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Re: pervert glasses. Should it occur to anyone that they might use them to film court or tribunal proceedings, don’t do that. It’s a criminal offence.

What I love about Bluesky is what I loved about old Twitter: if I want to find out about something (however recondite) there will be someone here (often with a PhD in it) and the time and patience to share their knowledge. /1

Paul on point as usual. I’ve seen this over and over since I got online in 1991. A conferencing platform/blog site/social medium turns away from trying to serve its users and decides to get a different user base instead and then, presto hey, the goose bleeds out.

I wonder what the Clandestine Channel Threat Commander is up to these days.

For a master negotiator, he keeps insisting that any talks must be viewed as a humiliating capitulation for Iran and a victory for him as the strong right arm of the Lord when that can only make it ever harder to secure a deal.

Herewith a scale. Simplify your response with a single number: 1. Who? 2. I never speak ill of the dead. 3. There was bad but also some good … somewhere. Their mum loved them. 4. I never speak ill, etc but I’ll make an exception for this ****. 5. Alive, dead, I don’t care. What a ****.

One interesting aspect of the recent COVID discourse is that a lot of us have forgotten that lockdown and school closures was not simply about preventing deaths, it was about keeping the *rate of infection* down to a level the NHS stood some chance of coping with.

I’m in North Berwick. The sounds of Capercaillie at the Fringe festival are drifting across the town in the cool evening breeze. Yes Londoners COOL EVENING BREEZE. I have had to put a JUMPER on.

I now have a £350 points balance on my Waterstones card. I am trying to determine what the perfect amount is to walk in, scoop up an armful of books and walk out with them. The day of flipping days.

I sometimes wonder whether it is going to occur to British farmers that the last 5 years of business extinction-threatening weather has coincided neatly with Jeremy Clatkson’s decision to manage his own farm.

Amongst the things social media have taught me is that for some people a flood of people pointing out why they are wrong about something is just a heady cocktail of attention-prompted dopamine and growing self-confidence that they were right.