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TikTok is an irredeemably evil and immoral company...
I was amused at this Bluesky post from our local M...
Indo-European is a perpetual mind-warp for mundane...
Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn&rsquo...
Crucial Track for 05 September 2025
Which scene is the most convincing portrayal of co...
I’m once again doing the Hackney Legal Walk ...
Do our principles-free, neoliberal managerialist p...
Tip for politicians: don’t begin every statement w...
The Guardian reports:
Minister orders immigration...
To risk stating the obvious: LLM benchmarks are bu...
Ordered a Chromebook from Amazon. Went to the lock...
This is an interesting read from Ars Technica on t...
I am so struggling with IndieWeb syndication that ...
The Labour government are making cuts, not making ...
This will come as a shock to Oxbridge PPEs and mem...
Here are some culinarily rules of thumb:
Use more...
It is clear that criminal and far-right influencer...
The eagle-eyed among you have reminded me that thi...
I was asked today why I don’t want to use Wh...
Okay: middle-aged, middle-brow warning.
Here are s...
For a moment there I thought I had run out of shic...
I’m an impatient cook, particularly when I’m hungr...
Marks & Spencer, if you must put made in Brita...
Crucial Track for 26 July 2025
I spotted something curious in the world of planni...
Good grief! Nationalise these companies already.
w...
Wet afternoon in Poplar
Mammals aren’t built for flight, unless you&...
It’s disappointing to see a Labour chancello...
Hot evening on the Dock:
Kidding myself. I’...
Here’s a tip: if you have a packaged salad m...
Just dropped a Duralex glass on a concrete floor…....
You just have to take a look at the absolute state...
I bought some Fiio Snowsky Anytime Bluetooth ANC h...
Bought me some Nanoleaf Solar Garden Lights. Very ...
This tree is an interloper in the reeds
Crucial Track for 31 May 2025
Crucial Track for May 24, 2025
Kettles are important for me - they are always in ...
Immigration is not the UK’s problem. Using immigra...
Yesterday a Labour prime minister insulted my comm...
Less than a year in Labour throws in the towel. La...
Starmer’s government is not just an unprinci...
American capitalists pine for slavery. European ca...
Who are the “key voters” who support t...
Waitrose Canary Wharf just doesn’t care.
The celebrity coot in Eden Dock at Canary Wharf lo...
What is a the strategy here in the UK? To make thi...
Here’s a little tip. If you’re making a pasta sauc...
Basildon town centre.
Seagulls exploded by the Westferry Deathray over N...
The last days of Robin Hood Gardens
I saw this bird by Hallsville Road in Canning Town...
Photographing the sunset on the Royal Docks
Insect learning centre, Stratford
US trade officials scour the globe for more eggs a...
A stickered telecommunications box in Hackney
How do you tell Labour and Tories apart? Both are ...
How do we raise the money to defend our country an...
Keir Starmer is so not the prime minister the UK n...
These are my principles. If you don’t like them I...
Sir Neville Starmer and his foreign secretary are ...
Boarding the Rainbow Train
The right are doing with “net zero” wh...
Instead of producing migrant deportation porn to s...
Well, know we know: “ensuring AI is open, in...
Timothy Snyder, getting the ongoing coup in the US...
Liberal democracy just died. It’s been on li...
Q: What will Labour centrist politicians do now th...
Preparations for Winter Lights
A gull keeps Bird Boy company
An English to English translation error in Windows...
Two half-built residential towers loom over a night-time Poplar Marina
The moon on Poplar Marina
When a marginally less incompetent government begi...
In the past I’ve used terms like “deep...
Tunnel Operations
I’m testing something - excuse the noise.
I have come to believe that stationery is hard.
Le...
I can’t use LinkedIn. It makes me feel too i...
Owen Jones nails it here.
Here is the basic truth...
Crikey, Apple, for £150 quid couldn’t you at...
Burt Reynolds, Peter Falk: same actor, right?
Okay. Sitting here, listening to the thump, thump ...
ChatGPT can’t wield a broom, so how does AI ...
Starmer is doing a Sunak reset.
The Star Park crows first XI are playing football ...
I’m not sure how we’ll find the solidarity to tack...
