: Who are the “key voters” who support the impoverishment of families? What use are …
: Waitrose Canary Wharf just doesn’t care.
: The celebrity coot in Eden Dock at Canary Wharf looks after her chicks.
: What is a the strategy here in the UK? To make things so shit that assisted dying is the best of the …
: Here’s a little tip. If you’re making a pasta sauce with chilli, garlic and tomatoes and the …
: Seagulls exploded by the Westferry Deathray over Newfoundland Wharf
: The last days of Robin Hood Gardens
: I saw this bird by Hallsville Road in Canning Town on Saturday. It was too quick for me and flew off …
: Photographing the sunset on the Royal Docks
: Insect learning centre, Stratford
: US trade officials scour the globe for more eggs as woke, cultural Marxist, leftists push up prices …
: A stickered telecommunications box in Hackney
: How do you tell Labour and Tories apart? Both are dogmatically neoliberal with apparently no clue …
: How do we raise the money to defend our country and preserve our values in an ever more dangerous …
: Keir Starmer is so not the prime minister the UK needs during the breakdown of the post-war liberal …
: These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others. Starmer and Lammy absolutely craven …
: Sir Neville Starmer and his foreign secretary are flying out to Washington to meet the Musk-Trump …
: The right are doing with “net zero” what they did with “woke”. Woke is …
: Instead of producing migrant deportation porn to show how out of ideas it is, the Labour government …
: Well, know we know: “ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and …
: Timothy Snyder, getting the ongoing coup in the US about right. The new world they imagine is not …
: Liberal democracy just died. It’s been on life support for some time now. And when the alarm …
: Q: What will Labour centrist politicians do now that the collapse of neoliberalism into the …
: Preparations for Winter Lights
: A gull keeps Bird Boy company
: An English to English translation error in Windows 11
: Two half-built residential towers loom over a night-time Poplar Marina
: When a marginally less incompetent government begins the long, slow slog to address irregular …
: In the past I’ve used terms like “deep state” or “uniparty” on …
: I’m testing something - excuse the noise.
: I have come to believe that stationery is hard. Let’s start with the 2mm clutch pencil. The …
: I can’t use LinkedIn. It makes me feel too ill.
: Owen Jones nails it here. Here is the basic truth: the Labour right ran out of ideas long ago. For …
: Crikey, Apple, for £150 quid couldn’t you at least have offered backlighting?
: Burt Reynolds, Peter Falk: same actor, right?
: Okay. Sitting here, listening to the thump, thump of the alien invasion and pretending it’s …
: ChatGPT can’t wield a broom, so how does AI help local authorities deliver non-statutory …
: Starmer is doing a Sunak reset.
: The Star Park crows first XI are playing football on the roof.
: I’m not sure how we’ll find the solidarity to tackle climate change when no one will push the button …
: Cannot find potimarron today; so am winging it with sweet potato and chestnuts. Wish me luck.
: I used to hate peeling vegetables then I got a proper vegetable peeler instead of one of the cheap …
: Farmers, who tugged their forelocks and voted for Brexit though it cut them off from their markets, …
: I’m typing with my ancient Logitech K380. It’s a much nicer keyboard than you’d expect from the …
: The right has offered its successor to the neoliberal order, and that is fascism. What will the left …
: Apparently Rachel Reeves is a social democrat. As a fully paid up member of the “words mean …
: Daylight saving time is over, and it’s dark when I finish work. So I haven’t seen local …
: An over the air firmware update bricked my dishwasher.
: No laughing matter John Harris makes has a good piece in the Guardian on the risks of underestimating the hard right. …
: Newspaper editors seem to love this Labour freebies story because it gives them an excuse to print a …
: The corrupting influence of money on politics is rarely more vividly illustrated than by the Labour …
: Mucking around with the Mb API. Some improvements.
