Jurassic Park

I'm a Detroit Pistons fan. My family lived just outside Detroit for three years in the 1990s, my dad got free tickets to a Pistons game in 1996 and I was hooked. It's 23:28 GMT and I'm about to watch their first playoff game. One of my sports teams has defied the odds this year, why not two?

Similarly: Once you notice which side of the aisle is always told they need to meet the other side halfway, and which side is never told they need to meet the other side halfway, you never stop noticing it

I'm all for worker power but last night's bus driver irritated me. He told me off for flagging him down saying "this isn't a bus stop anymore" and it's like the app says it's a bus stop, Google Maps says it's a bus stop, I was stood directly underneath a sign that says it's a bus stop, wtf

Coventry City Have Been Promoted

Isn't it incredible how whenever you book a Friday or Monday off you get to experience how much better life would be, how much better you would feel and how much more you would get done if it wasn't for society's preposterous obsession with five day 9-5

The last time I watched Coventry City play a Premier League match was the 19th May 2001. I was 13. We were all convinced we'd come straight back up. Not a single one of us could have known what the next 25 years could bring, but last night I celebrated with 7500 of my fellow fans #pusb 🩵

I will write uo a big post tomorrow maybe for now I am drunk off my arse and heading home and ALL I KNOW IS CITY'S ON THE WAAAAAAAY #pusb

omg

There is every chance that I am Drunk

En route to Ewood Park for the biggest match in Coventry City history. It's simple: As long as we don't lose tonight, promotion is DONE. Everything I've ever wanted since I was 13 is finally happening, and I'm going to be there to see it. Play up the motherfucking sky blues 🩵🩵🩵 #pusb

Cosmo is an honorary member of the Sky Blue Army today 🩵 #pusb

Within the last 10 years, we lived through the consistent media narrative being that the Labour leader is personally responsible for every single thing within and done in the name of the party, right down to members in random Facebook groups. Who do they think is buying this patronising crap?

My goofy guy before and after I tried to brush him

Watched "Anora" today and loved it. I've been a fan of Mikey Madison since she was in Better Things and she's amazing in it, very Marisa Tomei energy. It's an effective meditation on how we're all playthings of the 0.1%, and it's really fucking funny too.

The tide is turning, consequences are coming, questions are going to be asked, and we are going to see some utterly historic, unprecedented, hitherto unknown levels of windmilling and backpedalling

😃 Eight car train 😭 Front four for later destinations, rear four for earlier destinations

Once again thinking of Jim Carrey roasting Meryl Streep by saying: "I was worried about working with you, but thankfully, you proved to be open and willing to learn"

If you want to feel some cathartic rage this morning, seek out the clip of Ed Balls - of the generation who got Higher Education for free, paid for by the taxpayers - asking a campaigner why half the country who doesn't go to university should pay for those who do

Something on the train this morning that brightened my day just slightly: Two commuters shooting the shit, just fell into conversation somehow, talking with pride about their lives, history, jobs, families. Felt old-school. People want to connect 🩵

You find out how many of your fellow human beings don't care if you live or die when you walk 1.5 miles to and from the station as part of your commute

A cultured night watching some theatre, eating a Spoons dinner and SPRINTING for the last train home we are like SO close to nights out near us being decent I stg

What are the actual fucking qualifications and competencies required to run a rail company, a god damned motherfucking FOUR CARRIAGE TRAIN at peak commute time are you people for real, is this a joke

Randomly thinking of a few months ago when someone who was a royal prick to me and my wife when we lived in London followed me on Instagram. Something came over me and I responded: "Re your follow request. I don't remember you fondly and have no interest in reconnecting with you. Go well 👍"

I watched the video and thought "this is a lucky couple who clearly love each other very much". I can't count the amount of times me and my wife have said "what the fuck are you talking about" to each other, especially when I'm going through a hyperfixation

This is and always will be the worst film I've ever watched in my life. My heart aches that Colm Meaney and Gemma Arterton were somehow convinced to tether themselves to it and oh my fucking DAYS Imelda Staunton was in it too??? Had no idea until I googled the poster

Oh and they had the Grand National on in the bar after the match yesterday, and it is honestly beyond me how anyone can enjoy watching it. Every time they had to jump over a fence my heart leapt into my mouth

Today's discourse reminds me of Jonathan Pie's only good video, the day after the Brexit vote. His line "some billionaire twat from Dragon's Den says that the stock market may suffer if Leave wins, fuck off - I can't afford to buy my children shoes!" is seared into my brain

We were a churchgoing family, so any kind of blaspheming including "what the hell". I wanted a book called "Rick Barry's Basketball Bible" when I was 9 and my mum thought it was offensive

Do not be a football fan when you've got Anxiety omg I cannot

So, for those keeping up at home: If Coventry City win our 1230 match AND Middlesbrough don't win their 1500 match COVENTRY GET PROMOTED TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE. TODAY. 25 years in the making. There will be pints, screaming, singing and tears. I can feel it. Today's the day 🩵 #pusb

He vomited during our morning walk so I had to WFH to monitor him, what a little king

One of my absolute favourite roasts was Dara O'Briain telling Chico "I think it's 15 minutes past Chico Time"

I would rather have a group of youths racing through the train station and not paying than a group of people who can't get their ticket ready BEFORE THEY GET TO THE BARRIER LIKE IT'S THEIR FIRST DAY ON PLANET EARTH x

Cannot understand the kind of person who complains about security not stopping shoplifters, station staff not stopping fare dodgers etc. If you think the act is justifiable in and of itself, why not do it yourself? If you think they're paid enough to get involved, why not apply for the job?

What would it be like if Britain were ever to elect a loud, belligerent idiot and his clown allies on a platform of incredibly destructive policies and plainly fraudulent promises, in an explosion of all-channels McCarthyist screaming accusation, with regime opponents publicly hounded

Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social

Surely there can't be anything worse he's done in the last few days

I could do with winning the lottery

The death of Princess Diana. My first experience of mass hysteria, and nobody could tell me *why* we were being demanded to mourn so heavily, *why* this had to dominate every facet of life

Relieved about the ceasefire. Furious about the lives still being lost in Lebanon, and the lives already lost in Iran. Scared for the future because Israel and the US can never be trusted.

Obviously the ceasefire (if real/holds) is a good, ending needless suffering, but I can’t feel too jubilant now, thinking of what a monumental waste of innocent human life this entire pointless escapade was, and how likely it is that nobody will be even slightly punished for this murderous calamity.

Do not anticipate getting much if any sleep tonight. I am existentially terrified, to my very bones. I'm so scared, I have no fucking clue what any of us are supposed to do

When The Night Feels My Soul by Bedouin Soundclash in 2005. Radio 1 played it without saying who it was by and Google could only bring "Home" by Michael Bublé, many months later a friend had a different song by the same band as their MySpace profile song which meant I finally found it

Had to power walk to the station to make my train so already in a floppy, sweaty mess. The only available seat had a bag on it so I had to wake the owner up to ask him to move it, he stared at me like he didn't understand what was happening so I snapped "move your bag so I can sit down" way too loud

Show me a better way to watch the football, you can't

Off to our local Desi pub to watch tonight's MASSIVE Coventry City match, if we win tonight we get promoted if we win on Saturday oh my god oh my lord #pusb