Alan Bradley

Clipping from Private Eye. TROLL FEES THE Online Safety Act now requires platforms to "prevent children from accessing... hateful content". But there appear to be no such provisions to restrict the promotion of racial hatred on X/Twitter. Accounts such as New British Order advocate "deporting both the jews and the blacks to Israel" and complain that Reform UK have an "uncountable amount of brown people in positions of power". . Meanwhile, "White Vanguard" advocates "total repatriation" and asks leading questions about "what religion Starmer practices [sic] at home" Not only is Elon Musk's platform happy to host this, but both these accounts are "verified" and as such earn money from the thousands of interactions they elicit each time they post.

So much Online Safety Act coverage…

Yeah. Real people you can interact with face-to-face in real time. It’ll never catch on.

Private Eye cartoon showing ways to show you’re old enough to look at something mildly tittilating or sexual online.

Full-page advert in Private Eye showing how to take out a subscription to Private Eye.

New Private Eye day. As always, I urge folk to take out a subscription.

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The guy who only ate lettuce Subway for lunch was a particular nadir. Thankfully, he normally declined to join the rest of us for dinner so we had our choice of restaurants.

At my last job, “could I work with and stay at the same hotel as this person for 3 months” was something we kept in our minds at an interview for a new hire. It was a real scenario and mattered.

Yup, absolutely.
I’ve always been lucky in that I’ve worked with groups of folk whose company I’ve enjoyed and have been able to socialise with, but I’ve also worked places where that’s not the case.

Well, it stops them being informal, for starters.

This is “The Celestiq for the rest of us” 😁
A school friend works for GM, had a Celestiq for a weekend and shared a couple of vids on Insta. Stunning.

Which one’s “the original”? 😁

Oh yeah…

YouTube video by BluetheFortune The Adventures of Rupert Bear - Original 1970 Titles (pre-2017 print)

Top 10 banger tv themes when I was a kid (1970s edition):

1. The Adventures of Rupert the Bear

Sung by actual pop star Jackie Lee, it charted at No 14 in the UK.

Rating: 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Nice work. Definitely a time that gingicators look better.

It’s pretty, too.

“Let’s get Lyriq-al, Lyriq-al!”

Got this one in 3, but I’m more interested in foreign moderns than the stuff you see at every British car show so I’ll probably stick to the main one.
To each their own. 👍

Cardle 2025-08-07 Score: ❌❌✔️➖➖ cardle.uk

Did the interim CEO get a chance to warm the seat before this announcement was made?

Regardless, continuity seems to be the order of the day with Renault.

They didn't just use a screen scraper* to "automatically" transfer it? Wow.
*"No, it's secure. That door's locked and we turn the monitors off..." 🫣

YouTube video by Mark Foden The Gubbins of Government

Makes me think of this excellent, but old, video about Government IT transformation. Some of this has happened.
youtu.be/02__3UTqXmU?...

Overwhelming positivity - 5 August 2025 - Motoring Podcast We start with Follow Up as the Supreme Court has ruled on the car finance claims. Additionally, Renault Group has announced their new CEO. In new news, we start with JLR losing one CEO but finding ano...

Also in Follow Up, Renault Group find their new CEO. Francois Provost moves on from procurement, partnerships and public affairs to head up the company.

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YouTube video by The Motoring Podcast Peugeot's Ingenious Suspension - A Lunchtime Read Worth Your Time #podcast #automobile

This week's @motoringpodcast.com lunchtime read is an absolute cracker of interesting nerdery.

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I've come to realise that dealing with the DVLA for anything other than the most basic interactions is an exercise in administrative echo-sounding.

This is the most dangerous of the idiots in US government.
As I’ve said before, when the rest of the Kennedy say “Don’t vote for this one, he’s a crazy,” that’s BAD.

Yes, and beyond.

This was the facelift model. There are still variants being built around the world too.

It’s the foil hat that people notice first…

Of course, maybe none of those would touch the project with a shitty stick?

Honestly, it would be more successful and less embarrassing if they just leased the space to one of the big chains.
A specially-decorated Starbucks, Nero, Dunkin’ or similar would be different enough. Maybe work with Coca-Cola to introduce the Costa brand to the US (outside Atlanta)?

Speaking of this, in non-Diner news I’ve just watched this video by @nerd4cities.bsky.social about the increasingly half-hearted Las Vegas Loop.
This link is to YouTube, but it’s also on the excellent @nebula.tv service.

youtu.be/VPjODKUxV5g?...

It’s incredible to think that the Tesla brand over promised and under delivered.
Goodness, I am shocked.
Crikey.
Etc.
😐

Hmm… depends on how urgent something is, I guess.
Urgent - ring them
Not so urgent - fill out a form and wait to see if you did the right thing or if they send you a letter saying what you should have done instead.
If only there were still regional offices. 🙄