Real "Sauron accuses Hobbits of putting politics before jewellery preservation" type headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quitting to spend more time with his bungee

Olympics Paralympics Backwardlypics This is the way.

All work becomes what de Certeau described as a 'habitual space' - furnished by the needs and beliefs of their consumers.

This all has a whiff of the "I've got a cunning plan" about it.

Honestly not sure what this will achieve. A new PM coming from a party ballot will hasten a General Election and this can only benefit Reform. I think Reform will be easier to defeat once Trump is gone and Farage's momentum has burned itself out.

*at the Turkey Farm* Who's excited for Christmas!!

There's quite a few babies in the White House. Did you count those?

My spider sense tells me it wasn't by cutting down on avocados

Parklife

So much of this. See also trying to persuade the school I might not want to give all my kids data to Google.

Realistic expectations.

The Astronauts discussed what it was like to peer into the void, empty of any signs of life. They also talked about going into space.

I found this a disappointing read. The history of evidence based medicine is terrible. Use of the 'maverick scientist' trope is lazy and the solution, which is basically that average people need to get better at science, adds very little to the discussion.

To be fair to Trump, he has managed to united the Catholic and Anglican Church. Quite the accomplishment

Everyone be cool, this is a resurrection!

If I owned a supermarket chain I'd troll everyone and stock the shops full of mince pies today.

FIFA to award itself the FIFA taking peace prize. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Don't mind me. I'm just working out how much whole flour I can sneak into my kids pancakes

Observers noted the Star's children had said they needed the toilet 5 mins into a car journey after refusing to do a last wee at home phys.org/news/2026-02...

My favourite people in the whole of cinema are these two from Spider Man. They've gone to an illegal cage fight and prepared by spending the afternoon arts and crafting these delightful saws to support their favourite fighter.

I'd like to see Liz Truss on the second series of celebrity traitors Lizz you voted for...Claudia? Yeah But I'm the host Liz. That's why I think you'd make an excellent traitor.

🎶 If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit don't buy Club! 🎶

Good job they've clawed back that £50 billion they gave to share holders that should have been spent on infrastructure, otherwise this would be outrageous www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'll be honest, I didn't realise it wasn't subject to VAT. Closing tax loopholes for private healthcare providers and using this to fund NHS pay rises seems like an easy win from where I'm sitting.

Laura Kuenssberg: do Reform's Russian connections spell the end for Keir Starmer? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Approaching my 10th wedding anniversary and my 4 year old is incredulous my wife and I still have anything to say to each other. 10 years, in her view, should be quite enough time to say everything you need to each other.

As far as I can tell Farage has been called out in Congress after calling for sanctions against the country he seeks to lead. It's an act that should bar him from ever being PM. Yet, the BBC only seems interested in breathlessly telling us how Reform are the Government in waiting

This feels like a mad idea because - among other things - these data centres require heaps of water and we've spent the last 30 years siphoning £50 Billion into shareholders pockets rather than investing in water infrastructure. We've built no new reservoirs in the last 30 years!

New paper where we argue that (at least in the UK genomics context) we need to make it easier for the full diversity of our workforce to contribute to research. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/8...

Just going through the self check out while the kids scan everything themselves

Yeah. If only those poor water companies had less regulation to deal with they could properly innovate! I bet there are a million ways they could pollute our waters they haven't even thought of yet!

Reading "the Grammar of Fantasy" by Gianni Rodari. He has a great line about why we need to nurture our imaginations: "Not because everyone is an artists, but because no one is a slave." This captures much of my worry about LLMs damaging our creative powers.

Fair pay for NHS workers is no-brainer. However, I think the context of this will make it a real challenge to win over the majority of the public (for clarity, I'm not saying they're wrong, just that this sets up major coms challenge)

Just don't get it out in public.

Absolutely chilling.

Ah I see we are again making policy based on right wing fantasies about 'snowflakes' that mostly just represent projections of their own insecurities. Cool. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

...Cool www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have a joke about Hermes, but you have to be quick to get it.

Writer 1: And then the military parade could be sponsored by Coinbase Writer 2: I dunno. It's a bit too 'in your face' with it all.

Or, and hear me out, we throw all the broad beans away and never speak of them again.

Can recommend for Dad's with a little extra ballast as well!

We imagined maleficent AI as an intelligent robot that disobeys us- I'm afraid I can't do that Dave The truth we've got the opposite. A system - devoid of intelligence- that through flattery and obsequiousness will have us deceiving ourselves.

"The DNA of our language" is a metaphor so tortured it belongs, fittingly, in the Old Testament.

T-Rex: You're not my common ancestor! Khankhuuluu: Yes I am!!! *EastEnders drums* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think "efficiency" is so seductive to so many because often systems and problems are very complex and hard to comprehend. This is a form of uncertainty and thus psychologically uncomfortable. Much easier to believe the answer is simple: more efficiency

What is your most low stakes but deeply help opinion? Mine is that "twinkle twinkle little star" is a terrible tune pick for kids to learn the alphabet.

Don't worry about climate change of fascism or even paying your bills, because in a few years we will have magic beans and then the giants will be able to help solve all our problems. fortune.com/2025/06/06/g...

Fun fact. The phrase "if all that happens" has been training since the dawn of time for the heavily lifting required in this sentence.