Chris Keene

Screenshot of BBC news website

Each day I like to play the game "how many articles on the BBC News site mention the BBC in the heading"
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.

Once again New Zealand left off the map

Sainsbury's have emailed me at 3pm today to tell me from the start of today (nice notice period) I will need an app to get 'normal' prices, and if not pay artificially high non nectar prices. Nice.

Spice Girls doing their thing in a video, with the words ‘Tonight is the night when two becomes one’, with the 2 and 1 replaced by clock emojis showing 2 O’clock and 1 O’clock, because the clocks are going back tonight, innit.

Very random memory of superted and bananaman being introduced at the same time on cbbc, with a trailer announcing them both. So your mixing up isn't totally random

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Yes TINA, I agree.

You should be able to connect to the trains doors by Bluetooth to close them when it's cold

Can imagine. And just so busy, and, without going down to easy Essex stereotypes, quite aggressive driving

My partner has family in Felixstowe, I have to say I find driving the A12 one of the most intense roads I know of, always feels a little stressful.

If that plane in 2001 had made it to the whitehouse it could have destroyed the very fabric of part of the building. Imagine.

This reminds me of the brilliant Flight of the Concords track, 1353 tidal.com/browse/track... (can't quote post original post)

Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions 15th October 2025 How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny *   Usually when one reads up about a confusing-looking case the less confusing it becomes. The i…

Non-Substack version here davidallengreen.com/2025/10/tryi...

Cutting the water off in a heat wave for old people. Great look.

Thank you, now I know it's not just me

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Students blew up sheep with fireworks, court hears Two students who blew up a sheep with fireworks are facing prison for what a judge described as a “sadistic and utterly barbaric” act. Leighton Ashby, 22, and Oakley Hollands, 20, invited two other students from Plumpton College to Ditchling Beacon to see what they said was a dead badger. But when they arrived, they […]

Students blew up sheep with fireworks, court hears

Hmm, thinking of rural universities tried Keele, royal agricultural and royal Holloway, no luck. Any clues?

I wondered if "two french men created a musical" was seen as a more desirable narrative than "English bloke who reviews TV for the daily mail" didn't have the same flair.

Or maybe even a half term holiday in one of the cheaper villas at Centre Parcs

I've got no idea, is it in the UK? Has a slightly Germanic look

There's a growing desire for a product. It happens to be lower carbon. China is meeting it, regardless of where the demand comes from.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’m at a Tory fringe event about young voters which has been shown a massive (5,000+) poll of voters aged 16-40 - and it’s (not unexpectedly) very bad news for the Conservatives.

In what must be a statistical improbability, a large number of your words have been quoted by the media in the last 24 hours and not one relates to the liberation of the postcode address file

Especially when some voted for: low taxes low pensions, when they were working (and pensioners got a very raw deal) and once retired conveniently voted for higher taxes for workers and higher pensions, once they had retired.

wondering if @scottygb.bsky.social and @mattdeegan.com have noticed that Channel Four have written all their programme descriptions on the EPG in rhymes for #nationalpoetryday

This is sending my snobbishness into overdrive (though I will not stand for the blatant Lidl slander)

Barrister cites fictitious case (from ChatGPT). When challenged by Tribunal, uses ChatGPT to confirm the case exists. This does not go well.

tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...

This morning: trying to join Radiohead queue at 9:30. To be randomly allocated a queue space between 10 and and 5pm to hopefully buy tickets.

Also today: checking out of a holiday home at 10am and driving through rural areas with limited connectivity.

On a different note, I do broadly feel universities scale well, various things I have done (systems, reporting, policies) over the years would take the same effort with double the students, researchers, schools