Microposts
I love Star Trek: Discovery, but the latest episode, ‘Project Daedalus,’ was infuriating, because they didn’t use an obvious and well-established feature of the programme to get out of a fatal situation.
Finally, some good might come of the Brexit fiasco:
From a senior Tory: “Feels like the last rites of the Tory party”. Slightly overstating perhaps. But captures the mood
— Robert Peston (@Peston) 12 March 2019
Realistically, of course, they’ll cling on at all costs. But “the last rites of the Tory party” is such a pleasant thought.
I hadn’t even seen this story about Morrissey and his politics and collaborators when I made my last post. But I’m baffled by this quote:
Representatives for Lydia Night of California band the Regrettes offered no comment, but the 18-year-old told punk magazine Kerrang!: “I’ve grown up loving the Smiths – my cat’s name is Morrissey!”
Emphasis mine. When I were a lad — and, indeed, when it was launched — Kerrang! was a heavy metal magazine. A flagship of one of the enemy camps in the Punk Wars. Has it really changed, or is The Guardian just misinformed?
Or maybe the lines are more blurred than ever before, so it doesn’t really matter.
“’80s Indie Essentials,” from Apple Music. Really good, and has several things I didn’t know, as well as much I did. Perhaps too much Smiths, especially with Morrissey’s fall from grace, but they did make some good records.
Brexiters think the BBC is anti-brexit. Remainers think the BBC is pro-Brexit. Does that mean it’s really getting it right and keeping balanced? Inspired by this tweet:
Hilarious that anyone could think #r4today was anti-Brexit https://t.co/uWRv9nnu2J
— Jane #CheckBrexit #MakeItStop (@localnotail) February 7, 2019
which indirectly links to this report about Radio 4 losing listeners. Speaking from personal experience I’d say its listeners are not going to “commercial rivals” so much as to podcasts. But I’m only one data point.
Look at the picture at the bottom of this article. Trump seems to have started creating an army of cloned bald-headed men to build the wall for him!
Luckily The Fall wrote a song about it years ago.
When I was writing that last post I was confused because I couldn’t copy text from the article I was linking to.
Clicking and moving my mouse across the text did nothing: there was no indication that I had selected anything. Similarly, double-clicking on a single word didn’t select it.
Eventually I saved the article to Instapaper, and copied from there
After initially posting it, I noticed that the URL contained the string “amphtml”. I removed the amphtml/, and the page worked normally.
AMP is Google’s “accelerated mobile pages,” a way for them to control URLs instead of the owners controlling them. At least, that’s how it appeared at first. Clearly that can’t be the case for a page like this that’s purely at the Washington Post’s own site.
But it’s a bloody annoying state of affairs, and makes for a very bad web citizen.
“I’ll try for something closer to daily in 2019,” he says, and then misses day 2. Oh well.
I knew going In to the West End on the Saturday before Christmas was crazy. But first I couldn’t get on to the Piccadilly Line platform. And then, they’re queueing outside the Lego shop!
(Actually things aren’t too crowded so far.)
Today I learned that Nick Cave has a newsletter. I insta-subscribed, obviously, as you can do, and read the archive.
This is more contempt of parliament.
It’s bullshit. Delaying the vote is just a ploy to leave less time to organise a second referendum. May is finished anyway, and her reputation as worst PM ever is assured. She should just finish it.
All the congratulations to NASA for another successful landing on Mars. Good to know humanity can still do great things.