As ever the replies to this are incredible for the well actualising.

No insights commemorated here other than it remains not a place of honour.

This is truly delightful

In case you’ve not seen it then cycling uk groups are maybe more what your looking for rather than cycling clubs - www.cyclinguk.org/group-listing

*Charlton Heston scream* Problems is people!

I get that being an MP will involve a certain amount of going to, especially local, events where there is hospitality and that seems fine. But how is accepting a bottle of wine from a lobbying group an essential thing for an MP to be able to do such that forbidding it would make their job harder?

Alex talks about this a lot but it is, when you stop and think, slightly mad that our elected representatives are allowed to accept gifts with few meaningful limits or restrictions. What exactly is the problem that having a "you can accept presents from anyone" policy is solving?

The above, but the number of words has gone up exo.org.uk/blah/our-vel...

Seeing like a spreadsheet How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America

“The electronic spreadsheet is to double entry what an oil painting is to a sketch” from this great piece on the history of spreadsheets is relevant to A.I. and highlights the problem. With a sketch it’s clear details are missing so you treat it accordingly.

davidoks.blog/p/how-the-sp...

Number must go up is, overall, a cursed idea

I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

This is an absolute delight about a subject close to my heart. Absolutely rammed with your new favourite sentences.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I know plenty of people who like you want the nice looking hardback and I am pretty sure every single one of them would still do that even if the paperback was out at the same time. Broken Bindings has a whole business catering to people who want fancy hardbacks most of whom already own the book.

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher

Do you want reluctant older protagonists, angry geese, faux regency vibes, a horse that almost surely would not want cake and magic? If so then this is for you. Really good fun with a mild edge of horror. Also, all the men are idiots which, fair.

Exercise, it turns out, is tiring

Tired: Oxford comma advocacy and debates
Wired: insisting that everybody uses New Yorker style diereis on words like coöperation or preẽmpt

Sadly it does not seem to like history

Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison

Short, whimsical in the good way, also angry in the good way. For a book written 70 years ago it reads very modern and does delightful things with myth and history. I realise the term is slightly pejorative but a cozy written by someone who has ideas is probably the booktok summary.

I am not a horse, but I would like cake

I have read some terrible epilogues which the book would have been better without

Writing on the wall: Art UK digitises thousands of murals as street artworks go mainstream From medieval church wall paintings to Liam Gallagher’s viral X post, charity has catalogued more than 6,600 pieces

@jukes.ie isn't this your job? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Oooof, good luck

Pros: water taps in the park, bridges across the river
Cons: cycle route to Dundee goes up a steep hill

Antimatter has been transported by road for the first time CERN is working on building an antimatter delivery service. The project passed a big test by successfully transporting 92 antiprotons around a 4-kilometre loop of road

Absolutely ordering some of these as a conversation starter for the next party www.newscientist.com/article/2520...

The issue specifically with Silicon Valley is a lot of the success now is sheer force of capital allowing them to make enough bets that some come good which is the opposite of taste.

Was married to so no longer even that

The question is what changes in the process would have prevented this outcome?

A woolly hat with a badger on the front

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Asunder by Kerstin Hall

Drops you right in and lets you work it out as you go. A road trip and a mystery of capricious gods, weird magic and distrust. Loads of lovely ideas.

We should have more trains

I got two episodes in to Wonder Man and have got no further. I was enjoying Ben Kingsley but everything else about it was just painful

Imagine you have two machines. One you can open up and examine all of its workings, and if you give it every picture of a cat on the whole internet, it can reliably distinguish cats trom non-cats. The other is a black box and it can also reliably distinguish cats from non-cats if you give it half a dozen pictures of cats, some apple sauce, and a hug. These machines sort of do the same thing, but even without knowing how the second one works 1 am extremely confident in saying it doesn't work the same way as the first one.

A.I Isn’t People www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...