Someone from Piers Morgan's staff asked if I would like to come onto Pier's show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, to talk about the state of his attire. Since he invited feedback, I thought I'd do a thread comparing his style to menswear icon Kermit the Frog. 🧵

Nothing in particular (lockdown didn’t affect me much as I already worked from home), but I loved the way the Beeb rushed all kinds of brilliant stuff from their archives on to BBC iPlayer in the space of a day or two. Some of it hadn’t been available for decades 🙂

one of my Dad’s employees asked for their birthday off and my dad said “why? Did your wife get you a clown?” my Dad had to go to a sensitivity class and apologize to him in front of everyone.

My coworker's family just finished the toilet paper they bought in 2020, in case you're wondering who the real villains are

Did a session reviewing some docs with a user researcher from another team. It’s an enjoyable change to spend 30 minutes saying pedantic stuff like “That comma should be a semicolon… That noun should be plural or that verb should be singular…” and be thanked profusely for it 🤣

At my old flat, my downstairs neighbour was hauled off by a heavy-booted black-uniformed gang from Immigration who smashed his door in early one morning. He was back a few weeks later, as he should never have been taken in the first place.

There should be intercity car trains like on the channel tunnel so you can go from Birmingham to Glasgow for instance with your own car but without the stress of driving and traffic. Might ease congestion and cut emissions. Can't believe its not been tried already.

Stop hating on lazy people. We didn't even do anything.

40 years ago, I ported Jet Set Willy to the C64.

Today, I pondered on what it was that made 1984 to 1986 the most magical years of my time in video games. Here are ten reasons.

(Tomorrow I’ll talk about how I bring the spirit of that time back, 40 years on.)

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I used to struggle with PROMETHEUS but now the concept of a bunch of incompetent “experts” attaching themselves to the vanity project of a wealthy megalomaniac, while shirking even the most basic safety protocols, feels about right.

Because, ofc, if you have vouchers not cash you need people and organisations to dispense them. Which is a handy way of funnelling cash to favoured contractors ....

Back to work after my holiday, and the forum database was struggling but I eventually managed to post my links to stuff unrelated to ContractorUK: forums.contractoruk.com/general/149809… - this week with Trumptonshire, communism, and a tapir 🔗

“Because you watched…” I didn’t watch it, All4. You autoplayed five seconds of it after I watched something completely different and wasn’t quick enough on the remote to stop you 🙄

I reckon we could save a fortune paying Ministers,Lords and Royals in vouchers.
Maybe print little Union Jacks on them and stamp absolutely no alcohol,tobacco or rent boys to be paid for with this..
Only fair .

Every time I hear Sunak say ‘the plan is working’ I think, so you planned all this?

📝 A meandering post about my Honda trail bike, the engine bays of cars now-a-days, and “view source” on websites — you won't believe how they’re all related...or maybe they’re not, I’m just rambling here.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/cars-moto…

We wanted to know who was behind the dozens of closed Facebook groups opposing the rollout of London’s clean-air zones.

Turns out the groups are all run by Conservative councillors, staffers and activists - and what we found when we got into the groups shocked us

When I was a young boy I shat myself quite spectacularly in the middle of assembly. Went back to my old village last night; as I walked in the pub a bloke shouted out 'oi Shitter!'. I'm 63 and haven't been there for over 45 years.