Murray Chapman

Child trust fund, at least it was 18 years ago. Bear in mind they may spend it on something inappropriate. A friend spent his inheritance money on a 350LC back in the day, luckily he didn't waste it.

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I've started investing in stocks : beef, chicken, vegetable...
One day I hope to become a bouillonaire.

Poohsticks

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Front cover of Private Eye.

Islands In The Mud You know how there are islands in the Galapagos where there's a finch that's perfectly adapted to eat just that one seed that grows on that one island? And then on the next island there's another finch that's perfectly adapted to eat just that one seed that grows on the island where it lives, and so on? I think that mountain biking, or mountain bikers, can be a little bit like that.

Islands In The Mud

You know how there are islands in the Galapagos where there's a finch that's perfectly adapted to eat just that one seed that grows on that one island? And then on the next island there's another finch that's perfectly adapted to eat just that one seed that grows on the island…

Did you know we're all placed onto different Bluesky servers, and they're named after mushrooms??

You can find out what mushroom server you're on by looking yourself up on Clearsky clearsky.app

I'm team oyster mushroom. 🦪🍄

RUSI Announces Partnership with Disorder Podcast The Disorder Podcast - a top 20 UK Podcast currently co-produced by Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Podcasts and dedicated to understanding the 'novel historical era of The Global Enduring Disorder' - has r...

🎉🎙We are excited to announce our new partnership with the @disordershow.bsky.social podcast. RUSI experts will regularly join host (and RUSI Associate) Jason Pack to bring order to the disorder and explore some of the most important and urgent global issues. More details below!

Chapeau! The funniest thing I've read in ages!

I always used to ask the receptionist what she thought of candidates I was interviewing. She was right more often than I was in judging people.

Challenge accepted!

🎤I am the very model of a modern crashed economy
I've underperformed vegetables like lettuces and broccoli
I know the cheese of England, and I want a Keir apology
From pork markets to pensions too, my life is tragicomedy

Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.

There's good and bad use cases - good, I want to knock up a PowerShell script to do something slightly strange, rather than finding something close using Google, a few rounds with Copilot gets me what I need. Bad, Google giving me an AI summary of the weather forecast which is no better.

‘Grief doesn’t bend’: professional big mountain skier Hadley Hammer on moving forward past loss The American big mountain skier has experienced more loss at 38 than most humans will in a lifetime. She opens up about how she’s learned to navigate the highs and lows For the last five years, Hadley Hammer has been fighting to stay above water. Only…

‘Grief doesn’t bend’: professional big mountain skier Hadley Hammer on moving forward past loss

Interesting, the canal construction machine might be useful in e.g. Finland to pre-prepare defences. No use when shooting starts though!

Happy Christmas! And a particularly Happy Christmas to the 27 guys in national control and 57 standby engineers covering the England & Wales supergrid today so all parts of the network are under our watchful eyes. No ‘planned’ work today- just powering your Christmas 🎄 🦃🎅🏻💡🥂

Battle over National Trust decision not to restore ruined Clandon Park Charity plans to showcase country house, which was gutted in a devastating 2015 blaze, as a fire-damaged shell but traditionalists demand it be restored

This article depicts a battle
‘within the National Trust’ but RT2021Ltd or Restore Trust is a private company with 4 directors, The National Trust is a 129-year-old charity which has 5.5m members, all of whom have democratic voting rights.

www.thetimes.com/article/26a1...

Dear Ed, all we want for Christmas is clean and affordable electricity An open letter to the UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

I’ve cross posted it > zionlights.substack.com/p/all-we-wan...

That really is good news

Above Ground Protected Shelters - Think Defence Above ground protected shelters are used for rest areas, medical facilities, HQ and CP functions, storage, and equipment care.

NEW BLOG POST

A look at above ground protected shelters

www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2024/12/abov...

Malwarebytes reports "Website blocked due to trojan"

What if DogeCoin becomes the US currency? And more of your wild proposals answered [FREE TO READ] What if Bitcoin got adopted as the only way of paying for coffee?

What if Hasbro took over the US government and Monopoly money became the official currency? Your strange economics questions, answered...
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Good morning - it’s day 19 and the penultimate advent on my top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social – please watch . And then email your MP , this nightmare belongs in the past . Thank you . #RealBanNow

Possibly the best live album ever.
#nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcollection

Principles of law. I was doing a mechanical engineering degree. I've found in normal life knowing the principles of law makes it much easier to navigate life.

I work for a bank. If I used an unauthorised channel for business purposes I'd be sacked and the bank would be fined a large amount - see Deutsche Bank being fined $2 billion for people using Whatsapp.

Thanks, a really good article

How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was possible.

"Since the early ‘90s, the cost of a lithium-ion battery has fallen by more than 97% per kilowatt-hour" www.construction-physics.com/p/how-we-got...

"Siri, find me a very small violin. Nano-scale"