Nicholas Parsons once failed to hold a door open for me and it hit me in the face. Mick from Supergrass asked if he could have the ashtray from our table in The Three Goats Heads in Oxford. I think that’s all.

The legendary Geoffrey Perkins once got in to the lift I was in. The woman he was with asked me what the yellow box I was carrying was. It was a Portable Appliance Tester. They then got out of the lift.

Despite the early hit singles, Paul Hardcastle's career has not been nearly as successful as that of his brother Paul Bouncycastle.

Any head of, say, a broadcasting corporation who announces wishes to close terrestrial and satellite broadcast platforms has clearly never tried to stream video whilst visiting holiday cottages around these isles.

Here’s another classic Pulp chorus

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Sunday

stop thinking right now

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

If anyone wants to film a post apocalyptic zombie movie set in Coronation Street…

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Saturdays were always my favourite in the control room.

[To the tune of 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' by The Beach Boys] 🎵Wouldn't it be nice 🎵To eat a Minion 🎵Holding up a towel to hide from god 🎵And wouldn't it be nice 🎵Though quite forbidden 🎵Savouring the yellow flesh of Bob

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

HQ capture (3/3)

...a wonderful piece of BBC history lives again. This unit was last used on-air in 2012 for DSO! (2/3)

Pleased to say that despite a truly horrific leaky battery and stinky exploding RIFA caps... (1/3)

A good friend of mine once said that a GUI desktop on a computer is just there so you can open more terminal windows.

No, you don't need to use the command line but you absolutely should. Working in the terminal is more powerful, more efficient and easier than clicking around some GUI trying to find an obscure setting in a sub menu somewhere.

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

folk horror be like "here's some twigs arranged in a different than usual way"

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

This is a masterclass in narrative tension

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Today's sketch, now available to own on Home Video. I mean you can watch it on YouTube, and you should because then I get money. It's the 80s, baby. youtu.be/23SKNZEUQuk

Whenever I hear the word “Pavlov,” I can’t help but think of dogs. And I start to salivate, because I know that soon I’m going to get to eat a bell.

Give a fish a worm and it'll eat for a day. Teach a fish the worm and it'll be a lot of fun at parties.

If you have an emergency phone you don't want someone to find out about, please be aware that this is happening soon.

Just walked past a bloke who was speaking very highly of the Doppler effect. He soon changed his tune, though.

1am brain: "Ababdoman! Abandoman's abdomen!" You woke me up for that?

#EdFringe2025 one of the many things I like about @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social is that they do not spoon-feed punchlines. They paint an absurd picture in your head, give a knowing nod and let the joke spill over your brain. 19:10 at Monkey Barrel CabVol2.

Up in Edinburgh for #EdFringe2025 (and, I think, my 22nd Fringe). Just came out of this show and my brain is now scrambled. Bravo! (...or am I lying?) (No, I'm not).

Email is the best form of communication we ever invented. Instant, yet no instant reply is expected. Works universally outside of any app or ecosystem. The gold standard

US TV News station catches fire. Staff drive OB truck to the transmitter and plug straight in. youtu.be/zopV6xbiB7c...

At an airport I once saw a bunch of transcendentalists boarding a flight they’d chartered. At least I assumed they were transcendentalists because they were on a hire plane thank you please enjoy the weekend ahead.

In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

On This Day: In 1992, Jimmy Nail had a UK number 1 hit with ‘Ain’t No Doubt’, a song that addressed (but failed to stop) rumours that he is Gwen Stefani.

We fell out of bed the other morning... (Bristol Upside-down House)

Asking me to rate the app while I'm trying to do something is an automatic 1 star rating. No exceptions.

Sometimes, I long for him

Stephen Colbert has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Did a demon write this?

Have… Have I been posting to AnonOpin in my sleep..?

Come On Eileen by Dexy’s. Actively makes me angry. No idea why.

This is fascinating. I’ve heard people who code say it saves time. But… does it though? Ai is being sold as a time-saving, and therefore money-saving, tool. It isn’t.

It must be exhausting for the camera operators and vision mixer shooting this Prodigy set and making it this kinetic! Impressive stuff that's easily overlooked. #Glastonbury #TheProdigy

Urgh! Young people wearing Nevermind T-shirts!. I bet most of them couldn't name a single song by Nevermind. 😞

If by "morning person" you mean I wake up at 4 am staring into the inky blackness imagining horrific outcomes, then yes, I'm a morning person.