So, music tonight has included: Eurythimics Black Sabbath Beirut Bronzki Beat Craven Faults Gogol Bordello Led Zeppelin Thy Last Drop Faithless David Bowie Ellen and the Escapades

Damn - a picture from last year at Tipaza, Algeria just came up and that hit hard - it _really_ matters they we get out there and see stuff. The world is amazing.

Damn. These countryside photos are killing me. Just brought up the goats when I was on the mountain with the Berber family in the Anti Atlas. Almost in tears now.

We’re now onto the Led Zepplin, obviously. There’s some Edith Piaf queued up but I think we’re finishing on David Bowie.

I think the most amazing thing is the telly is showing photos of “countryside” from My photo history and I’m realising just how lucky I’ve been to visit some truly amazing places.

Yeah, we’ve hit the Kate Bush. I’m on a different planet.

Yeah, you think Eurythimics was some sort of 80’s throwback? We’re fully into Simple Minds here now. And it’s bloody fabulous. I remember working at the Roundhay gig - amazing!! ❤️

All of these posts must be taken in the context that I was not drinking fro January

Our forces in South India have won a glorious victory

Listening to Eurythimics at way too mischievous volume. I reminisce to being at a friends who had “proper speakers” given by a neighbour when we were teenagers and how good this sounded. Thinking back to how dodgy that was. Like, he was way too friendly to us. But fuck it, better Eurythimics […]

Okay, I kinda want a “Melania” popcorn bucket to turn into a bin for the toilet.. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/389562430836

Dropped the bike off with Martin at Torque Racing Services, ready for the fancy-pants suspension to be fitted ☺️ https://torqueracing.net/

In the most unsurprising news of the year, it turns out Elon Musk is the actual Paedo Guy.

Is that a popping sound? #aibubble https://www.ft.com/content/c7e23f07-70b3-43a7-8e1d-040ca93d6d90

I have an idea. If we used people to do work, rather than paying for AI agents, then we wouldn’t need to pay for them to not work. Also, we wouldn’t have goodness knows how much electricity used on it. #ai #ukpolitics […]

To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping. If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at […]

David Lammy on the latest defections to Reform UK: "Today is 100 days until the Tory transfer window slams shut." "It's going to be the longest and most disloyal transfer saga since Sol Campbell left Spurs."

Labour have presented their candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election… #ukpolitics

#spain plans to give 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62n6gw1dp9o

I love how the Greens are really going for this, Labour are collapsing. #greens #greenparty #labour #ukpol #ukpolitics #gortonanddenton #reform

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115963145780234119 This will be interesting as, to ban a VPN service, they will have to define what makes a VPN service. You’d think it was obvious but I’m not sure it is. After all, could a TLS connection be regarded as one? It performs in much […]

Donald Trump would definitely put pineapple on his pizza.

Loving the sign, Paddy 😆👏

“Without us, you’d be speaking German”, says Trump at the WEF. In Davos. In Switzerland. Where they speak German… 🤦‍♀️

The US Treasure Secretary seems to be a little uninformed, describing Denmark as “irrelevant”. After all, 100% of their precious Mounjaro is made in Denmark… #uspolitics

"Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code than a programmer, but that just means it's producing 10,000 times more liabilities. #code is a #liability. Code’s capabilities are #Assets. The goal of a […]

The Gulf of Trump #uspolitics

OMG he really is not all there, isn’t he?? 😶 #uspolitics

Okay internet, Macron in glasses. Yay or nay?? #importantquestion

Life comes at you fast.

"Vibe coding" really is indistinguishable from playing a slot machine. There's (for some) a degree of fun based on the hope of getting something valuable for a relatively small investment. When it won't work you just keep pulling the lever. At some point you surely will win, right? Also with […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115924018764178257 The way things are working out at the moment, this thing isn’t coming back, is it?

Ooooh this looks dodgy as hell #afcon #senvmar

Very much enjoying more Africa Cup of Nations content tonight! #afcon #senvmar

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This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Adrenochrome/115911596789682375 Honestly, if Lego sold this, they’d make a fortune

Quite tempted to occupy a section of Tony Blair’s property and build a house on it. You know, so he can really understand the task he has so gleefully taken on. Obviously, I wouldn’t really do this. I’d be stuck with dreadful neighbours.

STOP THE PRESS!!! There’s been a theft of ketchup from Sainsbury’s 😆

If your business is dependent upon people driving under the influence of alcohol, you don’t deserve to be in business… https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/enormous-cost-burdens-put-west-norfolk-pubs-at-risk-of-goi-9449456/

So, is Wes Streetjng going to defect to Reform next week? Farage says some Labour MP is planning to and he seems most likely candidate. #ukpolitics

My money is on Wes Streeting… https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/jan/15/local-elections-delays-uk-politics-live-latest-news-keir-starmer?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6968d53f8f08230f67a73d8f#block-6968d53f8f08230f67a73d8f

DANISH FORCES ARE MANDATED TO FIRE BACK IF #us ATTACKS GREENLAND #Trump says #Greenland is defended by dog sleds (true). But under royal decree, #Denmark’s small #military presence must put up a fight if attacked. #trump#greenland#denmark#military#mafiastate #imperialism #geopolitics #europe #nato #newworldorder #law […]

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115894883239745358 People will die

So, both Drupal and Phoenix Nights are 25 years old. I feel that this is not a coincidence… https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/14/phoenix-nights-25-years-since-peter-kays-record-breaking-tv-comedy-like-no-other Https://www.drupal.org #drupal

I bet Nadhim Zahawi has a premium X/Grok account… #grok #ukpolitics

Turns out Peter Mandleson wasn’t in the room with all the under-aged girls. He was at Pizza Express, next door, at the time. #ukpolitics

Can we not just sell Jack Harrison this January? Seriously, I’d be happy with £50 from the local scrap dealer. #mot #leeds #football