Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 19,1952
Generational run of awful posts here
I welcome the Met’s record stop and search find rate. Done fairly, respectfully and intelligence-led, it can remove dangerous weapons and drugs, disrupt crime and prevent violence. We’ll keep monitoring its delivery to help build a safer London for everyone.
Danny Go managed to wildly entertain and terrify my family tonight.
This is the UK. They're not "frunks" they're "froots"!
Don't go to Oxford Street www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Live facial recognition cameras to be used on UK’s busiest shopping street
Sadiq Khan has indicated the technology will be deployed on London’s Oxford Street despite human rights concerns
theguardian.com
“The wand chooses the wizard.” 🪄 And in this case, it chose Oxford Street. Congratulations to Warner Bros on the UK’s largest Harry Potter shop. Another brilliant new destination for the West End, and proof that Oxford Street is well and truly on the up.
We report: we thought we had seen all this sunset had to offer, but we stayed a few moments longer. When the sky got almost dark enough for the first planets to emerge from its depths, some of the higher clouds started to glow - and only when those faded was it truly over.
Fun fact: pan pipes are called that because they tied all the pipes together
Sometimes people ask me to share my skills, so here’s my guide to gatekeeping
We report: we think something happened while we were under the cover of the trees, but we are unsure what it was. For a moment, though the sky had been cloudless since dawn, the light dimmed, and the wind suddenly rose. On the ground, the shadows of the leaves shifted.
This turned up in my Facebook Memories from 7 years ago:
Going to claim that the next build site of a data centre is actually the birth place of Penfold from Danger Mouse and demand all works cease
**New Blog Post** A quick run-down on Bronze, the *real* star of Blockbuster Sensation The Odyssey. www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2026/8/6/bronze-as-seen-in-the-odyssey
Bronze (as seen in The Odyssey) — Michael O'Neill
A short piece on bronze, after watching the recent film about the Bronze Age hero Odysseus.
michaeloneill.org
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
For almost all commercial purposes, unless you’re specifically a tech company, you’re probably better off with SQL
What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?
We keep calling them “Data centers” but I’m getting real Lore vibes from all of this