Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.

Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.

A very beautiful and moving interview. Thank you @samfragoso.bsky.social I knew very little about Terry Gross and I can't recommend this enough. www.searchengine.show/talk-easy-x-...

PPF confirms levy will be cut to zero incm.pub/48sxHUG

Timeline cleanse

I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night

The older one gets, the more one comes to realise that the “grown ups” you always assumed were running things and basically knew what they were doing are really just winging it, and are often either utterly clueless or lacking in any real power to do what they’re expected to do.

As it seems to be today's discourse: took me until i was about 23, and a fair bit of coaching from female friends IRL and online, to understand that being a nerd had NOTHING to do with my lack of getting laid. Was mostly about accepting women were people. Which is shocking. But it was early 2000s.

The new Jurassic Park is brilliant. We went to see it yesterday and loved it. The best one since the original.

Jess Fishlock scores Wales first goal What an amazing achievement for a Welsh GOAT #EUR025

I wouldn’t wish being a Welsh rugby fan on anybody

The very clever Fraser putting his finger on something very specifically dreadful about AI’s promise of a frictionless everything: www.henryfrasertechlaw.com/post/the-nig...

This is potentially great news from the PPF, opening the door to zero PPF levies. Along with the S37 announcement, it's been a good day in the world of #pensions

UK pensions bill coming today! Covers key areas including: small pot consolidation, income in retirement, value for money, multi employer scheme consolidation, DB surplus extraction, DB superfunds, ppf levy, and controversial ‘reserve’ power to set asset allocation targets… on.ft.com/4kv5z6L

My best men (my sisters) ran a game of bingo and I 'won' my wife. Our family owned a social club and the nightly bingo was a long standing family joke

My friend, the NHS can't even test all the autistic children for autism.

Welcome to Bluesky to @ppf.co.uk Great to see you here

Ah yes. Monday. Artist: Eric Winter Rumpelstiltskin

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Watching Bristol Bears V Bath Rugby and five tries scored in the first 20 minutes. Very daft game of #rugby

Interesting counter view to the current gilt media coverage.

Word of the day in today’s @nytimes.com - actuarial. I rarely get through a day without using it in a sentence but apparently they have done so just 13 times this year! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/l...

Photo of the Day, if not the Year. Solidarity and admiration. 📸This brilliant photo of Gisele Pelicot, leaving court for the final time yesterday, was taken by Arnold Jerocki for Getty Images.

In all the Poison Ivy-related ecological googling I've done over the past few years, this is the conclusion I've come to on a personal and practical level: just use stuff for as long as you possibly can before throwing it out. Getting more granular will drive you nuts

ADOPT A MALE RIDER FOR 2025 SEASON! The time has come for this wonderful game - if you want to cheer for someone in particular during 2025, just let me know in this post and I'll assign a random rider who you can cheer for live/online to you via a pro random number generator :) Let's play now!

CYMRU HAVE DONE IT! Rhian Wilkinson’s side are heading to the Euros! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Massive away win for the little fella.

When I will respond to your email

I’m trying to re-home a small poodle that barks a LOT. If interested let me know and I'II hop over my neighbor's fence and get it for you.

Always a good read* * For pensions folk

Well done Fiji 🇫🇯 🏉 a thoroughly deserved win. This is a record breaking year for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 rugby, for all the wrong reasons ☹️

By far the most sensible suggestion I've seen on the NHS Ideas For Change site from the 1250 contributions to date... change.nhs.uk/en-GB/ideas/...

First race of the cyclo-cross season Belgium National Champion and World Cup winner, Eli Iserbyt, crashes and stamps on another rider's gears. Ryan Kamp then has to run the rest of the lap. Absolute world class level shithousery! #cross is back!

If you caught the cycling bug when watching the Olympics then don't worry Tour de France Femmes started today 🥳

Thank you @actuarybyday.bsky.social