Okay. I've got admin bits to sort today. So to distract me while i wait on things to run at various points:

For every few likes this get, a fact about university websites and how gen z and below interact with information, as proven by testing/data.

(Most of which unis aren't handling well yet)

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper's page has been removed.

Everyone hold onto your nanoseconds! www.history.navy.mil/content/hist...

What I'm learning is messy is apparently my favorite genre cause most of these responses are my jam

I feel like a lot of what's Not Helping Anyone in modern politics globally is election polling every ten fucking minutes.

Tends to discourage actual governing.

Timeline cleanse.

Have a snuggly ex-feral

Seasonal reminder that Chris Rea is from Middlesbrough.

So "Driving Home for Christmas" is a wistful song about being stuck on the A1 just south of Doncaster, gagging for a piss.

Okay I think you are ready for this BlueSky. Let's talk cheese history.

More specifically, Yorkshire Dales cheeses, and how WW2 and rationing almost wiped out cheesemaking in northern Britain.

This is the story of the near-death of the world of one of the world's great cheeses: Wensleydale. /1 🧵

Reminder that this is the one day a year Downing Street is under sensible authority.

In software terms, the brutal truth is that everything your average user needs from Microsoft Office, email, Windows, Photoshop etc etc has been present in the software now for about 10 years.

So selling upgrades or SAS licenses means inventing fake problems to solve.

As John Cleese is doing his "You couldn't write Fawlty Towers today" schtick again, BlueSky I would like to introduce you to the prequel origin story I wrote for Manuel.

johnbull.beehiiv.com/p/no-pasarn

So for newbies: official introduction. This is Cecilia, our second rescued kitty and now permanent little sister for Napoleon.

Let me walk you through her brave journey from abandoned, brave little dangerously sick kitten to chaotic-but-cute household member. 1/10

#ProofOfCat