nickbwalking.bsky.social
Writer, walker, Who and Wolves fan. Lots of other things that don't begin with W. https://linktr.ee/nickbarlow He/him
Avatar: Me (50ish man with greying hair and beard) smiling at the camera after climbing Chrome Hill in the Peak District.
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Feels like I hallucinated the SDP and Alliance leading the polls for a while in the early 80s.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Z5...
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Well, there's 20 minutes I'm not getting back and have been sacrificed to a chaos demon as it makes itself real. Right, off to make a video about Bullseye was cancelled because Jim Bowen was thwarted in his attempt to sacrifice Davro in the stocks to empower the dark god known as Bully.
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Saw that book in a shop while out with an American friend. Imagine how you explain what Blue Peter is to someone with no knowledge of it except that picture.
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is this what you dreamt of when you first got interested in politics? frantic bullshit phone calls fake-threatening to topple your own government if your own MPs don't vote to plunge 50-year-olds with arthritis and depression into poverty?
was that what you went into this for? for this?
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Special report: Here are other times when presidents swore. Did Trump truly become President today?
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If you're travelling consistently then it's about 5 hours of walking or 3.5 running. Though if you can do that, I'm not sure what need you have of a step challenge.
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I was averaging that when I was walking the Camino, but it's not really a level you can fit in around many other commitments.
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The Trump administration response to "No Kings" appears to be "more kings!"
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Luckily, lesbians were never made illegal which is why they were playing The Giver on BBC Cumbria recently.
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We should be glad that "AI art" wasn't a thing then, imagine the nightmares that could have created.
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We'll be having the traditional staging of the Waiting For Brexit Benefits play and of course, telling the youngsters not to laugh, this is serious.
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I was a Lib Dem campaigner and councillor for years and no one on the doorstep mentioned Tim Farron's religious beliefs until 2015.
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Old Indian joke:
Q) What do you call a group of three Bengalis?
A) A political party
Q) What do you call a group of four Bengalis?
A) Two political parties
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Yes, but she was.
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Just been proscribed as a terrorist because Keir Starmer saw my meal arrive and said "I should have ordered that."
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He'd have sent British troops to Kent State.
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And Musk thinks he can do this with a word-guessing system that he still can't get to tell him it's OK to use the N-word. Boy, ketamine is a hell of a brain-melter.
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Filling in missing information also connects to the Teilhard de Chardin/Tipler Omega Point where AIs will be powerful enough to resurrect anyone who ever lived extrapolating from what information they already have.
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Root, in the stance to scoop: something wonderful or terrible is about to happen.
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"...As We Know It", I think the title was. Read it in a compilation of end of the world stories (alongside A Pail Of Air and others). Think it was called Apocalypses, which will be probably of zero use in tracking it down.
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Looking back at the history of the capital, just how many "natives" were living in Londinium when it was founded?
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And particularly frustrating for dementia patients if they're with people who aren't used to managing their idiosyncrasies ("thats a great idea, Mr President!") and actually want to get on and do some work.
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I do wonder what the internal politics of the Greens are like when Caroline Lucas, Sian Berry and Carla Denyer have all decided they'd rather be a campaigning MP than party leader.
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I find it fascinating that 30 the reboot suggestion is "let's start from scratch...and go straight to Skaro to tell the same stories again". 30 years on from the Leakey Bible, and nothing's changed.
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Weird typo for "pretty recently, you're not that old."
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And I'm not going to make myself feel old by looking up when the Rufus Sewell Charles II series was made...