Paul Ockenden

It’s odd when people use ‘woke’ as an insult. It means kind. It means caring. It means thoughtful. It means considerate. If someone has a problem with those things then.. well… I feel sorry for them. But I guess that’s just me being woke.

I’d kinda hoped that with the new guys in Downing Street the budget wouldn’t be leaked / teased / pre-announced this year. But it seems worse than ever! I don’t think @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk is going to be happy about that. What’s the point of parliament with stuff like this happening?

Using the web view my feed keeps jumping to the top when I try to scroll down. Has someone been trying out vibe coding?

So depressing that I still get asked for contributions to education projects & similar things, and when I dig into the funding source, it turns out to be an oil company. Greenwashing. I *always* dig, and they do their best to hide. NO. Never work with anyone unless you know their funding source.

The thing that’ll do for Zak Polanski isn’t his tit-wrangling past or his current Zionism difficulties. It’s his voice. No gravitas, no personality, no authority. Just listen to him in a radio interview. It’s always going to set a limit on the Green vote while he’s in charge.

As would his author.

New Press Secretary…

"Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says" What about movie and TV that show these things? GoT early seasons had fairly blatant incest, for example. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the docky-wock.

Andy Burnham says there was Russian interference in the Brexit vote, but Nigel Farage has called him a liar, so now, gosh, I don't know who to believe.

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

@london.gov.uk I'm a big fan of your work as mayor and your support for London's diverse community, so I'm *hugely* disappointed to see someone as divisive as J K Rowling being chosen to do the Christmas lights in London. how can it be appropriate to have someone preaching & funding trans hatred?

Dum dum dum dum another one bites the dust.

The origin of the ASOS brand name gathers a new ironic meaning…

It might say Lego on the box but that *isn’t* Lego. Not proper Lego.

The media continues its crusade against EVs. In the BBC story the headline is passengers getting sick, but buried way down in the story is that most don’t and some people are less sick. So a non-story. But many will just read the headline. Shame on you BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Many different nations like to claim that it was one of their lot that invented TV. But it was actually invented over a series of steps by people from several countries.

The whole thing about Silver < Gold < Platinum amuses me. From credit cards to my local car wash things are always tiered like this. Yet for over a decade now gold has been more valuable than platinum. Is someone going to tell the credit card companies. Don't worry, I'll tell the car wash.

For the last time, can we PLEASE refer to these people as Spex Pests?

That lilo is called Fenton.

What a complete and utter shit-stirring twat this bloke is. My contempt for him knows no bounds.

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

Also “it escaped from a sandbox” is bollocks. A real sandbox is air-gapped. Escape-proof. What it ‘escaped’ from was a badly configured dev or test environment. Yet the AI spivs keep pushing the escape from a sandbox story, and news outlets like the BBC just print with verbatim without question.

Did somebody actually think this was a good idea?

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

Worst Antony Gormley installation ever!

That last line. So important.

Highly recommend this show to all followers. I wonder whether @robinince.bsky.social has caught this? I think it would be right up your street.

Sharing this for no other reason than the fact that it just popped into my head. I was always fascinated by this building when I lived in London, and then Elvis Costello wrote a song about it! youtu.be/_FAzWgY8Ftc?...

Their ‘dive’ manoeuvres seem to model real footballers perfectly.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

The gammons are going to completely lose their shit when Meghan Markle is announced as the new James Bond. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I live in Shoreham-by-Sea where the tragic drowning happened yesterday. Local social media has been dripping in ‘thoughts and prayers’. I’m just waiting for the sudden switch now it’s been revealed that the family were refugees. It’s horrible - really fucking horrible - but I know it will happen.