Lewis

Possible friendly fire on a raid to kill/capture Rommel, iirc?

“Since Time Immemorial?”
“Legally speaking, even older than that.”

I read this right after seeing a couple on the bus get -incredibly- happy at seeing a cafe I must have gone past hundreds of times. Huge smiles, taking photos, laughing, cries of “I got it!”, etc.

No clue why they were happy - probably an in-joke or something. But it was delightful to see.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

- Scotland (Fife, but the family are from around Glasgow and Inverclyde).
- English (Scottish Standard English).
- “Miaow”.

That friend isn’t Jess Wilson - this one’s a Scottish runner.

(Custard making an appearance thanks to a mate whose fuelling strategy in one race consisted of carrying Birdseye instant sachets, filling them up at the water stops, and drinking them cold. Interesting move.)

“And it’s back to the studio from Checkpoint 4, to hear our panel’s thoughts on the last hour’s worth of fuelling. Folks, some interesting choices around potatoes versus custard there?”

I’d say vice versa.

The world would be a better place with even more ultrarunning coverage.

Yeah, this is before we even get into nicknames. You’ll be deep into some correspondence with “Peter” before realising it’s actually with a guy who has a name that’s nothing like Peter.

“Alexander “Peter” Rocke-Androll, Lord Ampersand, later Earl Dustbin, also known as “Iain” to his uni mates.”

They didn’t just love them, they made a big thing of changing them!

Writing about Chamberlain’s PPS? That’ll be Lord Dunglass. The post-war FS? Earl Home, thank you very much. The PM? Douglas-Home. The -other- FS? Douglas-Home.

All the same guy!

Fuck Me!! its all kicking off in bristol! 😆

"Russign culture and Russian history is sort of baked into Alaska," said Brandon Boylan, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who has researched Alaska's role in U.S.-Russia relations. "There's a lot of remnants of the Russian American legacy."

The faculty have been waiting decades to get this quote into the Times.

Back in May 2021 I posted on twitter about a journey I'd undertaken to find a tree that I can see from our bedroom window. I've decided to post it verbatim on here as lots of people really enjoyed it. So, here it is…

Honourable mention goes to a guy in Oviedo who decided to wake the entire albuerge up by tunelessly yelling the lyrics to “Please, Please, Please” outside the window at 0300.

Just what you need before an 0430 alarm and 36km day.

A toss between a Camino Hospitalera waking us all up at 0600 with George Michael’s “Jesus to a Child” and a guy I was at school with mistaking tiger balm for aftershave one morning on a school trip.

“I think we’re on a sticky wicket here, so should run on a bit and see if we put in a good innings. Anyway, I’m out.”

First the bats blocking GW’s car park, now the giant rats… start the week with Vampire Counts, finish it with Skaven.

And it just becomes a cycle at that point. People drop out of the social realm, which leads to a shrinking social realm, which leads to people dropping out of the social realm, which leads to a shrinking social realm - etc.

I think the in-person social circle aspect’s key. I’ve seen people get radicalised in so many directions (from “person who constantly posts boomerslop” to “tried to storm Edinburgh Castle under Admiralty Law”) in environments where, historically, they’d have just done entirely benign things.

The replies to this post, even on here, even moreso on X, are so depressing to me. We live in a world where cities have never been safer and a minority of people are denying themselves a lot of delightful experiences because they’ve gone mad online.

I see the von Carsteins are at it again.

Working in data protection means that there are some headlines/tech developments that make me want to scream incoherently into the void.

This is one of them.

(Furthermore, I think that AI is a bad idea.)

Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:

- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender

What we know so far 🧵

tiffany they were gay

I burst out laughing when I saw the picture, and continued when I saw the caption.

Was thinking of getting some old railway posters for my flat a couple of weeks ago - there were some awful gems.

Every day I feel a tiny bit more certain that LLMs represent a moral evil and will ultimately lead to societal damage to an extent that we are currently unable to begin to imagine

Fascism won’t let you just think red squirrels are cute. It corrupts and politicises everything.