Fuck me, this is some real Bond Villain shit right here. "Order sunlight instantly in approved locations." www.reflectorbital.com

Quick heads-up for fellow synthheads. If you love the music of @warringtonruncorn.com then you'll probably also love the music of @cravenfaults.bsky.social, whose excellent new album, "Sidings", is out this week. cravenfaults.bandcamp.com/album/sidings

America's post-invasion plans for Greenland unveiled...

Just a quick reminder that the #OffGridPod compilation clip show is out. If you enjoy words, trivia, crosswords, quizzes, eclectica, et cetera, then there's bound to be something to divert, fascinate or titillate you.

The "not really about crosswords" #OffGridPod is in its 5th year of diversely digressive diversion. I was General Knowledge's chief researcher on this episode: offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/08/31/a... If you like #cryptic #crosswords and/or conversational curiosities, give this #podcast a listen in 2026! 📻

Sunburnt Clanger on ozempic

No, Bendick's! Dipping Kendal mint cake in dark chocolate and wrapping it in foil does not turn it into a posh chocolate mint. Yeurgh!

I think it's meant to say 'Tucked'.

Time to give this its annual airing and remind all you lovely people to donate to @sheltercharity.bsky.social this festive season... youtu.be/zuOyq2290Zs?...

I'd never discriminate against you because of your inability to pronounce Fs and THs. You can't say fairer than that.

My dog Blue in a trilby.

Facial recognition, scrapping juries, and mandatory digital ID. This Labour Government is creating a toolkit for the far-right. The EU has already put strong controls on this intrusive technology, MPs must pass legislation to do the same. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

**Midwinter Training Gazebo – Ep. 64** In which we erect a Midwinter Training Gazebo, set Liverpool ablaze, play some riffs, get stuffed, and look up at the lights. === If all that is likely to send you into transports of delight, please click play: […] […] [Original post on offgrid.tlmb.net]

Just thought I'd throw out a new #cryptic #crossword. ( @jimjar.bsky.social#crypticfor one might like it...?) https://tlmb.net/blog/throws/

This newly released album from the late Gabi Delgado (ex-D.A.F.) and French experimental muso/poet Marc Hurtado, Neue Weltunfassende Resistance, is well worth a listen. More "techno-y" than D.A.F., but with many of the motifs that made Delgado such a pioneer of electronic/industrial music.

It might be a bit early for a drink, but sod it – come join me for a pint on my website, where you can find a bunch of things that I have made in beermat form!

Yes, Google, that's definitely the late Sir Terry, to be sure, to be sure. (cc @bjalborough.bsky.social)

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

No mystery. It's a tray of grilled chicken. Not sure why it was hurtling through space though.

Keep fighting to stop corporations gutting the public domain and don't accept the ever-encroaching 'info land grab' as a fait accompli. A good time to rekindle @lessig.bsky.social's Free Culture movement for a new generation unaware of the battles of the noughties? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

SgtPepper montage 10 years project is go. See the link to find out about the book, exhibition, auction and the charity. Please consider backing the book. If it doesn't get funded, it doesn't get made and you don't pay anything. If it does, you get a fantastic book! chrisbarkerprints.co.uk #sgtpX10

Has no one else noticed the uncanny resemblance between Argentinian president Javier Milei and the Harry Enfield character Wayne Slob? @privateeyenews.bsky.social

The flying car thing reminded me of this, which still makes me howl with laughter every time I watch it...

Also got this to catch up on. Always a great listen... #OffGridPod

Great to see a new indie crossword mag. Excellent selection of creative cryptics from the likes of @amoebacrosswords.bsky.social, @skirwingle.bsky.social, @archelina.bsky.social, @guineverecryptic.bsky.social and more. Issue 1 saw me through a brief hospital stay this week & I still have more to do.

Recuperating from an op and spinning Soft Cell's newly recorded, excellent cover version of Suicide's "Ghost Rider", featuring J.G. "Foetus" Thirlwell, which landed on my doorstep today. A fitting epitaph for Dave Ball (RIP).

Paul Hartnoll of Orbital with Bez, Battersea Magic Garden pub, now. 🙂

R.I.P. Dave Ball. Great loss to electronic music. His autobiography Electronic Boy is also well worth a read - erudite, forthright and witty.

First time tonight in about 20 years that I've seen John Hegley live and delighted to report he's still as great as ever.

Seeing @kuntandthegang.bsky.social tonight in Cambridge. This seemed appropriate... youtu.be/_nlJgA_xWU8?...

New HAAi album Humanise is excellent. Balances kooky electronica and banging techno at just the right level, with more distinct and emotional vocals than her last LP. Capsule review: blissfully wistful/wistfully blissful. And it's on @muterecords.bsky.social, indisputably the best label there is. 🙂

"I'd like you all to meet a little friend of mine. Look Conference, it's Amit the Asylum Seeker. Say hello, Amit!" "Salag allygug" "And why have YOU come to Great Britain, Amit?" "Genefits!" "You see, Conference? THIS is what we are up against.

The 2003 E4 prank show Little Friends was well funny but got pulled because of the sweary kids and never released on DVD. Anyone know who produced it so I can beg them to shove it up online somewhere anonymously? youtu.be/2dcy0FY2YMw?...

**Censor Mayonnaise Jingles – Ep. 60** In which we Censor Mayonnaise Jingles, tut at grave-robbers, locate hats, hunt the snark in a poem, and try to translate backwards. === If you’d like to know where all that comes from, please click play: […] […] [Original post on offgrid.tlmb.net]

Been restoring some of my mum's old #cartoons, damaged photocopies of which surfaced after her death in 2020 (thread)...

It's happening! #rapture

Been restoring some of my mum's old #cartoons, damaged photocopies of which surfaced after her death in 2020 (thread)...

Obligatory #theylive repost…

A #cartooning thread... Some of you will already know my late mum was a commercial artist and (mostly amateur) cartoonist. If not you can read this piece on Bleeding Cool which was originally a thread I wrote on the other place shortly after her death... bleedingcool.com/comics/rose-...

Top work, Led By Donkeys. The Trump-Epstein film they projected onto Windsor Castle last night, in full... www.instagram.com/reel/DOsVh55...

They've definitely banged up the wrong people. (I see LBD have had to delete their post, too. 🤬) www.reuters.com/world/us/fou...

🚨 UK PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN 🚨 Roll up roll up - assure yourself a copy of Unch now! Visit: unchcrosswords.com#shop

Spinning one my late old man's LPs in honour of him and the late Robert Redford.

I just keep feeling like this must be the timeline that one of us is gonna have to go back in time and sacrifice themselves to prevent from coming to pass.

1) “Bring me a shrubbery, one that looks nice... and not too expensive.” 2) “Cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with… a herring.”

For any fellow lovers of rhythmic instrumental analogue synth music, I can thoroughly recommend the new album from Signal Électrique, "Only for You", on Bandcamp here... signalelectrique.bandcamp.com/album/only-f...

Apparently, when Reverend Spooner got really drunk he used to bite the shed.

If you listen closely, you might hear me say “biplane” in the new #offgridpod ep, as the General gives good advice. https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/08/31/athenas-parachute-concession-ep-58/