Paul Pod

Every year the news slouches closer to an all clickbait model, where every article is called “this will make you mad”

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

Quote tweet with your preferred native wildlife to feature on bank notes

Kemi and the Tories hate animals now

Have discovered one of the cats is feeding mice to the ancient dog, leaving a mouse in the exact spot every morning.

"Go to Sharepoint and then open the Tranche icon"

Jones claimed that digital public services could also be cheaper to run and more efficient. "We cannot continue on this two-track process where services in the private sector, in banking and shopping, and all the other things that we do in our day-to-day lives are fast, easy, and digital, and then when you come to the public sector, they're slow, clunky, and disjointed."

I'm sorry are you fucking kidding?

GOV.UK is beloved to the point where normal people will bring it up unprompted in Reddit threads or on TikTok as an example of how digital services should work

😬😬😬

This is really weird

Krishnan Gurumurthy just used the term "Nepo-Ayatolla" on the news.

FACTS:

Net Zero barely nudges your bill.

Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.

So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

A slightly different take on "very complete, pretty much"

They're all just words, noises from people opening and closing their mouths. No meaning.

he’s gonna give a speech in front of an AI generated banner that says, “ŃMIMMS1ØN ACĞŒMPLISSHEP”

"and here are HR, who are here to help"

Supercheap* rate 2am to 5am so that was a pain the arse to diagnose as you can imagine

I had tried to do timed charging on my Kia - it turns out the car cannot "do" time, says dealer. It's just 240V so stuck a timer socket on it but ffs.

The baleful legacy of Innocent Smoothies.

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

Cartoon with four images in black and white comparing a cat's and a dog's behaviour

Sarah C. Andersen (born June 15, 1992) US cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart

Ah but Axel Springer just bought the Telegraph

So the thing is, you can really let people know what you think with a simple facial expression. I do a lot.

Someone in my last job said i had a terrible poker face. No buddy, it's *entirely* deliberate. My poker face is excellent.

"Sleep your way out of your hometown" is such a killer line #ladytron

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

This drumming bit is good #paralympics opening ceremony

Moderately amused by the Channel 4 app on this TV having *some* ads that won't mute the audio. LOL super funny, arseholes

Dalkeith man who lost his dad to dementia launches platform to help bereaved families A man who lost his dad to dementia has used his experience to help other bereaved families across the country.

Something a bit personal today. Edinburgh News covered why I built Afterloss.

It started when my dad passed away and I found myself in a bank, not knowing that my power of attorney had died with him.

www.afterloss.uk

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/dalkeit...

Touch the cleansing fire of the nuclear stove.

Am shopping for houses and the trend of sludge colour painted walls ... hmm, i am not convinced, posh people