The Hives forever.

Hello Lisbon

Yesterday lunchtime: I’ll just quickly fit those mudguards to my daughter’s bike. 2.5 hours later, and after a load of hacksawing… I need a lie down now.

‘How about a reboot? Stay with me here. What if… he’s not really dead?’

Apple intelligence is great. It’s worked out that I don’t want to listen to U2 every time I get in the car.

Ditching one of my last of these. It’s always amused me that Apple thought: £600+ for an iPhone but let’s supply the shittest quality cable we can.

Returning to work today like…

Okay, so it’s Christmas and I’m reflecting on my year in music. I’ve made it my mission to see (and perform) live music this year. It’s been going well. Here’s a thread of just a few of the acts I’ve seen this year… 🧵

The trampolines are going to be flying today.

Worth noting that people such as Dominic Cummings subscribe to the COVID lab-leak conspiracy. It’s been a kind of “acceptable conspiracy”.

Staying at a friend’s in Bristol. He’s a very good artist. Casually just sketches stuff like this!

All these years later, I still haven't decided if MC Hammer was telling me that this very moment was the time to start hammering or if we were all of us living in the time of the hammer, collectively.

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

it’s the dril tweet but data centers instead of candles, and planet instead of family

Oh, how’s that metaverse thing coming along btw?

Well that was a surprise.

Ed Balls

Jeremy Vine is on Radio 2 asking who should be “our Elon Musk” to shake up government 🤦🏻 Suggestions so far include Alan Sugar, Richard Branson, and “that Dyson guy”. 🤦🏻🤦🏻

‘I stand by my original statement: we ARE never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy.’

as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen

I really think this headline should end with: Wrong answers only

My neighbours are practicing The Last Post on their trumpet. I feel the constant urge to stand to attention.

I saw a lot of amazing Halloween costumes but I would like to flag my favorite: a tale of two freddys "I want to break free......I want to breeeaaaak into your dreams!"

Gig night at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. 🤘

In the last week, Labour hit a crucial milestone on getting rid of hereditary peers, unlocked £1bn funding for social housing insulation, initiated plans to regulate buy-now-pay-later lenders and started to coalesce around an HS2 replacement. Barely any chat about this at all.

look at this absolute unit

You have to be over a certain age to get this one. 😁

Bluesky is actually an Umberto Eco chamber, as it tends to warn about the signs of impending fascism and its associated dangers, rather than, you know, to debate and encourage them.

I stopped reading or posting on Xitter about a month ago now and it’s started sending me push notifications of Farage and Musk tweets (neither of whom I follow). What the actual f…?

Went for a run, saw this.

Brazil might be about to switch off Xitter.

Mixed reviews for sure, but four stars overall, so I guess this means it's a good product?

I have good news and bad news about my friend Schrödinger's cat…

Bank holiday incoming

Wondering whether this was aimed at the bloke in the striped swimsuit.

Saw a band called The Magnificent Kevins yesterday. They were magnificent.

Oh hello Britain 😳 That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now. Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download

I guess I should actually post something! This is my first post after leaving the other place. Hoping this place grows without undergoing enshitification. If not, let’s just enjoy it while it lasts.