❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

@louiseann.bsky.social @staggerlee42.bsky.social My parents are slowly taking all crap in their roofspace to the dump/charity shops etc. Soon, one of the items will be a load of old 60s/70s LPs. (Englebert Humperdinck, Jim Reeves, etc) Do you know anyone that would appreciate that type of thing?

My current class schedule for anyone near Belfast who fancies sewing something! makeitfab.co.uk/classes-at-m...

In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼 www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

The immigration doom loop in full swing. Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically. (1/3) archive.ph/pyVLg

The bible can be a source of inspiration for all!

A skin fade and trim sounds very fancy to me. "Number three on the back and sides and tidy up the top" does the job. My barber started doing appointments online at the start of COVID and the feedback was that customers liked the system.

01 811 8055

Denmark is ready!

@kavey.bsky.social I'm eating Welsh biltong. "In our farm". Are you familiar with it?

45 y/o, in a nightclub for first time in years. Young lad burst into the toilets & caught me furtively trying to open a little ziploc bag. He said "just a heads up, the bouncers come in here to check for drugs". Couldn't tell him it was my bag of googly eyes, to stick on a poster

‘2nd Referendum’, and all that……

I don't usually scold for staying on X: they're adults, they can decide. But it is worth pointing out that staying there and seeing those pics of kids exposes you to a very real legal risk. "Receiving an image" can include seeing it on social media - screenshot from www.cps.gov.uk/prosecution-...

Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Another example of the fact that there are very few technically difficult questions of economics; "difficult questions" are just difficult because you don't like the obvious answer

imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

In terms TV crossovers, Corriedale will never beat Sorrylumbo.

My parents have decided they no longer want to have a dead tree in the corner of their living room, so I had to help remove it. There were needles everywhere!

Saw a TV advert for the new Trainline app that had a disclaimer stating that as the results are AI generated they might not be correct. What’s the point of a train timetable app if you can’t trust it to show you correct information? It’s madness.

Feels like a toxic controlling relationship, that you are afraid to leave. Should have stayed with the nice sensible EU...

it could work...

Your fact of the day: The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132. bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...

Dear random angry UK persons: Yes, the Venezuela thing is awful. It doesn’t give you license to abuse people with North American accents in London. Rather a lot of us agree with you and some of us have voted with our feet and/or are part of the resistance

Too bad, slopguy

If you're around Ormeau, can you look around for my friend's cat, Chorizo? He has disappeared over Christmas.

@staggerlee42.bsky.social This Trait place you go on about is a bit nice!

It's 10 years since Cat Food Letterbox Day! Oh happy day!

Hi, I'm Sean's immune system.

"Out with the old, in with the new," I say, eating a sandwich on the toilet while pooping.

I learn something new on this platform every day!

Almost 12am, the time when my phone goes into Do Not Disturb mode.

How I’m seeing in New Year.

All my colleagues have been off since last Monday, so I've been working alone. They start to come back on Friday. Seems as good a time to take some annual leave as any.

I always find it bizarre that on NYE, the lunchtime news considers it newsworthy that it's NYD in New Zealand.

About to start on the RI institution Christmas lectures. This is one of the few places I can say this where there is a chance that people will know what I'm talking about.

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RIP Cecilia, who herself became an icon, bringing tourism to her home town and raising €50,000 for charity through her well-meaning artistic endeavour. BBC News - Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I didn't interact with Michael Douglas when his minders made me take the long way round to the toilet in a local hotel so that he wouldn't have to see me walk past his seat. (This wasn't just me btw. They were doing it with others too, and I had no interest in interrupting him. I just needed a pee)

Simon Callow walked past my apartment while I was sitting out on my balcony. (I live very close to a theatre) while whistling a cheery tune.

I'm chair of the 1922 committee.

I'm at that age where I've no idea if someone is a celebrity or not, so I could post about anyone here.

ainebinneas Suits

Sums up a lot

My mum has lots of ornaments of different animals. Most years I put one of them in their crib. Not a cow or a sheep, normally something like a dog that is much bigger than all the other statues.

Bring back blogging tbh