During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”

So there’s this Google pixel advert where a woman’s outside a florist’s looking at some flowers and she asks her phone how long the flowers will last and call me old-fashioned but you’re at a florist and the flowers are right there and your phone doesn’t know shit so why not ASK THE FLORIST

I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?

Over the remembrance weekend I was discussing the way women workers were treated both during and after the world wars. In March 1946, a protest meeting was held by around 700 Women's Land Army (WLA) members at Caxton Hall in London. The women gathered to air their grievances

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

At the

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

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The government are reportedly planning on moving some asylum seekers from hotels to military bases... How about, rather than shipping a few hundred people off to military sites, we let asylum seekers work and contribute to our society and fix our broken asylum system? 🤔

Deep respect to the Jehovah’s Witnesses insisting on sticking to their regular patch despite the somewhat incongruous popup display that’s now backing them 🤘🦇

I am proud to be a knobhead

BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫 A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩 Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?... #archaeology #history #Roman

Another one of my Moe-dern Arts from last year, this is Charles Moe Schulz.

Finally got around to doing some admin last night. Hopping onto @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk's hope wave!

So happy that theme tune is back #NBA #RoundballRock www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-uS...

ut oh....he almost caught the gay!!!

People used to watch TV on their Sega Game Gears. The TV tuner was $74.99 in 1991.

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Last year I reimagined the work of 30+ artists to feature Moe Syzslak. Recreating famous painting was a fun challenge! I’m gonna share some of my favourites the rest of this month. Here’s Claude Moe-net.

BBC News have just reported that AWS have suggested the us-east-1 issue is related to DNS resolution. Time to bring out this evergreen meme :)

Heavens to Betsy Betsy to Heavens Heavens BACK to Betsy Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

Network Rail workers still have great sense of humour.

A reused SSO password

At 9:03 am, the Mary Rose broke the surface of the water, seeing sunlight (such as you can on a cloudy day!) for the first time in 437 years. #WhereWereYouIn82

Gosh, after a summer of watching #Eurobasket, #NBA games feel so slow and dragged out.

Playing #HallowKnight or #Silksong be like

London's oldest stations - on the London & Greenwich Railway diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/09/lond...

Thinking of printing up some cards or stickers that say 'You need a laptop privacy screen' to hand out on the train 😬

Look what we have here then.

Volkswagen Orbit concept (1986)

A short historic Ministry of Supply reel at 6:55pm. 🗑️ YOUR DUSTBIN IS BEATING HITLER (1940) on #TPTV

Amazing! The live stream link doesn't work, but you can watch it back here www.youtube.com/watch?v=smp0...

The building of this used to shake my 'lower ground level' desk at no 50 Victoria Embankment. That feels like a lifetime ago, so awesome to see it now all done.

Grah! I'm struggling with this Silksong boss! Does anyone have any tips? He's just always hungry!

Did a bit of #PlaneSpotting at #LondonBigginHill today. Some lil' jets and a couple #Spitfire

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Still on a #TfL theme, I knew about the graffiti issue on the #BakerlooLine but it seems to have bled into the #CentralLine as well. All three trains I was on today had carriages that were fully covered on the outside, and a crazy amount of tagging inside.

Speaking of #TfL - in a lot o coverage on the strike next week, folks are saying 'yeah but the #ElizabethLine and #Overground are running so it's ok'. The Overground (at least the #WindrushLine) is already heaving at the best of times. It's not a viable option for everyone to just pile on to.

Anyone else having payment issues with #TfL? Got an email this AM saying my most recent travel payment was declined, and to log in to the TfL site to manually pay for it. That's legit, in my bank app the payment was declined, however... 1/2

Right on schedule, #Silksong has crashed the #Nintendo #eShop 😅

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

idk if this is a thing, but are there historians with a specialty in the use of public transportation during war?

LEGO iMac G3

Genuinely curious here - is people putting on a full face of make up on a busy commuter train (and brushing their hair, and even one time putting on deodorant) a thing outside of the UK or London?

Time for that annual tradition - the #OpenHouseFestival website crash and burns when the bookings open up.

29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'

British warship sunk in 1703 storm gives up its secrets three centuries on www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

New flag just dropped.