Will Wilshere

Ahh NWB. The earlier I arrive to the station the more delayed it is.

Why'd I have to live at a place without a station cafè 🤨

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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As an RC aircraft hobbiest it is genuinely a nightmare how many hoops we have to jump through to fly our aircraft based on rules aimed at drone pilots who never follow them anyway.

Every time there's something in the news about drone incidents I feel another set of forms appearing in my future 🙄

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

Back at uni the local paper had a "these take aways scored a 1 in their hygiene rating" story.
One, that we had visited a couple of weeks prior, had dropped from a 1 to a 0 with remarks like "traces of feacal matter found on food preperation surfaces".

Never went back. Closed two months later.

The designer is on Instagram and explained that the reason the other numbers are shown on the rating is to both give low scorers something to aspire to, and to remind high scorers that the rating can drop.

The fact that the standard one doesn't even come with a zero makes it even funnier.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

It's always fun seeing people you went to uni with and going "on one hand you're more successful than I am, on the other hand C H R I S T"

We had a few clashes where he would always hide behind the claim he was just joking but that never sat right with me.

Half the "jokes" he made on 4th floor on deadline evening were essentially this kind of posting, and he wasn't exactly grinning.

I mean I remember him in Politics and Philosophy first year at Hull and the subject of students becoming more liberal came up and the professor asked what we thought.

Calgie went "I find I get less tolerant the more I meet my fellow students" and, yeah he's definitely the same guy he was then.

This for every city!

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

. . . to the point I think there is even a line about there not truly being a way to describe it in the T'au language.

So naturally the plot revolves around it seeming that there is a difference in opinion between two Ethereal. How can the Ethereals, the truth bringers, have two seperate truths?

In Elemental Council there is a running theme of the T'au are *unified*, point, fact, end. When Ethereals disagree they have a ritual duel that ends with them coming to an agreement on the correct path. The idea of disagreement at the leadership level is unthinkable. . .

Water Caste absolutely figuring out that love for the Emperor is already kinda abstract and if they can turn faith and love towards the Greater Good they will possibly be able to turn the humans into absolute zealots.

Which is exactly the kind of creepy "its not evil but" the Tau need more of.

Divorcing parents sitting on each opposite bench, seething as their child rocks forlornly back and forth on the chicken.

This is extremely on point. If you want to know someone’s politics without asking them directly, you ask about their view of Macron 🤷‍♀️

Pre social media people used to make websites for Dougs to hang out with Dougs! Same for Shirlenes, Geoffreys, Susan Parkers... I dug up a bunch of them on the wayback machine (thread!!!)

I remember my first year at university the Young Conservative society were immediately spottable even before seeing their tiny sign at the Freshers event. They were the only people in probably the entire section of the city wearing tweed.

Wenn diese Leute den Unterschied nicht erkennen können, kann ich ein paar gute Optiker empfehlen. Oder sogar ein paar Kindergärten, um es noch einmal mit der Erziehung zu versuchen. . .🤔

Writing this thesis is mostly teaching me that my academic voice needs to use more full stops. But like, the point feels wrong when I try to turn it into two sentences.

So a three line sentence it is. Followed by another. And another.

And I mock Realist theorists for never getting to the point.

German auto summit tomorrow.

The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today

Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive.

But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here.

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I forget who it was who said that regarding the FIA the rot was holding it together. If you try and deal with the corruption issues in any one section the entire organisation may just collapse overnight.

Remember when Mercedes made a point of their ending 30 years of DTM to focus on Formula E. . .

I say as a FE fan. . .that's not a healthy outlook

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

British Museum as a person vs our character (Christies as a person) is gonna be fun.

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

gilbert poses after his pizzas fall on the floor

a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."