RIP David Hockney a true great of the last rennaisance. Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy. One of my fave paintings. Won't link, the internet is not for paintings. Go see it in Tate Britain.

Did he...did he just read out the launch codes?

Actually, knowing Starmer, he’ll wait til criticism of him is so deafening he can’t ignore it, wait another two weeks, then do the mildest most perfunctory version of what’s expected of him. Write a letter to Elon Musk or some shit.

My wife is out of town yesterday and today and everything from 3-7:30 with my kids has been my sole jurisdiction. Do you know what they want in bedtime moments, as rambunctious as they can get? They want YOU, not a fucking speaker

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock in them. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word.

if I've learned anything over the years, it's that any movie described as "a love letter to cinema" will suck ass in ways unimagined by Jean Cocteau & Billy Wilder 📽️

A spokesman from Marvel just stared into the distance and mumbled "we're just.. out. The ideas. We're just... out. Of them. Squirrel Symbiote Jeff the Secret Invasion War? Is that anything?" and then burst into tears.

Just rewatched Lord of the Rings. I'd forgotten that Sauron's seeing-stone is called Palantir. So, democracy-sceptic, demon-believing Peter Thiel names his company (and models its logo?) after a device that allows an all-seeing evil eye to "broadcast propaganda" and control what people...

🗓️ June 4 #calendarsong 🎶 June 4th, 1989/ Primrose Hill, Staten Island, Chalk Farm, Massif Central, Gospel Oak, São Paolo, Boston Manor, Costa Rica, ... #SaintEtienne open.spotify.com/track/42Qmh6...

Lego should release a set that’s of your house and you build it and see a tinier version of you inside of it, and what are you doing? You are building a Lego version of your house, but smaller. And who is inside that house? A third, even smaller, you

47 years ago today, a man stood against oppression and said "no. YOU move". on this day in 1989...........tank man appeared.

50 years ago today The Sex Pistols appeared at The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester. The now legendary night is regarded as a catalyst to the punk rock movement. In the audience were Morrissey, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook & Mark E Smith #punk #50years #sexpistols #punkrockhistory #otd

I absolutely did not walk around Centerparcs in my underpants because I forgot I didn't have my shorts on. Not me. You must be thinking of someone else.

First cup of tea: the classic film Easy Rider would have been improved if they’d all had a first cup of tea every day.

A horse called Jermaine

What are hot days for? Hot days are for staying in the cinema. I saw 'Super Mario Galaxy' and 'Mandalorian and Grogu'. Enjoyed both. Mando is great fun (and I'm not even fussed about the series) but I do feel like I need to crack open a Tarkovsky box set to compensate.

You don't usually rely on Iran's Fars News Agency for unvarnished truth-telling, but we can make an exception in this case.

I haven't. But I have now. Really enjoyed it. Thanks @eddierobson.bsky.social for the prompt.

I remember hearing this for the first time on headphones at a listening post in Virgin Records 🎧. Must have pretty much listened to the whole thing right the way through. It was obvious from the first play that it was going to be massive.

How they haven’t risen up and just Caeucescued that orange prick and his entire family is beyond me.

'Evening Muses' by Natalia Drepina, contemporary photographer #WomensArt

God I hate this garbage company

Forget sharing the last picture you saved, I want to see the very first picture on your phone. Scroll back until your fingers bleed.

Bowing out of music challenges for a little while. ("Hooray!!!", they chorused) No bad reason. Just got a lot on at the moment. I'll be back soon.

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 10: 'Wasn't Born To Follow' - The Byrds youtu.be/PrU9iI2VxPE?...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #musicchallenge Day 10: A song that uses many samples 'Lesson One' - Double D & Steinski One of the first to do it and one of the best. Still sounds fantastic and inventive despite the whole thing being held together with studio tape. youtu.be/DxZich8UF_E?...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Ooops.... nearly forgot to play today. You’ll wish I had. Day 9: ’U Can’t Touch This' - M.C. Hammer youtu.be/i8tUWVowN0g?...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 9: A synth pop song from the 80s 'You Remind Me Of Gold' - The Human League Quintessential synth pop youtu.be/Ik4pPCpXxj4?...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 8: 'I Can't Control Myself' - The Troggs youtu.be/ARtFd9NB1fY?...

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 8: A Duet Between Two Pop Artists 'Sometimes Always' - JAMC with Hope Sandoval youtu.be/fHdstG76KI8?...

So it turns out that one of my neighbours has indeed been voted in as a Reform councillor. I'm not even bothered. I'm sure the extra workload will be the death of him.

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 7: 'You Don't Know Her Name' - Maps youtu.be/VvqRxg4ebKA?...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 7: A track where rhythm drops out entirely for dramatic effect "I came a cropper when I trusted you..." 'Hedonist' - The House Of Love youtu.be/cwsU0UBqWtw?...

I will never come to a voting day without being furious about having to take Photo ID along. A harmful policy brought in for no reason. One of the worst tics we absorbed from the US.

thunderstruck sounds like a song the gremlins from gremlins would make if you locked them in a Guitar Center

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 6: 'I Can't Stand My Baby' - The Rezillos youtu.be/Ld8zm--u0R0?...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 6: A genre-blending track. 'Dancing' - Kylie Minogue A country song and an electropop stomper go into the teleport pod and this all conquering monster comes out. youtu.be/-BDImdAfodA?...

The record and song I've used since 1991 to test and calibrate every new piece of audio equipment I've acquired. A piece of music that distills the 35 years of British pop culture that preceded it into one perfect song and production, and still manages to sound utterly fresh and new in 2026.-

These elections are LOCAL. The General Election is FAR AWAY.

Death: come do a merry dance with me. Miser: having some problems w/ this foot today, can I take a rain check? By Frans II Francken, who himself danced with death OTD in 1642.

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 5: 'I Won't Let That Chump Break Your Heart' - Carl Carlton youtu.be/_84s9yBWCqw?...

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 5: A Song Everyone Knows But Doesn't Know The Title Of 'Summer (The First Time)' - Bobby Goldsboro youtu.be/87ruZX5JdCk?...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 4: 'Don't Give Up On Us' - David Soul youtu.be/J_2GpDoNciY?...

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 4: A blues song with a 12 bar structure. 'Going Up The Country' - Canned Heat youtu.be/nBhpiUFSYWI?...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 3: 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' -Dusty Springfield Dusty Springfield helping with all my music challenge posts today. youtu.be/QR4vE9xL3yk?...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 3: A song that follows AABA form ’I Only Want To Be With You' - Dusty Springfield youtu.be/1ZcMbOeTE4M?...