I want to go to bed, but Mary says no, she's quite comfortable thanks.

[Laughs in HS2.] Seriously though, people should see what central Africa is like now. Countries which never had the legacy infrastructure are building the newest stuff now and are reaping the benefits and adapting their economies to new ways today.

Galaxy brain article coming up: Motorists are a soft touch for parking fines, fuel costs, motor finance scams, etc. This is because we are too dependent on cars and should have pushed harder for good public transport.

The thumbnail image for this looked to my groggy eyes like a Smoke Giant walking up the hill behind a chap on a motorbike. Which seems a metaphor in any case. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Who wants to guess what the Express headline will be tomorrow? (More of the same bullshit they've written for last 10 years tbh)

Well, as someone who has spent the last few years working solely in renewables, and spent all that time with people complaining how "they'll never catch on as supply is so unreliable"....

I see we are nearly at the "Stalin's dacha" stage of the administration

Conveyancing in the UK is such a shambolic shit show that it brings the legal profession into disrepute. The proposed reforms to the system are no more than sticking plasters and a fundamental rethink of how we transfer residential real estate is desperately needed.

"It's the economy, stupid"

BBC journalists have been unable to reach Scott's mother for comment.

Oh, you blocked me.

If you liked Machadaynu, you'll love Angine de Poitrine.

Lunacy of the day. The other week I went from York to London. Arrived at station to "signalling problems down south". LNER woman shouting "Get on next train to Sheffield and change! Go go go!!!" So we went. Arrived 2 hrs late. Delay claim denied as original train wasn't actually late in the end!

Just watched Mike Wozniak delivering a delightful torrent of twaddle. Marvellous.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO NYSÄTER* (*It's a wind farm in Sweden, and yes I did work on it thanks, ta.)

Calling @cog1.bsky.social to the camp fire...

www.maptap.gg March 21 99🎯 93🏆 91👑 90👑 93🏅 Final score: 923

But the Neighbourhood Watch asked me to be the one to look after The Chair! Mrs Jones won't want to have to have the guillotine back in her garage.

I don't even like football particularly, but that little hop of his left leg over the ball was quite something

I need more Angine de Poitrine in my life. (The band not the condition)

I think that when apple released an advert with this tune might have been about the time it all started going wrong.

Yeah, Kier. Give him what he wants and be grateful for it. Turns out so well for everyone else.

Eid Mubarak to all celebrating (And a recommendation to search the term on here for all the seasons greetings images, which in a world of AI, have sometimes taken rather odd turns, if well intentioned. I especially liked the "Bugs Bunny breaking his fast" one.)

I have ten sales jokes, but if you can tell me you want fifteen of them before close of business tomorrow I'll give you a sixteenth one for free. Maybe next quarter.

Sweet Caroline. Fuck right off.

There's a really bad trend in recent US cinematic output - a notable increase in the wank fantasy where the frustrated ordinary man cracks and with surprising skill and alacrity wipes out the architects of his petty, niggles. (Reacher, Nobody, anything by Ricky Gervais)

I'm in a sunny London and just bumped into a friend I haven't seen in 12 years. Lovely start to the day.

So, a quick troll through ancestry shows that I'm more Irish than most Americans getting animated about it today. Sadly still not Irish enough to get that EU passport! But still, I'd guess that most Brits in the north west have a fair bit of common ancestry with those across the sea.

Still waiting.

30 seconds into #R4Today and continually astounded that they still try and frame his rambling utterings as having some basis in rational thought. Stop trying to frame this through a lens of logic - that's how he continues to gull you!

I wouldn't. I'd tunnel out the oil from here.

As far as I know, there is one way to build a canal quickly.

Just spent ages fannying around with settings on monitor and laptop to work out why it wasn't working. Yes, of course I hadn't plugged it in. Auspicious start to the week.

Wouldn't like to be Bezos when the algorithm works out how much he can pay!

Woke up too early today and now I'm faced with frost. Making a brew and listening to Michael Nyman whilst I contemplate how best to fritter the short period before I should be doing stuff.

I fear (historical and racial tropes aside) this is literally what Hegseth thinks a force in Bandar Abbas would actually be like.

I love it when Dan posts a thread. Vicarious delight from when I have felt at times that I am dealing with fakes and charlatans on the other side, so nice to see one being called out.

Look this speech up if you haven't seen it and want to see what a "masterclass in oration" isn't (despite crowing from some quarters) The usual GC swagger and pomposity, with little, or misdirected, content that really does the Bar disservice.

Bollocks to the badger. And to Churchill for that matter. It's all so mammal-centric. Let's have a Horrid Ground Weaver Spider - one of the only animals found here and nowhere else.

I see that the fox battering law firm has actually advised the tax campaigner on defending a defamation claim.

Today I am mainly being wound up by very old people making or blocking decisions for young people. We really do need to look at differential enfranchisement.

I think there is a precedent for Presidents showing how to encourage martime transport. Perhaps Trump should follow this to set a good example.

Teletubbies took a dark turn.

The "once we hurt them they'll make a deal with us to not get hurt again" hand doesn't seem to know what the "we'll break every deal we make because lol they can't stop us" hand is doing

The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro

This reads like an edgy cocktail list for a lively party. I'd imagine a "Married Man" is probably a champagne cocktail, with (in descending order) brandy, gin or vodka. "Ship's Queer" is vodka, soda and lime juice, with maybe a salty rim.

www.channel4.com/programmes/d... I watched this and was entertained and angry. I'll leave the invective about water companies to others (Greens) but the bit that got me was the inertia of our govt on everything (nod to Grenfell at the end). This is why Trump is popular: he actually does stuff

You know those pics you have in your download folder that you never think you'll use again? Well... Time to shine.

Bart really does the best explainers. Couldn't have done it better myself. (And I used to be a partner in the world's leading shipping firm!) (Not a shipping lawyer though. Didn't go down there, as I didn't like the shanties)

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