Martin Ingram
@throg.bsky.social
When the wombat comes, he will find me gone.
This is a rhetorical question, but why are media folk unable to read graphs?
The article that I lifted this from (link in the thread) even says “the major difference between 2025's flu season and the previous three years is that the virus started spreading around a month earlier.”
The article that I lifted this from (link in the thread) even says “the major difference between 2025's flu season and the previous three years is that the virus started spreading around a month earlier.”
December 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is a rhetorical question, but why are media folk unable to read graphs?
The article that I lifted this from (link in the thread) even says “the major difference between 2025's flu season and the previous three years is that the virus started spreading around a month earlier.”
The article that I lifted this from (link in the thread) even says “the major difference between 2025's flu season and the previous three years is that the virus started spreading around a month earlier.”
It's not exactly reassuring when you see these two headlines together.
Can anyone remind me where this significant change in policy was in their manifesto? This along with Digital ID and the ridiculous OSA would have been enough to dissuade me from voting for Labour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Can anyone remind me where this significant change in policy was in their manifesto? This along with Digital ID and the ridiculous OSA would have been enough to dissuade me from voting for Labour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It's not exactly reassuring when you see these two headlines together.
Can anyone remind me where this significant change in policy was in their manifesto? This along with Digital ID and the ridiculous OSA would have been enough to dissuade me from voting for Labour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Can anyone remind me where this significant change in policy was in their manifesto? This along with Digital ID and the ridiculous OSA would have been enough to dissuade me from voting for Labour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
As a guitarist, I’m occasionally asked who are my favourite players?
Benjamin Short from A Formal Horse is right up there for me. Whenever I see him play, for the majority of the time I have no idea how he’s doing what he’s doing.
Benjamin Short from A Formal Horse is right up there for me. Whenever I see him play, for the majority of the time I have no idea how he’s doing what he’s doing.
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
As a guitarist, I’m occasionally asked who are my favourite players?
Benjamin Short from A Formal Horse is right up there for me. Whenever I see him play, for the majority of the time I have no idea how he’s doing what he’s doing.
Benjamin Short from A Formal Horse is right up there for me. Whenever I see him play, for the majority of the time I have no idea how he’s doing what he’s doing.
Meanwhile the number of dogs is catching up with the number of kittehs.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Meanwhile the number of dogs is catching up with the number of kittehs.
And of course the obvious point, right at the top of the comments thread.
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
And of course the obvious point, right at the top of the comments thread.
Genuine question: why do companies actually employ people to send out this kind of happy horseshirt?
Yes I can unsubscribe, and have now done so. But I’m mystified about why this even exists in the first place? Who actually thinks “oh yes, I must tell every customer about this pointless nonsense”?
Yes I can unsubscribe, and have now done so. But I’m mystified about why this even exists in the first place? Who actually thinks “oh yes, I must tell every customer about this pointless nonsense”?
September 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Genuine question: why do companies actually employ people to send out this kind of happy horseshirt?
Yes I can unsubscribe, and have now done so. But I’m mystified about why this even exists in the first place? Who actually thinks “oh yes, I must tell every customer about this pointless nonsense”?
Yes I can unsubscribe, and have now done so. But I’m mystified about why this even exists in the first place? Who actually thinks “oh yes, I must tell every customer about this pointless nonsense”?
Hey @seetickets.bsky.social, this wasn’t very well thought out, was it?
Let’s step quickly past whatever stupid reason you may have thought you had for not porting passwords across to your new “system”. You then compounded that error by making this email look
*exactly* like a phishing attempt.
Let’s step quickly past whatever stupid reason you may have thought you had for not porting passwords across to your new “system”. You then compounded that error by making this email look
*exactly* like a phishing attempt.
September 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey @seetickets.bsky.social, this wasn’t very well thought out, was it?
Let’s step quickly past whatever stupid reason you may have thought you had for not porting passwords across to your new “system”. You then compounded that error by making this email look
*exactly* like a phishing attempt.
Let’s step quickly past whatever stupid reason you may have thought you had for not porting passwords across to your new “system”. You then compounded that error by making this email look
*exactly* like a phishing attempt.
It’s not theft because @dingram2909.bsky.social sent this to me.
August 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
It’s not theft because @dingram2909.bsky.social sent this to me.
