Why did the French coeliac sufferer keep eating the baguette? Because she was a gluten for punishment and loved the pain.
Kelcey Swain
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Former composer and academic, doctor of noise. Now Cabinet Office innovation architect.
Deckchair shuffling is for the unserious. loosemore.com/2026/07/18/d...
Deckchair shuffling is for the unserious
The FT and Guardian report that the new PM will disband the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT), splitting its functions between a beefed-up Department for Business and Trade (D…
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Here's one of the daftest impacts of this daft idea. loosemore.com/2026/07/18/d...
Deckchair shuffling is for the unserious
The FT and Guardian report that the new PM will disband the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT), splitting its functions between a beefed-up Department for Business and Trade (D…
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I made my own TV box with satellite receivers out of Kodi, but sometimes something goes wrong. This is the best so far:
I was in Paris last night and saw France defeated, and in England now to see their defeat. I am willing to accept an all expenses trip from the highest bidder to either Barcelona or Buenos Aires.
This morning we stumbled into Jardin des Tuileries almost by accident at the precise moment that the French Air Force started their Bastille Day fly by. It was quite spectacular... then we went to the d'Orsay for some art.
![[Scene is at sea - we see Odysseus’s ship sailing past an island]
NARRATOR:
And next on his Odyssey
Sir Christopher Nolan led his followers
[We see that instead of Odysseus it is CHRIS NOLAN captaining the ship]
Past the Island of X
Inhabited by People Who Criticise Films From Just Watching The Trailer
[Show a load of guys on the rocks of the island, all tapping away on their phones]
They were led by their King,
the Musk.
The Musk stayed up all night in his cave
[Show a giant Elon Musk hunched over his computer at night in a cave, tapping away]
Posting comments about how he thinks Lupita Nyong’o is the wrong colour to be Helen of Troy, who wasn’t real
But Sir Christopher was immune to the song of the people of X
because he famously didn’t have a smartphone.
NOLAN [at the front of his ship, bellowing into the storm and waving his Nokia brick phone]:
I DON’T EVEN HAVE EMAAAAIL
[Narrator again]:
And he turned to his followers
NOLAN [turning to all the guys on his ship, all Nolanbro types, looking at their phones]
MEN!
Put down your mobile telephones! Do not listen to the sirens of X!
[Intense, Nolan-style close up on Nolan’s big, serious face]
NOLAN:
Some people will not like my big serious film…
But some people will like it...
and that’s fine.
[Ship sailing into the distance]:
MEN:
Hurrah!
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I have said it before and I will say it again: England should have its own national anthem that isn't the British one. Blake/Parry's Jerusalem maybe, or Chumbawamba's Tubthumping
It is possible to dislike both Google and Cloudflare in this scenario.
Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 4w agoI'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
My indie game launches in 28 days. Algorithm, please carry the signal. My indie game launches in 28 days. Algorithm, please carry the signal. My indie game launches in 28 days. Algorithm, please carry the signal.
Yes, obviously it is suspended, but is it operating or not? Useless TfL app.
By the way, Elon Musk didn't start Tesla. By the time he invested in Tesla, the original founders had already started building the Roadster THEY had designed. When he bought them out, he changed the history of the company to make himself a founder. I'm not joking. He's always been a fraud.
I've always wondered if Vanilla Ice knows the meaning of the word "collaborate" when he demands that you "stop, collaborate and listen". Best not get into "wax my chump like a candle" or "I'm a lyrical poet", though.
Here is a fantastic opportunity, 3 years full time, a chance to really develop, alongside lovely colleagues. Replacing me so colonial or non European history particularly welcome. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR630/l...
Lecturer in History and Digital Humanities at Keele University
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This one always makes me giggle
The Cure's Robert Smith perfectly sums up the difference between Americans and Brits.
250 years, wow! America is so cuuute! I live in a town called Newcastle because the Normans built a castle a thousand years ago that was newer than the ones the Romans built a thousand years before that.
Quite smugly happy with this one: Wordle 1,813 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
BBC Crystal Explorers game is teaching my son that the Oxford Comma is wrong!
He-Man: Curses Foiled Again
Alt: Skeltor: Curses Foiled Again
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I performed on the soundtrack to Braveheart. I once shot through the middle of a polo mint. Nelson Mandela once asked if I was ashamed to shake his hand. Two truths and a lie is difficult when I am in the room.
Kayla Cromer Official@kaylacromer.bsky.social · 5mo agoTell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true.
It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work
