Having visited London recently with the 7yo, this seems a fairly (depressingly?) standard attitude there, regardless of the size/age of the person "getting in the way"... going for a walk on a Saturday afternoon was more like a combat sport than anything remotely enjoyable.

Well worth a read through this thread; the guy makes an astonishing set of comments about his life/"adventures". If he were alive today, with such a stellar list of academic qualifications and refined attitudes, he'd doubtless end up being appointed to Cabinet by the Tories...

Gee I'm glad Australia getting thrashed at cricket by Afghanistan came after the collapse of any meaningful social interactions on this site... the Twitter of old would've mocked me mercilessly, whereas the current flood of random bots seem to be leaving me largely alone.

Blargh. Ah well, T20 isn't real cricket anyway, is it? At least that's what we can keep telling ourselves... #AUSvsIND

Porsche Formula E team with quotes from the "classics" to liven up the cockpit surrounds a little...

😂

Addition recommended at the end of sentence “for the rest of your life”. #AcademicChatter

Yep, basically this....

Australia is finally leading the world in something other than cricket (or dangerous animals)...

Cats: What's that you're eating? Me: Lettuce Cats: Why do you eat it? Lettuce is pointless. It's green Me: I've seen you eat green stuff. You eat grass Cats: That's so we can sick up stuff for when you give us rubbish. Does lettuce make you sick? Me: No. Cats: So it's pointless

Ditto.....

Every single morning.......

The evil algorithm driving what remains of this hellscape has three suggestions for me to follow today: Musk (ugh - if I wanted to read the rantings of unhinged far-right narcissists I'd just follow Trump or something) ESPN (actually, fair enough...) Trump (but.. what.. hang on?)

As a Doctor, I can confirm you can get all of these health benefits without the shooting part You’re welcome x

Let's not forget the real victims in the death of twitter: those of us who have far more followers than our content merits.

Cats: Look at us! Me: Could you mind out the way? I'm on a zoom call. Cats: We know! Cooee! It's us! Hello people! Me: I'm on a serious work call here. Please move! Cats: Hey you on the screen, what do you think of our bums? Me: O please! Cats: We're so lovely, aren't we? Me: No

🔴 LATEST: Journalist Has Meltdown While Reporting The News. 👇🏻 #BrokenNews would like to apologise about this #SaturdayMorning update.

"What's it like to live in Leeds?", people may ask. This basically summarises it, I think....

New paper time! Some very cool work led by the amazing Susan Bernal and her Leeds team, with me plus U.Manchester and ESRF, watching carbonation of cement by XRD-CT - call it 5D materials analysis? Crystallography/3D space/time... Hope you like it! authors.elsevier.com/c/1k4iv21ISsu~X

Ok, I'm also becoming part of the exodus from this rampantly far-right hellscape - you can now find me at [at]johnprovis.bsky.social for more "content" and/or sarcasm. It's been fun here (well, up till the Musk takeover at least), hoping to see you all on the other side!