Calvin Jones
@calvjones
Regional Economist and sometime troublemaker. Energy, climate, post-growth, guitars, Sci-Fi, bikes, world-systems.
Guardian political journos already crashing after the brief sugar rush of a Prime Ministerial resignation.
Episode #3,423 wherein I check in to see if AI is still shit. @cerij101.bsky.social
If I was a multibillion, global leading, hardware-and-software-integrated consumer IT company, I might hope to have a #UI a little more intuitive than this thirty years in.
If I move a window to the bottom right of my massive screen I want the menu to go with it. And now they've done *this* to the control bar in Music! WTF is it doing down there??
Just wrote the words "tarry awhile" in a new song and it's 100% the fault of this thing.
It's @rsaibis.bsky.social quiz night at the Ulster Sports Club and we are ready to cogitate!
Just when you thought you couldn't like Dalglish (or Stuart Adamson) any more... www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Excited to see @themountaingoats.bsky.social battle Craig Finn in the biggest retro breakdance face off of the year this autumn @bristolbeacon.bsky.social Hope those old knees hold up! It *is* #breakdance, right?
In which the Restore 'patriots' can't even distinguish Britain from the UK on a map...
The next time you hear some GDP-climate emissions #decoupling bullshit, just quote this graph. If we had another century... maybe?
Everything you need to know about Labour PLP's approach to devolution in one headline. The Mayor of the north's largest and most successful (?) conurbation isn't already 'on the pitch', and becoming a back bench MP (lol) is answering a higher calling. And this from a Middlesborough MP 🤨
Look forward to a day soon when US troops are fighting alongside the Danes in Ukraine and against them in Greenland 🤷♂️
I'm giving evidence a British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly Committee on #rural housing in Dec, and I've just looked at the membership and frankly I'm in awe of this bloke's name.
is @theguardian.com really suggesting *ministers* are briefing against the leadership like this, or do they mean backbenchers? #Graun
I'm sure @steveormerod.bsky.social will tell me it's common as muck but still...
Who would ever belong to a club that would have @adamlbrown.bsky.social as a member?😆