Salman Rushdie has said that if ‘only women can write about women and straight people about straight people’ then it signals the ‘death of art’ In 2021 most Brits, including ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ people, said it's ok for creatives to write characters from other backgrounds

Only Hobbits can write about Hobbits.

Between babies, work and catching COVID it's not been a good #AdventOfCode for me but FINALLY finally managed to get answer one with #recusion

Happy 100th birthday to the Shipping Forecast! First broadcast on New Year's Day 1924 My initial Met Office training included a day with the forecaster preparing the Shipping Forecast. It felt quite special to hear him rehearse aloud carefully-worded drafts to get it just right

Some great charts in this piece about the demise of the property ladder in Britain economist.com/britain/2024/0…

The sub-tweetiest PR I've ever seen

There's a lesson about epistemology in here somewhere. #rationaltruebelief

Meanwhile in the north, there’s one train between Leeds and Sheffield an hour, which takes 58mins and is ludicrously called the “express” service.

Who knew that God had a choice of fixing system? (and that it was the correct one)

One day, someone will write an R package for this exact task

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Most Tour de France stage victories: 35 - Mark Cavendish 34 - Eddy Merckx 28 - Bernard Hinault

I was wondering which party came 2nd to Labour in the seats they won in #GE2024. Reform figure strongly in the seats they already hold, but a fair chunk of green there as well. In seats they've gained, it's mostly because they beat the incumbent (SNP and CON)

Ternary axes are often a bit confusing but I think this makes a clear point.

Monster