Ms Smith

Listening to Lily Allen's album online, ngl the Bumble ads feel poorly targeted

Definitely better without so consider it a happy ending 🙂

This episode brought back all those golden memories 😱🤬 #thearchers

Live-in partner dumped after his 'surprise' for me returning from trip away was that he'd hoovered the stairs

deactivated f***b**k last week - same rule applies

#toxicpositivity

Agree!

Read the last part as defecated

"In 1986 Baudrillard was noting that in society “the scene and the mirror have given way to a screen and a network”. He predicted the use of the smartphone, foreseeing each person in control of a machine which would isolate them “in a position of perfect sovereignty”, like “an astronaut in a bubble”

How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT Baudrillard’s genius lay in foreseeing what these rudimentary devices like fax machines suggested about likely future uses of technology.

On AI

"he was convinced that all it really does is enable us to experience the “spectacle of thought” rather than engaging in thought itself"

Yep

theconversation.com/how-the-fren...

Tbh I'm up for it

At the moment everything reads like a metaphor in which meaning might be retrofitted - in a desperate attempt to make it/anything make sense!

Tackling this has been set as a challenge to schools from the government, using the subtle art of fines. Causes are complicated though and often require deeper intervention, which requires funding, which isn't available so.....

'persistent school absence' since the schools were closed in the pandemic is proving difficult to recover from, I'm guessing this is what this part of the storyline is hinting at

125,000 people = front pages and rolling coverage for days

Half a million people = virtually no coverage

We deserve better from our media. Please share widely and consider making complaints via Ofcom

I like live radio because I find myself listening to things I wouldn't pick from a menu, and then become enriched as a result.
But the schedules feel like podcast menus at the moment so I listen less, even to the programmes I enjoy.

This is it, I'm sorry to hear that. Similarly, new radio drama feels very unusual. We've lost so much diversity, it's not much of a cultural eco system

I've always thought the same and don't disagree but I've always paid in principle for the radio; the world service, the programmes where I'm learning or inspired. Current schedules seem flooded with repeats of journos discussing being journos, with bonus podcasts of the same...

Happy for this #entirelyaccuratesummary to flood the timelines

Switching from R4 to R6 to giving up on paying for a TV licence

I've been on the brink of this for ages, but finding it really hard to make the final cut. It's the illusion of being in touch with friends from past times - who I no longer communicate with anyway.

YouTube video by USA TODAY Watch live: President Trump to make an announcement on autism

My story on the "historic" autism announcement is in the works.

Not included in my story is a lingering feeling that, gee, that White House briefing sure involved a lot men telling women to just deal with the pain.

On the brink of cancelling my TV licence but haven't (yet) - because it feels like that was always the previous government's intention 😭

Skip intro - Orange Alert Activate Rover

Very cool 😎 teenage progression from 1980s era Dennis the Menace fan club where you got a furry Gnasher Badge

TV perfection, all the little details; groovy font, scarves, umbrellas, telephones, paranoia, probably the most banging opening credits ever etc etc

(Apart from the hastily cobbled final episode......)

Same here, I went to Portmeirion and got a badge saying 'I will not be pushed filed indexed brief debriefed or numbered' and wore it on the inside of my school blazer

Straight out of the medieval feudalist playbook

It appears that Nigel Farage's girlfriend had £885,000 in cash to buy her house in Clacton that definately wasn't for Nigel and definately not bought using his money but her name to dodge £44,000 in Stamp Duty.

All very suspicious and should be investigated.

Surely nothing's worse than New Robert