Simon Wheatley
@simonwheatley.co.uk
Coming to you from Manchester, UK. Product person at Pendo. Walker, cook, nerd.
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I would be very intrigued to know about the location of some of the more George Crossy accounts on X while we are at it.
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I would be very intrigued to know about the location of some of the more George Crossy accounts on X while we are at it.
I’m not sure this notification is anything other than noise. Sometimes it’s useful to be told when rain will start or stop, but knowing there’s a seven minute gap allows me to do… what? Nip across the road without an umbrella to post a letter? Seems un-useful.
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I’m not sure this notification is anything other than noise. Sometimes it’s useful to be told when rain will start or stop, but knowing there’s a seven minute gap allows me to do… what? Nip across the road without an umbrella to post a letter? Seems un-useful.
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A former guest who knows him, once told me that Trump sees politics as a reality show. Whatever else happens, by Friday every week, he has to "win the episode", ensure he's the principal character, make the last shot.
Once you tune into that, everything begins to make a twisted sort of sense.
Once you tune into that, everything begins to make a twisted sort of sense.
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A former guest who knows him, once told me that Trump sees politics as a reality show. Whatever else happens, by Friday every week, he has to "win the episode", ensure he's the principal character, make the last shot.
Once you tune into that, everything begins to make a twisted sort of sense.
Once you tune into that, everything begins to make a twisted sort of sense.
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Friday: "Sign this by Thanksgiving or it's all over for you."
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it."
Sunday: "By 'some other boys wrote it', of course I meant some other boys wrote the denial that we wrote it. Here's my lunch money."
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it."
Sunday: "By 'some other boys wrote it', of course I meant some other boys wrote the denial that we wrote it. Here's my lunch money."
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Friday: "Sign this by Thanksgiving or it's all over for you."
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it."
Sunday: "By 'some other boys wrote it', of course I meant some other boys wrote the denial that we wrote it. Here's my lunch money."
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it."
Sunday: "By 'some other boys wrote it', of course I meant some other boys wrote the denial that we wrote it. Here's my lunch money."
Are you on the Plur1bus? If not, get on the Plur1bus.
(I made that up, but you can use it if you want.)
(I made that up, but you can use it if you want.)
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Are you on the Plur1bus? If not, get on the Plur1bus.
(I made that up, but you can use it if you want.)
(I made that up, but you can use it if you want.)
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A little advance notice: we have a lovely episode of the Kitchen Cabinet coming up tomorrow, marking this week’s world children’s day. We’re at the Academy of St Nicholas in Liverpool and all our questions come young people in Yr 7 and up. 10.30am on BBC Radio 4
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A little advance notice: we have a lovely episode of the Kitchen Cabinet coming up tomorrow, marking this week’s world children’s day. We’re at the Academy of St Nicholas in Liverpool and all our questions come young people in Yr 7 and up. 10.30am on BBC Radio 4
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This truly is madder than Mad Jack McMad ...
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This truly is madder than Mad Jack McMad ...
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I am currently hatching a plan where it is the main part of a chicken wings marinade, along with garlic and chilli oil.
There is no earthly reason why this abomination should have ever been conceived, let alone developed and marketed. And even less rational justification for it being so unfathomably delicious or utterly addictive.
It is crack in a bottle and must be regulated, before the whole country is lost to it.
It is crack in a bottle and must be regulated, before the whole country is lost to it.
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I am currently hatching a plan where it is the main part of a chicken wings marinade, along with garlic and chilli oil.
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we're working on getting search back up, hang tight
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
we're working on getting search back up, hang tight
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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(If you’re curious, here’s one article on her theorem: bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
Strange but true: the expanding Universe doesn't conserve energy
The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental laws governing our reality. But in the expanding Universe, that's just not true.
bigthink.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
(If you’re curious, here’s one article on her theorem: bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
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I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
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Hosting a little chat on constraints, Shape Up, and artfully using constraints to help a team improve. Link at the top of this post:
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-386-un...