: Vain, imprudent, lacking both judgement and a moral compass. Starmer, like many a modern politician, …
: “Eee bah gum, pet. Labour have condemned us to freeze to death this winter, but at least that …
: Presumably, “black hole, we’re doomed!” has been focus-grouped. Who are this bloc of centrist …
: Over the summer there’s been a change in East London mores: people no longer press the button …
: The government planned to gut the NHS and flog the entrails of to private equity. The “black …
: Rachel Reeves is positioning herself as the centrist dad’s Liz Truss.
: The Chancellor, of all people, “secures” an £8b AWS datacentre that will “support …
: A ‘tough’ government would be taking power and money from the rich, not mugging …
: If Britain is broken, why does government fiddle with the dials? If the machine is kaput you fix the …
: In the polities of neoliberal meritocracy, elected politicians consider ordinary folk non-player …
: My question for the Labour Treasury team is, if the bond markets are running the country, why are we …
: The government either takes us for fools or are so completely clueless about economics that they …
: The Parliament of Crows I live in east London and I often walk down Bow Creek from Bow Locks to the A13 via Cody Dock. In …
: How do you know you’re going deaf in one ear? Your AirPods consistently run down in one ear …
: As AI fever grips public services, there’s a lot of talk about AI replacing professionals. …
: When politicians say they will be “tough on immigration” it’s a tell. They are …
: Riding the rainbow train this morning.
: It is an irony of our times that the professional and managerial caste who manage “teh economeh” on …
: Not sure if the pigeons are fans of minimalism or just like numbers. Anyhow, I play them “Einstein …
: A successful Labour government needs a commitment to social justice. A technocratic government of …
: I’ve never understood why governments are so interested in the opinions of corporations and …
: Cold snap bonus: Rachel Reeves will only have to kill 250k pensioners over a cold winter to save as …
: Bought a black Echo Pop during some sort of Prime discount thing. It came with a white power supply. …
: Super depressing to watch liberal democracies give up without a fight. Elites are like, “Well, …
: The impending collapse of the criminal justice system in the UK is the signal indicator of the true …
: Is Rachel Reeves a poor communicator constrained by Labour’s Tory-lite, don’t frighten the horses …
: Big fire in Canning Town this morning
: The election campaign really shows up the dire state of British political journalism.
: Paula Vennells sure was paid an awful lot of money for not having a clue what was going on during …
: In 10 years time who will deliver the lattes once AI has made human labour obsolete?
: I love economists. Always so cute in their naïve, incelish smugness, and always so reliably wrong.
: You’d think that if the UK government really wanted to “stop the boats”, they’d stop the City …
: It’s almost as if everything that politicians back is a bad idea. This is your cognitive elite …
: Have I got this straight? A lawyer who is defending Trump for the money is using an attack line of …
: Here’s where we’re at in Britain. The Tories are high on their own supply, but they …
: TIL that “May the 4th” for English speakers doesn’t generally refer to the 五四运动, …
: Great day for London. Nasty, divisive culture-wars politics comprehensively rejected. And the swifts …
: Rentier Capitalism by Brett Christophers: an unputdownable read
: My hometown: dancing under the overpass
: A community event in Custom House (from some years ago)
: Surprise to see this coot here on the pavement at Poplar Marina
: There’s a colony of wagtails at Westfield in Stratford. They’ve bounced back since the …
: East London transport trifecta on the way home this evening. Trains cancelled because of trespassers …
: Moody skies over North Greenwich
: The transcendence of the rider - no time to park your Lime bike in the Rapture
: Flâneur or psychogeographer of the liminal space of the submerged memory-city? (h/t Tom Gauld)
: Small to large offices to let
: Prickly pear cactus in the Botanic Garden in Copenhagen
: Late capitalism - it didn’t take a nuclear war
: Of all the second languages Tower Hamlets Council would include in notices, German is most …
: Morning sky over Hackney Central station
: In the well-being corner of Canary Wharf, the over-monied can pay to be locked in a freezer
: East End sakura This tree is in Vallance Road Gardens, Whitechapel, in London’s East End. The …
: Pigeons enjoy a characteristic East End meal
: Windy afternoon for the coots on Telehouse Pond
: Ageism. It’s the last acceptable prejudice, isn’t it? The prejudice you can have and …
: Do you see the moorhen, serene on her nest, amongst all the trash?
