Rob Worth
@robworth.bsky.social
And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.
In a very particular order: publisher, editor, bass player, dad.
In a very particular order: publisher, editor, bass player, dad.
Inevitable post on the street WhatsApp group:
“Can anyone recommend a GasSafe engineer to do a boiler service who also has a PhD in particle physics?”
“Can anyone recommend a GasSafe engineer to do a boiler service who also has a PhD in particle physics?”
Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator
Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area.
Read more: home.cern/news/news/ce...
Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area.
Read more: home.cern/news/news/ce...
January 29, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Inevitable post on the street WhatsApp group:
“Can anyone recommend a GasSafe engineer to do a boiler service who also has a PhD in particle physics?”
“Can anyone recommend a GasSafe engineer to do a boiler service who also has a PhD in particle physics?”
Language changes for better and worse.
Better is when we get new words that help communicate new ideas or finer nuances.
Worse is when nuance of meaning is lost. Eg when “epicentre” just comes to mean “centre”.
People just throw around “epicentre” because it sounds cleverer than “centre”.
Better is when we get new words that help communicate new ideas or finer nuances.
Worse is when nuance of meaning is lost. Eg when “epicentre” just comes to mean “centre”.
People just throw around “epicentre” because it sounds cleverer than “centre”.
January 24, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Language changes for better and worse.
Better is when we get new words that help communicate new ideas or finer nuances.
Worse is when nuance of meaning is lost. Eg when “epicentre” just comes to mean “centre”.
People just throw around “epicentre” because it sounds cleverer than “centre”.
Better is when we get new words that help communicate new ideas or finer nuances.
Worse is when nuance of meaning is lost. Eg when “epicentre” just comes to mean “centre”.
People just throw around “epicentre” because it sounds cleverer than “centre”.
PING, PING, PING goes my phone. 😡
If the school sends an email with a letter why is there always someone who feels the need to post that same letter to both the year group WhatsApp group and the class WhatsApp group?
We all got it on email already!
If the school sends an email with a letter why is there always someone who feels the need to post that same letter to both the year group WhatsApp group and the class WhatsApp group?
We all got it on email already!
January 23, 2026 at 10:32 AM
PING, PING, PING goes my phone. 😡
If the school sends an email with a letter why is there always someone who feels the need to post that same letter to both the year group WhatsApp group and the class WhatsApp group?
We all got it on email already!
If the school sends an email with a letter why is there always someone who feels the need to post that same letter to both the year group WhatsApp group and the class WhatsApp group?
We all got it on email already!
Maybe not the best book to read while at my kids’ swimming lessons.
January 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Maybe not the best book to read while at my kids’ swimming lessons.
My new favourite word:
mulct
verb (with object)
Extract money from (someone) by fine or taxation.
mulct
verb (with object)
Extract money from (someone) by fine or taxation.
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
My new favourite word:
mulct
verb (with object)
Extract money from (someone) by fine or taxation.
mulct
verb (with object)
Extract money from (someone) by fine or taxation.
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“So your new carol is just eight verses of you demanding figgy pudding with increasing hostility.”
“That’s right.”
“And it’s called We Wish You A Merry Christmas?”
“Yes”
“Buts it not really about Christmas is it? It’s mostly about figgy—“
“—figgy pudding yeah.”
“That’s right.”
“And it’s called We Wish You A Merry Christmas?”
“Yes”
“Buts it not really about Christmas is it? It’s mostly about figgy—“
“—figgy pudding yeah.”
December 7, 2024 at 8:34 AM
“So your new carol is just eight verses of you demanding figgy pudding with increasing hostility.”
“That’s right.”
“And it’s called We Wish You A Merry Christmas?”
“Yes”
“Buts it not really about Christmas is it? It’s mostly about figgy—“
“—figgy pudding yeah.”
“That’s right.”
“And it’s called We Wish You A Merry Christmas?”
“Yes”
“Buts it not really about Christmas is it? It’s mostly about figgy—“
“—figgy pudding yeah.”
