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Why are people asking me to build pareto charts?! panic and freak out.

I stayed up far too late reading them... :-) Hope you like them!

There's a few themes I would have liked to have seen explored in more detail but there's only so much one can fit in, so it's not really a complaint.

I'd completely forgotten it would've been Trump election time.

and I'm sorry Unbound went bad.

What was going to end the world in November 2016?

I didn't mind the swearing at all, all for it. I have to admit there were times when my faith in the story wavered but I'm so glad I kept going right to the end. Loved the illustrations too.

A brutal, erotic novel

Pretty. :)

Not sure why the world is conspiring to put me off reading Flesh but it's doing a bloody good job.

I certainly did not vote for it...

Yes as if refugees didn't have it hard enough... my God, for Bad News for Refugees I visited asylum seekers' homes in the UK to see how they lived and interview them - what we need is more of the TRUTH on our screens and in our papers. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...

I'm halfway through Daniel Church's The Sound of the Dark and it's building nicely.

Loved this series so much. :)

Hope all will be okay!

A Harrowing Escape From the Drone-Infested Hellscape of Ukraine’s Front Lines

A wounded 🇺🇦 soldier’s journey to medical help now often takes as long as it did in the bleakest days of World War I. This isn’t just the result of drones or other modern weapons. Russian drone operators ignore the legal protections meant for medics. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...

"Forgot my coffee machine...Sorry, but I need my coffee the way I like it." Love you, Jakob. #TheArchers

It was lovely.

Always good sky there!

Burnham-on-Sea at sunset on a calm, sunny afternoon, looking towards the Quantocks, with the sea wall on the left and the incoming tide on the right.

Looking into the Brue estuary at Burnham-on-Sea in the sunlight, towards the yacht club.

Writing on the sand that reads: "Peace no war Putin from England."

I should go to the beach a lot more often. Harder to be annoyed with things out there. Good sand art today too.

Some good news this morning - exports of Xinjiang tomatoes have collapsed. Last year I worked with the BBC to expose how XJ tomatoes produced with forced labour were making their way to UK supermarkets via Italy. 🧵

Lebkuchen for breakfast, perfectly reasonable.

Le centre logistique d’un second distributeur de produits pharmaceutiques ukrainien est parti en fumée. Cette année, la Russie vise non seulement la production d’électricité, mais aussi le gaz - et donc le chauffage - et l’accès aux médicaments. Une destruction systématisée.

Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now

Good morning and happy Sunday! I'm reading Daniel Church's The Sound of the Dark. Might finish it today.

Guarantee you she was not, in fact, interested in your commentary on her outfits.

Really wish my mother would realise she doesn't have to phone me to say "I got your email." especially before 9am.

🇺🇦 One of the best bits of journalism last week I saw was @pravda.ua doing a 20 minute video compilation of Zelensky's various statements about needing to stamp out corruption in Ukraine over the years - from his 2019 campaign trail to now. No comments were necessary.

Morally awful, administratively impossible & expensive.. and politically, the reverse of Starmer's panicked conference speech. A govt completely at sea, terrified & incoherent, throwing basic principles overboard in desperation
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

(Mildred Clingerman's The Wild Wood - terrifying)