Nick Barlow
@nickbwalking
Writer, walker, Who and Wolves fan. Lives in Whitehaven. Lots of other things that don't begin with W. He/him Avatar: Me (50ish man with greying hair and beard) on a mountain top with my dog Dougal
Yesterday was a year since I brought Dougal from the Dogs Trust, so to celebrate we went for a walk around and over Muncaster Fell.
Not sure what I'm most depressed about: the Minister for AI being the sort of booster who's fallen for the hype and posts about it on the tech Nazi's site; or that hos vision of what it will do is so banal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
According to ancient Treasury rules, John Healey will now have to begin growing out his eyebrows.
Reminded that the Falklands have South America's only Parkrun. www.parkrun.org.uk/capepembroke...
Do you think Aldi in Spain sell a British-style lager called Large Beer?
Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answrs only. "Space Captain Del Tarrant. What are you doing on my ship?"
Currently on Threads, the algorithm has decided I need to see the Ronaldo stan accounts who are blaming the rest of the Portugal team for a 41 year old striker not scoring at the World Cup. The Starmer fan posting has a similar tone.
My name is Michael Paine, and these glasses are great for being a nosy neighbour.
Has someone told ITV they have to reintroduce social distancing for their World Cup coverage?
"the people Had squandered the confidence of the government And could only win it back By redoubled work. Would it not in that case Be simpler for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_L%C...)
Gold Blend, Buffy, Ted Lasso....Anthony Head will always be Uther Pendragon playing his Nintendo DS on the Merlin set to me.
Back to 1986, and imagine having this penalty shootout after 120 minutes of 0-0.
It's also exactly how a lot of the people involved in the various "we need a new centrist party" plans from 2016-19 talked about politics without realising that politics exists becauae we don't all secretly agree on what's best and want someone to do it to us. nickbwalking.medium.com/centrism-as-...
OK, going to have to actually read the whole Blair thing later but this is just ignorant of reality. It's simply rehashing the old 'centrist'/conservative belief that there is one correct answer (yours, conveniently) to difficult questions which people only disagree with because of "politics".