Ross Burton

New Liz Truss book doesn't disappoint. Thrust is blaming the Bank of England for the Sept 2022 market fallout, especially its quantitative tightening announcement the day before the mini-budget. She claims that she and Kwarteng were "caught off-guard", blindsided by the BoE's announcement.

@aaronmahnke.com hi Aaron! I’m curious, have you ever covered the folklore of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Lav... in Lore? Keep up the good work, Lore is great.

'A WORK OF GENIUS.' Not my words, Carol, the words of Anna Jones in the Radio Times.

In honour of daylight savings chaos, I recommend reading the history of the Netherlands time zone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...

You probably know about the Jaffa Cakes VAT thing, but here are a bunch of others compiled for your tax nerdy pleasure by @timharford.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2b77...

previously, it took just five years to lose $80 billion, but thanks to moore's law, a modern company can lose $80 billion in just under six months, a 10x improvement on the state of the art

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

[Two Opticians getting married] Priest: For better or worse? Better or worse? Better or worse?

and now for something completely racist

Why is James Blunt turning into Sandi Toksvig?

Artist: HappyToast https://b3ta.com/board/11432209 From the 'Kids TV Horror' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/kidstvhorror/popular/ #KidsTVHorror

I've just checked the copy that's in my #house and the last page of the letter has a footnote about hidden codes in love letters. Good lord.

just sitting here thinking about my most humiliating social interaction again

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This is the shit you love to hear just as everybody is feeling extremely anxious about the opaque ROI of AI and specifically AI capex in Meta’s case. You want a story where your CFO says “it will be really bad if you’re wrong about this”

Excellent local (to Cornwall) organisation using D&D and boardgames to help kids build confidence/social skills could do with help moving to bigger premises. I've met these guys and they're *lovely*. www.gofundme.com/f/help-roll-...

The immediate thought is something else is going on here because this doesn't come close to the bar for having to resign from this administration. It's not even the most corrupt thing that's happened this week.

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

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republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

When I’m Emperor of the World I will mandate comprehensive maps of airports by the entrance. I want to know where the good food options are before going too far!

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

I get the appeal of nostalgia, I really do, but I find it specifically funny to get a leaflet from Reform's candidate talking about how when he was in the Met 31 years ago, he would never have dreamed of lawlessness like the kind we now see in Kings Cross.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I don’t care what ISO are working on at the moment, they need to drop everything and standardise takeaway containers.

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

please help… my son…

Happy cheese day to all who celebrate. And a good moment to remember that our political system is so broken that this woman, who is visibly inane, became prime minister.

Only in Switzerland. Workmen having a cheeky fondue by the side of the road over the weekend. Identities obscured to protect the peckish.

Control Resonant really is good fun. That is all.

@vizcomic.bsky.social

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

@lemosfran.bsky.social I just downloaded Tales From Behind the Ferns and was trying to show a friend but lemos.itch.io/tales-from-b... isn't publicly visible. Is that intentional?

your da shouts at hotels and your mum lives in Piddington

Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork.

Actually LOL at this, which is rare

Brits! I'm giving away five Rapanui/Teemill discount codes as I have a few too many to use. Anyway want one?

Public service announcements appearing on the Tube (spoof ofc)👌🏼

Reform UK has been removed from the Alliance for Proportional Representation. It comes after a Q&A at conference where Reform MP Danny Kruger said: “On PR there is a significant danger [Lab.] will try to introduce it...Reform’s position is we support First Past the Post.” Reform's 2024 manifesto:

The RNLI don't get paid (at all) to put up with this shit. Donate if you can!