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Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks
Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
With a sliced white loaf? I do this with more sturdy bread like sourdough or dense rye, but not with floppy machine made bread.
January 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
It is the centre of white collar crime, but that's never focused on
January 12, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Douglas introduced the Infinite Improbability Drive in episode 2 to cover for plot inconsistencies and the Haggunenon in episode 6 who violate continuity as a way of life. So he was always fighting his own nonsense with more nonsensical structure
January 12, 2026 at 8:35 AM
That fits Douglas Adams as well, who of course is very much in the Python tradition.
I think I prefer it to the more recent TV style of endless portentousness that signifies nothing.
January 12, 2026 at 8:15 AM
The fad that fine cooking in the UK meant French and in the US (especially NYC) it meant Italian?
January 12, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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Jerome Powell makes it clear:

The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
www.federalreserve.gov
January 12, 2026 at 1:21 AM
We call them banana shallots in the UK. Great for dicing compared to fiddly little shallots. Good in salads and sauces
January 12, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Replacing the underpass based ones would be a lot of construction, but starting where Shoreham meets St Mary's would be a huge improvement. There is scope for incremental improvement, but we do need more joined up thinking so children and mobility scooters are safe alongside pedestrians and bikes.
January 11, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Also not gritted for snow which was a but of a bugger this weekend.
January 11, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I'm hoping that bringing Lime bikes to Sheffield will help others get the same expanded domain.
It will need some commitment from the council to join up the good existing bike routes better, and more dutch roundabouts, but it's promising.
January 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Sheffield manages to support a lot of smaller walkable high streets, because hiking over a hill to the next one is a pain, so it has a lot of 15 minute neighbourhoods.
My solution to this is an ebike so they're all within ~ 30 minutes for me an that counts as exercise.
January 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Plus a lot of passing trade from the giant mainline stations nearby.
It is great though - Mai Sushi is excellent
January 11, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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It's "complicated". Too many UK local authorities have an obsolete idea of what the high street "should be"; a vision of clothing stores & boutiques. Instead, what has proven popular is casual dining, street food, outside tables & pedestrianisation. None of this is supported through development or
January 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I read that as an AI pedants back in vogue at tech show.
January 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
You can do that too - that's where the videos are created, for example, but the "give grok short editing commands" part is in X, it's just that you watch it happen rather than showing as a reply.
January 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM
No, they say the separate grok app still works. My video is still inside X, on the web, without a paid account. No app download, no payment.
January 11, 2026 at 3:55 PM
There's a big homage to Contact in the opening of Pluribus
January 11, 2026 at 2:27 PM
That's also mocked in Politics and the English Language www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...
January 11, 2026 at 12:21 PM