Philip Smith-Lawrence: Malbec Fuelled Musings

Philip Smith-Lawrence: Malbec Fuelled Musings

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Aspiring bon viveur; adventure before dementia. Let’s Coddiwomple, play soulful music and drink Malbec 🍷 #PhilipSmithLawrence

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MEL BROOKS on Warner Bros asking him to remove the “offensive” jokes from BLAZING SADDLES (1974) “I took their notes, crumpled them up and threw them away."

I recently co-opted a phrase. I used this phrase on a post on SM, and was immediately accused of being “lazy and Misogynistic” 😳 In M/C today, I heard someone say: “Oi! You! Behave! Stop calling ‘Rachel from Accounts’…‘Rachel from Accounts‘. She is The Chancellor of the Exchequer…got it?” 🤷‍♂️🍷

Chris Baraniuk@chrisbaraniuk.com

New UK heat pump deployment statistics are out! For Jul-Sep (Q3), the total number of *government-supported* heat pump installations in the UK came to 10,554. This is the 2nd highest quarterly result on record (since 2018), exceeded only by Q1 2022 (12,633 installs). www.gov.uk/government/s...

Michael Liebreich@mliebreich.bsky.social

This week's episode of Cleaning Up was with an old friend and early investor in New Energy Finance, Azeem Azhar, who has spent ten years thinking about what happens when technologies go exponential. mliebreich.substack.com/p/exponentia...

⚠️ Trigger Warning! ⚠️ A former BBC employee has revealed the shocking truth about how much of a PERVERT #GreggWallace was behind the scenes 😮 Ellie Bargum, 29 from Sheffield, who wishes to remain anonymous spoke out against the former Masterchef host and revealed the depths of his depravity. 1/4

Philip Smith-Lawrence: Malbec Fuelled Musings reposted

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it