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-386-un...
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hosting a little chat on constraints, Shape Up, and artfully using constraints to help a team improve. Link at the top of this post:
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-386-un...
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-386-un...
After forty years of claiming to “hold back the years”, it is now extremely clear that the years are actually not being held back at all. Fkn furious.
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
After forty years of claiming to “hold back the years”, it is now extremely clear that the years are actually not being held back at all. Fkn furious.
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Them: think of a number
Me: two hundred and thirty bajillion
Them: there’s no number called a bajillion
Me: how many numbers are there?
Them: an infinite number
Me: is the number of combinations of letters in a 9-letter word less than that?
Them: yes
Me: there has to be a number called a bajillion
Me: two hundred and thirty bajillion
Them: there’s no number called a bajillion
Me: how many numbers are there?
Them: an infinite number
Me: is the number of combinations of letters in a 9-letter word less than that?
Them: yes
Me: there has to be a number called a bajillion
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Them: think of a number
Me: two hundred and thirty bajillion
Them: there’s no number called a bajillion
Me: how many numbers are there?
Them: an infinite number
Me: is the number of combinations of letters in a 9-letter word less than that?
Them: yes
Me: there has to be a number called a bajillion
Me: two hundred and thirty bajillion
Them: there’s no number called a bajillion
Me: how many numbers are there?
Them: an infinite number
Me: is the number of combinations of letters in a 9-letter word less than that?
Them: yes
Me: there has to be a number called a bajillion
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November 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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I heard Erika Kirk’s Halloween costume is Sexy Couch.
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I heard Erika Kirk’s Halloween costume is Sexy Couch.
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Erika Kirk: No one will ever replace my husband — no. But I do see some of my husband in JD… in Vice President JD Vance. I do. And that’s why I’m so blessed to introduce him tonight — because he understands the fight we’re up against. He’s an amazing man.
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Erika Kirk: No one will ever replace my husband — no. But I do see some of my husband in JD… in Vice President JD Vance. I do. And that’s why I’m so blessed to introduce him tonight — because he understands the fight we’re up against. He’s an amazing man.
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Inevitably fascinating thread on a particular strand of modern tailoring and its place in American political life.
To which I can add a little contrast if you want it…
To which I can add a little contrast if you want it…
This process is done using a computer-aided design tool. After your pattern has been made, the panels are cut and the garment is entirely machine sewn. While the company superficially offers a full handmade bespoke service, the price is so prohibitive, they're effectively made-to-measure service.
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Inevitably fascinating thread on a particular strand of modern tailoring and its place in American political life.
To which I can add a little contrast if you want it…
To which I can add a little contrast if you want it…
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Quick, the ghosts are coming - everyone act supernatural!
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Quick, the ghosts are coming - everyone act supernatural!
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This joke is perfect
They asked me if I had any specific criticisms of the Ghost Train. I said nothing leapt out at me.
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This joke is perfect
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Genuinely such an interesting long thread on why these suits look crap and yet how a particular type of crap suit has become a cultural signifier for right-wing men.
I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵
What is happening with this outfit?
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Genuinely such an interesting long thread on why these suits look crap and yet how a particular type of crap suit has become a cultural signifier for right-wing men.
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These people have civilian jobs. It's one thing to mobilize them for an emergency or a legitimate war, another thing to send them to American cities to stand around and mill about. You're messing with people's careers to further a hostile and idiotic agenda.
NEW: National Guard troops deployed in Washington, DC, will remain mobilized in the city at least through February 2026. Hegseth extended their orders on Monday. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
Exclusive: National Guard orders in DC extended through February 2026 | CNN Politics
National Guard troops deployed in Washington, DC will remain mobilized in the city at least through February 2026, according to people familiar with the Guard’s orders.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
These people have civilian jobs. It's one thing to mobilize them for an emergency or a legitimate war, another thing to send them to American cities to stand around and mill about. You're messing with people's careers to further a hostile and idiotic agenda.