Cannot find potimarron today; so am winging it wit...
I used to hate peeling vegetables then I got a pro...
Farmers, who tugged their forelocks and voted for ...
I’m typing with my ancient Logitech K380. It’s a m...
The right has offered its successor to the neolibe...
Apparently Rachel Reeves is a social democrat. As ...
Daylight saving time is over, and it’s dark ...
An over the air firmware update bricked my dishwas...
No laughing matter
Newspaper editors seem to love this Labour freebie...
The corrupting influence of money on politics is r...
Mucking around with the Mb API. Some improvements....
Vain, imprudent, lacking both judgement and a mora...
“Eee bah gum, pet. Labour have condemned us ...
Presumably, “black hole, we’re doomed!” has been f...
Over the summer there’s been a change in Eas...
The government planned to gut the NHS and flog the...
Rachel Reeves is positioning herself as the centri...
The Chancellor, of all people, “secures&rdqu...
A ‘tough’ government would be taking p...
If Britain is broken, why does government fiddle w...
In the polities of neoliberal meritocracy, elected...
My question for the Labour Treasury team is, if th...
The government either takes us for fools or are so...
The Parliament of Crows
How do you know you’re going deaf in one ear...
As AI fever grips public services, there’s a...
When politicians say they will be “tough on ...
Riding the rainbow train this morning.
It is an irony of our times that the professional ...
Not sure if the pigeons are fans of minimalism or ...
A successful Labour government needs a commitment ...
I’ve never understood why governments are so...
Cold snap bonus: Rachel Reeves will only have to k...
Bought a black Echo Pop during some sort of Prime ...
Super depressing to watch liberal democracies give...
The impending collapse of the criminal justice sys...
Is Rachel Reeves a poor communicator constrained b...
Big fire in Canning Town this morning
The election campaign really shows up the dire sta...
Paula Vennells sure was paid an awful lot of money...
In 10 years time who will deliver the lattes once ...
I love economists. Always so cute in their naïve, ...
You’d think that if the UK government really wante...
It’s almost as if everything that politician...
A glitch in the Matrix
Have I got this straight? A lawyer who is defendin...
Here’s where we’re at in Britain. The ...
TIL that “May the 4th” for English spe...
Great day for London. Nasty, divisive culture-wars...
Rentier Capitalism by Brett Christophers: an unput...
Bubble tea in Stratford
My hometown: dancing under the overpass
Drift down to the beach
A community event in Custom House (from some years...
Surprise to see this coot here on the pavement at ...
There’s a colony of wagtails at Westfield in...
Critters
Down to the spine
Park light at Canary Wharf
Dreamy dusk at the Docks
Blue flag, blue sky
Mountain sunrise
Ice coffee and other things
Birthday favour
East London transport trifecta on the way home thi...
Moody skies over North Greenwich
The transcendence of the rider - no time to park y...
Flâneur or psychogeographer of the liminal space o...
Small to large offices to let
Prickly pear cactus in the Botanic Garden in Copen...
Late capitalism - it didn’t take a nuclear w...
A page from the calendar
Of all the second languages Tower Hamlets Council ...
The magic went away
Morning sky over Hackney Central station
No train on the tracks
Crispy bagged salad
Fire prevention
In the well-being corner of Canary Wharf, the over...
East End sakura
This tree is in Vallance Road Gard...
Pigeons enjoy a characteristic East End meal
Windy afternoon for the coots on Telehouse Pond
Ageism. It’s the last acceptable prejudice, ...
Do you see the moorhen, serene on her nest, amongs...
The beginnings of foliage
Chicken bucket
Forgotten card
Spring flowers at the Trinity Community Centre in ...
Toy duck at Cody Dock
Say AGI isn’t hype to dazzle customers and b...
Interesting Owen Jones piece in the Guardian today...
Apologies for the inconvenience
What does Altman mean by “very subtle societ...
Heterodox macroeconomist and campaigner Richard Mu...
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak paid around 23% tax ...
So far this year - as of 4 February 2024 - on my d...
Wryly amused at our blundering elite who spent the...
Well, well, well. The other shoe drops.
Activist ...
The UK political class has used WhatsApp to avoid ...
