This is like a stoat's guide to rollerblading

One more.

Just seen a "it's no secret that I..." post in the wild. If it's no secret but nobody knows who you are, is it still no secret?

Siri, show me two appalling things at the same time.

Everyone will just piggyback on Iraq's wifi.

FIFA, ho hum. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

We deplore the abence of Burning Spear but will put this down to Americanness.

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOBBLE.

The books (so far) are on display! And here’s me reading an excellent advance copy of Bookish by me, I mean, @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social

Nancy's gone a bit dark.

Fine with this so long as we can continue to take the piss out of Americans not having kettles

My amazing son made this.

Making Yardbirds jokes on Bluesky. I'm surprised I'm not trending.

Great album, terrible advice.

American spaghetti. As authentic as the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas.

I know this is The Forbidden Topic but here is the truth: cheap food in the US is generally bad and cheap food in the UK is generally bad. You can get EXCELLENT food in both countries but it tends to be expensive, urban or both. Good food cultures eg Italy have widespread cheap excellent food

This is the law. #ShuffleOff

I wrote about ugly duckling songs: quantick.substack.com/p/undeleted-...

JohnTravolta, reunited with his 7" singles box.

RIP Dennis Lacorriere. We used to chat on Twitter and he seemed a thoroughly lovely man: I'd written a bad review of Dr Hook and he wanetd me to go see them to change my mind. I wish I had.

Hate Marmite...

A legend. if you have an Island record from the Sly and Robbie/ Grace Jones/ Tom Tom Club era, Wally Badarou is all over it.

My daughter, s-in-l & grandsons have just arrived for their first ever family holiday. Made possible by 2 increases in min wage, lower interest rates, 30 hour child care allowing her 2 more days work a week & breakfast clubs allowing 8am start time at doc surgery. Thanks Labour

I enjoyed this and it's an amazing podcast.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 17,1944

"Siri, show me..."

Some replies here are very @maiertrap.

Just noticed that Bulgaria's Dara looks like all the Spice Girls at once.

Countries that aren't part of Europe should be banned from Eurovision. I'm looking at you, United Kingdom.

Called it.

UK's Eurovision song wasn't so much Eins, Zwei, Drei as Eins.

Got this for my birthday. Looking forward to reading.

That was fun. I vote Greece Bulgaria or Serbia but suspect Australia will win. Or France. Or Finland. OPA and out.

It's like someone burgled the Bowie exhibition in the dark.

Ariston and on and on.

These presenters are like they're hosting rhe Oscars for finger puppets

YOU MUST BE CHOKING

Full throttle, huge Stranglers fan, Suffocate Moss, etc.

Wayne Sleep and the White Stripes.

NAIL BAR NAIL BAR

This seems to be the minor superhero part of the show. Next up; the Steel Claw.

Costume by Bernie Clifton.

This is like watching Howard Jones' divorce.

She Blinded Me With Thumbs.