Pete Duffield

Perhaps I'll use this instead of lorem ipsum going forward?

It's pretty well known that the breaking arm business with swans is an urban legend but finding it difficult to see how a wing strike could even bruise much. Because I'm imagining what a bald swan would look like, and the wing would be pretty insubstantial.

Waiting ages for my new laptop to download and install stuff so actually searching the Epstein files archive, most of which is incredibly tedious and routine. For example, Wiltshire gets a mention because he seems to have thought about buying furniture from there.

The Marlborough Downs and (I *think*) Martinsell Hill, seen from Finchampstead, at a distance of 37 miles...

Just been Christmas shopping in Reading. They were even piping the seasonal musak into the toilets. Made me wish they'd replace it with Mr Hanky the Christmas Poo...

Yikes. Only just heard about Lembit Öpik's drastic change of political direction. Are these sudden changes more common in the era of Twitter?

So he is still alive. Trading crypto: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/NWr...

Re: Linehan's arrest, I'm imagining the words "First they came for the complete twats. And I said nothing, because after all, they were twats". Not sure about the precedent, although groan-inducing seeing Starmer appease Reform types about it again...

Switching over from Diet Coke to mauby as of today. Considerably healthier for starters.

How long before some of these protesters deliberately sunburn a St. George's Cross onto themselves by selectively applying sunscreen? Would probably appeal to them as that sort of thing only really works if you're very white...

Just had my Facebook account disabled, possibly permanently, for no reason at all by AI. That whole place is a pile of crap but annoyed at losing old photos.

Just checked on Clearsky. Surprised to see Gabriel Milland blocked me 13 days ago, couldn't figure out why. Seems that was when I commented on his post 'Is the Liberal Elite anyone you happen to disagree with?'

Saw this online and I immediately recognised it as a scene from The Langoliers. They're the culprits!

Pretty sure with all these tariffs someone just created a formula in Excel next to a list of data in relation to all countries, and dragged it down through a column, not noticing that something like 80% on Lesotho was a bit weird.

Round the back of our flat just now..

Disagreed with Owen Jones on here and got a load of abuse. Now on lists including one called 'Concentraton Camp Guards'.

Not the real Duke of Marlborough of course, who's actually something like Churchill's third cousin.

Not sure what these black and white cats are. Someone's just written bots to block millions of people for no particular reason.

More from Meta AI...

If anyone's annoyed with Google, now's a good time to point out you can suggest your own amendments. Not quite sure how I got this one through though...

Presumably the Trump address from the Oval Office that evening would have been full of incredibly crass remarks about DEI...

My attempt at ChatGPT altering movie scenes...

Looking at the map, it seems like the Fresh Prince mansion and the Simpson/Goldman murder house might be under threat soon....

So how long until Elon reveals himself as Q?

Just occurred to me that if social media had been around in the 80s you'd see floods of posts saying "Don't believe that Establishment shill Ian Dury.... You CAN get AIDS from a toilet seat". And you'd probably still be seeing the same posts 15 years later.

'Why did the sock not fall off?' is one of those things I now wish I hadn't thought about.

Wondering how long it's going to be before I'm on the receiving end of my first BlueSky pile-on...

Festive home office...

First Post on here for ages. Might actually start using this now everyone coming off Twitter.