Funny how aging TINA neoliberals accuse the kids o...
An occasional series of East London chicken shops....
It seems to me British politics reached its nadir ...
Average car insurance cost in UK nears £1,000 afte...
Technicians commission one of the Winter Lights ex...
X-risk: when the techno-optimists' AI tells them w...
An occasional series of East London chicken shops....
An occasional series of East London chicken shops....
Masala apple pie
Happy new year. It’s been a cost of living c...
2024 approaches. The fireworks are ramping up, and...
Is it possible to create an arbitrary bookmark - n...
I thought 15C was too warm for snow at Christmas, ...
TikTok is evil beyond redemption. Its community sa...
Friends and followers, we have the winners for the...
Oh. The Substack clowns have de-cloaked. And to no...
Should you ever find yourself sarf of the river in...
Principled Tories? Uh-uh. No. Nope. There are none...
Here’s the thing about neoliberals: they would rat...
Political and financial journalists should be clea...
The idea that Sunak and the Tories gave two tosses...
A lasting legacy of neoliberalism is that in place...
The obvious, rarely stated.
Policy is more respon...
The people who build and operate TikTok are ghouls...
How will Labour leader and earnest Thatcherite Kei...
Christmas Menu - first of the second thoughts
For ...
Christmas Menus 2023 First Draft
So, last week’s OpenAI chicken coup was a gr...
Few things say global Britain more than a freight ...
More more puzzling still is why this cabbage is ca...
The OpenAI game of thrones reminds us that in the ...
Interesting that OpenAI’s backers and funder...
I wonder what causes the painful broken glass in t...
A tugboat pulls a large float advertising pesto (o...
Tories to ban themselves under new extremism propo...
Britain’s elite institutions appear to be spectacu...
Okta, the new way to spell disingenuous cowboys. J...
Working from home? Here’s a tip. Get yoursel...
The Covid Inquiry so far - journalism and Oxbridge...
I was at a good Newham community event today on th...
Bluesky asked me for my date of birth, but will on...
The Economy
The BA app for iPad is excruciatingly useless. All...
Britain’s housing crisis needs radical action not ...
Having impoverished the country and precipitated a...
My tip to people trafficking entrepreneurs struggl...
I’m doing the Hackney Legal Walk on Saturday...
More proof should you need it that the Tories thin...
Hello younger voters👋. You’ve heard that pol...
What is remarkable about this is not that almost 8...
Have we got to the stage yet where the parasites s...
Sunak would not have given his climate speech if t...
Tories vs ruinous Brexit: “Get it done!&rdqu...
I’m pretty sure everyone who booked Russell Brand ...
Crazy how these credentialed white men reacted wit...
What a steaming pile of crap Resy is. Truly awful ...
It’s curious just how many boomer and gen-x academ...
Currently reading: The Tyranny of Merit by Michael...
Neoliberal meritocracy doesn’t stand up to even th...
Oxford university, Britain’s educational Mordor, s...
“What Britain needs is more spineless, visio...
I was shopping for bird food at the Range at Surre...
Friends, what is the Magic Technocrat lever that t...
Local bird ground effect over water update
I’m reading Show Me the Bodies by Peter Apps...
Got home before the dishwasher finished for the fi...
Do you live in Newham? Have a great idea? Resident...
Saw this pigeon down at Telehouse. It looks like C...
Not sure if it’s the weather or it’s time to fly h...
Philosophically, neoliberalism is superficial and ...
“Principled” conservatives: you may think the “das...
Here’s the thing about technocrats: they find them...
One of the problems of the modern political class ...
The didgeridoo player at Stratford station always ...
Rejoice, elder peasants! Those high-paid, high-ski...
So, the right wing argument for not doing much abo...
Banking printing money from interest rate hikes. T...
Ethical banking
Pigeon Tribes
I occasionally see a dilapidated ice cream van aro...
I’m not sure why a public transport service whose ...
The choice in British politics is between weak, un...
What electoral constituency is Starmer trying to a...
Twenty is plenty
So, I am posting in greyscale from an eInk device....
Does “elite overproduction” explain al...
Remember all those “think of the children” Tories ...
In the battle of East London leisure destinations,...
