Paul
@ronsmate.bsky.social
Assistant to Ron. Hungarian rescue dog living his best life in Vienna.
Ron’s never been a fan of sprint races in F1.
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Ron’s never been a fan of sprint races in F1.
Does anybody ever want it at all?
UPDATE: in the btl comments quite a few people are livid with my suggestion that nobody really wants to eat Christmas pudding at the end of the Christmas Day meal.
No review from me today cos it’s the @ft_weekend.com CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, edited by @harrietfl.ft.com. It’s a banger and ever better in print. A top team including @nigella.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social @jancisrobinson.com and, er, me nominate the Christmas food must haves.
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on.ft.com/4rnR3lb
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Does anybody ever want it at all?
Anticipated by whom?
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Anticipated by whom?
The difference between learning a language and preparing for an exam is annoying me today. I’m supposed to have an opinion on how many students should study abroad and how Austrians learn at work. And, well, I don’t.
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The difference between learning a language and preparing for an exam is annoying me today. I’m supposed to have an opinion on how many students should study abroad and how Austrians learn at work. And, well, I don’t.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
Paul Simon
Daft Punk
The Chemical Brothers
Radiohead
The Modern Jazz Quartet
The Vienna Symphony playing Beethoven‘s 9th. #musicsky
Paul Simon
Daft Punk
The Chemical Brothers
Radiohead
The Modern Jazz Quartet
The Vienna Symphony playing Beethoven‘s 9th. #musicsky
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Björk
Massive Attack
The Unthanks
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure
#MusicSky
Björk
Massive Attack
The Unthanks
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure
#MusicSky
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
Paul Simon
Daft Punk
The Chemical Brothers
Radiohead
The Modern Jazz Quartet
The Vienna Symphony playing Beethoven‘s 9th. #musicsky
Paul Simon
Daft Punk
The Chemical Brothers
Radiohead
The Modern Jazz Quartet
The Vienna Symphony playing Beethoven‘s 9th. #musicsky
I would become a tea drinker before I went here.
Every time I walk past this cafe on Bethnal Green Road I think it embodies all the ways modern London annoys me
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I would become a tea drinker before I went here.
Flashback. A really annoying narrative device.
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Flashback. A really annoying narrative device.
This isn’t very nice. Apart from the wood panelled dressing room. I do like that.
The mansion tax has been absolutely terrible for my productivity, in that I have fallen back hard into “looking at high end property”. Hate what they’ve done with the interior here!
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November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This isn’t very nice. Apart from the wood panelled dressing room. I do like that.
Apparently Corbyn is partly to blame but not a single member of any of the assorted Tory governments the UK had during this period.
💥 This is the economic equivalent of a senior Vatican priest admitting the Pope is wrong about God.
Even the architects of Brexit are confessing the truth 👉while Farage still lies.
Even the architects of Brexit are confessing the truth 👉while Farage still lies.
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Apparently Corbyn is partly to blame but not a single member of any of the assorted Tory governments the UK had during this period.
I got myself a new email address a couple of weeks and changed all my important things over. Websites and apps are very bad at forgetting email addresses.
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I got myself a new email address a couple of weeks and changed all my important things over. Websites and apps are very bad at forgetting email addresses.
Reposted by Paul
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
And we’re back to arguing about food with the Americans again.
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
And we’re back to arguing about food with the Americans again.
Apparently they have been talking about a third runway for 25 years. But they are not building one. noe.orf.at/stories/3331...
Flughafen: Dritte Piste kommt nicht
Paukenschlag in Schwechat: Wie der Flughafen am Dienstagabend in einer Presseaussendung bekanntgegeben hat, wird das geplante Projekt der dritten Piste nicht weiter verfolgt. Nach eingehender Analyse ...
noe.orf.at
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Apparently they have been talking about a third runway for 25 years. But they are not building one. noe.orf.at/stories/3331...
How long have emojis been animated on WhatsApp? I’ve decided I don’t like it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
How long have emojis been animated on WhatsApp? I’ve decided I don’t like it.
If only we'd done Brexit properly.
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If only we'd done Brexit properly.
Two Dogs, Diamond White, Carling, Asti Spumante, Krug.
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Study suggests human brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
Scientists have identified five major “epochs” of human brain development in one of the most comprehensive studies to date of how neural wiring changes from infancy to old age.
The study, based on the brain scans of nearly 4,000 people aged under one to 90, mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. This revealed five broad phases, split up by four pivotal “turning points” in which brain organisation moves on to a different trajectory, at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83 years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Two Dogs, Diamond White, Carling, Asti Spumante, Krug.
We were in Budapest in September. Not a single pride flag on display. Not on a shop door, not out of an apartment window. Nowhere. In a city like Budapest.
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We were in Budapest in September. Not a single pride flag on display. Not on a shop door, not out of an apartment window. Nowhere. In a city like Budapest.
I think this is probably correct except that I've had a lovely November. It's lovely and cold and we've got snow which always brightens my mood. A visiting friend meant an a too early trip to a Christmas market, but even that was nice.
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I think this is probably correct except that I've had a lovely November. It's lovely and cold and we've got snow which always brightens my mood. A visiting friend meant an a too early trip to a Christmas market, but even that was nice.
I didn’t come to rescue Charlie Brown from you. I came to rescue you from him.
That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Charlie Brown, for what you did to Ned.
Deep down, in places you do t talk about at parties, you NEED me on that wall, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I didn’t come to rescue Charlie Brown from you. I came to rescue you from him.
Might offer Mrs B the opportunity to take Ron on her own this morning.
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Might offer Mrs B the opportunity to take Ron on her own this morning.
I think I’m in a minority of one, but I’ll never understand the appeal of F1 street races at night. It’s mostly grey cages. The only shots of the city are from a helicopter, but you can’t watch the race like that. #f1 #lasvegasgp
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I think I’m in a minority of one, but I’ll never understand the appeal of F1 street races at night. It’s mostly grey cages. The only shots of the city are from a helicopter, but you can’t watch the race like that. #f1 #lasvegasgp
This kind of thing is a useful reminder for me to occasionally check my own credulity online. Am I getting sucked into nonsense?
don't really care how this makes me sound at this point, but the free open internet was a mistake and a lot of people out there were clearly never going to be able to handle it
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This kind of thing is a useful reminder for me to occasionally check my own credulity online. Am I getting sucked into nonsense?