Steve Childs

@arrroberts Bike ride earlier ... same.

Dog walk ... but which way will the weather go?

@jholbo1 @WillAdamsWriter @arrroberts Definitely a thing. I assumed it was a new search algorithm promoting blue ticks or whatever their business model is aiming at. And obviously annoying.

@WillAdamsWriter @arrroberts If I were @arrroberts, I'd be annoyed.

Free SF premise: scientists look at the numbers and discover we are living in a simulation at the same time the god-like simulators look at the numbers and determine they should take us as a tax write-off, which legally obligates them to turn us off ... @arrroberts @eschwitz

@SFRuminations Doctor Rat was one of the greats of my 1970s teenage sci-fi reading. And a great cover too. Hopefully it reads as well all these years later.

@AlasdairGold I hear Conte is available ...

There we go. Cristian Stellini and his coaching staff gone. Ryan Mason takes over. I do feel for Stellini with the circumstances he had to take over in and all the injuries, but after Sunday things had to change. Interesting to see Daniel Levy taking responsibility as well.

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

@arrroberts Ahh, John, he tells it like he sees it.

A year ago this month, my most penetrating amazon reader's review landed:

@jholbo1 Credit where it's due.

He's becoming ever-increasingly unhinged but I like the lime sherbet and leather look.

@tds153 @BBCFrontRow Also, "Keep across" as in a news story.

@tds153 @BBCFrontRow Curate. Your colleagues at 6Music seem to curate everything.

We’re compiling a Top Five of cultural buzzwords for @BBCFrontRow Row tomorrow. What should be on the list? Any that particularly annoy you? Reply here or to frontrow@bbc.co.uk

@IanDunt Plus, "You've been added to the Post Beta waitlist" ... and the wait continues ...

I don't have great hopes for either. Mastodon looks way too complex and technical. It simply cannot replicate what's here. Post feels like it could be exciting but it's doing rather a lot of things very difficult at once, including micro-payments.

Right, lifeboats launched. I'm on Post at @iandunt and Mastodon at @iandunt@toot.community. I've no idea if I'm allowed to tweet this, or will be suspended for it, or if it's completely fine, and that, of course, is part of the reason I'm doing it.

@Doctor_Hutch Hah! It's the roads most places that necessitate a gravel bike. Plough straight over them pot-holes.

An unfair joke. I'd be very happy to live somewhere that a gravel bike made more sense... problem around here is actually too many roads.

A road?

@VictimOfMaths Interesting. Is that using the ONS definition/list of ~15 alcohol-specific deaths or something broader?

Something particularly concerning is the fact that the number of alcohol-specific deaths has risen again in 2021 (and by a fair bit - 8.2%). This suggests that the rise in 2020 wasn't just driven by people drinking themselves to death during the first lockdown.

It's remarkable, and very concerning, to see how deaths caused by alcohol have risen sharply in almost every age group in the last couple of years. Lots of plausible explanations, but it seems like something we should be doing something about.

Weekend Philosophy

Farewell old friend. 1997 - 2022. #AEG

@markfendley @sainsburys Mark, Morrisons Canterbury the same. Try gaffer taping a pound coin to your Apple watch for emergencies.

Hardly the best plan @sainsburys to tie your trolleys together again requiring a £1 coin when no one carries cash any more. Your staff member was very kind and unlocked one for me, but am I going to have to do this every time?!

Staggering new chart from the IMF. We all know that increasing energy costs hit low income households hardest, but in the UK that impact will be the second biggest in the world, and the differential with the best off will also be the biggest. What is the gov’t going to do?

It's #FlyingAntDay ... again !?!

WFH by qualification level. #wfh @cipd

It's #FlyingAntDay !

@markfendley "yet" is such a weasel word here. Just say not recyclable. As if I could wait until tomorrow and it would be. Grrr.

So much food packaging: Tray: widely recycled Film: not yet recycled Supermarkets, please do better