Paul Sandham - formerly known as ........
@paulsandham.bsky.social
Waspkeeper & brambliculturalist. Insignificant geek, shed owner & Dad of the Ugs & Ig. Ultimately striving for the destruction of all pebble-dashed dwellings. Recovering social media arriviste - banned by Musk after 16 years of definitively mediocre output
Navi Pillay after winning the Nobel peace prize: “The last thing I did is the report on Gaza, naming what is happening there as genocide. The reaction to that report was paying tribute to me for my courage. Why would you need courage to speak the truth?”
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
Taxi did not turn up so Mr Moyes ran me down.
Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
Tricia Lockwood@tricialockwood.bsky.social · 3d agothey are WHAT
"Netflix is better than the BBC, ace the TV license fee!" is the argument. However, if Netflix operated just one television channel and broadcast all of its licensed content without a repeat, it would last just 4.11 years.
I very regularly sign off emails/leaving cards/letters with "I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability". George Galloway said that to Saddam Hussein and it sounds good to me.
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
getartcraft.com
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
28yrs later and he’s coming back from walking round the world to return home to Hull. It’s the last bit that requires respect. Hull. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Karl Bushby completes English Channel swim
The adventurer is nearing the end of his 28-year journey home to Hull from Chile.
bbc.co.uk
A good friend of mine has started a petition to have record shops move T’Pau records from the T section to the P section c.org/mLvKyNRbhs
Sign the Petition
T’Pau records to be moved from ‘T’ section to ‘P’ section in all stores
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Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
I spent far too much time and money in my late twenties and early thirties making sure I could accommodate guests before realising I really don't like having people in my house
I’m reading this. I’m not even halfway through and it’s already crazy. City made deals with the sponsors where the sponsor was only actually on the hook for a fraction of the negotiated fee. The rest was supplied by the Sheik (there are redactions but it seems pretty clear).
Rich Burroughs@somewhattolerable.com · 2w agoLink to the report: resources.premierleague.pulselive.com/premierleagu...
Probably the greatest parallel parking you’ll ever see. #WorldBollardAssociation
Some guys are real heroes. This appears to be the story of one of them. I'd buy him a pint.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w agoOutraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