Meta AI and/or the “algorithm” doing a great job here. It’s a pair of passive speakers… 🤦🏻♂️
August 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Meta AI and/or the “algorithm” doing a great job here. It’s a pair of passive speakers… 🤦🏻♂️
This is such a disgrace. On Monday I had an email saying that my direct debit was increasing and now this.
I’d be curious to hear if anyone can explain how using a watering can uses less water than a hose with a spray gun?
I’d be curious to hear if anyone can explain how using a watering can uses less water than a hose with a spray gun?
July 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is such a disgrace. On Monday I had an email saying that my direct debit was increasing and now this.
I’d be curious to hear if anyone can explain how using a watering can uses less water than a hose with a spray gun?
I’d be curious to hear if anyone can explain how using a watering can uses less water than a hose with a spray gun?
At Islington Academy for Red Box.
June 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
At Islington Academy for Red Box.
Hey Google, if we opt out of your “AI” nonsense (I can do that, right?) can we stay at the old price?
No. I thought not.
No. I thought not.
June 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Hey Google, if we opt out of your “AI” nonsense (I can do that, right?) can we stay at the old price?
No. I thought not.
No. I thought not.
Apparently some of these gigs are at risk of cancellation, so please if you’re considering it please book
ASAP.
If you’ve never seen them, they’re always great value and deserve your support.
ASAP.
If you’ve never seen them, they’re always great value and deserve your support.
June 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Apparently some of these gigs are at risk of cancellation, so please if you’re considering it please book
ASAP.
If you’ve never seen them, they’re always great value and deserve your support.
ASAP.
If you’ve never seen them, they’re always great value and deserve your support.
BBC “Science & Technology” strikes again. This piece is so astonishingly poor that even they eventually realised that they had to change the original headline, which was ridiculous even for them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#betteridge #gell-mann-amnesia
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#betteridge #gell-mann-amnesia
May 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
BBC “Science & Technology” strikes again. This piece is so astonishingly poor that even they eventually realised that they had to change the original headline, which was ridiculous even for them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#betteridge #gell-mann-amnesia
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#betteridge #gell-mann-amnesia
South coast line to and from Manchester is fubar. A broken rail, apparently.
May 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
South coast line to and from Manchester is fubar. A broken rail, apparently.
April 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
As a teenager, three albums changed my concepts of what guitar music was all about. Remain In Light and Discipline were the well known ones. I Advance Masked was the third.
So this was an essential buy. I’m pleased to confirm that the third disc isn’t just padding, it really is a third lost album.
So this was an essential buy. I’m pleased to confirm that the third disc isn’t just padding, it really is a third lost album.
April 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
As a teenager, three albums changed my concepts of what guitar music was all about. Remain In Light and Discipline were the well known ones. I Advance Masked was the third.
So this was an essential buy. I’m pleased to confirm that the third disc isn’t just padding, it really is a third lost album.
So this was an essential buy. I’m pleased to confirm that the third disc isn’t just padding, it really is a third lost album.
April 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Unfortunately it seems that those of us who are less aware of economic terminology are about to learn a new one.
Slow handclap for the orange toddler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ca...
Slow handclap for the orange toddler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ca...
April 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Unfortunately it seems that those of us who are less aware of economic terminology are about to learn a new one.
Slow handclap for the orange toddler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ca...
Slow handclap for the orange toddler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ca...
The only Lords amendment to the Great British Energy Bill that was removed yesterday was a clause demanding a guarantee that there would be no slave labour in the supply chain.
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
March 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The only Lords amendment to the Great British Energy Bill that was removed yesterday was a clause demanding a guarantee that there would be no slave labour in the supply chain.
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
Lazuli at the Joiners. This band deserve a much bigger audience.
March 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Lazuli at the Joiners. This band deserve a much bigger audience.
We are sat in the cafe next to the merch desk.
February 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We are sat in the cafe next to the merch desk.
We’ve followed the avant rock awkward squad up the M3 to Basingstoke.
February 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
We’ve followed the avant rock awkward squad up the M3 to Basingstoke.
A current and very simple example. I could post this screengrab, but a quick check out of the window confirms that it’s not snowed at all this morning. Which “fact” is correct?
January 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A current and very simple example. I could post this screengrab, but a quick check out of the window confirms that it’s not snowed at all this morning. Which “fact” is correct?
Honeyglaze at Heartbreakers, 30 Nov 2024
January 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Honeyglaze at Heartbreakers, 30 Nov 2024