That's a poor ALT since it is only a caption and not any sort of description.

There is a report of a bird flu outbreak in Lincolnshire, England, a couple of miles west of Faldingworth on the A46 main road. It's a duck breeder. News reports all say "Market Rasen" and a Google search will find the formal notice.

Today, 14th April 2026, BBC Radio 4X broadcast an episode of The Goon Show from 1960.

Valentine Dyall didn't get a credit in the listing, but he was in the episode, using the voice he used for "The Man in Black".

What he does is good, but I reckon Spike Milligan's script was poor.

My ears are old and worn.

So, when YouTube plays a song with the words "That's the hour", sung with some American accent, for a moment I hear "Nazi hour".

It's some sort of Amazon gadget, wifi connection and small speaker with some system of control by speech.

It's the Usual Suspects...

I am seeing news media headlines about the negotiations with Iran. What can I trust?

21 hours, even with the speed of communications possible today, doesn't feel long enough to have been really trying.

I have the horrifying suspicion that we exist in a world that demands instant decisions.

The Grand National horse race, at Aintree in Britain, has been completed.

A horse won. If you care, you likely already know.

It isn't as interesting as the Holy Roman Empire.

The history is a bit more tangled. Swords were expensive and fixed-blade knives were as much a tool as a weapon. There was a bit of a town/country split on top of the sword/knife difference. A lot of the changes are post-WW1, a time of mass armies and revolutions,

Part of the likely AI Bubble is in the supply of new computers, especially RAM and GPU chips. Making these depends on a supply of Helium. About a third of the world supply has vanished because of the Iran War.

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There are getting to be a lot of stories about dodgy AI projects in Britain. The Elsham project isn't the worst, but the numbers they use for energy just don't add up, and they have no idea how electricity is delivered

Then I saw this.

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Fantastic bit of journalism. Well worth a read.

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The details of the story are a bit tangled, but it seems that the Council are having problems finding out what Mandelson's "Official Address" is, and they need that to issue a penalty notice. It does look as though the systems have weaknesses built-in to protect the rich and powerful.

I see somebody self-described as a journalist and a clairvoyant, and I am reckoning, "'ey oop, tha's summats na' reet."

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are bear man and pronounced yawnuh ahskahyah

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

A man went hunting in the mountains and came across a black bear, which he shot with an arrow.

"Euston, we have a problem."

Alt Quits in the Question Font.

It's a bit difficult to be sure just which British datacentre projects are affected by this. There is a lot of shouting by a Tory-controlled Local Authority over a scheme at Elsham Wolds. The corporate entity behind it uses the name "Greystoke". Planning Permissions don't build anything.

It looks as though a great Empire is not getting good translations of agreements, or their glorious leader is functionally illiterate.

It is good to know that Lloyds of London will be loaded when they go.

Folk have mentioned how the placename "Lampedusa" can be warped into "Lamped USA", in which is British slang for "beaten up"

This is Brummie slang from before WW1 so we're in Peaky Blinders territory.

Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.

This bear does not have a trace of accent, raised in same place as the local Henry Higgins, and assures everyone the "scone" should be pronounced "scone".

You may find a hint of that in the nearby placename "Scunthorpe", of which it may be safer not to speak.

It would be a good bet that the attitude to AI comes from the writers.

This bear has written fiction and sees what the AI promoters keep trying to do.

I AM NOT A PROFIT CENTRE!

This bear has overslept sometimes, and discovered anxious dogs and cats. Some say "How unusual." They don't realize how much history they ignore. They also don't see any relationships as two-way communication.

That won't change the relative size which depends on things outside the camera. Focal-length/zoom matters for depth-of-field, and you will see that for pics taken on Earth. Sharp focus on the actors, slight blur on background mountains. But where was the camera? I hesitate about that picture.

I wonder if that one was too obscure and whether I even got the mathematics right.

The Integer

#DeplurallzeAMovie

The Magnificent One

It could be good news. The second crew member from the USAF F-15E shot down last week has been rescued.

Or has he? The only source being quoted is Donald Trump.

Royal Navy officers and ratings on the bridge of a warship. This is a still from the movie "The Cruel Sea", with Jack Hawkins playing the Captain on board HMS Compass Rose, a Flower-class corvette. This open bridge was where the ship was commanded from. day and night. winter and summer, as German submarines tried to sneak up on the convoys crossing the Atlantic ocean.

Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.

An anthropomorphic vixen wearnf a light grey overcoat, a striped scarf, and a blue shirt, similar in style the the 13th Doctor from the TV series "Doctor Who". She is standing with hans clasped behind he back, looking towards the right side of the picture.

John Kirkwood

Even a bread-machine depends on the rigid timing of industrial processes. Gluten is added to match that packet of flour to a brainless clock.

You can use a dough-hook in a kitchen mixer. This guy wants you to use your own brain.

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