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
- Sungazer @adamneely.bsky.social
- Cory Wong
- REM
- Keith Jarrett
- Oscar Peterson
- Sungazer @adamneely.bsky.social
- Cory Wong
- REM
- Keith Jarrett
- Oscar Peterson
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
-Bon Jovi and the Goo Goo Dolls
-Ozzy Osbourne
-Rush
-Van Halen
-The Who
-Bon Jovi and the Goo Goo Dolls
-Ozzy Osbourne
-Rush
-Van Halen
-The Who
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Bon Jovi
Billy Joel & Elton John
Dire Straits
Anthrax
Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
Billy Joel & Elton John
Dire Straits
Anthrax
Def Leppard
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
- Sungazer @adamneely.bsky.social
- Cory Wong
- REM
- Keith Jarrett
- Oscar Peterson
- Sungazer @adamneely.bsky.social
- Cory Wong
- REM
- Keith Jarrett
- Oscar Peterson
There’s gonna be a queue up there!
The piss tank on the ISS is now 6% full.
October 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There’s gonna be a queue up there!
I’ve never had products on my hair at the barber. But when they offer, “Do you want stuff on your hair?” I wish they would sell it a little better. “Stuff”? No, thanks!
September 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I’ve never had products on my hair at the barber. But when they offer, “Do you want stuff on your hair?” I wish they would sell it a little better. “Stuff”? No, thanks!
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Reposted by Rob Worth
The piss tank on the ISS is now 47% full.
August 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The piss tank on the ISS is now 47% full.
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social I always tune in to Politics Weekly America. I wonder whether it might be more interesting to have the guest bring their own “What else?” question so you get their insight. Worth a try?
July 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social I always tune in to Politics Weekly America. I wonder whether it might be more interesting to have the guest bring their own “What else?” question so you get their insight. Worth a try?
Grab bags!
I don’t want to by three times more crisps than I can eat. I just want a person sized packet of crisps, please.
I don’t want to by three times more crisps than I can eat. I just want a person sized packet of crisps, please.
July 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Grab bags!
I don’t want to by three times more crisps than I can eat. I just want a person sized packet of crisps, please.
I don’t want to by three times more crisps than I can eat. I just want a person sized packet of crisps, please.
You know you buy too many books when you pick one you forgot you bought and it can’t have been long ago coz it was on top of the pile.
Looking forward to a good choice by me: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social
Looking forward to a good choice by me: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
You know you buy too many books when you pick one you forgot you bought and it can’t have been long ago coz it was on top of the pile.
Looking forward to a good choice by me: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social
Looking forward to a good choice by me: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social
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🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
www.cato.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
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I want it scrapped but please for the love of god, it's the two child tax credit cap, not child benefit cap. Child benefit is a separate benefit to child tax credits. The latter is capped to two children since 2017 and must be scrapped.
April 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I want it scrapped but please for the love of god, it's the two child tax credit cap, not child benefit cap. Child benefit is a separate benefit to child tax credits. The latter is capped to two children since 2017 and must be scrapped.
@mitchbenn.bsky.social I remember seeing you doing this gag live somewhere near Fleet Street in 1999 / 2000 / 2001 – a long time ago anyway. The oldies are the goodies!
My eccentric uncle used to say “The first rule of theatre is to always leave them wanting more.”
Lovely guy, terrible anaesthetist.
Lovely guy, terrible anaesthetist.
March 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@mitchbenn.bsky.social I remember seeing you doing this gag live somewhere near Fleet Street in 1999 / 2000 / 2001 – a long time ago anyway. The oldies are the goodies!
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Richard Donner told this great moustache-related story about working with GENE HACKMAN on Superman.
February 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Richard Donner told this great moustache-related story about working with GENE HACKMAN on Superman.
“Just a cold, hard Mexican ceramic tile.”
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“Just a cold, hard Mexican ceramic tile.”
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What a #German #hospital team in #Darmstadt would look like without their #migrant colleagues #FCKAFD #MigrantsWelcome
February 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What a #German #hospital team in #Darmstadt would look like without their #migrant colleagues #FCKAFD #MigrantsWelcome
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For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
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Reposted by Rob Worth
In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site:
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...
Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industr...
www.theringer.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site:
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...