Steve Bowbrick

In 1913, in the USA, somebody decided to keep track of the rental income the movies were pulling in. This came to be known as the GROSS. I'm telling the story of Hollywood through the top-grossing film of each year since then. It's a FREE newsletter: bowbrick.substack.com

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@happygeek @GregBaldwinIroh Okay, I'm going to take your word for it and give it a try... ;-)

@bowbrick @GregBaldwinIroh Yep! Absolute game changer.

British blokes…. I’ve purchased several “tins” of Heinz (British) beans because the idea of beans on toast intrigues me. I eagerly anticipate a tasting. Other than toasting bread and heating beans… Are there any other steps/ingredients?

@happygeek @GregBaldwinIroh Seriously Davey?

@GregBaldwinIroh Try it with a little malt vinegar, added after cooking. Trust me.

@Hetzner_Online Support never replied to my tickets but I called your accounts dept. - it looks like it will take a couple more days to sort so I've switched to another provider. Thanks!

@bowbrick Hi Steve, did you already reach out to our support team? If not, then please do this first, as we don't offer support on X. Then my colleagues can take a look on your case. -Lea

@Hetzner_Online Guys, you terminated my services - taking down two web sites and email for my whole family - after a missed $6 CC payment. Can you take a look at my account? I'm literally the least popular dad in the world right now!

Este vídeo de Juan Manuel Fangio tiene un aura demasiado intensa, conduciendo un coche a toda velocidad sin ninguna protección (excepto sus gafas) y con una serenidad que sugiere que tiene el control total de la situación.

@mod_in_metro It's gorgeous but someone explain to me the design logic of the protruding section in the middle, from first to fourth floors. What's going on there?

25 Cheyne Place, Chelsea 1939 H.W. Binns buff.ly/2ZMNEUU

@nhazony I love the idea that the galaxy brain geniuses who forgot that 20% of the world’s oil, gas, fertiliser, bunker fuel etc. comes through the Strait of Hormuz might actually have a plan for this uranium.

The U.S. and Israel enter and exit Iran at will. If they want to, they can set up temporary positions deep within Iran’s territory. With its air defenses decimated, its radars degraded, and its leadership dead, Iran is exposed to the most painful kind of sabotage. 9/9

Satellite imagery shows something curious: While the United States and Israel dropped over 7,000 bombs on Iran over the past week, not a single munition struck the underground complex of Iran’s nuclear site in Isfahan. Why? 1/9🧵

@AndrewOrlowski @FraserNelson The idea that choosing stories can be classified with the ‘boring stuff’ is grim. Literally the job of an editor, no?

Sorry, @FraserNelson but this is how you destroy a publication (and indeed any brand) from the inside: "Svenska Dagbladet uses AI to choose most articles on its homepage, tailoring them to the readers interests". As opposed to a platform, at a publication the editor must choose the stories, not a personalised algorithm. The AI will not recommend bold and potentially unpopular choices, for example, as you made with Omicron, which saved us all a completely unnecessary third lockdown. AI curation removes any distinctiveness reduces the brand to a curation algo battling someone else's curation algo. "Feeding the rat of the self" is not a noble mission.

Our MP, a canny one-time Cameron SPAD who was close to Sunak, has taken advantage of his time out of ministerial office to build an income that must put him pretty close to the top of the Parliamentary earnings table…

@daveg Hold on, David. Is it ‘success’ to take on over £200m in debt against a small brewery with an extravagantly expensive-to-run pub chain? I don’t think so. Successful here would have been to grow this firm with minimal debt or to sell it to AB.

Blaming the Brewdog founders instead of the PE firm that loaded them with debt at 18% interest, is a typical case of the self destructive European culture of resentment of success. bbc.com/news/articles/…

"War cabinet"

@tomtattle14 @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole So what we have here is a new category of motorbike, right? I mean your guy on his illegal e-bike has as much in common with me on my commuter push bike as I do with the person on a Honda 750!

@bowbrick @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole It had an electric motor retrofitted.

Thousands of cyclists, e-bike and e-scooter riders are breaking the rules and yet no one is being held accountable. The law simply hasn’t kept pace. If we want safer roads, we need proper regulation, identification and enforcement. Please read my views in this article. #cycling

@tomtattle14 @pinutos @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole Okay, just read your update. Not really a push bike problem is it?

@pinutos @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole 😂😂 I wrote it in the thread somewhere, it was a shitty bike illegally converted. Consequently, I did see him pushing it on the pavement about 5 mins later, so the battery must have run out.

@tomtattle14 @MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole I know I’m old but I can’t get half way to 40mph on my pushbike. Were they in a Tour de France peloton by any chance?

@MrJamesMay @TheMrLoophole I was driving behind someone today and they were on a push bike. I was doing 40mph and couldn’t catch them. The illegality surrounding bikes in London and the pure selfishness and self-entitlement virtually every cyclist has is disgusting.

Here's the post: coming of age at the fin de siècle… bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross-extras…

Is this bullshit? Can I make an assocation between the crisis in the British monarchy (which might actually be terminal) and the mythic aristocratic melodrama of The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, Ernst Lubitsch's thoroughly Hollywood revision of a European royal romance?

Is this what they call safetyism?

@a_derll I think it's AI

I mean how?🤯

@MintyGts Love the colours!

Have a good look at the photo, what car are you driving home? 🏁🏁🏁 some really cool stuff hiding in there!!