There’s this guy on TikTok who does nursery rhymes in the style of his favourite bands and the production standards are insane. This Mumford and Sons style rendition of You Are My Sunshine is genuinely as good as a song they would release
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Freelance journalist. Formerly Technology Correspondent at The Times in SF/London, and before that Economics and Property correspondent.
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There is this video going round of a red panda being totally taken aback by seeing an insect on a rock and it is making my day
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Only in 2017 could Poundland get into an awkward situation with Twinings Tea over a miniature elf figurine teabagging another plastic toy
Deeply frustrating hearing Dido Harding and Matt Hancock saying how they have always 'backed both horses' on the app, when for weeks the NHSX have been absolutely insistent they had no interest in pursing the Apple Google model. They are slightly rewriting history here.
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This Hamilton version of Itsy Bitsy Spider has no right being this clever and good
The makers of Dettol have had to issue a press release saying you shouldn't inject its products into your veins
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This is one of ‘head shoulders knees and toes’ is as good as some of Weezer’s own songs
Love how every broadcaster has booked in loads of guests and talking heads to get through the night and CNN was just like: let’s just get John King speaking at the speed of light for next six hours
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Honestly, record labels - give this guy an album
He's two months old, lads
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Prince Louis, one of the most elusive members of the British royal family at the moment, is finally back in the public eye nym.ag/2zpZC98
Rarely have I read a story that made me despair more with each line.
1 It came out a day ago
2 It's England & Wales, not UK
3 In 60 page doc, 'terror' is mentioned five times. 'Islamic' & 'radical'? Zero times
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Just out report: "United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror." Not good, we must keep America safe!
That's... TV scheduling. You've invented TV scheduling. theverge.com/2019/6/10/1866
When did Miley Cyrus become this cool…? her cover of Like A Prayer is insanely good
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For all those asking, the guy’s name is K.S. Rhoads. Doesn’t seem to be very active on Twitter but his TikTok is here tiktok.com/@ksrhoads and Instagram here instagram.com/ksrhoads where you can find more of these amazing videos!
BAE Systems, one of the biggest weapons manufacturers in the world, has seen its shares hit a record high today on that Trump victory
Pokemon Go players inadvertently stopping people committing suicide is definitely my favourite story of the day
Was waiting for the killer line in this story and then, there it was, about two thirds of the way down...
telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer
Rarely have I read a story that blows my mind more with each line than this one
Absolutely loving this quote from the Chairman of British Onions because a) who knew there was such a thing and b) the poor guy just wanted the quiet life
thetimes.co.uk/article/8b4407
For the first time ever, the world now contains two people worth $100 billion, with Gates at $100bn and Bezos at $146bn.
Their combined fortune is worth more than the GDP of 143 different countries.
This is so stupid. It was a lovely water feature, it brightened up the area, kids really liked it in the summer, and most importantly people accidentally putting their foot in it while looking at their phones was always hilarious
Huge respect for the 9% of people who refused to divulge what their plan would be in the event of a zombie attack
Safest country on earth unless you are… a woman, gay, a low-paid migrant worker, a journalist, have committed adultery, drink alcohol in public, kiss in public, commit blasphemy, publicly challenge the Emir… But yeah, otherwise, spot on
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16 facts about Qatar, the richest, safest, most polluting country on Earth
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Haven’t been to the shops since the panic buying started. As we approached the entrance with a trolley a Sainsbury’s worker finishing his shift laughed and said ‘You won’t be needing that’. Knew it would be bad but wow...
You have to hand it to Yanis Varoufakis, he knows how to make a final exit from the finance ministry. Photo
The have interviewed the company providing pencils for the polling stations and it is so wonderfully British.
Lol at even Adele saying the property crisis in London is too much for her
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If ever there was a moment for Boris Johnson to feel truly ashamed at the slapdash way he treats his job, this is it
thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/b
🎙From next week I am changing roles After three great years covering property and economics, I have now moved to San Francisco and will be covering technology for the paper out here. Please do get in touch with any tech related tips or news!🎙
This is absolutely amazing levels of cringe worthiness from the European Parliament. Like 10/10
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He’s called K.S. Rhoads - his videos are also on Instagram if you don’t have TikTok
Can't get enough of this story about a Facebook group that has gained over a million followers since the lockdown where everyone just pretends to be ants cnbc.com/2020/05/12/a-m
Interesting. More than a third of households using Help to Buy have incomes of £50,000 or more.
10 per cent of households using the scheme have an income of over £80,000, while 4 per cent have an income of over £100,000 a year.
The level of pettiness in this Times letter is something we can all aspire to
People raging about smaller Jaffa Cakes boxes but I'm still reeling from fact its 'orange' flavour is one big lie
bbc.co.uk/news/business-
The average price of a home in 2017 is 7.8 times the average annual salary - the highest on record. In 1997 house prices were just 3.5 times higher.
In London, house prices are 12.3 times higher than average salaries in the city.
In 1997 they were only 4 times higher.
Incredible picture on page 3 of today's of this beautiful cloud which has been classified for the 1st time.
Amazing. Investors have accidentally been buying shares in the wrong Zoom - investing in Zoom Technologies rather than Zoom Video Communications. It's got so bad that the SEC has had to suspend trading
This pub landlord described in the Times' letter pages honestly sounds amazing
Every time I read about Quibi it just sounds absolutely insane. Like the producers just threw buzzwords at a board and created whatever the combination was.
