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I have nothing to add to #duvetknowitschristmas because our lurgies mean that we’re at home (aged parents didn’t want the infection which is fair enough) so we’re cosy in our lovely bed! Last year we were in Lanzarote so I feel we’re really not trying hard enough @rhodri.biz

I’m inclined to think not …

Dear legal people
Does anyone know a good ISW who could do an SGO assessment in the middle of the country? I am doing research but thought I’d ask here & on twitter too.
TY

It seems that (some) people really don’t know how to apologise

I suspect the 'Gregg effect' will have the same lasting renown as the 'Streisand effect'. In this case being 'defending yourself on the internet by confirming that you are exactly the kind of person who would be accused of such things in the first place'.

LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.

I don’t use any of that!

Which city?

It blows my mind that NASA is able to receive data from 4.67 billion miles away, but I lose Wi-Fi signal in my kitchen.

Films I watched in 2024, what will hopefully be a very long thread. 1) One Night in Miami. God this is a terrific film. A flawless example of how to adapt a stageplay, in that it doesn’t feel remotely stagey. [Criterion Collection BluRay]

I’m absolutely not a snob about such things, people like what they like, but I love an opera in any language, even @ the ENO in English! Although Puccini is favourite ❤️

Butting in, which reminds me of the olden days on Twitter (will never call it X)

I hate musicals (also pantomime by the by) but LOVE opera, any idea how that computes?! I think it probably has something to do with there being echoes of musical phrases, but not endless melodic repetition.

I’m still processing the loss of Law in Action…

Nigel farage in barbour jacket at farmers protest

You have to admire Nigel Farage - who else would have the nerve to pretend to be the defender of farmers, after selling their whole industry down the river with his Brexit shitshow.

Welcome 🙏 🤗

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

She’s the B word

The Louis Vuitton exhibition centre is further out but worth a look even just for a wander around the roof of the Frank Ghery building

How, I couldn’t find a free way?

America keeps encouraging the worst people on Earth—and they keep showing us why they should never be encouraged. I hate how stupid America is for coddling these people who should in fact be cowering in the shadows as the antisocial, morally decrepit, intellectually troglodytic vile bigots they are.

Oh @jackmonroe has slunk onto BlueSky. Must have been name searching because she’s already blocked me. Where’s the VBI then Jack?

Fab thread 🧵

Now we’re calling it X

Elon will be gutted!

*talents even …

What they said 👇👍

I hope somehow this party goes v v well for Fallon & she becomes a sought after events planner which can marry her upcyling & catering talenta, using all of her organisational skills*

*These aren’t currently obvious put I’m putting that down to artistic licence.

#thearchers

Anti vax for health positions

He is & the clips I’ve seen are brilliant & funny, as is he these days imho

😂😂😂

All change on the Overground So how do you re-name and re-brand an entire operational urban rail network?

Might make this a thread of free posts on the newsletter, because clicks and subscriptions makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Here's my interview with the man in charge of the tube map, about the process of renaming the London Overground lines.