This is what social media is meant to be about.

Hello to the cool space cats in my timeline. Will the boosters and 1st stage from Artemis II be recovered?

Deep into the countdown now. Artemis looking good. Vehicle, launcher, weather & crew. Keeping it all crossed for my buddies at #NASA. #artemis2 #GoArtemis2

Oh well, I guess the quadruple won't be this year then. 🙄

I'm enjoying #SNLUK, so far. And that Hammed Animashaun - I've seen his Bottom you know.

Fun trailer for SNLUK at half time in the footy. Might even tune in to the show.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid…

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

I was tickled to hear on the audio commentary that Kevin was aiming for someone in the vein of Michael Palin while Paul was aiming for someone in the vein of Peter Glaze.

Any time I read a story like this, I immediately scroll down to see if my favourite true crime trope - the absurdly incriminating search history - gets featured. I can confirm that this one does not disappoint.

Oh now that's a play I might like to see. I wonder how much..... BLOODY HELL!!!!

Tonight's Match Of The Day @bbcmotd.bsky.social has been terrific. Kelly presenting. Joe and Ashley providing analysis. Shearer and Rooney nowhere to be seen or heard - bliss. Also I appreciate the surround sound from the team in Salford 😘 That last item is a bit niche perhaps, but I love it!

Great microphone technique from Mikel. No notes

Playwright Alan Bennett: ‘I have a fear of books’ ft.trib.al/JBufBwX

a week on and it's still funny

It's that time of year. #Updates

Forced to use AI at work, hate it. Usage is monitored so I can't avoid it. I've set up mine to play a Sim City clone. It burns through tokens, making crap cities that quickly go bankrupt. Just been told that I'm getting a bonus for being a top user.

"The former British home secretary and Buddhist daughter of a Kenyan descendant of Goan Catholics, and a Mauritian Hindu descendent of Tamil, born in Harrow, studied in New York, married to a Jewish South African who lived In Israel says multiculturalism has failed." via Daily Scar

not saying reform’s reaction to defeat was predictable, but we recorded this yesterday and released it at 2am

Are the reservoirs full yet?

This is grossly unfair. Your father was a tabloid monster LONG before his death, from at least the Board of Trade report in 1971 onwards.

Very sad news about the death of Rob Grant (co-writer, Red Dwarf, amongst many other things) RIP.

This is great news and shows that people’s voices can make a real difference. However still huge questions should be asked about why Kennedy wanted this study which lacked scientific merit and was unethical and was also able to approve a $1.6 million dollar study without any clear oversight

Monday innit.

Diary of a Madman was recorded on 23 May 1963 by Kenneth Williams for a planned animated film by Richard Williams. The film was abandoned. It was later re-edited for broadcast on Radio 4 on 3 February 1991 & is repeated today on BBC Radio 4 Extra #KennethWilliams100 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Why reliable data matters in one picture The UK's productivity performance is either: - still rubbish; or - improving greatly after a terrible spell You choose

Vic Reeves & @bobmort.bsky.social made a very strong case for the BBC License Fee…

Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this. If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?

there's a measles outbreak in north london but sure, the most pressing issue is to stop timmy go on facebook

And I had this conversation with my teenage daughter last night, she’s studying Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler for GCSE and she pointed out this is a carbon copy of the Nazi law for the encouragement of marriage.

Newsjack, the comedy sketch show written by the Great British public. My latest blog post with audio from across the show's 12 year run bit.ly/4kwVXcg

This piece is so much better than the pull-quote. It’s a beautiful profile of a fascinating brave strong woman and I urge you to read it.

Sending instant messages that should have been emails is like snacking on chocolate bars and then expecting me to clear up the discarded wrappers... as.ft.com/r/104caab6-0...

This was great fun. Messrs Ringham and Ringham serving up binaural spookiness. Great acting too. Two more days at Hampstead Theatre.

Don’t forget you have until 6th March if you want to enter this year’s New Comedy Writing competition! Find out more at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk

Kemi Badenoch's mouse scurrying past live on TV

A leak today that has nothing to do with Peter Mandelson.

PRIVATE EYE NAMED IN EPSTEIN FILES In the latest files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Justice Department, the Eye is denounced as “an absolute rag of a publication” by Epstein’s then lawyer, Paul Tweed… 🧵1/5

Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government". More brilliant FT reporting www.ft.com/content/91e8...

I hope that photo of Brett Ratner in the Epstein files with a teenage girl doesn’t harm the ticket sales of his Melania film

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

On the 'ban under 16s from social media' thing, there are so many more questions to be asked that don't seem to be even thought about. Starting with 'what is social media?' Is Wikipedia? Is WhatsApp? Are text messages? Are online games with any kind of chat/communication function? 1/3

liz truss has now been a podcaster for longer than she was prime minister

Don’t let Burns night pass you by without Alan Cumming giving his Cock Up Your Beaver. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

on the issue of “who scored more goals, bournemouth or liverpool”, differing perspectives are emerging; on the one hand, video evidence suggests that bournemouth did. however, sources inside anfield say these images “lack context”, and it seems to be becoming a footballing litmus test

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Heavens to Betsy! I hope @sgfmann.bsky.social is there to see this. #TheFootball

Drawn during #trump 's first term, this @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon becomes more relevant with every passing day of his second, #insane reign. #donaldtrump #notfitforpresidency

www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo... Great piece on “airport book brain” - the tendency of politicians to swallow simplistic solutions. Latest example the Jonathan Haidt book shaping policy on teens and social media