Are we okay?

There seem to be some people at the BBC, probably all fairly high up, who have their eye on where they'll go and fuck it all up next. They don't care about its future, and on the basis of that QT atrocity, I'm not sure why we're obliged to care either.

Not now Bobby Strings www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZRl...

Massive local weeping willow has split in half... guess because of the drought. In mourning.

Not me watching the 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ trailer about a fictional series of Friday 13th films and pausing it to read the titles and being all like 'one in the past' nod, 'one in the future / space' nod, 'new beginning' nod etc etc

Looking forward to this British version of the Dukes of Hazzard

#FolkloreThursday In Scotland stonechats were believed to be in league with the Devil, carrying a drop of his blood and in constant conversation with him with their calls. If you destroyed their nest you would die of a disease and if you stole their eggs the Devil would break your back in revenge.

Case in point Space Wreck which looks like a harrier. Art by Tony Roberts

Some see a very wrecked Lightning. I see a Space Wreck piece...

just found out THIS is the creator of Widow's Bay on Apple tv

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

Billy Allison, one of the founders of Raise the Colours charged with murder www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wrote a short article about the garish colour palette used by teletext, the ZX Spectrum, Windows 3.1, the World Wide Web, the Linux command line, etc. notebook.zoeblade.com/Boolean_colo...

The degree to which on many real-world questions, virtually all of mainstream politics is to the right of virtually all of the electorate is very striking. Is it any wonder people feel underrepresented?

the wikipedia image for sexual roleplay is making my lose my mind

SHAROOOON! THEY'VE TRAPPED ME FUCKIN SOUL IN A FUCKIN DIGITAL CONSTRUCT SHARON. IVE GOT NO FUCKIN FREE WILL SHARON. THEY WANT ME TO SING CRAZY TRAIN TILL THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE SHARON. FUCKIN HELL. SHAROOOON!

Spielberg is like 'Isn't it wonderful that aliens really exist' Yeah, I guess that's great to promote your new Close Encounters movie but you didn't say that when you were promoting War of the Worlds.

Lads, Kill List is on at the Prince Charles in London in 25th June, if you have seen it, it is peak British folk horror by Ben Wheatley with my fave bae Neil Maskell. If you have seen it then how LOVELY to be able to watch it on a big screen!

A recent @newscientist cartoon p.s. I will be in Madrid and Germany very soon! Details at www.tomgauld.com

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

The most British thing about this scandal is the tone of "I can forgive the embezzlement but I draw the line at poor taste" and not only am I here for it but I've rarely felt more patriotic

Caught up with One Piece Live Action.... did not really expect the silly fantasy pirate show to be repeatedly emotionally devastating.

[autism posting] i know that cubes can cast a hexagonal shadow, just like anyone who has drawn one on an isometric grid but it's always pleasing to see an accidental hexagonal shadow like some real life rendering bug

Local shop closes down tomorrow but I'm too flaked out from the heat to be bothered walking round to see if there's any bargains.

In celebration of both World Dracula Day and Peter Cushing's birthday. 🧛

Author of this thinks nobody reads Pratchett any more because most of his readers have blocked her.

I was sent this by a follower on X. I like a map and I *really* like this one. Dates from the 1960's. That's a swinging area by the way, not swimming. That's caused much merriment over there. 😆Swinging as in ships turning, not the...coughs ...more modern interpretation.😉

Truly one of the greatest things to ever happen to television.

Dolmen

Nedflicks is Glasgow bsky.app/profile/step...

I see the gammons are calling heat warnings woke now ... remember on my first foreign holiday a guy collapsing because he was all 'we Brits ruled India we can drink all lunchtime and then go out in the full heat', also did Michael Mosely die for nothing?

We can't even keep our cheese - A Dutch guy won the cheese rolling 'I'm taking it back to the Netherlands, it's our cheese now'

I was asked recently how to spell it. But it’s in the OED now, along with its origin (1994).

I think we can trace the downfall of Britain to the point when we stopped showing The Italian Job at bank holidays.

Obligatory (It is hotter than Greece btw) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Fabulous clarification in today's Observer. Stonehenge!

‘At least we’re not Widow’s Bay’

The most positive review of Mando and Grogo I've seen is by someone who thought they saw a ghost in the cinema

Saw a thing that Starmer now finally realises he's done but wants to leave a legacy... banning social media for under 16s. Such a pathetic level of ambition... he could have done so much, but no lets just do this one tiny thing that won't work anyway.

Lupita Nyong’o making a fine Helen of Troy by making an increasing number of men insane just by her looks.

That's dedication, they must be absolutely boiling! bsky.app/profile/pika...

This cartoon is good, but it's a little hard to take from The Guardian which has - and continues to, esp via regular columnists - push for this exact thing

Labour imposes ban on working with Greens, forces Labour councillors to partner with Tories.

Not happy about next week's weather forecast

Saw a video about all the licensed crap they are doing for the Mandalorian And there's Mandy face wash. Face wash! Where's my Judge Dredd Face wash.

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend” is a banger. And a rallying cry for artists in the AI slop era.

I'd turn this around a bit and point out that, for all Trump's obvious idiocy, this war marks the moment when Americans whether Dem or GOP are coming to terms with how the age of limited warfare where great powers can quickly roll over an even half-functional adversary is coming to an end

Just saw the logline for a Sacha Baron Cohen movie just added to Netflix - sexist man is transported to a topsy-turvy world where WOMEN are in charge! - and figured it must be some forgotten library title from 2004. Nope. Brand new for 2026!

Oh it's a special day when you re find the interview with the guy who created a religion out of the Carry On films carryon.org.uk/interview5.htm