It's Bandcamp Friday and I've remembered we have a Bluesky account so head on down to thewind-upbirds.bandcamp.com and get some (or all) of our stuff (This is Mat btw but you can tell that from the accent)

Dead right. Don Estelle and all them holocaust gags, eh?

Nigel Farage made 90 times more Cameo videos than speeches in Parliament, records show

We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.

'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'

put my thing down flip it and reverse it? in this economy?

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

I remember Meera Syal saying on a tv chat show about twenty bleeding years ago about the lack of representation of poc on tv particularly in advertising. It’s taken this long to finally see a fair balance so that stupid women and others like her should just shut the fuck up.

“A Led By Donkeys spokesperson said: “It’s good the police now accept it’s not illegal to project a film about Donald Trump’s close relationship with America’s most notorious child sex trafficker on to a wall.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

British.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

This is the thing when you’re pro-humanity… Every death stings Even those who spent their lives sowing division Because our goal is always a better world For everyone …and every life lost is a sad reminder of how incredibly far we still have to go.

"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home" The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

Not a single Reform UK MP attended today's Commons statement on child rape gangs.

“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division.” I've joined @palomafaith.music-social.com @zarahsultana.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and many more in signing this

Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts

Is the answer by getting the BBC to unquestioningly run with their agenda?

It is a little known fact that the correct way to fly the St George's cross is an analy. Anyone flying it in any other way should know I am questioning their patriotism.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS - THOUSANDS MORE LETTERS SENT 🚨 📈Thousands of you have taken action so far and sent a letter to Ofgem - will you join us and help stop Musk? ✍️It only takes two minutes to send Ofgem our letter.. https://www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elon-musk-uk-energy-power-grab

All back to the former director of NATO Arms Control and WMD Centre’s!

Did a new one

I feel like people who defended this woman were underestimating how hard it is to get fired by the NHS and therefore how the interactions with Beth Upton were very obviously the last straw on a giant pile of straw

In "Legitimate Concerns" news. 41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Powerful words, and powerful New Statesman article, by former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumpton, on the horrors being administered in Gaza.

I'm subscribed to some podcasts where I pay a subscription for extra content. Surely there is room for a model like this in the music industry. A subset of tracks (singles) free on the streamers and you pay a fee (one-off) if you want the whole album.

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

Musk has adjusted Grok’s algorithm so it’s now a neo-Nazi. Pretty cool that almost every progressive commentator, elected official and organization still uses Musk’s X algorithm to communicate with the public! Good job guys.

I wish Prime Ministers would sometimes say (eg about goings-on at festivals) “I don’t know, I’m too busy”

Pleased with my 2 word Letter Boxed from yesterday. The only sort that is worth doing!

ME: why is it called dental records and not tooth-factor authentication? DENTIST: *drills into my tongue*

A huge, quiet success: violence has fallen 75% in a generation:

anyone who wants to “protect english culture” can join a morris dancing team or shut the fuck up

More of this

Going to form an IT consultancy called IrIT8

Handmade needle felt middle Totoro from child one for my birthday.

Solidarity with all trans, non-binary & intersex people facing the harsh and ill-considered guidance issued by the EHRC. It’s full of holes & has clearly been written without input from trans people. I will push for this to be withdrawn until thought-out guidance can be produced.

Will pope for cash

Our little Great Tit says #happyeaster to everyone unless you are planning to vote for Reform

Got one click away from cancelling my Labour membership.I can cope with the economic timidity but the capitulation to the right on the culture wars is tipping me close to the edge. Giving them a couple of months.

So.. I wrote another song. I'm not sure how long I'll keep it on Bandcamp and it definitely won't go on my next album. I had fun writing it, though. I think what it lacks in subtlety, it makes up for in its complete lack of subtlety. thepitchdropexperiment.bandcamp.com/track/lest-w...

Choosing never to know what this means

It's great that people on here are so clever and interested in politics and culture but sometimes I wonder if they just want to sit on the sofa and watch The Mentalist for the 4th time.

Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a mass grave, libelled them as terrorists and then lied about it. One of the ambulance crews' last words were: "I only chose this path because I wanted to help people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

I don't know much about drumming but Clem Burke was my second favourite drummer after Oli.

Two new songs from #thepitchdropexperiment Just Bandcamp for now. Have a listen #newmusic

New songs alert. I've just put up two new songs as a sort of double A side called Write/XY. The first track is fairly straightforward (apart from a controversial fadeout) and the second one is a bit weird... Well, weird for me. thepitchdropexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/write-xy