: Spring flowers at the Trinity Community Centre in Canning Town
: Say AGI isn’t hype to dazzle customers and bamboozle regulators, but something the AI bros …
: Interesting Owen Jones piece in the Guardian today. Worth a look. The line-up of British politics …
: Apologies for the inconvenience
: What does Altman mean by “very subtle societal misalignments”? Valley gibberish, or does …
: Heterodox macroeconomist and campaigner Richard Murphy has produced a Taxing Wealth 2024 report to …
: UK prime minister Rishi Sunak paid around 23% tax on £2.2M income because most of his income is …
: So far this year - as of 4 February 2024 - on my daily walks, and every single day since 1 January, …
: Wryly amused at our blundering elite who spent the last 45 years doing more damage to our productive …
: Well, well, well. The other shoe drops. Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to …
: The UK political class has used WhatsApp to avoid democratic scrutiny. They weren’t bamboozled by …
: Funny how aging TINA neoliberals accuse the kids of being intolerant of diverse opinions
: An occasional series of East London chicken shops. Peck! Peck! by Sutton and Sons, Graham Road, …
: It seems to me British politics reached its nadir some time ago. And now, various Tory wannabees are …
: Average car insurance cost in UK nears £1,000 after prices rise 58% “Like a lot of our expenses, …
: Technicians commission one of the Winter Lights exhibits at Westferry Circus.
: X-risk: when the techno-optimists' AI tells them we need to reduce inequality and establish social …
: An occasional series of East London chicken shops. Frisco’s, Beckton Road, Canning Town, …
: An occasional series of East London chicken shops. Seoul Bird with a branch of Wagamama above, in …
: Masala apple pie A nice warming apple pie for when the weather gets colder. Ingredients 1 teaspoon of chai masala …
: Happy new year. It’s been a cost of living crisis fireworks display so the pigeons are …
: 2024 approaches. The fireworks are ramping up, and the pigeons are getting unsettled.
: Is it possible to create an arbitrary bookmark - not bookmark a post - using the microdotblog API? …
: I thought 15C was too warm for snow at Christmas, then looked up and saw it was a tree in blossom.
: TikTok is evil beyond redemption. Its community safety is a sham, and it seeks to profit from misery …
: Friends and followers, we have the winners for the winter solstice 🆆⚓️ on 🛞🛞competition.
: Oh. The Substack clowns have de-cloaked. And to no one’s surprise they’re the …
: Should you ever find yourself sarf of the river in need of a decent lunch, you could do a lot worse …
: Principled Tories? Uh-uh. No. Nope. There are none. Relief for Rishi Sunak as Rwanda bill passes …
: Here’s the thing about neoliberals: they would rather “go fash” than tax the rich and build …
: Political and financial journalists should be clear as to whether they are writing about the …
: The idea that Sunak and the Tories gave two tosses about the jobs of hospitality workers is …
: A lasting legacy of neoliberalism is that in place of solidarity it has created a culture of …
: The obvious, rarely stated. Policy is more responsive to preferences of the well-heeled than of the …
: The people who build and operate TikTok are ghouls.
: How will Labour leader and earnest Thatcherite Keir Starmer outdo the Tories’ cruel “no families for …
: Christmas Menu - first of the second thoughts For Christmas Day, I’m thinking a starter of …
: Christmas Menus 2023 First Draft First cut of menus for Christmas 2023. Work in progress. Main meal only. Vegetarian. Christmas Eve …
: So, last week’s OpenAI chicken coup was a grift to hype their Q* product.
: Few things say global Britain more than a freight train of empty FreightLiners trundling to Tilbury.
