Wowsers, fire at one of the works (scrap metals? Not sure) on Lewisham/Millwall area right next to @serailway.bsky.social mainline into London Bridge. Close enough to feel notably warmer (and smoky) as train went past. Some major disruption about to occur I think!

Fantastic crimes against data (and standard spelling) in this BBC article on lower ranked tennis players

Got to admit, this brightened up my Friday when I opened it last night. If you were singled out as a Dunce at school, you can still make it as a mayoral candidate, that's the British dream

So here we have seating arrangements for 10 people, ie it's not just people distancing, but one of these going to the press... Presume it's Vance and/or Rubio, who come out of this article merely spineless (and still hugely complicit), compared with the other enablers

This is also arbitrary within the area: I'm in such an area and I *think* I'm allowed panels as the location we'd have them is away from the road. But if you're over the other side, and the best roof for solar is towards the road, then no deal

Case 00148256

Just been approached by Huel to see if I'll be part of their paid influencer campaign. I don't think they're quite across what I do for a living. (FWIW, and in the interests of having influence, I regard Huel as a soul destroying, miserable product and the death of all that is worth living for.)

I think the only way to overcome the inadequacies of and debates around the "boots on the ground" metaphor is by sending infantry with advanced hoverboard capabilities

Sorry, attempting to deport whole sections of population/citizenship, restrict freedoms in education, change voting rights and using the unconstrained power of federal govt to do so isn't "centralising power" and "societal transformation"?! What even are words meaning these days?

Under-remarked on aspect of this (presumably false) claim is that it suggests the admin doesn't believe in the power of the US nuclear deterrent, or at least not in this context*. Will anyone ask "so if you think we can't deter bad actors from a nuclear strike, why do we bother with our deterrent?"

Amongst all the other nonsense, have they not got a response already?! This decision was not beyond the wit of man to predict at least as a possibility. Or is the arrogance so deep they really hadn't considered losing?

Brb, just going to build a house in a fire-risk area, start a fire and then build a new bigger one. Soon my house will be the biggest in the world

Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him.

Ah, a quick read of this and it seems to be "now they've actually had time to do a load of things they previously merely openly talked about, I'll call it Fascism" I.e. the writer just didn't take them seriously beforehand

Oh look, he's back to the pettily suggesting it's only a state "Governor" nonsense

Just mostly quite surprised he's used the gerund correctly in "Canada's joining"

Heckle him, you absolute cowards #davos

Okay, we need to talk about Carney's Havel reference. 🧵

Yep, and ancillary points like "how high do military wages have to go to recruit another 20,000 personnel?" and " how long does this take?" given stock/flow issues of training pipelines etc etc

Peston with a rare direct and accurate question alert! Things must be bad

What a load of rubbish this is. Fails to explain that the US is no longer a close ally and partner. Emphasises benefits Starmer has got over and above others via the special relationship. Not only false [the deal is off!] but this non-solidarity with the EU is what made us all weaker.

I'm struck, as a Spurs fan,.about a certain affinity between Thomas Frank and Kier Starmer... Directionless, chat about "pragmatism", a claim of values but no obvious example of what those values are Has anyone done this yet?!

Shorter Starmer: say almost nothing, except maybe "I don't like it, but I'll have to go along with it"

Younger than this and maybe a result of slightly more rural living (falling trees etc), but we definitely had a big stock of candles for when the power went down when I was a kid. Extremely rare now

I would simply reject the request and ask to be on R3 Private Passions instead

My one pause over this otherwise very plausible Occam's Razor explanation is that he at least phrases it in terms of security, Russia, some kind of manifest destiny... like he at least has the depth, or the advisors, necessary to avoid saying our loud "I just want to make USA bigger"

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

@janinegibson.ft.com is this correct?! Apx = the oysters?! Where on earth were the beans from?

There are FOUR ghosts!

They've got it right this time (very same track) bsky.app/profile/apwl...

Pretty sure this was actually BWV615, In Dir Ist Freude

Just woken up. Time to check the score from day three of the highly anticipated first Ashes Test! Oh, oh yeah #thecricket

Sort of post that makes me regret that Dillow doesn't have more books and wider influence (probably down to same sort of dynamics he illustrates here) - I still have End of Politics on my reading list for my A-Level students but increasingly feels like someomthing from another age even if still true

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵

Ha, looked to see what Stephen's reaction to this would be. It was as expected

Speaking of cold northern places, he really TACO'd Greenland, didn't he? (Thankfully)

What I have learned from Unzoomed: 1. God, North America is really like that. 2. The air in Africa is a faded brown colour 3. Christ North America 4. Dakar surprisingly looks like it's in the Middle East 5. I don't know where anywhere in China is 6. I am bad at Unzoomed 7. North America WTF.

Let's not forget that the UK is in danger of being left behind in this area 🤪

Brilliant observational article from @jemima.bsky.social on.ft.com/41ugaqV Others have written on this, but the tackiness/classlessness is intriguing. There's money involved (Porsches, country houses) but also semi-conscious rejection of other class signifiers (champagne, opera, dressing well &c)

It’s kinda ridiculous that the BBC employs a disinformation specialist whilst simultaneously treating the most visible part of their output with all the care and caution of a bull in a china shop

Good to know. Presume this means these super competitive farmers can do without and subsidies and preferential tax treatment, e.g. in inheritance. Big changes to conservative policy afoot

I keep seeing trailers for The Assassin with Keeley Hawes, yet there is also something advertised on buses with the same name with a big picture of a woman... Who doesn't really look like Keeley Hawes?! Eradication by airbrush

Think of the productivity enhancements! Stagnation solved

Is today's NYT Strands the game editors rebelling at the servile main paper, the whole paper finding its voice, or just random and deeply ironic?

This of course is funny but also deeply profound. Maybe the domestic robots are coming, but it's striking how much effort and resource is being channelled towards replacing/enhancing creative actions that we enjoy and make us human and comparatively little towards replacing actual drudgery

I am the largest language model anyone could ever need I’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever read I’ll answer any question with great eloquence and attitude As long as you indulge me with a little factual latitude stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t...

Let's check in on the Marginal Revolution guys and see if they have anything to say ... ... <crickets>

Hahaha "assassinate the president's character" Going to need a very accurate sniper to locate what minuscule character he has

Grok not looking forward to the start of The Hundred either, then