Tom Nicholls

On balance, this seemed like the right thing to do. Nice to see the MSM taking a balanced view in a story for a change.

Is there an emoji for "FFS gen-AI"?

Spot the non-UK wall sockets 🙄🥴

You've just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

A stripy turquoise iceberg sits on a black sand beach in the surf and a massive wave crashes over it, giving white spray into the air. The wave is green below. The sky is steely blue with some white patches.

Boom!

A good deal of my time spent on the beach at Jökulsárlón is trying to capture waves hitting icebergs, without the iceberg moving (and being blurred). Occasionally it all comes together :)

#Iceland

Some of them seem fake, at the very least.

Delightful job advert 🙄

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Forgot to repost this, but it's a gorgeous image.

I did get a huge number of users (with zero posts) for a long time, then I think the bots just got bored.

Looks truly terrifying. I'll check it out later.

Looks frightening

But I do suspect the differences in press attention, along with the lack of social media and rolling news, are why people forget how much worse and more prevalent violence was in the 1990s.

I don’t recall commentators freaking out that they were terrified to go to supermarkets.

It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.

I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.

The thing that really gets me about the "it never used to be like this" is they have just forgotten the UK spent nearly four decades in civil conflict including hundreds of bombings in the capital.

My FA Cup pumpkin. 🏆🎃

Having posts prioritised by algorithm is what they do on twitter and Facebook and is one of the reasons we left. If you foist it on us here, it will not be popular.

In a dark wood near Sherwood Forest - heavy fog lingers and November leaves cling on for dear life.

Cascade of autumn leaves in a dark wood with fog

Heavy fog lingers in a dark wood with autumn trees

Beech tree in autumn fog

In a dark wood somewhere

Make AI slop entertaining (at least)

When I gave up my Crystal Palace season ticket in 2008 just before moving north, if you'd told me that Palace would beat Liverpool 3 times in the first 3 months of 2025, I would have asked you how many divisions Liverpool had been relegated.

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I'm currently appealing a Delay Repay claim from *5 months ago*. Thank goodness for ontimetrains.co.uk, without which it would be difficult to remember exactly which hour/minute I made the multiple connections of the journey in question.

Do they really think their product will survive public scrutiny? So naive...

Yes, of course, ET was probably the watershed moment.

My 1970s memory of halloween is the occasional competition to draw a witch or a ghost etc, but nothing substantial. I think adults were slightly wary of any possible anti-christian connotation. I definitely didn't know what trick-or-treating was.

Guy Fawkes night was relatively huge though.

I've been thinking about what drives crime to become a prominent political issue and have concluded in a completely-without-evidence way that it must be correlated with the amount of true crime programming on the telly.

Your move, scientists.

‘No more children are going to die like you’: how Sheffield mother kept her promise to boys killed by father 11 years ago Claire Throssell has been central to the campaign to repeal parental contact laws following the deaths of her two sons at the hands of their father in 2014

This is an awful story, but what a courageous mother.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

But 15 mins is an incredibly low bar, I agree.

Yes, healthy people walk more. No surprises in this paper as far as I can see.

Grey pebbles on a black sand beach. Each pebble has some sand dotted on it, and sits on a little peak, sculpted by the wind.

Glad I wasn't due to fly to #Iceland today - most of the flights were cancelled with heavy early snows. Quite unusual. Hoping things will be back to normal for my flight in 72 hours' time (yes, I'm counting!) so I can go and look for some more weird & wonderful things like this :)