: More more puzzling still is why this cabbage is called a hispi cabbage in restaurants and a …
: The OpenAI game of thrones reminds us that in the broösphere you will be replaced by AI, not them.
: Interesting that OpenAI’s backers and funders are keen to hang on to insubstantial TED-talker …
: I wonder what causes the painful broken glass in the ears treble that I hear when listening to …
: A tugboat pulls a large float advertising pesto (of all things) past the O2.
: Tories to ban themselves under new extremism proposals. Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ …
: Britain’s elite institutions appear to be spectacularly incapable of producing a governing class …
: Okta, the new way to spell disingenuous cowboys. Joking apart - whole governments trust identities …
: Working from home? Here’s a tip. Get yourself a cuckoo clock. Muji sell nice modern-style …
: The Covid Inquiry so far - journalism and Oxbridge need a long period of sober reflection.
: I was at a good Newham community event today on their People Powered Places strand. It got me …
: Bluesky asked me for my date of birth, but will only let me enter a date that is 1,000 years older …
: The Economy Over the years in the UK, “the economy” has become the central obsession of politicians. Not …
: The BA app for iPad is excruciatingly useless. All it presents is a screen to book a flight. No …
: Britain’s housing crisis needs radical action not Labour’s technocratic small beer. Labour would …
: Having impoverished the country and precipitated a housing crisis, the Tories can’t kick off a …
: My tip to people trafficking entrepreneurs struggling with burdensome government regulation: make a …
: I’m doing the Hackney Legal Walk on Saturday to raise money for Citizens Advice. Their advice …
: More proof should you need it that the Tories think you are stupid. Rishi Sunak considering …
: Hello younger voters👋. You’ve heard that politics doesn’t offer you anything because you …
: What is remarkable about this is not that almost 80% of the electorate don’t trust Sunak on the …
: Have we got to the stage yet where the parasites shuck off their Tory and begin to seek out a Labour …
: Sunak would not have given his climate speech if the Tories didn’t think us fools. Rishi Sunak …
: Tories vs ruinous Brexit: “Get it done!” Tories vs existential climate crisis: …
: I’m pretty sure everyone who booked Russell Brand knew what kind of person he was. Still, they went …
: Crazy how these credentialed white men reacted with a fantasy projection when an algorithm got as …
: What a steaming pile of crap Resy is. Truly awful user experience that must take some experience to …
: It’s curious just how many boomer and gen-x academic and academic-adjacent types who spoke of the …
: Currently reading: The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel. Thoughtful and articulate on how …
: Neoliberal meritocracy doesn’t stand up to even the lightest scrutiny. I thought that its …
: Oxford university, Britain’s educational Mordor, spewed out hordes of neoliberal PPE graduates who …
: “What Britain needs is more spineless, visionless neoliberals whose big idea is NHS …
: I was shopping for bird food at the Range at Surrey Quays this afternoon. What a nice store! There …
: Friends, what is the Magic Technocrat lever that the Tories haven’t used which Reeves and …
: Local bird ground effect over water update Local coots are the ground effect champions. If they ever actually fly out of ground effect, they do …
: I’m reading Show Me the Bodies by Peter Apps 📚 Fuck me, this is a painful, important book. …
: Got home before the dishwasher finished for the first time and noticed it rather swankily projects …
: Do you live in Newham? Have a great idea? Residents can apply for grants of up to £5,000 for …
: Saw this pigeon down at Telehouse. It looks like CGI, but there’s no trickery. The flesh had …
: Not sure if it’s the weather or it’s time to fly home, but the swifts are massing over the Olympic …
: Philosophically, neoliberalism is superficial and incoherent - almost as if it were designed to …
: “Principled” conservatives: you may think the “dash for fash” is a cynical ploy to attract voters …
: Here’s the thing about technocrats: they find themselves running a death camp, so they set about …
: One of the problems of the modern political class in Britain is that being a person of action means …
: The didgeridoo player at Stratford station always attracts pigeons, who stamp their feet in time to …
: Rejoice, elder peasants! Those high-paid, high-skilled, high-productivity jobs could soon be yours. …
: So, the right wing argument for not doing much about climate change is, “It’s not so bad. It’s not …
: Banking printing money from interest rate hikes. The extractive energy sector struck a money gusher …
: Ethical banking This piece on Farage’s crusade against NatWest on Richard Murphy’s Funding the Future …
: Pigeon Tribes Based on their colouring, local pigeons are different tribes. From Terry Spinks Place in Canning …
: I occasionally see a dilapidated ice cream van around Hackney that looks like a horror movie prop. …
: I’m not sure why a public transport service whose exhortations fail to get people to do …
: The choice in British politics is between weak, unprincipled invertebrates and weak, unprincipled …
: What electoral constituency is Starmer trying to appeal to? Two nasty parties
: So, I am posting in greyscale from an eInk device.
