Very taken by the Docklands in Dublin.

As seen this morning at Dublin airport 🌈

Japan to use AI to tackle online manga and anime piracy The Cultural Affairs Agency's plan will have AI scour the web for sites pirating manga books and anime, using an image and text detection system.

Japan plans to implement artificial intelligence to police anime and manga pirating websites that the pop-culture powerhouse accuses of costing it billions of dollars in lost revenue every year.

Dinesh D'Souza is very upset about Hunter Biden’s pardon.

In an example of peak irony, the pyramid of the capitalist system is available to buy on Amazon.

Adiós Gibraltar hasta la próxima.

I love trade nerds. Some of my dearest colleagues are trade nerds. But the social prominence of trade nerds is inversely proportionate to the health of a political society.

Home ♥️.

“Before the Taliban takeover, women made up 26% of public sector workers, a figure that "has effectively decreased to zero," according to U.N. Women.

Girls and women have also been banned from secondary schools and universities under restrictions the U.N. has described as "gender apartheid,"

I can confirm that the WiFi on the tube is now good enough for people to conduct video calls while underground and it is awful.

I’ve been fortunate enough to stay at the Hilton in Amsterdam the past couple of day where John and Yoko stayed in 1969. Just after their wedding in “Gibraltar near Spain” the photo on the right having been taken by the late, great Slim Simpson.

No. They were literally massive baubles 😉

Apollolaan in Amsterdam does good coffee (and massive baubles).

Riken and others develop plastic material that dissolves in seawater Unlike earlier biodegradable plastics, the material is strong and easy to process and takes only hours to decompose.

A team including government-backed research institute Riken and the University of Tokyo has developed a plastic material that can be dissolved in seawater in hours, sparking hopes that the new material will help reduce environmental pollution.

I’m back next week and looking forward to a swim. How’s it been on the Eastern side these past couple of weeks?

Como los monos de latón

Frosty 🥶

Picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

The Digby Tap, a 17th century freehouse is my favourite pub in Sherborne. The great leveller, town and gown happily rubbing shoulders all year long.

Here it is @kaymenez.bsky.social though there’s only a few on here go.bsky.app/TDKNaQL Feel free to repost 😊 #Gibraltar

Look at the difference in traffic between Twitter and BlueSky when you compare my newsletter last week (image one) with the one this week (image two).

Sherborne Abbey looking nice this morning.

Thanks! Dorset sunset where I am

@debbieeade.bsky.social good to see you again.

I do like a good culinary juxtaposition

And back in London it’s looking quite autumnal

Was in China recently where I found out KFC does coffee.