I’m at St Marks Gate/Cadogan Terrace. The Greenway...
“Torn” is a great song. Fight me. (And...
Maybe don’t throw bacon sarnies and toasties...
Was wondering why the pot wasn’t boiling. I hadn’t...
What are we looking at, Sarge?
3 to 5 years for...
So I tried Threads today. Definitely not for me. B...
I can’t find a single quantity theory of mon...
Hey, @help - is something up with the CDN or with ...
Nablus on the roost
Scritti Politici on the airer
Yes, it’s a pokeria
Brutalist Chinoiserie in Calabria
Bergamot soda - “green gold of Calabria”
Over the decades I’ve been taking the train south ...
Naples Central Station
Starhotel Terminus, Naples, Italy ⭐️⭐️⭐️
...
I accidentally one-click bought some climate denia...
I’ve got superstitious over the years over t...
Mitigating the risk of extinction from an out of t...
Your occasional guide to understanding the right:
...
A coot among the pigeons
The bourgeois populist press coverage of inflation...
The already awful Horizon scandal that saw innocen...
I’ve noticed that elites tend to use “intelligent”...
The staff canteen has been replaced by a staff foo...
Still wrestling with a working (and workable) defi...
From the media round today, it seems Keir Starmer ...
Citadel. OMFG. I don’t think it’s iron...
I can recommend Belvoir - pronounced Beaver - Farm...
I don’t get the mint business. Does it really make...
When I see people with their Instagrammable dogs, ...
Schrödinger’s civil service is both woke, la...
Fox News has collapsed beyond degenerate matter an...
The 0816 Overground from Stratford always leaves l...
If government has to give incentives to business t...
Coots are one of nature’s great bricoleurs. ...
A young female pigeon (I think - not 100% expert a...
Hello journalists! Voter in a democracy here. Suna...
🐦⬛A blackbird is singing over the hiss of the tra...
Poverty and the political right
It’s kind of pathetic watching successive senior T...
Struggling to get my palm rest out of the packagin...
I am just beginning the planning now for the 10 ye...
Local drivers need parking practice.
Sovereignty didn’t matter either
The abandoned Nike outlet is a mirror to the Overg...
Keir Starmer in drag.
Capturing Hot Air
A slice of delicious home-made apple pie with a bi...
I wonder how many terminal prompts the servers at ...
The bridge on the left supports Aspen Way. On the ...
Let’s see ChatGPT 4 drive a car.
The customer service fail at Franco Manca Canary W...
Honestly the pizza points are not worth the pain o...
Culinary instruments on display at John Lewis, Can...
Scored a kilo of Panch Puran (Bengali five spice)....
Imagine the derision if a member of the working cl...
Food courts disconnected from the encumbering shop...
A pigeon under the pedestrian ramp at Homerton Sta...
I get it’s disappointing that few high-follower-co...
Lots of interesting insects at Praia a Mare last s...
A couple of key right wing terms:
Declinism: the o...
Every right wing talking head: “Rant, rant, woke t...
If you are over 50, the writing on the labels of f...
What an odd hill Mark Rowley has chosen to die on....
I’m looking for a houseplant. Nice display i...
The area south of A13 between Silvertown Way and F...
Pigeons on the quasi-portico of Canary Wharf Under...
I got up late so my early walk to Canary Wharf thi...
Passing through the Custom House portal to Canary ...
Manor Road between Canning Town and West Ham, with...
“Nat has herpes” is scrawled all over East London....
You have got to wonder about the folks who take th...
In sum, seems like a budget to keep self-intereste...
Hmm. Seems like the Tories have given back around ...
Imagine if the Tories had given wealthy savers the...
You need a lot of patience to drive down Morning L...
Fiscal rules
The unimaginative build-it-by-numbers regeneration...
This is Canary Wharf Station on the Elizabeth Line...
Against the grey afternoon sky the silver leaves s...
Flying Tiger - this is the Crossrail Place branch ...
I can be a bit slow on the uptake. The people who ...
The Tapping of the Purple Reader is the essential ...
Public address speakers paired together on the lam...
Passenger on the train has a “specially selected” ...
Hackney is gridlocked this morning. The average Br...
The immigration “debate” in the UK is always radio...
Saw this on my walk to the Hackney office today th...
Tory “libertarians” overcome cognitive...
www.theguardian.com
Rishi Sunak ‘extinguishing th...
The whole display has crashed at EY, Canary Wharf....
Crossrail (the Elizabeth Line) is an engineering m...
Tory Migration-go-round Explained
This art piece in Crossrail Place at Canary Wharf ...
Almost 45 years in, and I thought that neoliberali...
The pilot hen is the moorhen who’s always le...
One of the interesting things about the Windsor Fr...
The crows are running around on the roof. I can he...
The crow on “crowverlook” duty on the ...
Gosh @help - am I doing the photoblogging challeng...
It’s London “nope” weather in Ha...
The crazy thing about neoliberals is that they lov...
Highbrow media are setting up Sunak v Starmer as a...
Some tools in the can. Looks pretty secure.
On changing the brushes on the motors when the battery is flat
Okay. So, thanks to Geofency and Pipedream, I can ...
Sense of Wonder
Are Tories blind to structural problems? Does thei...
I like Yubico YubiKeys - sound idea for improving ...
Bought some nice-looking russets from the local M&...
I generally avoid vegetables with trademarks, but ...
Alexa seems to like chicken.
Putting ANPRs on pelican crossings and fining ever...
Is it that graffiti is not art, or that all that a...
Road racer’s engine is louder than the sirens of t...
I’m leaving Stratford International on the DLR fro...
What are the Americans shooting down? De-orbiting ...
A brief musing on political centrism
Uttering sound bites while wearing a high viz jack...
Reading Liz Truss’s piece in the Sunday Tele...
Elon Cohaagen cutting off the oxygen in Venusville...
Reading about power outages and trees exploding fr...
Dockhunt: closer to that journalistic slip of the ...
Not sure how public sector workers contribute to t...
The workers being lowered into the sewer are all I...
What is your worst walk? Mine is Canning Town to t...
The BBC’s review into its taxation, public s...
Newham Council would like people to drive less and...
I have some thoughts and comments about reforming ...
www.theguardian.com
The UK may avoid a recession ...
www.theguardian.com
Hedge funds holding up vital ...
With his sleight of hand promise to cut inflation,...
Seems to me that the people lacking numeracy skill...
Finished reading: Rentier Capitalism by Brett Chis...
Could a politician or policy wonk explain the diff...
I managed an average of 11.6km a day of walking or...
The verdict is in. Anyone who voted Leave was dupe...
Oh-ho! Discovered a mandarin negroni stollen that ...
When a poor person slips on the ice, does anyone w...
Ungritted pavements in Custom House
Ungritted streets in Canning Town
Imagine being so cynical and cruel that you choose...
Temporary if poorly fitted and not working eInk di...
I’ve run this timeline over and again and the only...
Apparently “Singapore on Thames” is go...
It’s interesting that the Tories say of Brexit tha...
New micro post on the MarsEdit 5 beta.
I like the ...
Couldn’t get a micro.blog window to show up ...
Enjoying The Peripheral on Amazon Prime Video. One...
Theory: the people elect politicians to regulate t...
There’s a distinction between riches and the retur...
With only weeks to Christmas, the value destructio...
www.theguardian.com
The cowardly state beholden to...
Don’t people like Elon Musk cause real problems fo...
Leafing through dismal opinion polls this morning,...
“Smart Home” technology would be a lot...
All they have got, the TINA neoliberals, the handm...
Currently reading: How the World Really Works by V...
Not really needing my vegan burgers to have added ...
Lagrange is a nice Gemini browser, with an opinion...
I stumbled across Project Gemini, a lightweight in...
Currently reading: Failures of State: The Inside S...
www.theguardian.com
PM weds at “secret” ceremony w...
Picnic, early May 2021
An important day for pigeon science
Signs of the times
Sometimes during lockdown I put my coffee in my tr...
A (pedantic) note on King Coot
Moral cesspit? Welcome to Tory Britain. https://ww...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/31/he...
Memo to self: O&M and AOV. Don’t ask.
Is it ever wise to look at micro.blog clients at t...
Footling with collaborative writing apps instead o...