Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

Happy 100th birthday Mel Brooks! To celebrate, I am watching this for the 100th time

I've realised the reason I enjoy the internet mostly is that I do NOT doomscroll. I post. I'm a poster, at heart. Watching the world's horrors does make you sad. But posting stupid nonsense and replying to other people's? I recommend it.

They had someone from the company on R4 saying they chose London as it's the most demanding environment in the world for self-drive to cope with. "Once we master London, we can confidently roll it out globally." Nice to know London cyclists and pedestrians are seen as crash-test dummy collateral.

Actual non-novel Murderbot

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Headline: England to face DR Congo Me, sleepily: Is this another Marvel thing

Hydration Break

I think it's a 1950s table knife – long since estranged from its siblings – that we use to serve cat food

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

How did America manage to ruin the World Cup by making it impossible for anyone to work out what's going on and crowbarring quarters in? Apparently England are through based on how everyone else did yesterday and tarot

Aaand we're going to forget about it all until next year when it's worse, and chuds with laugh reactions on Facebook will continue to reinforce among their peers that it's still made up even as some of them go down with heatstroke

“A huge amount of the economy is driven by people who are, simply put, highly suggestible.” This is really good on the general cluelessness of the c-suite class

Phil Lynott died on the same day James Milner was born. #totp #lufc

I'm really glad we didn't sign Strand-Larsen #lufc #NORFRA

I wonder what it feels like to write something like the keyboard riff to Are Friends Electric. I suspect Numan punched the fucking air #totp

BANGER #totp

This Bonnie Tyler song sounds like the 'Father Ted Daydreams About Being In A Casino' music #totp

Could this UK Subs song have been an email? #totp

THIN LIZZY COME ON #totp

Lena Lovich is your mum’s cool friend who would turn a blind eye when you nicked her cigarettes but would absolutely make sure you got home safely and wouldn’t grass you up for being pissed #totp

Ah we're into the random racist native-Americans-as-cannibals dross are we #totp

For every Lene and Squeeze there's a no-mark beardy guy in a jumpsuit #totp

Lene Lovich has all of Steps and Westlife and S-Club 7 on toast pass it on #totp

God I love this song #totp

You wait all night for a Police song and then suddenly it comes in the ... wait, no, he's not come yet #totp

Blimey my comprehensive English teacher Mr. Tucker is on guitar here #totp

If you want to cover Status Quo, Teen, just go for it and stop doing it in installments. #totp

PLAY MARILLION YOU COWARDS #totp

Blimey the guitar solo in Moonlight Shadow is a banger #totp

"Ma'am, I'm eight years old. You think I would be here alone? I don't think so." #totp

Oh fuck it's Westlife #totp

Where, precisely, is the intelligent bomb, and could it perhaps blow itself up now? #totp

"Do you like ... Tina Turner, Ted?" #totp

Why is everyone dancing like Peter Crouch's only goal celebration? #totp

"DON'T CALL ME LEN YOU LITTLE BOLLOCKS" #totp

Len only had one song and this is it #totp

"Yeah, we auditioned for The Simpsons, then The Offspring. Didn't get either. Yeah I suppose our own thing might take off. Not with this song maybe ha yeah" #totp

BBC? It's all repeats #totp

I'd just like to say what a wonderful selection of songs we've had tonight but I can't because we haven't #totp

I had no idea Macauley Culkin was in Westlife #totp

Oh fuck it's Westlife #totp

PLAY MR HANKEY THE CHRISTMAS POO YOU COWARDS #totp

Imagine that this song had to compete with all the other songs you just heard this evening and note that it's at number 7. Re-releasing this was like shooting fish in a barrel #totp

Love all these posts that say "As someone who grew up in a country where it is regularly 40 degrees and that's just no big deal to us here are some tips" and then they advise Brits to have a cold drink and use a fan.

Alice Deejay dressed for a January night out in Newcastle #TOTP

In his dean's list for the annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll, [he] named "Re-Rewind" the fifth-best single of the year.[3] Not my words, the words of Robert Christgau of The Village Voice #top