When you have been having issues with caching all day and you get into the groove of blaming it, you might then spend half an hour longer than you need to spotting a missing greater than sign. I mean you might, I wouldn't (shifty look)

A new annoyance for portrails of film projection on TV. Badly faked illumination of the audience watching a screen. (If you can see the screen reflected in the window behind the characters, you can see when it is bright vs dark and the changing light should match;->)

Slightly disappointed that Christopher Nolan's "no Greek gods in The Odyssey" means the humans will infer things like the wrath of Poseidon from their fear of storms at sea.

That thing where music gets stuck in your mental filing system under a secondary usage, like Chopin's Oliver Cromwell and Beethoven's End Theme from Zardoz.

OMFG, At some point in the last couple of months "The Reg online standards converter" seems to have been taken down, or moved without appropriate signposting. Vandalism of the worst sort!

Too much to hope that a civil war in the PLP could bin all the bigots from the government I suppose?

An Imperial shit-ton of British people, who usually spend their time on pointing out Americans on social media failing geography, are currently showing a remarkable lack of insight into political history.

Also can everyone please learn the difference between "this is how the system actually works, but I think that is wrong and we should change the system" and "they can't do that"

The latest phrase that British political debate has rendered meaningless through a combination of sheer frenzied overuse is "handing the keys to farage"

Political content on hold today. Remembering a good friend instead. I'm sure you will probably be able to guess what I would be saying anyway.

He’s right, and to think otherwise is to commit a basic category error that never gets corrected, because the media and politicians refuse to acknowledge it. Under a human rights based framework, states cannot have human rights, since states are not people; and Israel has committed genocide in Gaza

Panic over x

There are a huge number of people in the vicinity of the Crucible carrying cues. Is the Seniors tournament put a pound coin on the table, chalk your name on the board, winner stays on?

Trying to keep the mid-life crisis quite low key. Just a couple of extra tool pouches on my belt. Not even enough to make a good "Who do you think you are, Batman?" jibe at my expense.

I am being caricatured by the weather today, it is of variable quality and frequently annoying.

This seems very low. Wondering if there is something here about when we consider "choice" happening?

When you're trying to continue a conversation you had with a good friend yesterday but can't find which chat program it was in and it turns out you dreamt the whole thing.

According to the MI5 UKThreatLevel API: The current national threat level is SEVERE. The threat to Northern Ireland from Northern Ireland-related terrorism is SUBSTANTIAL.

Pretty sure I have said this before, but today is a very good day to repeat the opinion that sanctions for football clubs entering administration are draconian and are not fit for purpose. They go far beyond trying to prevent financial shenanigans and are unfair to fans.

Do love a bit of spring. Morning coffee in the garden while listening to the birds.

Missing the ceremonial aspects of a number institutions I no longer part of.

Can't believe I missed a General Election being called for the 7 May. #PartyPoliticalBullshit

Occam and Hanlon's razors are at the bar wearily agreeing that the WHCD incident will be down to the complete lack of anyone competent left in the administration rather than any deliberate fakery when the Road to El Dorado conjecture strides in gaffawing.

In planning for a televised event about the creation at Santiago de Compostela Cathedral I was thinking a large statue of Adam and Eve naked in the garden of Eden would look good. When they tried to install it however it kept hitting the Botafumeiro. Turns out we couldn't get it past the censer.

Morning session has started, but they only seem to be potting red balls at the moment.

Lunchtime sewing break. I would say I am turned the piece right side out too early and so for the current run of stiches the messy side is showing, but there isn't really a neat side to my work, so…

I absolutely agree that the BBC has all sorts of bias problems, but quoting Liz McKeown, director of economic statistics at the Office for National Statistics on the subject of the numbers the ONS just released about employment isn't very high up that list.

REMEMBER: If you're not alone in your dating app profile pic, be sure to state whether or not you're the fish

I spent a week glued to the Artemis 2 livestream and wrote some words about THE MOON, OUR MOON, and what happens to language at the edges of human experience. open.substack.com/pub/nothingb...

The Onion has reached a deal to acquire Infowars • It will be turned into a parody site of itself • Has the support of the Sandy Hook families “A lot of people gave up on doing the right thing over the last two years. Despite an insane amount of threats & bullshit, we persevered" (via Variety)

"American" Gladiators is a hoax. It was a conspiracy theory started by Wolf to get a bigger codpiece budget. bsky.app/profile/dirt...

"The other side did it too!" isn't a defence, it is showing that this is a systemic issue in government that we need to analyse and fix.

UK party politics is very much like Beer Gas, but instead of the CO2/Nitrogen mix varying by product it is the bullshit/hypocrisy ratio. The Epstein/Mandleson/Starmer scandal is attracting some prime examples of partisan performativity.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Okay, seen a lot of posts suggesting Columbo is some sort of fae agent of revenge. I would like to suggest an alternate theory, Time Lord, it hits virtually all of the same points. However unlike that Fop the Doctor, they can't be bothered changing outfits each regeneration.

I don't know which counts as worse targeting, scammers trying to suggest I would be a good pick as a fitness and lifestyle influencer or the high street shop who despite having a very good idea of my taste in clothes decided to promote birkenstocks at me.

This timetable is for elections taking place across the UK on Thursday 7 May 2026. These include: local government elections Scottish Parliament elections Senedd Cymru elections mayoral elections in England

While supporting Leeds Utd is painful, it is eased against Manchester United and when you know a win helps them not get relegated and therefore they won't have league matches in Sheffield next season.

Something I see all the time on the internet is a disabled person asking for an accommodation and a billion comments bringing up engineering [1] challenges[2]. You know what engineers love? Solving challenges, given enough time and money.

Suffering a little from health related FOMO.

If you want a movie comparison, Trump is Le Chiffre, his original plan involving aircraft and explosives has failed so he now has to play poker. Unlike Le Chiffre Trump is terrible at poker.

A couple of thoughts on this week's SNL UK Riz was superb and almost broke the rule that the monologue has to be cringe, also they should release his PSA. Weekend Update needs more Ania & Paddy and less guests. Anyone who doesn't think that issue isn't gothic horror hasn't been to WGW.

Everyone who didn't have Israel breaking the ceasefire almost immediately and claiming that whole chunks of the agreement don't apply to them on their 2026 pretty much knew they were unlikely to get a full house.

Banning Kanye West from entering the UK over anti-Semitism concerns then posting about it in a self-satisfied way on on the Nazi app owned by the Nazi sympathiser is just a perfect encapsulation of this government

Yes HMG should be doing more to oppose the war for the protection of pedophiles. But them not doing so isn't because they decided to ban a shitty person from playing a festival. Even the British government can manage more than one political position at once.

To be fair it was a tough decision at the ballot box

Daily Mirror: WORLD HOLDS ITS BREATH #TomorrowsPapersToday

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

I think that even if it turns out that he doesn't do it -- that it was bluster or he changed his mind or whatever -- it doesn't make you retroactively alarmist for taking it seriously.