: Does “elite overproduction” explain all the mess the UK and the US are in? I don’t …
: Remember all those “think of the children” Tories during the pandemic? Where are tbey now? Home …
: In the battle of East London leisure destinations, Canary Wharf is advertising at Westfield …
: I’m at St Marks Gate/Cadogan Terrace. The Greenway - a scenic walk down a Victorian super-sewer …
: “Torn” is a great song. Fight me. (And Mrs Moorhen).
: Maybe don’t throw bacon sarnies and toasties at the nesting coot.
: Was wondering why the pot wasn’t boiling. I hadn’t actually turned the hob ring on.
: What are we looking at, Sarge? 3 to 5 years for crimes against architecture, lad.
: So I tried Threads today. Definitely not for me. But the promise of federation is … …
: I can’t find a single quantity theory of money bro who’s loudly blaming inflation on …
: Hey, @help - is something up with the CDN or with image uploads from the MacOS app?
: Scritti Politici on the airer
: Brutalist Chinoiserie in Calabria Along the Tyrrhenian coast on the gulf of Policastro you’ll find the fading legacy of a chain …
: Bergamot soda - “green gold of Calabria”
: Over the decades I’ve been taking the train south from Napoli Centrale, the station has got busier …
: Starhotel Terminus, Naples, Italy ⭐️⭐️⭐️
: I accidentally one-click bought some climate denialist garbage on Amazon by swiping too hard. I …
: I’ve got superstitious over the years over the order I put the vegetables into a ciambotta.
: Mitigating the risk of extinction from an out of touch and amoral billionaire class should be a …
: Your occasional guide to understanding the right: Classical Liberal = over-credentialed incel …
: The bourgeois populist press coverage of inflation and interest rates is as howlingly vacuous as the …
: The already awful Horizon scandal that saw innocent sub-postmasters gaoled because of computer …
: I’ve noticed that elites tend to use “intelligent” as a shorthand for “narcissistic, Machiavellian, …
: The staff canteen has been replaced by a staff food-bank. You know when you’ve been Toried.
: Still wrestling with a working (and workable) definition of political centrism. My latest is …
: From the media round today, it seems Keir Starmer has decloacked. Disappointingly but unsurprisingly …
: Citadel. OMFG. I don’t think it’s ironically bad, just absolutely, utterly terrible. …
: I can recommend Belvoir - pronounced Beaver - Farm Ginger Cordial. I make it at double strength with …
: I don’t get the mint business. Does it really make sense to airlift bagged sprigs of mint from …
: When I see people with their Instagrammable dogs, I think of chickens - 3600 years from prestige pet …
: Schrödinger’s civil service is both woke, lazy and incompetent, and orchestrating a …
: Fox News has collapsed beyond degenerate matter and, spinning wildly, has become a griftar.
