Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do

and cloudflare runs on cloudflare so i can't even malkovich into my malkovich dashboard to unmalkovich my malkovich

i see the internet is doing some weather again

"what's the matter babe? you've hardly touched your Festival Zone Laundry Toilet Stairs"

Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human

Just saw this handsome bastad land on the gate. Tried to get a photo through the window… this was the best of a bad bunch

Note that by "sensible explanation" he means "explanation that doesn't mean I've been wrong about everything for a decade and that doesn't involve me having to listen to anyone who correctly predicted all of this" And so, no, I'm afraid nobody has a "sensible explanation".

I really like Mark Fell and so am very excited to hear about the new "National Centre for Mark Fell Studies" :)

Yes, because if it wasn’t this, then lots of important white people would now have to go to prison and the irresponsible clowns who cheered them on would have to resign in disgrace

It’s grimly amusing how this government incurred horrible political damage toeing the US line on the genocide, to the point where ministers will be twitchy about going through customs for the rest of their lives, and their reward is far right wingnuts and fascists screaming abuse at them.

Often, when paying my rent or swishing some water in a bottle of fairy liquid so it goes a little further, I am reminded of this Charles Moore spectator column from 2015, and the fact that financial hardship knows many forms.

i mean i know what she thinks she's saying here.. but when i see someone like this refer to "our community" my immediate thought is "far-right weirdos, showbiz dumbasses and other assorted gout-sufferers"

The British Establishment are all crying about how a protest against genocide somehow upsets all British Jewish people but came to a consensus that wanting to murder refugees is a ~legitimate concern~.

Let me be absolutely clear. i LOVE flags and i have lots of flags and flag pyjamas and nigel said his flag was biggest but i saw it when his mum was there and it had beans on it and my flag is better and i have flag-bunting round the edge of my flags and i only eat flag-flavoured cereal and

This only happens to you once

There is one (1) large fly in the house. It has been here for several days. It buzzes round VERY NOISILY for a few minutes, refusing all offers of open doors / windows. And then hides again until the next day. This seems very foolish to me. Neither of us gain anything from his daily performance.

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

My daughter is a big animal lover but reckons “we should just let the pandas die out because they’re idiots”

Dua Lipa will always be iconic to me 🇲🇲🇵🇸 www.service95.com/the-world-ha...

Tonight on the News at Ten: it’s the drivel and bullshit that political insiders you’ve never heard of sent our idiot correspondents today, read out like it’s terrifying revelations, because the lads like and respect very particular factional ghouls, and want them to succeed

this one is good too

please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice

Considering presenting the USA with a Trojan Horse and it's just James Corden inside

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

My ever-so-nuanced position is that I still think gun violence is bad but if it's going to happen to anyone, it's best happening to people who keep insisting gun violence is good

The most piercing judgments of Charlie Kirk I see today are the ones that simply quote his words for all to hear. What a legacy he earned.

A brief 🧵on the UK's cynical and conveniently shifting position on this. news.sky.com/story/israel...

Just played a quick cuica solo to start the day with a honk

malcolm gladwell has been a dipshit for 10,000 hours

my next idea to shake up the world of podcasting: ban all podcasts where one speaker is 15dB quieter than the rest of them. Nobody is listening to podcasts on expensive monitors in an anechoic chamber. We are all driving / vacuuming the stairs / doing a very loud poo and flushing the toilet / etc

The genocide has been a joint venture between the far right (Netanyahu, Trump) and the conventional centre (Biden, Sunak, Starmer, Macron, Scholz, Merz). The West's de facto pro-genocide consensus has been strikingly broad, notwithstanding some disagreements among the culprits over implementation.

might start a podcast that's just me going "hello? ... ... hello??" for 30 minutes. weekly episodes.

In this clip, Rory says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has now become an obvious fact, somehow without anyone having been wrong about anything at any point.

What happened to the Tories was: the papers finally decided it was too boring & embarrassing to keep propping them up, and started kicking the props away instead. Not sure how you defend against that really, when *using government to do good things* is clearly off the table.

I spent far too long programming some speech synths (Plogue Chipspeech), a Moog (UAD) and a SCI Pro3 to perform John Dowland’s “Can She Excuse My Wrongs” on.soundcloud.com/zkeWWiPGa5Kw...

From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.

fucking LLM slop bots have been scraping all our systems for months. ignoring robots.txt and basically imitating a DDOS .. but I've just had the genius idea of getting them perma redirected back at their own IPs with: return 301 $scheme://$remote_addr$request_uri; i am so happy

Interspecies communication is hard. I just wish the poor little kitty could speak and tell me what it is she wants

Is the problem with fascism who is doing it or what they are doing?

really think these dim bulbs should have to explain what they mean when they use phrases like "your own moral purity". although i admit it's a total fantasy to imagine it might cause them to accidentally think about anything

Sensible Moderates spent months supporting Israel, both-sidesing it, hand-wringing, opposing those who called it genocide. Now it's undeniable they are trying to rewrite history so that they were never wrong and those who protested this era-defining crime against humanity were somehow never right

Yes yes Yvette, we know you're a racist authoritarian, well done... but why can't you just deal with all this terrible violence and injury (that's definitely real) in the normal way without making it illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" ?

Chuck this one on the teetering pile of unfathomable mysteries that cannot ever be explained, because yet again the actual explanation is “The people whose job it is to provide the public with explanations have behaved horrendously, with disastrous results”.

My earnest advice to Labour supporters concerned about the new left party is to accept that: 1. The Labour Party leader told those people to leave 2. Those people are now gone. 3. You will not scold them into returning. 4. You have 4 years to get your party to attract them back into the fold.