So lads this is the big one the one that will win everyone over: an app. It spies on you but you can also report your neighbour so yknow ups and downs

I'll say this for Starmer. He really does know how to motivate and mobilise people.

Baked a milk loaf last night and left it to cool for the morning. 500g white bread flour 75g milk 280g water 10g salt 7g yeast 70g melted unsalted butter

My lovely friend David Lambert’s first novel comes out tomorrow from @peepaltreepress.bsky.social! So delighted for him! www.peepaltreepress.com/books/house-...

Hey everyone, was chatting with Annie from @badsquiddogames.bsky.social and she informed me that she has gotten shipping and tariff stuff figured out for both the EU and the USA, but she has seen a drop in customers. Go order from her! Her stuff is brilliant! #wargaming #ttgaming #warhammercommunity

The BBC piece shows exactly how journalism is broken. They think that "one side said this, the other side said that" is all that is required for balance. They've totally failed to do the actual "journalism" bit: researching the source of the statements and forensically exposing the gaps and issues.

I'm not sure the people who think they are being feminists when they support casual transphobia realise that this is the direction of travel -no bodily autonomy; the UK police suggesting they could ask for your period tracking data to see if you had a late (and hence illegal) abortion

“Drat,” said Toad.

Bread.

Breeeeeeead.

Top 10 sitcoms, UK: Hancock's Half Hour Fawlty Towers Allo Allo A Bit Of A Do Just Good Friends Early Doors Bottom Men Behaving Baldly dinnerladies Only Fools And Horses Bubbling under: Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line, Upstart Crow, Yes (Prime) Minister, Brass, Coupling, Two Doors Down NDSBEI

I wish iPlayer offered playback speed. I'd probably watch more current drama if I could whizz through at 1.5x. My most common reason for giving up is that the story unfolds painfully slowly, despite all the editing compression; contrast with the supposedly slow pace of "old" drama.

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order. Porridge I'm Alan Partridge Goodnight Sweetheart Butterflies The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Ever Decreasing Circles Derry Girls Blackadder Black Books Yes (Prime) Minister Near misses: Nightingales Colin's Sandwich A Bit of Fry and Laurie

"culture war" is a euphemism for fights picked by fascists

Interzone #303 is out today with all sorts of treasures, including my latest column on rereading the Library of America edition of Le Guin! shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

No, it hasn't.

Excellent evening out seeing @watsoncomedian.bsky.social in Cambridge. There are 79 (?) further opportunities to see him on this tour and, based on tonight's effort, you should do so, funds permitting.

I've never seen an XKCD with which I've disagreed before.

Simon's recs are always good:

Seeing as folk are recommending underrated Robert Redford movies, may I add 1972's The Hot Rock. William Goldman's adaptation of the first of Donald Westlake's Dortmunder novels is a classic crime caper with a notoriously unlucky protagonist. www.imdb.com/title/tt0068...

Dear Blenheim Palace, on behalf of everyone who works at Hampton Court Palace, I HAVE QUESTIONS

This is a book I would never have had the chance to read without @backlisted.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @quantick.bsky.social for suggesting it!

A milder form of this (that leads to the same place) is when insufferable people express views which are, in fact, accurate or helpful. There is a powerful urge to disagree with them. If you can't get past their personal awfulness and double down the contrary path, it can get very dark very quickly.

“Solo was a man who thought he was a loner…”

So fantastic to have the issue of veteran testimony and how we approach remembering the bombing campaign discussed. Very much enjoyed this from @danellin.bsky.social & @marybrazier.bsky.social

Years ago I wrote this piece about national treasure and dreadful old c**t Peter Blake. Have just dredged it up for my new best friend @typetheclouds.bsky.social who had the good sense to buy my fucking book™ at the Hastings book fair. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ja...

It's #FabCon in Vienna this week. Carmel Eve & Jessica Hill from @endjin.com will be in attendance - say hi if you're there, if not keep an eye on the endjin blog & YouTube channel for more Microsoft Fabric content soon!

I have come to the conclusion that the BBC needs to shut down their 24h news channel and "live" website which are broken beyond repair. They should refocus on meticulously sourced, verified, and well-analysed "yesterdays news tomorrow" programming and online content.

I wonder if the Prime Minister might have anything to say today about how the world's richest man urged a huge fascist mob to effect a change in government and incited them to violence, because I feel like that's not something we should encourage

I've not heard this version of Dark Globe before. youtu.be/qevDWMpD58I?...

That's a heck of a Boxleitner.

I had a great time talking about my all-time favourite book with @backlisted.bsky.social: www.patreon.com/posts/eye-of...

Thank you, Matthew. I wish more people would realise how important it is that the Backlisted team eats.

Surely everyone on Bluesky is a Backlisted Patreon subscriber? If not, correct that terrible oversight as soon as funds allow.

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University #Archaeology

Cracking @backlisted.bsky.social this week, with @iammilliam.bsky.social and @unamccormack.bsky.social on top form with @quantick.bsky.social. Cary Grant *and* Eleanor Bron in the same episode. #swoons.

Amazing Old World events this weekend. 2600 points of battle here at the TSN ARENA

...and the second was a mention of Ian Griffiths' yearly AIS .NET performance benchmarks in an article by The Register: www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/m...

Two mentions of @endjin.com this week - the 1st was @ythos.bsky.social perf contribution - JsonMarshal.GetRawUtf8PropertyName - to .NET 10 in Stephen Toub's latest epic devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perfo...

I regret to advise you that Jelly Babies are currently being sold in a “retro” design bag to capture the “nostalgia” of “yesteryear”, ie 1995.

New video…..ya bastards!!! All the Sean Bean you can handle youtu.be/X9XEtSX_Jso?...

Oh, it’s the 85th anniversary of the discovery of the cave paintings at Lascaux! We visited over the summer.

She worked as a builder.

Thank you so much for backing, sharing and chatting with me about Women of WW2: Resistance. It's IGNITED MY SOUL. I wrote more sap over here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad... Also some details of what happens next with the project

Tucked away in a corner of this epic post is the tiny thing I did. See if you can find it.

Annie is doing something in miniatures that is, in my opinion, extremely important. There's a member of the Greek youth resistance in this set, and as a Greek I've never seen that before. This is the history of the marginalized told through miniatures. This matters. Support it.