The Great British Bank Holiday. The ice machines are packing up, ice cream's melting, waste bins overflowing, A&Es are full of people looking like fried animals, teenagers throwing up in bushes, the sound of air ambulances, sirens, choppers chasing bikes, security alarms, a jewellers being robbed

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic A song that makes me get up and dance. Red Snapper - Hot Flush @brucegeob.bsky.social @paulakeenan.bsky.social @coinneachrooney.bsky.social @deborann.bsky.social

JACK NICHOLSON 40yrs ago on the corporatisation and conglomeration of the Film industry & Hollywood.

TIL that Sade is not a female solo artist. Sade is a band, with the same four members since 1982, one of whom is the lead singer, Sade Adu. I don't know how I could have not known this. It's as though I'd thought Jon Bon Jovi had been a solo artist his entire career, backed by session musicians.

It’s not really worth comparing Star Trek and Star Wars imo because one is science fiction and the other is epic fantasy that happens to be set in space.

the hungry observatory

#nowplaying Kraftwerk "Pocket Calculator"

PROPHECY AT 1420 MHZ. youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo

Canary to launch a daily newspaper - and these lot are going to hate it Welcome to the Canary in print. £1.20. Monday to Friday. Across England and Wales. From Tuesday 26 May. We'd love you to join us...! www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

🔥 The petition has now broken through 80,000 signatures.

First Past the Post is supposed to be "winner takes all" – but in Wandsworth, the Conservatives won the most seats despite finishing second in votes. The system doesn’t just distort outcomes; it can completely scramble them.

Well worth the read. Follow the money. F*rage and Johnson. Thanks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @thenerve.news for their excellent reporting. 👇

Years ago, Farage 'cancelled' a 100,000-person Brexit march in London at the last minute due to 'safety concerns'. I sent a FOI to the Met. They never applied for a legally-required demo permit or spoke to police re safety. They never intended to do it, but got the publicity anyway. This is that.

TIL the Swedish word for “speed” is “fart”.

#LookAndSee Culture Black - Under Mi Guinness

London towers #photography #urban #mono

Free simulator teaches how to identify swimmers in distress/drowning. Important: drowning ppl can be dangerous to untrained rescuers. Call for lifeguard! If none can help, push float/object toward drowning person, avoid letting them grab you directly, esp in deep water. spotthedrowningchild.com

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

i need star wars to jump forward like 200 years in time. partly because it'd free up new stories and characters, but more fundamentally, we need a long period of peace in this universe. we need to know that the heroes' various actions were worth something.

RIP Scott's Hot Tamales. This is where my Great Grandmother would order her tamales from every Christmas. They would freeze, pack and overnight them from Greenville, Mississippi to Los Angeles.

45 years ago: Escape from New York (GB,DE,US) In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan... 1981-05-23 #ClassicMovies #KurtRussell #LeeVanCleef #ErnestBorgnine https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1103

A Male Cardinal singing his heart out. I'm sure there was a lady Cardinal he was trying to impress! #BirdoftheDay #SingforyourSupper #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #eck

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #RaveYardShift A song with a type of building in the title. Jungle Brothers - I'll House You @brucegeob.bsky.social @coinneachrooney.bsky.social @deborann.bsky.social @paulakeenan.bsky.social

Director Brian De Palma’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Emmanuelle Béart, Vanessa Redgrave, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jon Voight, and Emilio Estevez infiltrated theaters on this day thirty years ago 💻 💿 🚁 #OTD

A Firecrest an unseasonable early catch at the Obs this morning

The stairwell of Mousa Broch on the western shore of the Island of Mousa in the Shetland Isles. The broch was constructed in the Iron Age in around 100 BC. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #Mousa #Shetland #Archaeology

One thing I love about "ET" is how it time-freezes the last gasp of subdivisions in LA's hills & Valley. I related to riding bikes with friends over graded terraces for homes, making jumps out of plywood. This intersection is at Beaufait & Darby in Porter Ranch (1982 vs. 2022).

Now watching:

The Driver (1978) 🎬🖤 Directed by Walter Hill

Finally got a chance to sit down and listen to these two tracks, and as many people are saying, we’ve never been so back

ONE WEEK.

“The solar canopies on carparks policy (call for evidence Section 1) will not be taken further at this point.” www.gov.uk/government/c... Umm…why not?!?

Buy. Break. Replace. Repeat. Across Europe, products are made to fail - and we’re the ones paying for it. EU leaders are deciding now whether to fix this. Sign to demand products that last! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-05...

FIFA is panicking: World Cup hotel cancellations are surging as global fans ditch the U.S., citing soaring costs, visa bonds, and Trump’s dictatorial behavior. Turns out nobody wants to pay $1,000 a night just to experience an authoritarian simulation.

Re PARAMOUNT+: It took me about 45 minutes to figure out how to cancel it. They don't make it easy. But with determination, it is doable. Use your opportunity to tell the AGENT (not the A.I. bot!) you will ultimately be connected to exactly WHY. I cited the Ellisons, Bari Weiss, CBS News... (contd)

I just canceled Paramount +.

"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life," --Oscar Wilde

It's weird when I run into people that hate that Homelander is a Trump stand-in. It feels very "I only like politics in works when it's old or I can't identify it," because in the first season of The Boys Homelander nearly quoted a George W. Bush speech word for word. It wasn't even subtle. 😂

THIS is why the current season of ‘The Boys’ is struggling. The exaggerated actions of Homelander seem less outrageous when Trump has already done it.

"Trump says"?? What is this framing? This is not a normal thing for a president to say! The president is not in charge of who hosts TV shows! How about: "Trump threatens TV networks if they refuse to fire personalities he dislikes"

Time to cancel your Paramount+.

BREAKING: Comedian Stephen Colbert eaten by giant green glowing portal.

Paramount+ canceled. With Colbert and Star Trek finished (I'll catch the 2nd season of Starfleet Academy some day in the future), I have no reason to have it. I hope CBS tanks in their stupidity and complicity to the Regime.

Thousands of people across parts of south Wales have been told to boil their tap water before drinking after Welsh Water identified a problem at one of its treatment works

Add to this AI data centres. I was staggered last year when I received an email asking me to delete my emails to save water. It’s easy to see who will be prioritised.

Whilst other countries spend millions building flood structures China is building "sponge city" program, transforming urban landscapes to act like sponges to absorb, store, and reuse rainwater, aiming to combat severe flooding and water scarcity www.euronews.com/2022/10/22/c...

In little over 24 hours, the petition for government to stage a UK-wide briefing on the climate & nature crisis has passed the 10,000 milestone. Please help us get this to 100,000 to secure a parliamentary debate - by sharing widely. #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

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