We went out to dinner at 6.15 because it was the only time available at a new nearby restaurant, which seemed ridiculous when I booked it but I’m already home & watching Local Hero & now I’m thinking, hmm these children & old people are actually on to something

After abandoning multiple overhyped Apple & Netflix series it’s such a relief to start watching Blue Lights & realise it’s a proper drama by writers with a point of view & characters you actually care about straight away

The role of music in protecting the brain/helping it recover is really underestimated, I can easily believe - it made a significant difference to my Long Covid symptoms to listen to music very intensively for months

This is like when you half wake in the night thinking you’ve dreamed the answer to everything, then what you find scribbled on a notepad in the morning is ‘skin as part of brain? intelltignce’ in crazy writing. Except this guy is emailing it to himself wide awake

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Saline nasal sprays offer so much potential as a public health intervention to reduce viral illnesses. Easy to use, relatively cheap and widely available.

Someone yelling ‘FUCK’ & the winner bursting into overwrought tears is the only acceptable ending to #thetraitors

Or the party I went to when I was a kid where the dad stored the fireworks in the greenhouse & accidentally set them all off there

Weird how everyone just accepts that if you have something done that involves scaffolding, however short, the firm will store their scaffolding on the front of your house for at least the next 6 months

Pretty much one post in three minimum today making me feel absolutely terrified (none of them about getting stabbed on UK trains though)

Do you know someone with age-related macular degeneration??? Guess what, there's unexpected good news!

Beach finds - spider crab shells

True elegance is enjoying your pie in the pie-eating contest

Saw this on threads and oh my fucking god gdrive is fast again Fuck the forced AI integration

Someone’s done really well with the casting of #celebritytraitors - resisting the temptation of having anyone to play the dummy. Everyone including pop & sports stars very articulate. (Makes it weird when they deflect to Stephen Fry as a genius when tbh he seems one of the least quickwitted)

Having vertigo problems at the moment because of some ear crystals working loose, & honestly I thought I was more robustly constructed than that. Human body mainly just a bodge of strings, chalk & bits of elastic as far as I can see

What would happen if he just carried on & demolished the whole thing? Nothing, presumably, if no one’s going to stop him destroying this part?

Seems like #thetraitors is actually a game of absolute chance & the more careful & thoughtful they are about it the worse they do

Small talk is one of those things like ‘a lovely view’ you generally don’t appreciate till you’re about 30. People who insist on interrogating you with meaningful questions are a menace - it’s about signalling you’re friendly, not about information

Seems unreasonable to be annoyed by the words doggo & kiddo but I am

Victorian animal paintings in the Margate caves, discovered by accident under a vicarage garden

Can we have a No Kings protest in the UK please. About, you know, literal kings. If we desperately need money saving measures let’s start there

And throw out your Alexa devices while you’re at it, I would

Must be extra insulting as a celebrity to have your name spelt wrong so many times #celebritytraitors

I think Celia Imrie refusing to be remotely bothered about farting loudly on national tv is doing a genuine public service

Where has the male ability to look extremely hot in a knitted tank top, slippers & massive pipe gone? (Not to mention nonchalantly shrugging off being shot 4 times while fighting a Nazi of course)

Just saw a pigeon walk in to a pet shop. Not sure if it was giving itself up or shopping or what

A few incredible humourless replies to a quote post about a humourless reply. Layer on layer of people unfamiliar with the concept of a joke

The main thing that comes across from that Chatfishing article is how unconfident people are about expressing themselves, it’s so sad. People trying to get a machine to help them understand how to be human

Oh this is sad. And somehow so surprising - she didn’t seem like the kind of person who would die. Too young & healthy seeming, however old she was

And it’s so long since anyone under 65 or so had a booster & there have been so many variants since then

Never look nearer death than when staring at yourself in the hairdresser’s mirror

Two different AI videos appearing in my feed in quick succession posted by people trying to get others to stop spreading them. Feels ominous

why do they call them children, they have like zero chill

These costumes are such a good idea because ICE don’t care about images of them assaulting a vulnerable woman, it excites them - but no one wants to be filmed beating up a giant frog, that’s just ridiculous

What did your mother tell you ice cream van ice cream was made with, according to some mad mum rumour she’d heard? Mine said goat fat, my partner’s mum told him cow’s blood plasma

The fact that he talks like Cher from Clueless makes him even creepier if that was possible

Can’t believe the Irish tried a version of UBI, found it worked, and decided to keep it rather than commission another study.

Watching Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid again. I love the fact that the costumes are done by Edith Head

Unwelcome discovery of the day - the reason the grass in our new house looks like this is some twat, instead of taking out a concrete backyard, just put soil & turf on top of it. Anyone know a good way round this (ideally aside from hiring a bulldozer & starting again)? 🌱

He’s died again!

Social media really does feel like it’s going away, quite suddenly. And writers & artists are left helplessly wondering how they’re meant to ‘build a following’ now. Skywriting? Homemade leaflets nailed to trees?

This book made me start writing poetry after I picked it from my parents’ bookshelves

Would never voluntarily go into a ‘scan receipt to exit’ supermarket. Feels like being held hostage. I reserve my right to wander in, look at what you have & leave without buying any of your shit

Always enjoy the slight bathos of In Our Time ending in an offer of tea or coffee. ‘So the causes of Bronze Age collapse are complex and in many ways unknowable ooh two sugars please’

Where are all the Robert Redford films? Why can’t I watch them?

I like knowing that it’s my stop on the train when I see the rollercoaster & Big Wheel

Donald Trump’s new enemy is paracetamol?? This is as mad as when the British right wing decided the real villains were the RNLI & the National Trust

Watching Minari. Confirming the main thing I’ve learnt from every film & book I’ve seen on the subject: Never buy a farm