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and this anecdote is astonishing. Elon Musk wanted to hire the engineer Bulent Altan for SpaceX in LA but Altan’s wife had just taken a job at Google so Musk just casually... called up the co-founder of Google... to make sure she could relocate
This is quite the picture of Slovakia’s new prime minister being appointed
Asked a cybersecurity expert how normal people could avoid their Whatsapp being hacked like Bezos. He replied: "Don't open any videos the Saudi Crown Prince might send you." Fair play.
The average German laughs so little they are being offered 'laughing seminars'
Ironically Bezos/Amazon actually went the other way and stopped the ACTUAL Amazon from using the word in their domain names
I realise these are three of the most important bankers on the planet but... I cannot stop laughing at this photo
Wow fair play to Twitter for putting this label over Trump’s tweet threatening to shoot protesters in Minneapolis, a day after Trump has signed an executive order against social media companies
Sorry Amazon but if you launch this delivery robot in the UK, there is no way drunk people are not going to try to:
- somehow ride it
- Put their kebab on it
- steal it
- spend an inordinate amount of time trying to redirect it to the pub
blog.aboutamazon.com/transportation
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It is satire. The guy he’s interviewing is a TikTok-er called Walter Masterson who winds up Trump supporters and sometimes goes ‘undercover’ at Trump rallies
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The Liberal Media interviewed me and @jollygoodginger
Please watch the entire video for CONTEXT.
Nothing but respect for the PR team for coming up with this idea and actually arranging a whole photo shoot for it
The King of Denmark's reaction to finding out that the "runes" on an ancient rock years were just... glacial scratches... is amazing
A raft of surveys and reports out on the economy today. None of them are good. Here are a summary of the biggest ones...
This FT article on what the coronavirus lockdown is doing to German sex shop supplies is really quite something
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac
If you rent in London from the age of 21 up to the age of 32, you will have spent around £273,210 on rent - about £50k more than the average price of a home in the UK
content.landbay.co.uk/Landbay-Nation
For the past FIVE days now, Times readers have been debating the right bread for cucumber sandwiches. What a world.
In case you’re wondering what the CES tech conference is like, here’s a woman wearing Wallace and Gromit robot trousers while getting an exercise class from an oversized animated reality figure in front of an audience of thousands of people
Tech companies appear to be increasingly getting away with 'inventing' things that already very much exist...
Elon Musk's 'alternative transport system': the tube
WeWork's 'co-living': flatmates
Amazon's 'bricks and mortar' stores: a shop
Lyft's 'Shuttle': a bus
For anyone who needs a break from all the unrelenting despair on Twitter during this election, NASA recently decided to put its entire library of images online for free, and the pictures are… absolutely stunning. images.nasa.gov
Brexit is causing foreign construction workers to already start leaving, says Battersea Power Station developer thetimes.co.uk/edition/busine
This is top level corporate trolling
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'Google' is most searched word on Bing, Google says bbc.in/3F7sIHW
Tesla hopes to release a humanoid robot next year. For some reason they paid a man to dress up as the robot and dance on stage. The performance will haunt your dreams.
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All the more jarring as a terrible statue when it’s so near the much less much noticed but much more beautiful one of John Betjeman just a few metres away
What makes this especially painful is his idea of the guy still barely making it even after penning Beatles songs is a much better and funnier idea
If anyone's looking for a story about how the French are the polar opposite to the British...
thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/
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Hook. Still convinced it will become a cult classic one day.
A man in his twenties tried breaking into a 82-year-old woman’s house and it sounds like he very much picked the wrong house
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/n
Geeky but fun fact about online shopping and logistics. Some online fashion retailers are now storing their clothes in warehouses that only contain 16% of oxygen, because it means nothing can burn in those conditions so no risk of stock going up in flames
Contractors hired by Google have reportedly been tricking homeless people into giving scans of their faces in order to improve the tech giant’s facial recognition software.
Which doesn’t sound dystopian at all.
nydailynews.com/news/national/
Baffling move by his PR to stop this just as Jeff Fairburn was about to respond, esp as he’s spoken about the bonus on the record before. Appalling to shut down questions about it when it was one of the largest bonuses in UK corporate history and Persimmon is a public company
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Asked Jeff Fairburn, CEO of Persimmon Homes about his £75m bonus today. This was his response.... @BBCLookNorth
Know the country has a lot on its plate at the moment, but classing a magnum as an ice lolly is really crossing the line, quite frankly
Wrote about this fascinating and entertaining book on WeWork, in which most pages will leave you open mouthed at the utter insanity that was allowed to preside over the start-up
One of the biggest shocks since moving to the States is finding out that Easter eggs are just not a thing here. The fact that the land of excess will never know the joy of biting the head off a Lindt bunny just seems a crying shame, frankly.
Are Hollywood producers just looking at people in the street and making action movies out of their jobs now
This madness has to stop now
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Have spent past 5 mins starting at this ad the govt paid money to put in the paper and still have no idea what on earth it’s talking about
Sky News very much asking the questions we all need to know in the time of coronavirus
Amazing. Uber offers helicopters in Cannes. Feel like I have unlocked some sort of secret level.
This is astonishing. The ONS is changing the day it releases its jobs figures because it is so worried that politicians go into PMQs without properly understanding the data
Lovely picture of one of the Battersea Power Station chimneys being given its first lick of paint. That's a big paint job...
Blew my mind when I first found out Jools Holland’s hootenanny wasn’t live, was up there with discovering Father Christmas wasn’t real
Thought it really interesting what the UK's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said about why we haven’t banned sporting events yet, so have written it below if anyone missed it.
