Dan Dyer

Does anyone remember a time before the rain?

Benjamin Kayser looks like he was interrupted doing the washing up and dragged off to the rugby. #6nations

Christ, I hadn’t seen the details here but it really is trying to set up a Temu UN with Donald Trump as Secretary General for life (and his hand chosen successor as Secretary General for life after that).

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

This is a genuinely spectacular map showing government plans to cut journey times between Manchester and Sheffield by moving Manchester Piccadilly to South Yorkshire, increase airport capacity by duplicating airports, and build a Warrington in every local authority area in the North West.

At 5.15pm GMT today, the Earth will be at perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in our annual round.

This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!

I’m not suggesting that, just that including trains that don’t stop when reporting usage percentages for Ebbsfleet and Ashford doesn’t give the full story.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

"chatbots are “always hallucinating,” ... “It’s not a malfunction. A predictive model predicts some text, and maybe it’s accurate, maybe it isn’t, but the process is the same either way. To put it another way: LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth.”"

Of course, numbers would have been naturally lower at Ebbsfleet, and particularly Ashford, because only some trains stopped (only a few day at Ashford). If all trains stopped at Ebbsfleet, you'd expect higher numbers due to the park-and-ride convenience over St. Pancras for some people.

Well obviously not all of us voted to leave. It's frustrating to have the infrastructure but not be able to use it any more. Traveling to St Pancras doubles the cost. Fair enough on the numbers, I knew Ashford was low but I'd thought Ebbsfleet was higher as it always seemed busy when I used it.

There would be less congestion at St Pancras if people could get on in Kent again. When we were putting up with years of disruption to build the rail link, we were expecting to get more out of it than the opportunity to watch Londoners speed by without stopping.

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Smith & Burrows - This Ain't New Jersey (2011)

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The Killers & Toni Halliday - A Great Big Sled (2006)

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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - There Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects (2015)

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Dragonette - Merry Xmas (Says Your Text Message) (2012)

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Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) (2009)

YouTube video by smithandburrows Smith & Burrows - When The Thames Froze (studio session)

Smith & Burrows - When The Thames Froze (2011)

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Nicole Atkins - Every Single Christmas (2020)

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Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler - Christmas Moon (2011)

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The Futureheads - Christmas Was Better In The 80s (2010)

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Here you go, have some 21st century alternatives to all the overplayed 70s and 80s tunes on your Christmas playlist. Merry Christmas.

Half Man Half Biscuit - It's Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas (2000)

🤔 The Red Roses have been the most dominant team in world sport for the last 6 or 7 years, are world champions, and are on an all-time record unbeaten run for men's or women's teams. The golf lads narrowly won a two-horse race.

It's a repeat offence. It's the final three penalty points that took her to 12, so she's either been caught four times (or five as the first time they usually let you off with a speed awareness course), or previously been penalised for other things such as using a phone while driving.

AI. The new Virtual Reality.

Billionaires digging bigger holes, and filling them in again.

It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:

Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

OBR calls in cyber expert over botched release of Budget analysis Rachel Reeves's statement was thrown into chaos after journalists were able to access the document early.

I'm not sure this needs much expert analysis. Don't put sensitive documents on your website before you're supposed to and, if you do, don't use easily guessable file names. Where do I send the invoice?

They finally got round to reading my spoiled ballots.

“Buy a lottery ticket!” Cyclists “nearly flattened” after speeding driver loses control and crashes into oncoming car in horrifying footage “Everybody walked away – just,” said cyclist George Fox, a record-breaking time triallist who avoided the “flying” sideways motorist “by a matter of centimetres”

“F***ing hell…” Is this the scariest near miss you’ve ever seen?