This place looks great. The interior reminds me a bit of Le Vaudesir which I went to in December. But the menu looks a bit more refined.

Not defending McSweeney, but I don't think Labour have been the party of the working class in over a generation. And I don't think the coalition of working class left-leaning voters in the UK would be large enough to win an election either.

Calling Farage out is good, but he could have gone in harder. It's not that many years ago that Jo Cox was shot and killed.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

@poorlydrawnarsenal.com - there's a nice story in this episode about Freddie Ljungberg drying his wet socks under a hand dryer. I know I'm not the only one who would love to see this illustrated.

Just noticed this. It's still there bizarrely. The name of agents has also been changed (it's not pencils).

Congrats on the Fran Merida award. Was James sporting a grey velvet suit with a roll neck sweater? First the tiger jacket, and now this?

Thoughts on Stoke Newington being abbreviated to Stokey?

Name ten current female artists you love 🎶 🍷

Cassandra Jenkins
Charli XCX
Jessie Ware
Cate Le Bon
Tirzah
Kim Deal
Beth Gibbons
Tamara Lindeman
Adrienne Lenker
Sofia Kourtesis

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

That photo of what presumably is Stewart's childhood bedroom with the Bob the Builder style wallpaper and the Nazi flag is pretty poignant.

If we're relying on qualified foreign tradespeople to build 1.5m new homes by 2029, should we be placing unnecessary stipulations on what English exams they've taken?

It's good banter. But isn't this just the standard advice to keep business continuity plans on paper? If your IT systems go down, you'll need to refer to them to get your business back up and running.

I Want You (Marvin Gaye) 10/10
I Want You (Bob Dylan) 10/10

Seventeen Sharon Van Etten 8/10
Seventeen Ladytron 8/10

Wrecking Ball Gillian Welch 8/10
Wrecking Ball Miley Cyrus 6/10

I thought the Bojack picture was a reference to Declan Rice's nickname. But I guess not...

This is the England that I know and love.
I have to confess, it made me tear up a little.

Wouldn't you get rid of this three-valued logic by always running your CI workflow on commit (using webhooks)?

They may have automated creating AI podcasts of papers by calling a service like Google NotebookLM.

It's been possible for 1-2 years to upload complex documents like academic papers or legal judgements to this free service and have them converted into explainer podcast episodes.

I thought it was about drinking sangria in the park, and maybe going to the zoo then the movies. Sounds like a perfect day to me.

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

The greatest description of Star Wars ever by a non-fan.
Take it away, Malcolm Tucker

Leonard Cohen playing pinball.

Batman flicks the v-sign before turning his back to leave

Unthinkable just 10 years ago:

Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear.

Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.

It's a little bit USS Callister isn't it?

In the UK, some remain voters show similar contempt for those who voted for Brexit. The UK journalist @mrjamesob.bsky.social has a good phrase that he often repeats on his radio show - "contempt for the con man, compassion for the conned".

It looks great.