Ian Simpkins #FBPE ⭐ #FBPPR

Blimey. What a start to the week. Well done #serbia and well done #brazil. I hope you're watching #trump and #farage

#totp Now showing old TOTPs on a Friday is fine, but don't show consecutive editions as we keep getting some of the same tunes, and they were often carp the first time.

It says something about the regime that astounding as this story is, it is also not entirely a surprise.

Not for the first time, I have a pangram for the #NYT #spellingbee but it won't accept it. Do they not get cold feet in New York?

Do join W. The verification process is really strict so it's real people and organizations. wsocial.eu/profile/stef...

Needs an "until they jumped the shark" caveat. Ted Lasso S4 is pants, Line of Duty (criminal omission, for the first 3 seasons anyway). Modern Family's slow fizzle after the first few seasons . Then Parks and Rec was only good after S1. And no Santa Clarita Diet, Expanse, Slow Horses..

Earl Spencer. Who bloody cares? The Royal Family would have a much easier time of it if they stopped having their domestics in public.

I expect lots of new world records to be set. Like the old joke "I don't need to be faster than the crocodiles, I just need to be faster than you" BBC News - River home to 500 crocodiles chosen as Olympic rowing venue www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympi...

#LFF 10 out of 14 selection, which is OK. All on the balcony in the RFH though - much preferred the old days when it was all round the West End and the ICA and the festival went on a few days longer but there you go.

#LFF After being 23k or so down the queue last year, I started early this year and was only 7300 in the queue, now down to about 2k and 15 minutes. I have a long list though (anticipating not getting many of my choices..). We shall see a little after 11.

Watching the last #silo for the time being. The vital question being ignored is what happened to Peter Gabriel..

There's probably an obscure Japanese word for the slight but constant discomfort felt when you're really into something on TV but you're watching with someone slightly less engaged and they're holding the remote.

Isn't there another 80 year old that could be taken? #dolly

I'm not a great fan of her music, thought I liked "Coat of many colours", but #dolly Parton really was one of the best human beings.

The only reason data centers use so much water is that it's cheap. They can have closed loop cooling (like a fridge) or air cooling. But they cost more. Presumably the heat could be used to generate electricity, or just as local heat, but again that would cost. This could be regulated. #datacentres

Can the BBC stop kissing Trump's ring? Trump is the reason behind the collapse, don't imply Canada has done anything wring. #trump #canada BBC News - Trump says Canada wants 'benefits' of being US state after trade talks collapse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Never mind the bollocks

Whatever the legal basis for the case that Elton John, Prince Harry, et al, have lost against the Daily Mail, it just feels obscene that such an awful rag should win so much money. #dailymail #privacy

At least we know where Trump's allegiances lie, following his support for North Korea and complaining about the UK supplying drones to Ukraine. Presumably because he admires autocratic leadership and aspires towards it for himself. #trump #ukraine #maga

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During COVID I developed a sort of nostalgia every time I watched a film with a scene in a crowded bar. I'm now getting the same sort of feeling when watching anything when it's raining. #drought #heatwave

Well, that was unnecessary #alert

Fairly pleased with my first attempt at an #eclipse time lapse. From a park in Enfield, North London. We had some eclipse glasses and they were very popular - we had tears, praying and kids who didn't want to give them back..

First time I've attempted one of these and I'm fairly pleased with the result. #eclipse

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

Wordle 1,868 3/6 ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pleased with that. #wordle

Has anyone joined "W"? I have an invite and I was wondering if it's worth it. It's apparently a new European Twitter with fairly serious identity checks. #w

Shocking. Short sighted and backward. Also, not a cut easily reversed. #savejodrellbank #jodrellbank #science BBC News - Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This half time show is a bit shit isn't it? Also, that BTS bit sounded exactly the same as just about any other modern pop song, though I admit I'd never knowingly heard them before and I'm not in the target audience. #final #worldcup #esparg

About this "60 years of hurt" thing. There can't have been a lot of hurt for the first four since England held the World Cup from '66 to '70.. #football #engarg #worldcup

And stop putting sugar in fruit juice. You can eat an orange without putting sugar on it, why is it only the fancy fruit juice that doesn't have sugar in it?

Top marks to whoever sets worldle today. #Worldle #1636 (15.07.2026) 1/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 277 days 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr/share

In the traditions of British right wing politics I see we've sent Anne Widdecombe to see how Mitch McConnell is doing. #widdecombe #mcconnell

I do hope all the main political parties see through Farage's posturing and don't stand against him. Face the music, Farage, don't pretend to be a man of integrity, anyone with half a brain knows you aren't #farage #reform #clacton

Disappointed and surprised by this. The normal assumption would be that whoever is suing the Daily Mail is probably in the right. #mail #court BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9... Prince Harry loses High Court case against Mail publisher - follow live - BBC News

It's all very well the MoD complaining this new money isn't enough, but they have a shocking record for overspending on fancy but ineffective weapons. The future seems to be cheaper, smaller systems, not massive shiny ones. And it not like they can recruit anyone anyway.

I would say that isn't actually a word. #wordle Wordle 1,835 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Greatly amused by Trump dismissing Andy Burnham as a "liberal" as if that is in some way a bad thing. Though I suspect we're going to find out that he isn't liberal enough..

Disappointed by Starmer's resignation. I was no great fan but musical chairs in No.10 is not the way forward and Starmer has not been the disaster many portray him to be.

At the very least the bars should not be able to serve alcohol when either house is sitting. It's the 21st century, in most professions you'll be disciplined or even sacked for being drunk in the office. It's not the 1980s any more. Or the 1880s.

#Connections Puzzle #1096 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟦🟪 🟪🟦🟩🟪 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Well that was ridiculous. Especially as the greens contain something known not to have that property. I thought it was a red herring.

Not entirely surprising I suppose, but it has taken until episode 5 to realize that the title of #theburroughs is a pun.

BBC not even trying now. How many Reform councillors have resigned, thus forcing bye elections? BBC News - Green by-elections may cost up to £250,000 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At least we now know where Trump got his paedophilia from, or his acceptance of it. #trump #statevisit #kingcharles