Andy Mabbett

Tesco have Baileys Original Irish Cream 1-litre "on offer" and "reduced" from £22.75 to £13 (with Clubcard). Asda have the same product reduced from £13 to £10. Buyer beware! #RipOffBritain

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

I just made my 1,000th edit to Wikipedia's lesser-known sibling project, Wiktionary, an excellent and useful dictionary and thesaurus. The edit was to add this entry: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mabbett

Flattered, thank you. silverchord.ca/locations/ma...

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

For many of us, the last right triangle of our lives :(

I made a post to an OSM mailing list today, and got a reply - from an AI agent. While the content was superficially plausible, it did not, unlike the human participants on the list, include any URLs to the data queries it claimed to have made to compile its response.

In response to my complaint, the @hyperallergic.com piece has now been re-written, with an "editor's note": "An earlier version of this article misrepresented the user commentary on the Wikipedia deletion page. It has been updated with accurate details of the discussion, and we regret the error."

@markpackuk.bsky.social

Derek Trotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Royal Society is hiding all posts that mention that they still refuse to remove noted White Supremacist Elon Musk from their number.

Ofcom published a report today that pretty much declares the Online Safety Act a complete failure

Lucy is great - it's worth visiting Tik-Tok for the full rant!

"seemingly men" - no explanation for this claim (which may or may not be true) is given.

Google, Microsoft, Apple & co could support most of these people with amounts smaller than the rounding errors in their accounts. Also: a fascinating read

Carers can’t live on 51p an hour | Letter

Arnold Layne in someone else's underpants

NASA material is PD. I'd be interested to know on what basis Google are openly-licensing ESA imagery

Accidental Hitchcock

No reply yet, and no changes made to the articles concerned.

🚨 New on Substack: my post on the Castle Vale Estate, Birmingham, Part I: ‘Utopia’ to ‘civic pigsty’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-castle...

As an aside, I spent quite a lot of time Xmas 2024 trying to pitch the 20% story to the papers Inc. the guardian!

LinkedIn just recommended I read a post by Lola Salem

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

One of my local shops kindly leave drinking water out for dogs

Today in "why railway history makes me fear for my sanity": the three stations below the Shields Road railway bridge, each with its own booking office and waiting room, and platforms so close you could have held a conversation from one to the other across the tracks.

I put the taxacom archive from 1992-2025 online. You can search it here: taxacom.org. You can also download it yourself on Zenodo. Enjoy decades of grumpy taxonomists. Not suggested as bedtime reading material. #taxonomy

As part of my Wikimedia residency at The Gazette, we will be holding an online editing event on Saturday, 7 November 2026, from 1–5pm UTC. New and experienced editors welcome! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

The square in front is named after Valerie Powles, born Birmingham, local activist, anarchist and historian who fought doggedly to save the shelter, today an essential visit in understanding Mussolini's murderous bombing of city to help Franco's war 2/2 END

Lol. Not seen a better demonstration of 'desire path'

Together with other scientists I’m suing the 🇺🇸 US National Institutes of Health for violating our 1st Amendment rights & censoring our health science. I’m ready to shine a light on the darkest days. Buckle up, read on. This gets pretty wild… THREAD

Not if I can help it

This is going to come as quite a shock to all the open hearted, fair minded people in Reform. Er...