Day of the Dora Sutcliffe

A thread of what I've read this year.

Peter Bradshaw has sat through all seven minutes of Musk's AI Odyssey so you don't have to: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

Adding this to my ever-increasing reading list for when I go through Andalucia! (Also, great thread generally.)

You gotta assume that after the first five, the next eleventy bazillion emails are going straight to spam. Anyway, fairly sure I've said something negative about Bryan Johnson online, so obviously quaking in my boots here.

Right. Arbeiten!

Chasing an invoice for the first time in... a while, actually. Had forgotten how much irritation and ill will it causes. I don't particularly need the money and it's not a huge amount, but this is a big organisation and paying their freelancers on time should be basic.

In the original Cartagena and it's charming.

*sighs* you got me I'm going to Google Cheesecake Factory

The story of the gin and tonic is a bit more complicated than we thought: www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/g...

My other takeaway is that if Elizabeth Holmes is in prison for grossly overpromising, Elon Musk should *definitely* be in prison.

The King now generating electricity for the entire Royal Estate from the rotating grave of Thomas Cranmer.

This, from @roberthutton.co.uk, made me LOL several times: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm currently sitting in Spain on a 3-plus month trip working while I travel. Nomadic and remote workers are admittedly problematic, but the ability to work while travelling is a massive plus.

Why is it so hard to psyche myself up to go for a run?!

Huge co-sign from Trump on Ramaswamy's shockingly vile ad just now. It has to feel amazing, if you're running as an abusive predator, to get this kind of endorsement from the number one abusive predator in the game.

England's oldest pub is not any of the ones you think it is, and only from the 15th century: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Yes yes, Fearless Leader Mother can also run a marathon in 37 minutes and personally oversaw the US victory in the Battle of Hormuz

Booked a haircut for Tangier (such a long trip I need to get my roots done). Thinking of making it a full spa day.

Still makes me laugh that Claude "thinks" my name is "Don't use my name". (Rather sulkily using it to review text as that's what the client's going to use if I don't.)

Honestly excited for Tangier. Got what looks like the sweetest little house in the medina for a week.

Baked clay tablets are also a tried and tested method

God almighty booking tickets online is an ordeal. Direct Ferries sticks a €7 booking fee on for the privilege of aggregating three routes with workable online booking. I'm not sure what is up with ALSA. Neither Google Maps nor Rome2Rio seem to have accurate deets of smaller Spanish bus routes.

Just received WA spam from an AI agent for a shala I went to in Ibiza. Told it not to and blocked it (didn't report as I want to go back there) but we'll see a lot of this....

Bus driver is playing UB40 and now I've got an earworm so you can have one too.

Not the main point of travel but it's lovely to be somewhere where eating out is cheap.

Next up, tram to Benidorm! Am excited!

Found the famous red prawns. Spenny but would recommend.

Quite a pretty town, Dêniw

What are your favourite questions to assess the quality of a menu? Some of mine: Does the carbonara have cream? Does the vindaloo have vinegar? Does the Caesar salad have anchovy in the dressing?

I suppose we should all be grateful that Trump is currently focused on golf courses rather than anything globally consequential.

Fourth flood alert in two days. Thoughts and prayers to all the adulterers with secret second phones.

Two verbs for to be and hacer for weather leaves a lot of room for error when talking about weather