Microposts
Did I hear right on https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive? The principal scientist for Mars Insight is Bruce Banner? Hope he stays clear of gamma rays. And doesn’t get angry.
I just read the phrase “staying under the rule of Brussels” in a foolish article. Instead it should read, “Continuing to contribute to the rule of Europe,” if you want it in terms of ruling. “Continuing to share in Europe’s future development,” to be more about cooperation.
My resignation from Labour has had a bigger impact than I expected:
In an email to Labour Party members this evening, Jeremy Corbyn confirmed that Labour will support the campaign for another public vote on Brexit if a general election is not possible
Our Prime Minister is either lying or deranged. From The Guardian’s live updates:
Labour’s Phil Wilson asks May if she can say, “hand on heart”, that this deal is better than what the UK has now.
May says she firmly believes the UK’s best days are ahead.
Or avoiding the issue: “best days ahead” could be looking ten, twenty years ahead. You know, when we rejoin the EU.
Stan Lee: Marvel Comics co-creator dies aged 95 – BBC News
He had a good run, I guess, and created some amazing things. I hope they’ve filmed his cameo for the next Avengers film.
Some Labour MPs are thinking along similar lines to me.
Wes Streeting:
“Labour cannot sit by and allow the choice to be between the economic ruin of a hard Brexit or the loss of sovereignty under Theresa May’s deal, with Britain subjected to EU rules but with no say over them,” he said. “As with any fork in the road, there is always the option of turning back home.
“We know this is a mess made by the Tories, but the Labour party can’t just sit back and watch. It’s time for all of us in the Labour party to make the full-throated case for a people’s vote with the option of remaining in the European Union.
“That leadership must now come from the top, or our party may never be forgiven for the consequences that follow.”
Chris Leslie:
“With even Tory ministers recognising Brexit threatens the poorest in society, our public services and Britain’s place in the world, to have a Labour leader just shrug about it, then go awol, is nothing short of a dereliction of duty.”
OK, they’re maybe not planning to leave the party, but still.
It’s nearly time…
After my success last year, I’m doing NaNoWriMo again this year.
I’ve been planning for the last few weeks, and as midnight approaches I’m ready to start on Delta Blues: Beat Poet of the Spaceways.
Make of that title what you like. I know I will.
Oh, yes, that will most certainly do. A very strong start for both Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. And, indeed the whole team.
And a cliffhanger ending! What!?
Got an email that told me Clearwater Creedence Revival are playing in London in January. I thought, “What?!!?”
Then I noticed that the first two words are inverted.
I mean, “tribute” bands, fine, if you must. But at least pick a name that doesn’t look like passing off.
Hamilton was every bit as amazing and wonderful as I had hoped. A fantastic piece of work.
I didn’t listen to the soundtrack first, in the end, and that was fine.
A week till we see Hamilton. Should I listen to the soundtrack first, or not? I don’t want to spoil the show, but often gigs are better if you know the material.
So far I’ve only heard the opening song, and odd other bits. Also: I grew up hearing my parents’ records of musicals long before I saw the films.
The Indieweb, the open web, and now: the “decentralised web, or DWeb.”
We used to just call it the web.
Little has changed except for the fact that people are now rightly suspicious of the centralised services.
And I’m willing to bet that the term “DWeb” does not catch on.
Serial‘s Season 3 trailer just dropped. Jumped to the top of my podcast queue… dated 1st July? Today, for the record, is the 5th of September.
Probably just a mistake, but it’s odd behaviour.