Dude must be so relieved he doesn't work for a company that is heavily dependent on selling per-seat Enterprise Office/Windows licenses to white-collar workers… right?

Someone used Plasticine to create this from a pencil sketch You can never trust a video again

Who is this guy, and why is he my new best friend?

Who's the most famous alum of your high school? I like to say that the answer was Douglas Adams*; but I fear Frank Lampard and Noel Edmonds are actually far more famous, despite being fractions of Adams. (*Rumour is that Adams found Brentwood in that era pretty miserable. He was right.)

Distressing news if you thought Keir Starmer was cute. Also… distressing news if you thought meerkats were cute.

Look… all I'm saying is that if we moved Dublin to just off the coast of the Isle of Man we could achieve a much more pleasingly shaped loop. And that's something I would vote for.

Wasn't Churchill more of an "amateur soldier"? Didn't need the money/ did it "for the lols"? But anyways… not the main point… I do think people are failing to understand that military leadership is very different to political leadership - Carns would likely be Starmer Mk II.

"Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerism"

Er... @theguardian.com? Hello? Spoiler Alert 😮 The only reason I ever read Blind Date is for the “Did you kiss?” bit! (Come on… I can’t be the only one?)

Does "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) [Taylor's Version] [From The Vault]" count? 🤣

Really struggling to see the win here, unless you are the new VC who will presumably double her salary? But continuing (for the moment, at least) to run them as separate institutions doesn't appear to leave much room for streamlining?

introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you: Hi I'm (not) Daniel - my great grandfather's name, which my son ended up getting. He tho has a much more interesting answer - if he'd been a girl, (s)he would have been called… Isis. (This was obviously before… ya'know!)

How lovely though that these US tech companies, despite having invested billions, have done this for free, out of the goodness of their little hearts. And all the benefits accrue to us! So touching.

Forgive my cynicism, but the actual "one change that worked" here appears to be "not needing a real income any more"?

I love Turner’s landscapes. Saw this IRL today and it is incredible. It envelopes you. Even though it is surprisingly small. (Well… I was expecting it to be much bigger.)

My two faves together - JMW Turner and Bridget Riley - at the Walker in Liverpool

“A sign stands over a door…”

I like to start my day with a simple power-breakfast of fruit and nuts. In this LinkedIn post…

Graduate: Why do I have to pay usurious interest rates on this loan? Government: It isn't really a loan - think of it more like a tax. Graduate: Why do I have to pay an extra 9% tax compared with older graduates? Government: It isn't a tax - it is a loan!

From today's @samfr.bsky.social substack interview with the former head of MI6. Gosh… who *can* he be referring to? 🤣

As per this… The fact that "prompt engineering" is a thing, ought to be a dead giveaway that "Artificial Intelligence" is not, in fact, "intelligent".

I get that this sounds productive, but who is going to use these 100s of new apps? Who is going to do the training and lead the process change? (Don't say "AI" - just don't!) And who is going to mediate the inevitable conflicts between all these apps? It would be chaos!

Dulux Colour Match is magic! I literally just filled and painted over the "scars" with paint they mixed up from a bit I hacked-off down by the skirting, and it is almost impossible to tell where the scars were now! (Photos taken in very different lights but unaltered!)

Has 30p Lee moved to Manchester? Or is he admitting he is intending to commit election fraud? 🤣

I’m an old-school “computer programmer” but one thing AI has brought sharply into focus is how much of my job is *not* writing code - it is stuff like mediating between competing requirements; foreseeing impacts on old data; remembering *why* we do things the way we do. AI ain't doing any of that.

Definitely - get Morgan McSweeney on the case - I'm sure he can find a way to spin it into an attack… on the soft left!

THEY ARE THE SAME ROOM!!!

“Daddy, what did you do in the war?” “I called the White House switchboard.”

Loving the new single by La Oreja de Van Gogh. Yer, it is LOdvG-By-Numbers; but the numbers are soooo good. Wonder if they will tour again with Amaia? Sceptical that Amaia can sing Leire's songs; but would love to see them do the classics from Guapa and Lo Que te Conte.

“Us Traitors never win!” ☝️ Just for once, Taylor was wrong! #TheTraitorsUK

My Friday chocolate bar has shrinkflationed - it was 100g last week!!

We've ended up in a dumb AI Arms Race where the only winners are the tech companies supplying the "arms".

Onto S3 and… my goodness they’ve made a mess of handling the aging - the characters all now look 30 when they are supposed to be 20; and 20 when they are supposed to look closer to 30.

Right… so… Lizzie is allowed to do this at Hampton Court; but when I spray paint “Syd Woz Here” on the motorway bridge it’s “criminal damage”?

I get where this is coming from, but it would be the end of social media in the UK - the business model would no longer be workable - Facebook et al (inc. Bluesky) would just withdraw. You can think that a good or a bad thing, but you need to acknowledge that would be the result.

First gig venue/ artist.

Still unsure… is this Matt? Dave? Barry? Anyways… He does realise that this is The Traitors and not Interview with the Vampire? He does realise that… right?

It would be hilarious. But also bad. Governments and laws should police what people can and can’t buy; not an American corporation.

I HAD THOSE PJs!!! (Both colours!!!)

I have tried… as Tom Lehrer once said… to stay serene and calm, but the last 24 hours have been a test. Feels like lines have been crossed, and if someone doesn't uncross them pretty sharply, then… well… I don't really want to think about it.

Some absolutely top-notch "Both Sides-ing" here - masterful stuff - this is what I pay my license fee for!

This is probably one of those "Opinions that will get you Cancelled" but… The ending of The L Word was really good. The final season was a hot mess, but it stuck the landing in a very meta way… Who killed Jenny? *SPOILER ALERT* A: We did - the fans! We drove her to suicide by hating her!

Davy is currently chatting-up Paul - a successful novelist, living in downtown NY, who "never had time" for a wife! I suspect Davy's shipmates are well aware why he isn't up for the strip-clubs!

I thought the days were supposed to be getting lighter but it feels darker than ever this morning. What if the sun is never actually coming back? Did we sacrifice all those goats for nothing?

Just started Tell Me Lies on Disney/Hulu and… all the male characters… without exception… are creepy as f*ck.

Still hits the nail on the head.

introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Mimi Webb. Seriously. (I accidentally wandered into her pyrotechnics during House on Fire when she played during a cricket match I was working at!)

Actually… I hated Love Actually before it was cool. And I loooooved Four Weddings + Notting Hill! Even if you can see past all the problematic aspects, the whole thing is just so "phoned in" and they knew it. (The crap in-film song is basically lampshading the entire movie!)

Just completed this - my Game of the Year… possibly of the decade. Beautiful artwork; fantastic story; lovely music; amazing voice-acting and cut-scenes. 11/10

Paddington: Allow me to be the one to drive you home for one last Christmas. Chris Rea: Hang on… this ain't no upwardly mobile freeway?