: The 0816 Overground from Stratford always leaves late. Except when the next three trains are …
: If government has to give incentives to business to invest, doesn’t that imply …
: Coots are one of nature’s great bricoleurs. This coot is one of a pair who’ve built …
: A young female pigeon (I think - not 100% expert at pigeon sexing) is roosting on the patio door …
: Hello journalists! Voter in a democracy here. Sunak’s government is not the one that made the …
: 🐦⬛A blackbird is singing over the hiss of the traffic. In the dark. In the rain.
: Poverty and the political right If the right wanted a low-tax small state through democratic means, it would tackle poverty. The …
: It’s kind of pathetic watching successive senior Tories do their “Chemical Ali” turn over Brexit …
: Struggling to get my palm rest out of the packaging because my wrists are so bad.
: I am just beginning the planning now for the 10 year anniversary of this sign not coming down.
: Local drivers need parking practice.
: Sovereignty didn’t matter either The great tragedy of Brexit is that it was just a tactical move by the Tories to win an election and …
: The abandoned Nike outlet is a mirror to the Overground tracks.
: Capturing Hot Air Tories: The State can’t pick winners. The Mah-Ket will decide our fate. Also Tories: Shackled to the …
: A slice of delicious home-made apple pie with a bit of custard.
: I wonder how many terminal prompts the servers at Telehouse support. Here’s a view of …
: The bridge on the left supports Aspen Way. On the right, the DLR.
: Let’s see ChatGPT 4 drive a car.
: The customer service fail at Franco Manca Canary Wharf this evening isn’t evenly spread. One young …
: Honestly the pizza points are not worth the pain of using Franco Manca’s utterly useless app.
: Culinary instruments on display at John Lewis, Canary Wharf.
: Scored a kilo of Panch Puran (Bengali five spice). This is an essential cooking ingredient for me - …
: Imagine the derision if a member of the working class declared the invention of the shovel the dawn …
: Food courts disconnected from the encumbering shopping mall are an increasingly popular destination …
: A pigeon under the pedestrian ramp at Homerton Station grabs the chance of a bit of morning sun.
: I get it’s disappointing that few high-follower-count folks have left Musk’s horror-platform. Heck, …
: Lots of interesting insects at Praia a Mare last summer. Me being me I was mainly taking pictures of …
: A couple of key right wing terms: Declinism: the opinion that a bonfire of regulations and tax cuts …
: Every right wing talking head: “Rant, rant, woke this, woke that, rant bathrooms, woke deep state. …
: If you are over 50, the writing on the labels of food packaging is too tiny.
: What an odd hill Mark Rowley has chosen to die on. Chopping logic over “systemic” vs “institutional” …
: I’m looking for a houseplant. Nice display in M&S at Crossrail Place - but they’d …
: The area south of A13 between Silvertown Way and Freemasons Road was called Cherry Island. Here is …
: Pigeons on the quasi-portico of Canary Wharf Underground Station
: I got up late so my early walk to Canary Wharf this morning was a dash to the Custom House Elizabeth …
: Passing through the Custom House portal to Canary Wharf lives up to its sci-fi name. Two Londons …
: Manor Road between Canning Town and West Ham, with its temporary pedestrian crossing chicanes, …
: “Nat has herpes” is scrawled all over East London. Should I feel sorry for Nat, or does this have …
: You have got to wonder about the folks who take their dogs to shit outside the school gates.
: In sum, seems like a budget to keep self-interested Tories onside. I guess it presages a ratcheting …
: Hmm. Seems like the Tories have given back around 2/3 of the recent corporation tax hike in tax …
: Imagine if the Tories had given wealthy savers the same pension tax breaks, but required the money …
: You need a lot of patience to drive down Morning Lane in the, uh, morning. I walk - and there …
: Fiscal rules Your budget day reminder that outside of political discourse there’s no such thing as fiscal rules. …
: The unimaginative build-it-by-numbers regeneration strategy is to throw up high-rises around public …
: This is Canary Wharf Station on the Elizabeth Line. It has no direct connection with Canary Wharf …
: Against the grey afternoon sky the silver leaves sprouting from the tree growing out of the taxi …
: Flying Tiger - this is the Crossrail Place branch - gimcrack ground zero.
