I want to concentrate on your point but as a far-away-from-London dweller, I simply cannot divert my attention from the fact that over £300k in Zone 5 gets you... this

Mom, can we have East-West Rail at home? - No, we already have East-West Rail at home. The East-West Rail at home:

Very weird confused messaging on ScotRail about e-tickets, where Screenshots Are Not Allowed... but a paper-printed PDF is fine? Like what's the difference

aye right whatever #OTBC 💚💛

"Verify your age" I remember when you got your coffee from one of these absolute units

Weird phrasing from BBC Sport in daily World Cup roundup. Like, that's... equally true of Belgium, too?? It's not like some complex group stage permutations here, it's literally a knockout game!

Just checked and yep, sure enough, the constituency includes Jaywick

ooh, a rare example of me catching Wikipedia before it's been updated

Only two left.

Achievement unlocked: get told off by Squaredle for guessing a Naughty Word ("arsing", if you're interested, as in "arsing about on online word games instead of working")

don't make me tap the sign

a FUCKING AI note-taker spy-bot just had the audacity to fucking email me to tell me off for not reading its fucking AI-generated notetaking slop of a meeting I ATTENDED then assumed some sort of fucking contrition on my part by saying "No worries" followed by a fucking em-dash and now I am RAGING

Hehe. Grumpy but very true. I like this bit in particular:

Aw, shucks. They really couldn't have picked a better time to ask your average EU politician working out of *checks notes* Strasbourg whether they want AI data centres or to mitigate climate change.

Gorin's Organiser 2.0. I haven't seen this view in nearly thirty years. All the icons I designed when I was 13 are still there, kept safely in data storage over the decades. (Also, I had to backspace manually 352 times to get to it!)

Facebook feed still firmly on its BS, I regret to inform

Seems an apposite time to commemorate this all time classic tweet

Welp, I haven't seen an error message like this in about 25 years.

I think I'll pass on that connection option, thanks

Ummmm is Oxford public transport OK?

Spot on. Particularly this bit:

An Unparseable Headline, for old time's sake. This news story has nothing to do with shadows, tanks, channels, or chargers.

Wait what

If you put this into a work of fiction, nobody would believe it.

This is the walking route from the Extended Stay America Suites hotel, according to Google (The stadium is around 750 metres from the hotel entrance)