Chris

#isleofwightfestival #paulheaton And the weather finally gives a little relief from the heat!

In our house Italy first, then Poland. Lots of decentish songs, some good performances, Sweden pretty good fun but not the best. #eurovision

Really disappointing to see a Labour party used to persecute trans youth and pensioners alike. People say they want our vote and then just shit on us and wonder why many don't engage.

There is a crowdfunder for Tony Slattery’s funeral - please share among those you think you be interested www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/funeral-fo...

Folks at MIT Sloan looked at multiple studies of return to office (RTO) mandates & found they are lose-lose-lose. No reward from Wall Street for “getting tough,” an actual decrease in productivity & revenue, and loss of top talent. youtu.be/4ec_yZCWOCY...

Hilariously, I learn that the YouTuber who is FURIOUS he got a copyright strike for reading and showing my entire book on his channel - and is insistent that all knowledge should be free - is now selling the video on his Patreon for more than four times the cost of the actual Kindle book!

Tidy #GavinAndStacey

While you've all been slaving over Turkey, I've been preparing this Chicken for later.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES

I'm assuming that new Star Wars series 'Skeleton Crew' is about these guys, yes?

We are here 🥳 This is the official The Rest Is Politics account on Bluesky. Follow this account for everything Rory and Alastair based in the art of disagreeing agreeably.

The care that saved my life is a scandal to the uk health secretary

Streeting is a weasel

Thank you for doing this @garwboy.bsky.social , articles like this seem to be cropping up depressingly often these days, is there some angle to this beyond luddites that I have missed?

Neighbourhood watch

The absolute classic. If you haven't paid Moose to draw you a version of this yet, go to his website and rectify the situation right now. Also, pssst, Christmas is coming!

Just thinking about dad jokes I’ve made which have annoyed/embarrassed my children. For example in a restaurant I ordered a coke. The waitress asked if I wanted a pint or a half. I said “Better make it a half, I’m driving”. No one laughed, apart from me.

The Shipping Forecast seems to have several birthdays, but on the 1st of January BBC Radio 4 will be spending the day celebrating 100 years of it. I've just had a lovely evening sitting underneath Cutty Sark for the recording of a special episode of Front Row about it, to be broadcast on Jan 1st.

Pacing is literally the best management I’ve implemented with success in dealing with long covid

She also said "Do you know what RHLSTP will be called soon? PHLSTP. Her name is Phoebe.

@cowboycoder.com have you seen this? Might be handy!

@deevybee.bsky.social applauding your decision.

And as this gains attention outside of scientific circles, as it surely will, @deevybee.bsky.social will undoubtedly face a great deal of harassment. Other fellows of the @royalsociety.bsky.social will have to decide whether she faces it alone or not.

Think you're taking on too much? If you've got time to spend being anxious, you've got too much time on your hands! Keep yourself busy by taking on more stuff

You can rock the Fedora without becoming the fedora, is all I’ll say.

Arch, btw.

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

Doing it tomorrow morning as the free bit of the newsletter!

Okay, so, blocking the person who created the starter pack removes you from the thing. So much more manageable to just block the 60 people who added me to starter packs than sitting here blocking everyone who follows.