Simon Jones

X1/9 always looked pretty cool though

I thought that was the day Buddy Holly's plane crashed, or so Brummie comedian and Crackerjack host Don MacLean claimed

Very much enjoyed the reference, and had "Home Taping is killing music" ready as my reply 😀

Am waiting for a monkey to be hanged because 'concerned local residents' thought it was an illegal asylum seeker

I remembered him from Picture Box (when I was 10/11) but completely forgot he was in Brookie (when I was in my 20s). Not sure what that says about my memory!

Sounds like he may not have been acting in his role as "Chief" in Linda! @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled

If you haven’t read it, this piece by @jemima.bsky.social about the ‘new right’ is slightly scary but mostly very very funny
on.ft.com/4lkvhdw

Where on earth did he think they had sailed from? The nearest land is the northern part of the Netherlands, around a hundred miles away across the North Sea. It's also a similar distance from Calais.

Looking forward to watching this and hoping for the story of how it was found. But surely I'm not the only person who gets "I was not looking for Linda, Linda found me" stuck in their head whenever you post this?

My top20 favourite movies I’m forever describing films as ‘being in my top 20’ so thought I’d better actually list them (though it may change slightly over time as I watch new films or remember older ones - as may the order)

I must admit I like oldies (The Philadelphia Story with Katherine Hepburn is my all-time favourite) - funnily enough I have a list, not necessarily in order! letterboxd.com/simonj63/lis...

I've only seen the original (which I refuse to call "A New Hope") and The Empire Strikes Back, both of which were good when I was 14 or 15, but are a bit meh now. Went to see the one with Jar Jar Binks (can't remember what it's called) which was terrible and have never seen any of the others

All good thanks! Enjoying the latest pod (about 2/3 through so far) but thought you were a bit ambivalent about Star Wars, you should have said what you really think!

I thought you'd be working your way through the 'Allo Allo boxset 😃
Sorry to hear you're still not too good, hope things get better shortly

Here’s 1,000 words about Tesco’s birthday cake sandwich, none of which concern how it tastes Blog of saddos: Cakewich 2

I always enjoy a good debate around the status of a foodstuff, so glad to see the #FT is doing proper investigative journalism on this issue on.ft.com/45mIdcT

My favourite one was the “56% of Americans are opposed to Arabic numerals being taught in schools” (I suppose I should say LVI per cent!)

If you’re looking to compile a #Spotify playlist of female singer-songwriters, this would be a good start

A still from The Innocents, a 1961 horror film based on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, depicting two scary looking children, a girl aged around 8 (left) and a boy aged around 11 (right) in Victorian clothes

These two (Pamela Franklin and Martin Stephens) win, from The Innocents (1961)

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...

The research she cites in the article can be found here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278 #HR #AcademicSky

Dynamic wages make work a gamble Ride-hailing and food-delivery companies’ new pay models use algorithms to decide bespoke fees

Excellent piece by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on dynamic wages in the #GigEconomy in today's FT #HR
on.ft.com/3JhnoIw

Bad light stops play? They are determined to make us wait till Day 5 😳 #EngvInd

Civil service interns must all be working class, government says Internships will only go to students from poorer families in a push to make Whitehall more working class.

Loving 🙄 some of the hot takes on this - like Twitter c2017!
1. Social class not a protected characteristic so not legally discriminatory
2. Even if it were, is permitted under 'positive action' rules
3. Needs clear definition of social class to work well
#HR #UKEmplaw
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Has anyone asked “who’s Gazza?” yet? (A reference in itself that many may not understand)

Although the one o'clock newsreader did inadvertently amuse me - after coverage of the cortege going through Birmingham, she added "Ozzy Osborne, who of course died last week..." to which my reaction was "Thank goodness for that, I'm sure that not even Ozzy would want to be buried alive"

Nigel Farage urges minister to apologise for Jimmy Savile online safety claim Minister Peter Kyle claims that by opposing online safety laws the Reform UK leader is siding with sex offenders.

Dilemma - torn between thinking the #OnlineSafetyAct is a deeply flawed bit of legislation and enjoying the fact that I think #Farage has made a rare but possibly significant tactical error in his opposition to it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is - I had missed the case originally but talk about reputation damaging!

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

Oh, no, Tom Lehrer RIP. I’ve spent every March/April since the age of 18 with this stuck in my head youtu.be/yhuMLpdnOjY?...

If you're in the #Liverpool area (by which I mean Merseyside/North Cheshire) then I'd definitely recommend you sign up to The Post - proper local reporting not clickbait

Verified mine by explaining what I was doing when JFK was shot

I just voted for Down The Line, a #SecretArmy podcast, in the #BritishPodcastAwards. Add your vote here: www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting (@secretarmypod.bsky.social )

Is that the one where Tom Cruise motorcycles out an aeroplane, lands on a pair of skis and slaloms perfectly into a gentleman's outfitters? I didn't think it was as good as the earlier ones...