: I can be a bit slow on the uptake. The people who get het up about “declinism” are the …
: The Tapping of the Purple Reader is the essential ritual of East London travelling people.
: Public address speakers paired together on the lampposts at Hackney Central station.
: Passenger on the train has a “specially selected” mozzarella and sun dried cherry tomato wood fired …
: Hackney is gridlocked this morning. The average British car is the size of a small bus these days. …
: The immigration “debate” in the UK is always radioactive. With their small boats stunting the Tories …
: Saw this on my walk to the Hackney office today through sleet and snow. It explains why so many …
: Tory “libertarians” overcome cognitive dissonance by believing free enterprise only …
: www.theguardian.com Rishi Sunak ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in UK’ …
: The whole display has crashed at EY, Canary Wharf.
: Crossrail (the Elizabeth Line) is an engineering marvel. But they never take account of passengers …
: Tory Migration-go-round Explained The Tories won’t fix public services, healthcare, housing or infrastructure. If they did, you …
: This art piece in Crossrail Place at Canary Wharf is made up of LED tiles. The art itself is maybe a …
: Almost 45 years in, and I thought that neoliberalism would have its “reflections on forced …
: The pilot hen is the moorhen who’s always leading the other water birds to the food. This …
: One of the interesting things about the Windsor Framework is that it is not, say, the Barnsley …
: The crows are running around on the roof. I can hear the distinctive hopping gait.
: The crow on “crowverlook” duty on the Star Lane office today watches in solitude.
: Gosh @help - am I doing the photoblogging challenge wrong?
: It’s London “nope” weather in Hackney this morning.
: The crazy thing about neoliberals is that they love markets right up to the point that someone tries …
: Highbrow media are setting up Sunak v Starmer as a battle of the centrist dads. Never was a frame so …
: Some tools in the can. Looks pretty secure.
: On changing the brushes on the motors when the battery is flat Leave politics aside a sec and ask yourself, who is being feather-bedded when businesses are …
: Okay. So, thanks to Geofency and Pipedream, I can annoy you all with my arrivals at and departures …
: Sense of Wonder There’s this sci-fi trope where our time-travelling hero in the past lets the future know when …
: Are Tories blind to structural problems? Does their privilege lead them to really, truly believe the …
: I like Yubico YubiKeys - sound idea for improving online personal security, I think. I own a couple. …
: Bought some nice-looking russets from the local M&S, but they’re rubbish: flavourless and …
: I generally avoid vegetables with trademarks, but Kalettes(TM) are seriously tasty. I braise them …
: Alexa seems to like chicken.
: Putting ANPRs on pelican crossings and fining every driver who runs a red light would seem to be an …
: Is it that graffiti is not art, or that all that art is is pissing on lampposts?
: Road racer’s engine is louder than the sirens of the police chasing after down the A13
: I’m leaving Stratford International on the DLR from platform 2. Have literally never seen a DLR …
: What are the Americans shooting down? De-orbiting Teslas?
: A brief musing on political centrism I’ve struggled with the concept of political centrism. I’ve found its positioning as …
: Uttering sound bites while wearing a high viz jacket is not an industrial strategy.
: Reading Liz Truss’s piece in the Sunday Telegraph, I can only conclude that the UK political …
: Elon Cohaagen cutting off the oxygen in Venusville is fiction, right?
: Reading about power outages and trees exploding from the cold, and the best we’ve got is the …
: Dockhunt: closer to that journalistic slip of the tongue than the UK chancellor of the exchequer.
: Not sure how public sector workers contribute to the “wage/price spiral” given their labour isn’t …
: The workers being lowered into the sewer are all Irish. This is England! We expect foreigners to …
: What is your worst walk? Mine is Canning Town to the Greenway via Manor Road. Nasty in all weathers.
