Dan Spicer

I know it’s not the big news, but is there any club more likely to concede a 97th minute equaliser than the Owls at the moment? A place where absolutely nothing is allowed to go right at the moment

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Local government types: I am interested in examples of systems for sharing outputs from engagement exercises broadly across an organisation (or at least making them accessible and searchable) - does anyone know of good work in this space?

Local government types: I am interested in examples of systems for sharing outputs from engagement exercises broadly across an organisation (or at least making them accessible and searchable) - does anyone know of good work in this space?

I am interested as to which one you think it works in

Apart from anything else there is something deeply weird about saying “my beloved working class” - it sounds like it’s a precious and cared for artifact

Some of those who work forces
Are the same who burn crosses
Some of those who work forces
Are the same who burn crosses

The guy who takes pride in spoiling the Strictly result having a meltdown on Twitter - "Oh good. I really like losing a chunk of my annual income because the BBC have no contingency plan for multiple withdrawls"

Seeing the guy who spoils the #Strictly results having a meltdown over the BBC not doing a DO this weekend warms my cold heart

Not that I am in the habit of defending Joss Whedon

Tbf this is also a problem with US TV, in that S5 finished the story and then they got recommissioned so had to find something else beyond the natural narrative

Which shouldn’t be surprising really because balancing harms and benefits of interventions is at the core of public health practice

The thing I found interesting is that it felt at the time like there was a lot of talk about public health zealots pushing restrictions but as someone adjacent to the system it was in the PH system that I saw the most reflection on benefits v harms

I have often thought about how in baseball, even when a HBP is clearly accidental there’s no apology or enquiry into the batter’s welfare, whereas in cricket the bowler will do it deliberately, check the batter is ok, and then go back and do it again. Not sure what this says but it’s something

You don’t know these other newspapers, they go to another school etc

I do wonder, given the rise of algorithmic feeds that are effectively decisions about what receives prominence, how long the idea they aren’t publishers can be sustained anyway

There is a part of me that feels a useful principle for this sort of thing might be “if you don’t take the trouble to write it yourself, no-one else needs to take the trouble to read it”, though I accept I may not have thought this through fully

My phone constantly corrects my son’s name to Jqcob for precisely this reason and I have no idea how to fix it. I’ve probably made it worse now

Or we could go for fiscal quicksand if we want to keep the things-beloved-in-fiction-for-pre-teens vibe

A total and utter hero

I’ve had similar thoughts about board games - my children are much happier (and we have a nicer time too) playing co-op board games and I do wonder how much these sorts of things provide formative experiences around what sort of behaviour and outcomes are possible in the world

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

I think this is a view in which you can substitute an awful lot of things for “policing” and come up with a correct statement

I think the different reality shows should mix and match their different themed weeks occasionally. I’d love to see Strictly do bread week.

Ooh this is fun- I would go and visit all the transport projects announced as part of Network North that were not, in fact, in the north

I would visit all the places that successfully won funding to remove chewing gum from their high streets

I don’t why, I just looked at it for a few seconds and now it’s burned on my brain forever

Thoroughly enjoyed @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social ‘s incomplete guide to chamber music @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social this evening - so much music to explore afterwards!

I mean this feels quite simple: is it a thing with a purpose to prime something? In what world does one prim oneself on a subject?

How sad will Elis’ voice note be?

Also you may think you get the gist and be wrong about that! I thought I got the gist of Frankenstein due to cultural ubiquity (including understanding that plenty of people wilfully misunderstand or misrepresent the point of the book) but finally reading it recently was a revelatory experience