Correction: Bangaranga is Graham Norton for "thank fuck"

Eurovision dodged a bullet with Israel coming second - next year's contest would have been ... difficult ...

aaaah, I was wondering what the Eurovision logo reminded me of

This means nothing to me, oh Vienna #Eurovision

I've just switched over to #Eurovision and oh dear

#Legends on Netflix has an absolutely banging soundtrack

I've done talks about sea otters to bigger crowds.

goodness me this is a garbage piece - superficial, "truthy", failing to disconnect correlation from cause and absolutely devoid of any actual evidence or citiations to shore up its handwaving assertions.

I've been trying to explain about Eurovision to American friends this morning and they are looking at me like I'm mad.

It's been non-stop at this feeder today!

meanwhile, speaking of schadenfreude ...

the schadenfreude is going to be absolutely off the scale if Burnham loses the by-election

I'm enjoying the "Top 100 Bluesky responses to a top 100 cultural list bait of all time, of all time."

Starlings are eating me out of house and home: it's like having a gang of feral teenagers descending on the fridge

ok, I'll bite: I've read 14 and a half of these, & I can hand on heart say I really enjoyed only three of them: Dracula, Jane Eyre and The Line of Beauty. This mostly seems to be a list of A-level set texts rather than books lots of people will enjoy/have enjoyed www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

btw, cat people, this is the single greatest invention of all time: Daphne is cheerfully wolfing down her antibiotic pills thanks to these www.royalcanin.com/uk/cats/prod...

I will say, when your leader was a Liberal Democrat until comparatively recently, this isn't a very convincing line

NOT ANOTHER FUCKING ELF

ah, the banter timeline is back. Though actually, I do think the Greens should field a candidate: there are Green voters there too. And yes, I know it risks splitting the left vote and handing it to Reform, but I dislike electoral pacts and I don't want a Burnham coronation.

Dataviz of the day

Is he by any chance the new health secretary replacing Wes Streeting?

for the avoidance of doubt, this is not a good thing.

reaching the point where I never want to hear the name Andy Burnham ever again, and yet this is going to go on for weeks/months/years and I am very tired

This one of your cousins, @radiobeartime.com??

tortie tuxedo floofster ginger tabby posh breed

"Stop working, human."

New visitors to the bird buffet - starlings!

Very smart piece from @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social on Andy Burnham. This line particularly stands out: "Andy wants to be loved and avoids making difficult decisions.” www.ft.com/content/9dd4...

i'm saying andy burnham.

When I am head of the world, it will be a crime to comment on a story you haven't read, with extra jail time added if you whine "paywall" at the outlet/the person sharing it. Paywalls pay for good journalism!

Heroic reporting by the FT, and robust in the face of a giant libel threat. But more importantly, heroic bravery of the women to come forward, tell their stories and offer to be witnesses.

Labour, be like “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Actually, you know that man who lost two leadership elections and isn’t yet eligible to run…”

I will be long gone so unable to enjoy the spectacle, but I confidently predict that these wholesome kids will hit their 40s and belatedly discover and wholeheartedly embrace sex, drugs and rock and roll.

bloody maptap - my dudes, we're not all in America. Some obscure place in New Mexico is not the easy question. Istanbul is the easy question!

tbt to when I photoshopped Andy Burnham as a doe-eyed Princess Diana and it came out as Wham era George Michael

APPLE!!!

I am putting the people I represent first and resigning as their representative.

I am not sure they have applied the-what-could-possibly-go-wrong test to this.

I've had to pull the car over to let you all know I've just spotted a van advertising a doggy day care centre in Norwich called... Scent-a-Barks. SCENT-A-BARKS

honestly, pet insurance is such a bloody racket - this is what I've actually got for Daphne's trip to the vet the other day

me, trying to log in to Creative Cloud on my work laptop:

Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward

bloody great hailstones bouncing off my glass roof and, worse, trashing my beautiful peonies 😫

I've just seen someone refer to Farage as "Fartage" and now I yearn for the blissful oblivion of death.

Reupping my own meme. I miss the days when #thepolitics was all about traffic cones and being aghast at the thought of John Major and Edwina Currie shagging.

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

"Skritches now, human, or I will disable your touchpad." (She almost immediately somehow managed to disable my touchpad and I ended up having to reboot.)

we only know about the £5m Harborne donation thanks to journalists at the Guardian, but sure trash the MSM for clicks

I see another woman has had to stand up and say "I think the very fuck not" to the Burnham machine putting it about that she's going to stand aside and let Mr Eyelashes waltz into her seat 🙄

Absolutely here for chaos with Ed Miliband