: The BBC’s review into its taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt output is …
: Newham Council would like people to drive less and walk more. It’s a laudable aim even if, as we …
: I have some thoughts and comments about reforming NHS bureaucracy. I tried referring myself to Keir …
: www.theguardian.com The UK may avoid a recession for now but it won’t feel like it for many …
: www.theguardian.com Hedge funds holding up vital debt relief for crisis-hit Sri Lanka, warn …
: With his sleight of hand promise to cut inflation, Rishi Sunak sure does think his core vote needs …
: Seems to me that the people lacking numeracy skills to prosper in the workplace are the Tories. …
: Finished reading: Rentier Capitalism by Brett Chistophers 📚- one of the most insightful books I read …
: Could a politician or policy wonk explain the difference between “turbocharge” and “supercharge” …
: I managed an average of 11.6km a day of walking or running in 2022. Not the 12km a day I was hoping …
: The verdict is in. Anyone who voted Leave was duped. I hope once the Tories are out of office, …
: Oh-ho! Discovered a mandarin negroni stollen that somehow didn’t get eaten.
: When a poor person slips on the ice, does anyone who matters hear them fall?
: Ungritted pavements in Custom House
: Ungritted streets in Canning Town
: Imagine being so cynical and cruel that you choose a performative immigration and asylum policy over …
: Temporary if poorly fitted and not working eInk display on the Elizabeth Line
: I’ve run this timeline over and again and the only place neoliberal “meritocracy” ever ends up is …
: Apparently “Singapore on Thames” is gone, and Britain will “become the next …
: It’s interesting that the Tories say of Brexit that we “voted to change our trading relationship …
: New micro post on the MarsEdit 5 beta. I like the “throwing it out there” aspect. Like …
: Couldn’t get a micro.blog window to show up on the app until I delete the cache. Odd. Anyway, …
: Enjoying The Peripheral on Amazon Prime Video. One thing puzzles me, though. Why are the inhabitants …
: Theory: the people elect politicians to regulate the markets Practice: the markets pay off …
: There’s a distinction between riches and the return to riches. Redistribution isn’t taking from the …
: With only weeks to Christmas, the value destruction leaderboard looks like this: Elon Must Liz …
: www.theguardian.com The cowardly state beholden to “the markets” is back.
: Don’t people like Elon Musk cause real problems for meritocracy’s true believers?
: Leafing through dismal opinion polls this morning, three words characterise Tory supporters: …
: “Smart Home” technology would be a lot better if it actually worked.
: All they have got, the TINA neoliberals, the handmaidens to the rentier class, is racist …
: Currently reading: How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil 📚: Man likes chicken.
: Not really needing my vegan burgers to have added artificial blood.
: Lagrange is a nice Gemini browser, with an opinionated UI. Amfora is a good looking Gemini client …
: I stumbled across Project Gemini, a lightweight internet protocol pitched somewhere between Gopher …
: Currently reading: Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by …
: www.theguardian.com PM weds at “secret” ceremony with friends. It’s in all the papers. Words used to …
: Picnic, early May 2021 To Eat Baby potato salad with steamed green beans, lettuce and tomato, mint, quails eggs, capers …
: An important day for pigeon science In the colder weather, the plants on the balcony are wilting. At the beginning of the week the pair …
: Signs of the times What does this sign mean? Today, I learned it means: GET OUT OF MY F*ING WAY YOU C*NT. LOOK AT THE …
: Sometimes during lockdown I put my coffee in my travel mug.
: A (pedantic) note on King Coot twitter.com/furtherfi… The Community of Coots are too ornery and independent to want anything …
: Moral cesspit? Welcome to Tory Britain. …
: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/31/help-to-buy-loans-benefited-more-rich-than-poor-hous …
: Memo to self: O&M and AOV. Don’t ask.
: Is it ever wise to look at micro.blog clients at two minutes to midnight?
: Footling with collaborative writing apps instead of, you know, writing.