This is a lovely idea

When you hear "but no one uses AI" it's worth bearing in mind that's...extremely not correct. It has reached mass adoption and use way quicker than other online technologies did, contentious as it is (and forced upon us as it often is).

This is from a recent Ofcom report:

Miscellanea: The War in Iran This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran.

My best summary: this war is dumb as hell.

acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

Mile splits like a set of descending stairs. ✅️ Full of regret at the training I should have done and didn't. ✅️

But, 50km PB? Yes, please.

Runners before the race on Haworths main street

Runners heading up to Top Withens

Runners heading for Stoodley Pike

Runners heading down off Wadsworth Moor to Walshaw Dean reservoirs

Gorgeous day for my first Haworth Hobble yesterday. Perfectly organised race in a lovely corner of the world. Crisp sunny day didnt hurt either.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

take a shot every time you hear the words "just glad the queen isn't here to see this"

PHWOOAARR
🖤🤍🖤🤍

There is always an XKCD

damocles, dude, you absolutely cannot put your sword there. come on man

Letter to the Guardian. The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

This chart is about tactical voting, but looking at it from the perspective of ‘would it be easier for labour to get voters back from Reform, or from literally anyone else’ is quite revealing

Cartoon of stylised drawings of a pig seen head on (labelled Pig) and a hedge (labelled hege) seen in section. The area where they overlap forms the shape of a hedgehog. Caption: VENN DIAGRAM

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Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of “adjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

Amazing letter in The Times (also an unbelievable play fwiw)

POV: The boom in post 60's Victorian & Edwardian period dramas was only possible due to the availability of heritage steam railways as locations. Meaning Ian & Colin who sorted out the points on the BlueBell line are more important for the UK film industry than RADA,The Bfi & Dicky Attenborough

Clear out toys now!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Name a more spurious measurement than the density of a church's central passage.

Aisle weight.

statistic of the day

This is so crucial. When people think about these land comparisons, they don't think about the entire sprawling infrastructure behind FF.

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.

Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

What's that in my eye?
As a teacher, I see how this works in our own school. The best aspect of my job.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Let me find the world’s tiniest violin…

Time to end this elite Victorian indulgence and chart a more vibrant, nature-rich future for Britain’s uplands

Relevant. bsky.app/profile/matt...

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor falls, the major lifts
The baffled king composing Where’s me jumper
Where's me jumper
Where's me jumper
Where's me jumper

Yes, it's very hot.

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Nuclear fusion is already beating nuclear fission, despite the closest plant being 93 million miles away.