The footage:

Never say never. It's no stranger than the Casablancaverse we were promised.

Why wasn't this a recurring segment? Missed opportunity.

I've watched three Ryan Gosling movies this week.

Natt is a Green Party candidate in Fetcham West and Bookham in the local elections in May

"Hey, what's that middle-aged comedian who spent his whole career making fun of politicians up to now?...oh."

A white garment with some kind of food stain. Humiliating.

A pair of dirty hands rest on a car engine. Rough, tough, cool.

Here is an easy solution:

Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves.

Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled.

Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.

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Feels right. You should reward players for going out on a limb and investing in something more interesting.
Character traits should be foreshadowing for the adventure to come.

This made me question when escalators were invented (1859) and when they were installed in the London Underground (1911!) they feel like such a modern invention but they're over 100 years old.

Night Time Incident | SNL UK YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK

Jools Holland.
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Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

it’s actually really fun to roleplay out the wrong choice when you know it’s going to be catastrophic because your character doesn’t/they think it’s the right thing.

That's a six letter word (middle letter is doubled), but that is what I was thinking of when I guessed it. *Technically* there is also a seed with that name, but that seems a stretch even by Wordle standards.

"Wrong answers only" drives me up the wall.

That headline is really hard to parse. It took me a few goes at it before I realised what they were going for. Average Sun reader has no chance.

I have questions about the guy in the back.

I once stopped my car and let an old man cross the road. The only reason I did was because he had the best moustache I'd ever seen in my life and I wanted to get it on my dash cam!

This isn't the first time you've said this.

I’m still subscribed to the Fesshole podcast, just in case

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Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with petrol. And no need to wear gloves.

Certainly not coming to a forecourt near you in America because the fossil fuel giants and their puppets in government like making lots and lots of cool money from easily-conned petrolheads.

Red kites are everywhere these days.

Why does it seem like it's always much windier at night?

Would love it but international shipping is extortionate.

Dear Google, I just want to search my photos, I don't need an AI. Just give me back search.

Big fan of today's Connections. Not so much the Wordle.

BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 54: Harmonies; 30: Next Station: London; 13: Next Station: Paris; 12: Next Station: Tokyo; 4: Namiji; 4: Crokinole; 3: Coffee Rush; 3: Hues and Cues; 3: Faraway; 3: Hive Pocket; 2: Sanctuary; 2: Bohnanza; 2: Sea Salt & Paper; 2: Escape the Dark Castle; 2: Unmatched; 1: Boonlake; 1: Burano; 1: Apothebakery: The Culinary Alchemists; 1: Lost Ruins of Arnak; 1: The Networks: Primetime; 1: Wishland; 1: Forest Shuffle : Dartmoor; 1: Kinfire Delve: Scorn's Stockade; 1: Last Will; 1: Forest Shuffle.

March's #boardgames via #bgstats - back above 300 ELO on Harmonies, and featuring stuff we played at #Airecon2026

Given this was posted at midnight on the morning of April 1st, I'm sceptical.

"The AI correctly identified he was underage" seems unlikely also.

I am considering it.

Is there any material online about how batteries of 2 or 3 year old EVs hold up? I'm not particularly range anxious because I'm not in America and I do maybe 200 miles a week. But I do care about real world data on these things on a purely economic level.

Turns out I can give myself motion sickness by playing Doom now.

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and now, be preserved for ever in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive. Karlson’s declaration – “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! … What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” – is one of nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins’ 2004 hit Scar. Continue reading...

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive