Liam O'Flynn

Ha! If you are ever in north-east England, check out Darlington Station. Feels like the White Walkers have just turned up.

Three million illegal vapes seized in the South East Trading Standards officers detect illicit products in ports and shops in Kent, Sussex and Surrey.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Bad boy! NO!

I will look out for it next time I am over. That is a great memorial!

Spiddal beach with sand exposed,rocks, piles of seaweed, most of the sky cloudy, with sunlight on the horizon.

An Spidéal

OMG. How to turn a basically successful homelessness judicial review, with the defendant debarred from taking part in the hearing, into a wasted costs order against C’s solicitors and counsel.
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2...

Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said.
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.

Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules

Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere

Ce Eanach Dhuin.

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?

Users: We just want precise, Boolean searching. Or like, maybe just pull up the case when we type in its exact name.

Lexis/Westlaw: Okay, here is an AI assistant!

The Christmas Beer.

Listening to David Holmes: Let's Get Killed

A bright pink instructional graphic titled “How to sleigh alt text.” It includes colourful headings labelled Identify Who (in green), Expression (blue), Description (pink), Colour (red), and Interesting Features (grey). On the right side, there’s a sample alt text description in various colours that reads: “Santa Claus looking happy as he waves at the camera. He wears a traditional red suit and hat and has a long white beard and glasses. There are colourful lights twinkly behind him.” Below the text, a photo of Santa Claus is shown, waving with a big smile against a background of twinkling, colourful holiday lights

Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think.

Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!

Ctrl+F "Convention" 🤔

Drafting can only ever be as good as the instructions that are given to the drafter. I haven't seen this bill at all, so this is just a general comment.

Listening to Planet Telex

We have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience. And it has been a well of ideas and discourse. Unfortunately that well is now poisoned. All of us have seen X become more toxic and broken since Elon Musk took over in 2022. Feeds have become less useful. Engagement has plummeted, except for those who will pay. Replies gain traction not through merit, but through the corrupted blue-tick system. We have seen hate speech and abuse deliberately dialled up and amplified, boosted not just by the algorithm, but by the owner himself. And England’s racist summer riots were one of many factors suggesting to us that X is not a neutral platform, but a space that now seems to glorify misinformation at a great cost to our public sphere. Millions of people are ditching X, and we are doing so, too. We have taken the view that it is no longer a useful tool for objective reporting, but a weapon being wielded by a narrowing ideological set. A tipping point is coming. Perhaps we are already in it. After much consideration, we have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky. For some of us that means instantly deleting our X accounts, for others it is a more gradual process. But we are all putting the majority of our efforts into building more constructive online spaces elsewhere for political dialogue and reporting. Bluesky is becoming a new hub for political discussion, and we encourage other UK journalists to join and become active. We are already seeing far higher engagement on our posts there than we’ve seen recently on X. And importantly, the mechanisms to limit abuse actually work. We enjoyed Twitter while it lasted. It played an important role in shaping many of our careers. And it was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter

NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists"

UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over...

"We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

a helpful guide:

the woman is wearing embracing a 50s aesthetic but the decor and the guy look normal: some kind of tradwife thing! approach with caution!

woman and man are wearing 50s clothes and the house is full of kitschy bullshit: rockabilly perverts, no worries.

I enjoyed drawing this one

(Yes this a real product)

Lepe this morning.

Blackrock.

Whether you’re a fan of Hallowe’en or not, you have to give it credit for being the last line of defence against Christmas advancing even earlier into the year, a ragtag gang of goths holding the line against a battalion of baubled barbarians

Boxing day 1998. Huge storm struck. Spent 2 weeks with no electricity, using tiny axes to clear three felled 30ft trees from our garden. Had 6-inch battery-operated, black-and-white TV in garage, around which we crammed, freezing cold, to watch World's Strongest Man by candlelight.

Why women are still being underdiagnosed with heart disease Anatomical and physiological differences in the cardiovascular system directly reflect on the way heart disease manifests in women versus men.

Female heart attacks can present differently from male - but often misdiagnosed, so ineffectively treated

In addition to chest pain look out for “nausea, vomiting, dizziness, indigestion, upper back or belly pain or excessive, unexplained sweating.”

theconversation.com/why-women-ar...

UK’s ‘not for EU’ meat and dairy labelling plan postponed indefinitely Policy devised under Conservatives will be reviewed after warnings of chaos for producers and suppliers

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,106,532!

Sol Bamba was a colossus on the pitch and a beacon of humanity in private | Dominic Booth The tributes following his death at 39 have spoken for themselves: a mark of the man as much as the player

www.theguardian.com/football/art...

Sol Bamba: Ex-Cardiff, Leeds, Hibernian and Middlesbrough defender dies Former Cardiff City, Leeds United, Hibernian and Middlesbrough defender Sol Bamba has died aged 39.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Glory to Sol Bamba! 💪

ScreenTime post announcing that “Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce with Ben Affleck”, followed by two photos: 1) J Lo receiving an MTV movie award, and 2) Ben Affleck as Batman

When J Lo and I inevitably divorce, yes please use the photo of me as Batman.

Cartoon of man and woman: 'Oh no! We've been invited to another Twitter leaving do?

Afternoon.