see the Betfred guy is threatening to close all his high street betting shops, seemingly in an attempt to get public sympathy, apparently unaware that "high street betting shops" is a bipartisan byword for national decline?

Anyway, apparently, despite being born and educated in Wolverhampton, Jenrick has chosen to silo himself off to a mansion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_Manor ) in one of the least diverse parishes in England ( https://censusdata.

Might resurrect the thread I had in the old place of "reviews of albums that I had on in the background when focusing on work and wasn't pay any attention to them".

We've gone on holiday by mistake

Great to see this has finally been made official by [checks notes] DFDS Ferries, the official European agency for ranking cities for cycling.

Tech bros going wild about the fact you can ask chatgpt to act as a theoretical physicist and it will push the frontiers of human knowledge. That's nothing, I asked it to act as a psychic medium and it gave me actual msgs from the actual late Harry Houdini. He told me to invest in shares of nvidia.

I'm old enough to remember when terrorists were scary evil people who did diabolical acts like plant bombs on the tube or crash planes into buildings, not old ladies crocheting peace slogans outside provincial town halls.

Me (manspreading across 16 seats & 4 tables on the almost empty stopping train from Paddington) at the massed hordes who crushed themselves into the express, expecting to overtake us at Reading, when they finally pull in alongside at Bristol having been stuck behind us all the way.

Good luck to anybody using Google to look up organisations' addresses in the age of AI Overviews. The address of the Ministry of Justice is a flooring warehouse that once supplied some carpet tiles to the county court.

when they said "think global, act local", I'm not sure they meant paint shit graffiti saying "no ICE in Bristol" all over town. I'm sure someone will come up with some argument about international solidarity but it just comes across as more Too Online ppl confusing US domestic news for UK politics.

They say that everybody's welcome at Pride, but then they scheduled Bristol's for a 34°c heatwave. I assume the ambulances at the back were there to sweep up those few goths, rubbermen and furries who still insisted on coming.

Amazing that Google News is reporting that zero news stories have been published today (or for several months) matching the search term "Chris Grayling", despite the abundance of column inches today on the organisation of HS2 being an absolutely shitshow.

This afternoon half a dozen of m'colleagues gathered in an office breakout space for a meeting, one got distracted by a pack of antibac wipes on the table and remarked on the cleanliness of her mobile, so they all spent 5 minutes being actual telephone sanitisers.

Group chat joked about a London landmark & I was going to make another in reply but then I thought "this joke is too obvious it must have been made 100s of times, let me google it", and google gave me a deadpan AI Overview explaining that Big Ben was not created by a scientist and isn't a monster.

oh, has the Office for National Statistics weighted random number generator day come around already? I can't wait to hear everyone's narratives about what this month's numbers mean for Rachel Reeves's job security and Reform UK's electoral changes.

My energy supplier is embracing AI to drive productivity. They've put a little LLM-generated image of an imaginary account manager in the signature of of the bills that they send me after a human comes around to take readings from my "smart" meters.

Reading through the West Dulwich Petrolheads vs Lambeth judgement, and the "impressive" dossier of evidence that the entire judgement rests on. It's... pathetic. Here they are claiming that only journeys under 2km have the potential to be done by walking by cycling.

Lots of ppl here relishing the prospect of the private owners who trashed Thames Water losing out when it collapses, apparently unaware that the asset strippers at Macquarie already took all the money & ran years ago (selling the worthless husk to some idiot suckers) and will be entirely unaffected.

I'm not sure who the Daily Mail thinks this crime would be "in character" for, but of all the possible demographics, 53 year old tech company director who lives in a detached 4 bed in a cul-de-sac has to be at the lower end of the surprise spectrum when I'm told who it was perpetrated a heinous

Nigel Farage wants to encourage people to have more children now? Sorry mate, haven't you heard, Britain is full? What does he think high birth rates are going to do for congestion on the M4?

Phwoar #newkerbs

oh no, Mozilla is killing Pocket, I better get on read those 14,134 articles that I saved to read later

ok but has nobody told them that if they are successful the universe will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable (again)? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwvgevjjl6o

My yimbyism is torn on this story of nimbyism in a village very near the town where I grew up, not because Marnhull is an exceptional bucolic village that should be preserved as is (it's very average), but because they should build the houses in the actual town where I grew up, because that

Ah, Baxter Dury getting a driving ban is reminding me (as he does every time he gets airplay on 6 Music) once again of Foster's Law ("if I’ve heard of yer da I don’t need to hear from you").

How much of the productivity crisis in the UK's manufacturing and engineering sectors can be attributed to the fact that the workers just spend all of their time standing around looking bored in the background of cabinet ministers' speeches, which for some reason now all need to be delivered in

Spent the day at the London office, man you get some weirdos up that city, this one fucker was just pacing around occasionally going psycho at his own reflection...

Lazyweb: is there any reason I can't use a "for bottle dynamos" light with a hub dynamo? Is the only difference a lack of off switch? I'm sure I knew the answer to this once. My 12yo Luxos U's standlight function has finally completely expired, but I have a random unused bottle dynamo light lying

I'm here at the world famous Ipley Cross. Had to pause for my tourist snaps.