I'm not sure this quote goes with this post, Paul?
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 PM
I'm not sure this quote goes with this post, Paul?
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I always forget that my dad installed motion sensor lights alongside the path in his back garden, turning every nighttime walk to the shed into the video for Billie Jean.
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I always forget that my dad installed motion sensor lights alongside the path in his back garden, turning every nighttime walk to the shed into the video for Billie Jean.
The ❄💦 stubbornly continue to refuse to open, and the crocuses have emerged victorious
February 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
The ❄💦 stubbornly continue to refuse to open, and the crocuses have emerged victorious
Interesting concept... 🤔
February 9, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Interesting concept... 🤔
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Which brings us back to the funniest video in internet history.
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Which brings us back to the funniest video in internet history.
Has the BBC series version of #H²G² never been repeated on the BBC - I've checked on iplayer?
If you click on it where you usually see most recent broadcast date it has only a 1981 date which I suspect was first broadcast?
I have a sudden yearning...
#Hitchhikers
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
If you click on it where you usually see most recent broadcast date it has only a 1981 date which I suspect was first broadcast?
I have a sudden yearning...
#Hitchhikers
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
February 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Has the BBC series version of #H²G² never been repeated on the BBC - I've checked on iplayer?
If you click on it where you usually see most recent broadcast date it has only a 1981 date which I suspect was first broadcast?
I have a sudden yearning...
#Hitchhikers
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
If you click on it where you usually see most recent broadcast date it has only a 1981 date which I suspect was first broadcast?
I have a sudden yearning...
#Hitchhikers
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
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6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
![Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/bafkreihpnudavq27nzelfb2kd3fjjthco7haqmhvx4zryksfbfruoxkm74@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
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5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
February 9, 2026 at 12:34 PM
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
(My most bestest insult without them realising would have been - probably 😏 "do you vote REFORM? Hmmm, I thought so")
February 9, 2026 at 7:06 PM
(My most bestest insult without them realising would have been - probably 😏 "do you vote REFORM? Hmmm, I thought so")
And other (mostly passagg) various replies I might have used to WIN and HUMBLE them.
(And any free brain thinking time during the rest of the day too).
I DIDN'T think about it on my drive home though.
So: there's that!
(And any free brain thinking time during the rest of the day too).
I DIDN'T think about it on my drive home though.
So: there's that!
February 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
And other (mostly passagg) various replies I might have used to WIN and HUMBLE them.
(And any free brain thinking time during the rest of the day too).
I DIDN'T think about it on my drive home though.
So: there's that!
(And any free brain thinking time during the rest of the day too).
I DIDN'T think about it on my drive home though.
So: there's that!
Somebody shouted at me rather aggressively this morning. In front of people. (Non work related).
I was so taken aback by the rude I feel I did not adequately stand up for myself, but I DID remain calm and did not escalate the situation.
I of course spent my drive in thinking of various zingers.
I was so taken aback by the rude I feel I did not adequately stand up for myself, but I DID remain calm and did not escalate the situation.
I of course spent my drive in thinking of various zingers.
February 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Somebody shouted at me rather aggressively this morning. In front of people. (Non work related).
I was so taken aback by the rude I feel I did not adequately stand up for myself, but I DID remain calm and did not escalate the situation.
I of course spent my drive in thinking of various zingers.
I was so taken aback by the rude I feel I did not adequately stand up for myself, but I DID remain calm and did not escalate the situation.
I of course spent my drive in thinking of various zingers.
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Socialist Seguro wins landslide victory against far right in Portugal's presidential election.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
Portugal elects Socialist Party’s Seguro as president in landslide
With 95 percent of votes counted, 63-year-old Antonio Jose Seguro is on 66 percent.
www.aljazeera.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Socialist Seguro wins landslide victory against far right in Portugal's presidential election.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
February 8, 2026 at 9:26 PM
(Before the taking of a toast and tea)
February 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
(Before the taking of a toast and tea)
And is there time, is there time...
February 8, 2026 at 3:49 PM
And is there time, is there time...
Honestly I've just started Ep 3 and it really is a perfectly written, acted and filmed drama #WaitingForTheOut
The pace is perfect, and I love the way the camera often stays on Dan's face, or another character observing their reaction to what is being said.
Brilliant. And based on a true story
The pace is perfect, and I love the way the camera often stays on Dan's face, or another character observing their reaction to what is being said.
Brilliant. And based on a true story
February 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Honestly I've just started Ep 3 and it really is a perfectly written, acted and filmed drama #WaitingForTheOut
The pace is perfect, and I love the way the camera often stays on Dan's face, or another character observing their reaction to what is being said.
Brilliant. And based on a true story
The pace is perfect, and I love the way the camera often stays on Dan's face, or another character observing their reaction to what is being said.
Brilliant. And based on a true story
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After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software
February 8, 2026 at 12:14 PM
After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software
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The Home Office now describes asylum seekers as "illegal immigrants [living in hotels]" with no reference to the reason that these people are in government-funded accommodation is that this government has taken & will process the asylum claim from them in 98-99% of cases of unauthorised entry.
February 8, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The Home Office now describes asylum seekers as "illegal immigrants [living in hotels]" with no reference to the reason that these people are in government-funded accommodation is that this government has taken & will process the asylum claim from them in 98-99% of cases of unauthorised entry.
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I'm on a standing-room only train between Leeds and Sheffield. There's an elderly, slightly drunk man behind me playing 'Long Tall Sally' loudly on his phone, and shouting 'BABY!' and 'HAVE SOME FUN!' occasionally. Other passengers stoic.
February 8, 2026 at 12:37 PM
I'm on a standing-room only train between Leeds and Sheffield. There's an elderly, slightly drunk man behind me playing 'Long Tall Sally' loudly on his phone, and shouting 'BABY!' and 'HAVE SOME FUN!' occasionally. Other passengers stoic.
I'm glad he has made time for this time with you in the middle of his hectic schedule of becoming Bluesky's top model, international cat of mystery, building surveyor, garden monitor, frown perfector, philosophical thinker and *checks notes* sleeping. And eating.
February 8, 2026 at 12:03 PM
I'm glad he has made time for this time with you in the middle of his hectic schedule of becoming Bluesky's top model, international cat of mystery, building surveyor, garden monitor, frown perfector, philosophical thinker and *checks notes* sleeping. And eating.