DAMN I just realized a major marker of our generational divide is whether you: - Come up with several short search terms encompassing the main subjects and string them together b/c you were trained on encyclopedia and fucking Dewey decimal OR - Type a wholeass sentence into the search bar

Please enjoy Marie Osmond (the smurfette of the Osmonds) discussing and reciting Dadaist sound poetry youtu.be/USTQgu229Wc?...

I don’t like this art. It looks like Michel Simon has won a race.

If nobody could be bothered to make it, I can’t be bothered to watch it. Also, it looks like a video game cutscene.

"Who was Billy Butler's co-host on Radio Merseyside's Hold Your Plums?" "Er... Mike Woodin?"

I had the privilege of writing an essay about this film which is included in the limited edition, and I recommend it highly to anyone who loves beauty & weirdness.

‘Nice food to be made more expensive’, another winning policy during a time of rampant food inflation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I tell you what, that Mohammed bin Salman, eh? Blimey, what a fine example of a Crown Prince and Prime Minister"

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

How this morning has gone: - dropped girls at school - dropped son at nursery - drove 40 mins to university - paid £6+ to park - got coffee - sat at desk - turned computer on - nursery rang to say son had spots on chest and needs picking up - got back in car - drove 40 mins to get him - came home

meanwhile at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

I just asked my daughter what is the best advice I ever gave her and she quoted this:

This must be the poop deck.

These scumbags like to whine that they’re not allowed to say anything these days but remarkably are still able to do so whereas Jamal Khashoggi was murdered & dismembered by agents of the Saudi government at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for criticising his regime. Fuck them.

How quickly do you think Farage would drop his commitment to PR if he was able to get into power? This is something that our press might press him on if they could prise their faces out of his buttcheeks.

10 years ago today I was at Liverpool Psych Fest. 10 years and an hour ago I was watching Jane Weaver. Here she is playing a melodica.

Tuesday.

Never a bad time for this youtu.be/HPPqOHay8fM?... #TOTP

This is really good.

As with the Online Safety Act, a lot of people’s attitude to ID cards is ‘well, it’s not a problem for me so I don’t see what’s wrong with it’ and I am asking, nay BEGGING, them to to acknowledge that other people’s circumstances might be different.

Showing your ID in certain situations you have entered into voluntarily ≠ the police or other government agencies demanding to see your ID and locking you up if you don’t/won’t/can’t.

Mo Chara: We will not be silent! We said we would fight you in your court, and we would win. Today, we have. If anyone on this planet is guilty of terrorism, it is the Br*tish state. Free Palestine! Tiocfaidh ar la!

When digital ID is required to access services (eg the NHS, or legal representation, or obtaining a bank account, or renting a flat), and yours has been set to "nope" because the government of the day decides it doesn't like people of Your Sort, what will you be able to do about it? Nothing.

I turn 50 on Monday, and being reminded that WASHING MACHINE, an album that I think of as a recent Sonic Youth album (and the last one I bought when it came out, IIRC), is 30 years old is a great way of reminding me how fucking old I am now.

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

When they show the pictures of the Booker nominees in a pile, I always imagine the writers who wrote big thick books must be annoyed that they went to all that effort only be be lumped in the 160-page tiddlers.

I've said this before but it's extremely depressing that the clear way to neutralise Farage is to relentlessly link him to Trump (as evidenced in Canada and Australia elections) but Starmer can't as he has to kiss Trump's arse over trade.

Throughout 8 1/2, Claudia Cardinale appears to Guido as an apparition in white, a silent angel who will break the curse of writer's block. When they finally meet, she – now in black – makes fun of him and tells him how stupid his new film sounds, causing him to abandon it. RIP Claudia.

Bryan Ferry.

Imagine putting this out as a B-side: youtu.be/_k6Sx_J6NxQ?...

I can remember learning about the 1979 ITV strike much later and suddenly realising why Rowan Atkinson was shouting ‘Bring back bloody ITV!’ in that Not the Nine O’Clock News sketch.

Fucking hell

So we're putting in a mass digital id database immediately before a potential Reform government that will use it to deport and brutalise millions of people? Your local supermarket refusing to let you buy food without your id card in 2030 cos right to work checks morphed into right to eat checks.

Absolutely guarantee that Farage will walk back his current proposal so that it omits certain groups of white people.

Fucking British newspapers calling it 'Tylenol', fuck right off.

i am going to say something very mean if you cannot handle footnotes, it is not that there are too many footnotes, it is actually a you problem

Millennium by Robbie Williams. Fucking awful. Smug, knowing bullshit. Disco 2000 for wifebeaters.

My extremely normie, no surprises top 10 TV comedies except that there are 11: Alexei Sayle’s Stuff End of Part One Look Around You Wonder Showzen Monty Python’s Flying Circus The Simpsons (Seasons 2-7) Seinfeld Hancock’s Half Hour One Foot in the Grave The Larry Sanders Show The Phil Silvers Show

James Dyson’s ‘genius’ seems to be taking consumer products of near-negligible cost, making them look like a shitty plastic toy, and charging 10-20 times more.

NSFW a band The Lot-Ass Eaters

Settler colonialism is BACK!