“I tried to do something amusing on Bluesky and a strange american yelled at me: the age old story.”

All roundabouts are the same: you give way to the right when you join. But it wasn't always so. In February 1960 Middlesbrough was the first place to try a new priority to the right rule. The queues vanished immediately, and the new rule stuck. #middlesbrough www.roads.org.uk/articles/rou...

"The only correct interpretation of the bible is the one that lets me do whatever I already wanted to do and reinforces my biases" —Assholes 3:16

Samuel Pepys' diary entry for this day in 1665 recalls a stay at Mrs Clerke's house, where he left a surprise (or two) in the chimney...

Rapture latest - Danny Kruger got left behind Absolute scenes

In the UK we're not used to natural forces sweeping away our roads. But in Derbyshire Mam Tor was determined to claim the A625, and eventually engineers had to concede that it couldn't be saved. Join us for a tour of the road that slid away. #castleton #mamtor www.roads.org.uk/blog/road-sl...

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

Lets talk about… If the RAF ever moved Australia to get CVA01 cancelled? 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗

Worth noting that the US told the UK and impacted firms that tariffs paid between the announcement of the deal and its implementation would be reimbursed. And then they weren’t.

Trumpian foreign policy in action bsky.app/profile/joer...

OTD in 2020 Navalny was poisoned. A short history.. A Russian in Russia, under close surveillance by Russian intelligence, left a hotel in Russia & got on a Russian plane going from Russia to Russia & consumed a Russian nerve agent only Russia has by the CIA.

Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is abhorrent and it's increasingly clear that his goal is ethnic cleansing. The UK can't just sit on its hands. The Prime Minister must stop all arms exports to Israel and sanction Netanyahu and his cabinet.

What's for dinner tonight? We're having Spaghetti Junction, made the traditional way using this recipe from 1972. #birmingham www.roads.org.uk/blog/spaghet...

Universal Credit is a model for how to do government right (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/universal-...

Hannan is clearly still good friends with a BNP-level racist.

📢I added a section how to deal with context loss during refinement when you hit the token limit for Gemini. steipete.me/posts/2025/u...

Got a new nickname for the orange one, Neo-con Don...

Remember this from Mork and Mindy? CONTENT WARNING: EMPTY MOUTH BEFORE WATCHING. youtu.be/7KtXNz9QVMk?...

Watching the 1962 film of Lawrence of Arabia and I didn’t realise how much of rip off Dune is if of it. Lawrence is very similar to Paul, substitute the spice harvesters for the trains and the Turks for the Harkonnens and it’s all there.

Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers. As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example. Meet Torrey Canyon.

I wrote about this never-ending cost-argument for agents. The ROI is so stupidly high it should be illegal. steipete.me/posts/2025/s...

New at my Substack: 'The Case of Lucy Connolly'. rolandmcs.substack.com/p/the-case-o...

Spent a few hours on my website, changed the theme, re-licensed all content to CC BY 4.0 & Code MIT. Very happy with it now. 🤩https://steipete.me/posts/2025/finding-my-spark-again

Fascinating interview with a private drone designer for the RU military. His knowledge of UKR & Western drones is limited and should be taken with some skepticism but he still presents a quite candid picture into the current state of unmanned warfare:🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfN...

This is the "Classic Dom"-ification of political reporting, isn't it? "You, an idiot, think blowing up trade relationships would put people out of work and ultimately hurt public services. I, a *genius*, know that it plays well in focus groups."

I feel like this entire exchange sums up so much about what Twitter has become

Reminder to all #Skystorians with an interest in The Third Reich and the rise to power of the Nazis that the BBC is starting a repeat of their brilliant and haunting series ‘The Nazis: A Warning from History tonight on BBC4. They’re launching it with a short retrospective at 9pm.

Can't believe Starmer is about to betray Brexit when it has all been going so well.

Jamie Vardy scores his 200th Leicester City goal, on his 500th and last appearance for the club. #LEIIPS | #LCFC

Interesting interview. Shell Game: Inside The Worldwide TNT Shortage www.twz.com/land/shell-g...

betting the house on a new adviser really is Starm Wars: A New Cope

The USA is running out of patience with Ukraine for being bombed by Russia.

This is false. MPs have a budget for contacting constituents but it can’t be used for campaign materials. Hence the Parliamentary green. The poster quoted here has been told this but so far refuses to correct or delete their post.

Almost up to 1250 signatures. Please make sure to get friends and family to sign if they haven't already! 🇬🇧🇺🇦 #WarriorsForWarriors #StandWithUkraine petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

I'm going to start saying "art of the deal" every time I do something really stupid and then start backtracking

There’s literally a post for every occasion.

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

Seriously, if you worry that upholding the law might be politically bad for the 'optics‘, and could give a boost to the people you want nowhere near power, you have already given up on the principles you claim to be defending.

What was dumber: including a journalist on a signal chat about your bomb plans or then calling that journalist “bottom scum” while he still had the screenshots available to publish as your colleagues were already committing perjury

Weapons maker Rheinmetall is now worth more than VW.

JD Vance and his mates clearly aren’t fit to run a group chat, let alone the world’s strongest military force. It has to make our security services nervous about the intelligence we’re sharing with them.

built a new history app that gives you the events for today and a nice widget for your Home Screen apps.apple.com/gb/app/on-th...

built a new history app that gives you the events for today and a nice widget for your Home Screen apps.apple.com/gb/app/on-th...

There’s nothing funny about the Swedish word for speed. Grow up.

Kill Tesla, Save The Country — Rick Wilson Read the article: therickwilson.substack.com/p/kill-tesla...

Joe Biden on life support would have been better than this

The pothole Pol Pot.