The movie the guy sits down to watch is Ridley Scott's upcoming Napoleon (due November). Test screenings report the film is 150 mins long. The battery life on the new device is 120 mins. I predict this will do well in France.

In a characteristically surprising move, Bielsa calls up wantaway striker Vladimir Putin to the Uruguayan national squad #lufc

Legend

Chaos at #lutonairport, who have chosen today to "upgrade" some tech. Wizz Air wrote to passengers advising them to get here 3 hours before flight. So I dutifully got up at 3 to do the 1 hour drive round M25. Flight now 3 hours late (this is only the latest). Congrats.

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I like Farke but I also liked Christiansen. And it feels like that's the place we've found our way back to #lufc

Sunak's not even PM by "will of the people", only by virtue of parliamentary process. As part of that same process the pipsqueak has no rights to suborn the House of Lords.

Sigh. A brilliant writer. I started with Fugue for a Darkening Island and read them all. Loved The Affirmation most, I think. It's as though a star has burned out.

The bad news: British Army down to a single platoon. The good news: they're Ultramarines

I think you'll find those aren't the groups Conservative governments are historically known for "appeasing"

I could wish nothing better for them than for them to be surrounded by cheerful quintuplets.

So I'm in a business meeting in Sydney Australia today and the person I'm meeting says "I was looking forward to this because you have the same name as my favourite comedian, you know, THE Mark Watson". Cue argument about his use of the definite article Mark Watson, still here but very much also Bluesky <= your

Sums up current state of UK that in the last 5 days we had 0 visits from our postman but 2 from our desperate but frustratingly unrepentant brexiteer MP, hoping to intercept our postal votes. Which arrived this morning along with a week's worth of mail (and sorry Ranil but no)

Shome mishtake shurely ...

This is a very unusual tagging of me where it actually intends to refer to me, not to top entertainer Mark Watson currently appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe (tickets available). Thanks to George Lawton of diginomica for a very enjoyable chat about engineering productivity and AI.

on British Airways flight, trying to use their free executive club wifi. Requires login, try web and requires completing a captcha which doesn't display on phone. If you try app it locks you out and sends an email to unlock - which requires non-free wifi 😐

Am on a SWR Help train back from London and am as usual surrounded by people loudly discussing how they didn't have to buy a ticket. But not loudly enough to wake the guard who is gently snoozing at the back of the carriage.