If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

What a find - the house of Peter Firmin, the creator of bagpuss, which doubled for Emily’s shop, is for sale www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

Stewart Lee was brilliant tonight: "If you're unsure of which toilets you can use feel free to shit in a bag and mail it to Graham Linehan, he sorts through them by hand"

Last night, a glancing reference to London 0, Hull 4 from Chris Packham on Springwatch got me thinking about one thing and another.

Blair’s political outlook is structurally identical to the assumption that the pop/rock music of one’s teens and early twenties is objectively the greatest music ever made: what worked in the late 1990s and early 2000s *must* be the only sensible approach.

Must just be some mad coincidence that all the Putin apologists find themselves in a party run by a bloke that really admires Putin

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

I think the phrase 'a hill I will die on' is stupid and overused and that is an opinion I have

Shocked. Shocked!

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

BBC News - Hungary alleges plot to blow up gas pipeline ahead of election www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Entirely predictable from Orban but.. Why are we able to get this honest analysis of what Orban is up to from the BBC but get the usual watered-down coverage of Trump?

Your inability to learn complicated handshakes is tearing this gang apart.

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

The correct way to deal with Maya Forstater and the Sex Matters ghouls

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Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

Terry and Dune

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

Another stunning victory for Blue Labour.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Up until now the only people with a cassettes full of early @thewindupbirds.bsky.social songs were members of @thewindupbirds.bsky.social. Now you too have the chance to own a tape with early The Wind-up Birds songs on it. But with a proper cover and in lilac.

Screaming

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

FUCKETY BYE CUNT

So like many people I'm hoping for a Green win in Gorton and Denton today but whatever happens in all likelihood the MP will have been elected by less than a third of the votes. For so many reasons now we need voting reform (but not voting Reform)

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

I'll still be calling him Prince You wanted us to call you King and Prince and whatever other fairytale bullshit you fancied. Based on nothing more than an accident of birth. It meant nothing then but it means something now. It means you are all tarred with the same brush. Own it. He is one of you.

Hello people of York and the environs @thewindupbirds.bsky.social are supporting the mighty Art Brut at @thecrescentyork.bsky.social tonight. TOP OF THE POPS!

It would be really great to read an article about young boys that didn't have Adolescence and "crisis" as its reference points. There is something badly wrong in our discourse about teenage boys and girls. Mostly, they are fine and far better adjusted than their parents and grandparents.

They are trolling Jim Ratcliffe.

Last minute gig today. Supporting The Godfathers at the Brudenell!

He and Cummings now have the chance to create the most god-awful podcast together.

you wouldn’t need to put on such a spectacular half time show if the sport wasn’t shit

Bruce Springsteen dedicated a performance of ‘The Promised Land’ to slain ICE watcher Renee Good. He also called out ICE’s ‘Gestapo tactics,’ telling them to get out of Minneapolis.

I have discovered a sock down the leg of the jeans I am wearing. I think it might just need to stay there all day.

Reform should buy the whole album in one go because its cheaper than buying individual tracks.

We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

feels like the met should raid x: the everything app’s office, shut them down, confiscate their hard drives and, if they find any csam, prosecute the ceo and put them on the sex offenders’ register this is what i like to call “the moderate position”

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.