Dave Burton

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

You have to hand it to them, they really know their audience.

771kcal?!

What an ending. For sheer drama it's up there with the super-over and Stokes and Leach. Cricket, bloody hell.

You can't even bat two-handed these days. Because of Woakes.

Glorious.

The UK Gov Camp logo, which look like a fireball heading right. The top half is blue and rest is red. In the middle is a white line that looks like the river Thames.

UKGovCamp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) will be in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026.

We need a venue:
1️⃣ for 250 people,
2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms,
3️⃣ wheelchair accessible.

@imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search.

Please share and reply with ideas 🙂

📣 We’d like to hear from you!

Bluesky is rolling out age verification as part of the Online Safety Act, which aims to reduce the risk of children seeing harmful content.

We’ve heard that blind and partially sighted folks are unable to verify their age because it’s inaccessible. Have you tried?

It is no bad thing for government to get better at storytelling and that those messages should land 'where people are'.

But as (more?) important is government actually being 'where people are'. And that isn't necessarily in your pocket.

Resharing my (5 part) long read about GOTHS.

Yet agayne ignored by the Booker Pryze longlist

Apropos of nothing specific.

The idea that you would immigrate - even to a country where you might some day claim benefits - to profit from the public purse, is as mad as the idea that you would fly long-haul to get free chips.

It is SO expensive.

Hey Becky! Yes, you would be most welcome - you can sign up at the Eventbrite link.

Look forward to seeing you there!

DAME HANNAH HAMPTON

She's still saying it 🤩

Football, bloody hell.

Legends and heroes, every one of them.

Blinking flip #TheFootball

She may not say this ever again after the next 5 minutes, but I am proud at having raised an England football fan who will, unironically, use the phrase "yay, penalties!"

A better option than listening to Helsinki whilst eating Arthur Shappey's Sort Of A Cake, or a fishcake with 20 cigs in it, certainly...

Gdansk particularly is known in our car simply as "THE CHEESECAKE IS POISON", which is a weird thing to hear two kids ask for in whiny voices when they're bored

This might honestly be the best sitcom of them all. If you haven't heard it, do yourself a favour and listen.

His Last Report review – dynamic celebration of chocolatier’s son who invented ‘the poverty line’ With an 80-strong cast, this moving play about social reformer Seebohm Rowntree finds a universal message in the most local of stories

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

This is the beautiful Liz Berry poem Frank Skinner references in @petepaphides.bsky.social's superb interview.

I DO NOT WANT TEAMS IN MY CAR, I DO NOT WANT IT NEAR OR FAR. I WOULD NOT LOG ON IN A JAG, I WOULD NOT CALL IN FROM A CAB, I DO NOT WANT THIS TEAMS YOU SEE, GET IT FAR AWAY FROM ME

I’m putting together some events and conferences info for our team.

Does anyone know if Govcamp North and/or OneTeamGov breakfasts are still going, please? 👀

Hosted by One Team Gov North Hosted by One Team Gov North

OneTeamGov Manchester at the DWP/GDS offices on St Peter's Square, the third Tuesday of every month!

8:30 lean coffee breakfast chat for anyone working in public service, co-working space all day if you have a common civil service pass.

Upcoming events here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/hosted-by-...

AI generated black and white 1969s-style photo of a man in a full sized cigarette costume with a big but creepy smiley face handing a lit cigarette to a smiling middle aged male hospital patient lying in bed, wearing a hospital gown.

I’ve no idea if Mr Cig was real, but what a performance Rip Torn gave for him in the 1991 Doors biopic. The scene where he inspires Jim to write Light My Fire (“light my head, Jim. I’m just a massive human cigarette. Light my head on fire.”) bravo Oliver Stone.

Football, bloody hell.

This is England!

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll OMAHA, NE—Subliminally influencing those who have purchased the 1971 album to sit back and enjoy the music, a hidden message discovered Wednesday when local heavy metal fans played Black Sabbath’s Mas...

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll

“GovGPT, please book me a return train from Leeds to London, with tube travel to Canary Wharf for next Wednesday. Make sure the booking adheres to civil service travel cost policy.”

<New Mexico data centre bursts into flames>