I just betrayed my principles and did a rant as a Twitter thread not a blog post.

I shall say 3 “Hail Sir Tim”s, and recommit to the open web.

This is going to scare people unnecessarily: Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions – the ‘lab conditions’ in question include in the dark, because UV destroys the virus. As found in, say, sunlight.

Aerosol spread seems to be the biggest danger by a county mile.

I love our beach.

Shoreham Beach in West Sussex on a Sunday morning.

Incredible light streaming into the house this evening.

Evening light streaming into our living room.

Current status:

Chilling in the garden with a coffee.

Today I learnt that COVID has led to the permanent closure of London’s cereal cafés.. 🥣😢

That’s quite a sunset.

Sunset over Shoreham Beach.

Fear my mighty traybake powers.

A sausage traybake.

Mackerel skies.

Mackrel skies over Shoreham-by-Sea.

Twitter, death threats and civility: rethinking journalism on social media

(Or why your spicy hot takes are making everything worse.)