Michael

I wish I'd seen these yesterday for our the 100th birthday of our hero, but do please enjoy these photos of Dick Van Dyke moonlighting from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" to go and visit some pals on "Carry on up the Khyber". Roy, Sid and Julian look pleased as punch, don't they?

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Scientists recently combined the DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
Things went sideways real fast.

First episode of Grange Hill on That's TV now.

the room next door - When Donald Trump was Called Out

UK weather: Temperatures to hit 33C for hottest two days in a row Temperatures could peak at 33C on Friday to break Thursday's record for hottest day of the year.

It's about time these stories weren't accompanied by an image of someone frolicking in the water or eating an ice cream.

It's not going to stop getting hotter, we really ought to fucking grow up and treat this seriously🤦🏻‍♂️

mk1. Daring bold exciting.

mk2. fine i guess but meh.

mk3 fuck you yawn

TOYOTA MR-2: I had very strong opinions on the old shape vs the new shape. I considered the new shape "a cop-out" whereas the old shape was "sharky and raw". Also, I used to call it Mister Two which I think we can all agree is VERY funny stuff from a teenage girl.

#GrosvenorPark #TunbridgeWells

#GrosvenorPark #TunbridgeWells

M: did you see the next road ?
Me: are you going to take it ?
😂😂😂😂

'Prepare yourselves for a story of breath-taking perversity' This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breath...

Here, @westcountryvoices.bsky.social have compiled my thread on the utterly bonkers mismanagement of Dartmoor into an easy-to-read article: westcountryvoices.co.uk/prepare-your...

Our My Time Capsule guest @davidhepworth.bsky.social was the editor of Smash Hits, launched Q, Empire, Mojo, Heat and The Word, & presented Live Aid and Whistle Test. His latest book, Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire, is out now. He's fascinating!
Listen here pod.fo/e/2d0a3a

They intend to rip up our environmental protections on the basis of a story for which, the government now admits, there is no evidence. Where did the story come from? Starmer has told us: "my conversations with leading CEOs".

sucker (noun): someone who believes what corporate lobbyists tell him.

Thomas going past High Rocks #TunbridgeWells

Steam locomotive 45212 to visit East Sussex tomorrow LMS Black 5 No. 45212 is set to visit Hastings tomorrow, 16th April 2025, as it hauls The Sussex Belle.

Coming through #TunbridgeWells
www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/04/stea...

Picking the “Mystery Car” option at the rental car place, and if it’s not one of these what’s the point?

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Today, my @fightingdirty.bsky.social co-director, George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes about how flawed regulation & water company greed puts industrial waste on our plates. Please help us change the law by supporting our work 🙏🌍❤️ fightingdirty.org
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Grosvenor Park #TunbridgeWells

"Do you really think they'll take your word over mine, child?"

The 2025 Barkley Marathons will likely see no finishers - Canadian Running Magazine A year after the Barkley saw a record number of five finishers, the course annihilates the field on Day 1

A year after the Barkley saw a record number of five finishers, the course annihilates the field on Day 1 😶 #bm100

runningmagazine.ca/trail-runnin...

I'm going to lower the tone now, and share this clip from Colbert's interview with Gary Oldman, who loses it completely when 'Jackson Lamb's noises are added to his other roles...

Grosvenor Bridge #TunbridgeWells

Looked up the website

www.dvisionart.com

#art #park #TunbridgeWells

Walked past again and there are some more spray painters there. I hope they don't ruin it.

Grosvenor Park #TunbridgeWells

WATCH: High school athlete smacks runner in the head with relay baton - Canadian Running Magazine As one athlete passed on the outside in the 4x200m relay, they took a blow to the head from another competitor

As one athlete passed on the outside in the 4x200m relay, they took a blow to the head from another competitor:

runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/wa...

A generous sprinkling.

Dusting...