Having many strings to your bow isn’t that impressive because if you’re a violinist, it’s expected and if you’re an archer it’s not any better than having one string
December 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Having many strings to your bow isn’t that impressive because if you’re a violinist, it’s expected and if you’re an archer it’s not any better than having one string
Big Ben is:
- the tower
- the clock
- the bell
- some of the above
- all of the above ?
- the tower
- the clock
- the bell
- some of the above
- all of the above ?
December 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Big Ben is:
- the tower
- the clock
- the bell
- some of the above
- all of the above ?
- the tower
- the clock
- the bell
- some of the above
- all of the above ?
One of the bigger ticking time bombs for public health in Nz is the old south Dunedin pipe works
Statistic Canada found more than 13,700 kilometres (!!!) of asbestos cement water pipes across the country. I asked doctors, concerned citizens, and govt about it for @nationalobserver.com:
The headline kind of speaks for itself, here
December 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
One of the bigger ticking time bombs for public health in Nz is the old south Dunedin pipe works
Art holds up a mirror to humanity
Anyone ever read anything good about narcissism?
December 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Art holds up a mirror to humanity
Oh hello power outage
December 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Oh hello power outage
It’s getting there but this has to be hung with artwork by Monday lunchtime
December 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It’s getting there but this has to be hung with artwork by Monday lunchtime
Zoom out for the full insanity
December 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Zoom out for the full insanity
I am begging people to understand that British tabloids are interested from time to time only in things that sell newspapers.
The Daily Mail is now concerned at net emigration of Romanians from the UK to Romania: there were 539,000 people born in Romania in 2021 (+460k on 2011) but net emigration to Romania of 23,000 in 2024-25
December 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am begging people to understand that British tabloids are interested from time to time only in things that sell newspapers.
“We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky.”
December 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
“We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky.”
I am putting salt and [brown] sauce on my chips, which will be part of a fish supper
ketchup isn’t available, what are you putting on your fries?
December 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I am putting salt and [brown] sauce on my chips, which will be part of a fish supper
Carla is in for a big year
The first 3 words you see will define your 2026.
Wine
Money
Friend
Wine
Money
Friend
December 29, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Carla is in for a big year
A system that is designed and legislated to make people much worse off while trying to ensure that a few people don’t get slightly better off, seems like a poorly-designed system
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensio...
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensio...
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www.telegraph.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
A system that is designed and legislated to make people much worse off while trying to ensure that a few people don’t get slightly better off, seems like a poorly-designed system
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensio...
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensio...
They wanted me to sing a couple of verses at the local Christmas Carol concert, but I refrained
December 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They wanted me to sing a couple of verses at the local Christmas Carol concert, but I refrained
Junction of 10mm gib, 9mm ply and 32mm pine architrave
December 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Junction of 10mm gib, 9mm ply and 32mm pine architrave
Kompromat As A Service
Remember Starmer's "urgent" review into foreign interference after Nathan Gill?
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Ex-UK ambassadors are lobbyists for sanctioned pro-Russia genocide deniers
Labour MP calls for rules to be tightened after Democracy for Sale finds former diplomats paid to lobby for Republika Srpska
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Kompromat As A Service
Happy Endoscope Day, everyone!
December 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Happy Endoscope Day, everyone!
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Sméagol finds the Precious
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sméagol finds the Precious
My advice is to wait for a bit, or insist on power to hire and fire, when taking on this sort of gig. The worst environment to walk into will be one where existing engineers used AI to dig themselves into a hole that now they don’t know how to get out of. Clean house, clean room, from the ground up.
Later, those people who *didn't* gleefully lobotomize the part of their brain that does programming, will be hired back as consultants at many many times their yearly salaries to do what for several generations was considered to be a minimum baseline of competency, to fix that unmaintainable code.
December 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My advice is to wait for a bit, or insist on power to hire and fire, when taking on this sort of gig. The worst environment to walk into will be one where existing engineers used AI to dig themselves into a hole that now they don’t know how to get out of. Clean house, clean room, from the ground up.
The only ranks that a hospital can achieve are Private and General.
December 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The only ranks that a hospital can achieve are Private and General.
Everything in sports was becoming sponsored, including the TV umpire in Rugby Union
And now for some motivation from the Owensboro Burger King.
December 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Everything in sports was becoming sponsored, including the TV umpire in Rugby Union
I’ve combined meditation and hide-and-seek for single people so that you can find yourself
December 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I’ve combined meditation and hide-and-seek for single people so that you can find yourself
Why is it Snake Enclosure and not Wiggle Room?
December 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Why is it Snake Enclosure and not Wiggle Room?
My new full-time role is as a time-travelling tiler pixelating the rude bits in Greek and Roman mosaics
December 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My new full-time role is as a time-travelling tiler pixelating the rude bits in Greek and Roman mosaics