Yes, I know you lost some of your ancestors at Peterloo. But we didn’t have bond markets back then …

Who is that sprightly young chap? Why, that’s Pants. Manchester Pants. The Norman Wisdom of the semantic web

Dahliaaaa, dahliaaaa, are takin ovaaaa me, tonight

Fire up the email, Pants Certainly sir. Anything you’d like me to comms Electronic mail to top brass. Let them know there’s a all hands In person, sir? In person, Pants. I wish to see the whites of their eyes And will you be off your chops on candy sticks sir I certainly intend to be Very good, sir

Will our premier league footballers be doing community service?

He’s fat, he’s round, he bounces on the ground, Guy Debord, Guy Debord

Tired of changing nappies and the endless demands to take your hound for a walk? Why not invest in a labour-saving, Nazi robot?

They could always try training their infernal machines on www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

If you’ve tried to send me a direct message on this service, I’m afraid I am unable to reply. I did try showing my face to the computer, but the computer decided I look far too fresh faced for your nonsense

Hiya

Big fan of the golf now. Big fan of

Berwick upon Tweed. Wait for it. Wait for it

Edinburgh pretty full of yanks pointing telephone cameras at air bnb lock boxes

Warm in my coat www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pb6...

Using my BritID from my BritCard to sign into BritBox on my BritPhone over the Brinternet

As a poor and often hungry student living just south of Hyde Park, there was many an evening when you’d find me and my compatriots attempting to wrestle a royal swan to the ground

And how is “lean” working out for you?

Anybody I know going to Open Data Camp? Or indeed just in Edinburgh? Should I bring my thermals?

We all still here? Anybody raptured?

Do not wish to alarm anyone, but it would appear the Daily Express account management for their comments section is down. Or my housemate, Winstonreborn, has been banned again

Absolutely unbelievable that I dedicated some of the best years of my life to the Rapture Ready Bulletin Board - seriously, I was a working man in my prime back then and put in some pretty serious hours - and then they close it and don’t tell me they’ve all moved to TicTok. Well screw you

Could be pertinent

Nothing quite like pulling into Heathrow for that sense of homecoming, community and belonging

Always here for a thread blaming the Normans

Remembering the short period I during which I was suspended from my employment. Had to meet my union rep on the bench outside the Red Lion, which had back stairs up to the toilet. To the best of my knowledge, not a single public toilet in the whole of Whitehall or Westminster

Recognising the world has bigger problems, but what on earth have the yanks done to my telephone?

Last time we had football hooligans rampaging through the streets, someone had the good sense to invent acid house and ecstasy

Decent trading day for the Fred Perry shop

I’d like to use this session to outline my new vision. Like a mad man, sir? Very much like a mad man, Pants. Very good, sir.

As I tend my dahlias on my small allotment plot in Weybridge, I often think of my journey from the North and imagine Gerrard smiling down at me. There goes a True Leveller, he probably thinks

Bloody hell. That’s most of our football clubs gone

“Tomorrow, some of the biggest voices in comms and AI will come together to answer the questions everyone is asking: What’s hype, what’s real, and what’s next for AI in the workplace?” Also, how did you get my email address?

In which we bid farewell to Professor Michael Rush. A kind, generous and gentle man. More notes from @anyaso.bsky.social and I: ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m...

In which we bid farewell to Professor Michael Rush. A kind, generous and gentle man. More notes from @anyaso.bsky.social and I: ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m...

Remarkable how many singers the Americans have that can absolutely murder their anthem

Wife got emergency government alarm. Daughter got emergency government alarm. Me, same network, nowt. No idea why I pay my taxes

These technical titans can feel a million miles away from us normal people. But I too have always enjoyed having dinner. And, erm, interacting

My head is in a spin, my feet don’t touch the ground. Because you’re near to me my head goes round and round. My knees are shaking baby, my heart it beats like a drum

Fun facts and definitions: - a BOG is a wetland that is acidic - a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline - a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees - a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees Now you know!

I wear a baseball cap now. Like your American grandad

Worse still - to my sensitive ears - when shortened to “tech”

New blog post: 40 years later, are Bentley's "Programming Pearls" still relevant? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/40-years-later-are-bentleys-programming-pearls-still-relevant/ In September 1985, Jon Bentley published Programming Pearls. A collection of aphorisms designed to reveal truths …

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Every FOI request is a user need unmet by the rest of the system

Semi-detached, suburban Surrey in uproar, as news reaches Weybridge that the orders they put in for Range Rover-based products as a post-skying holiday pick-me-up have all fallen off the digital shelf

I am also moving my space base

See you all on Mastodon then

Excellent news for roundhead colleagues. If you're lucky enough to work for a minister who'd like to exercise a delegated power or two before a certain date, but you're never sure how long an instrument has to sit before Parliament, our beloved egg timer (TM) now comes with a start date calculator.

One for the CRaGheads

Wheels down. God’s own county