I've just had to unsubscribe to a podcast due to the latest episode starting with a gambling advert.

My 82 year old aunt regularly asks for the name of the band her grandson fronts. I need to remember the collective white lie we all say, that the name is "The Flowerpots". (it's actually "Rectal Haemorrhage")

I may not be able to make peptides, but I’m smart enough to know how to not name my product “neuro-bollocks”.

Genius

Mr Blobby, when House Party got cancelled, 1999

Noel Gallagher filing out 5mins before the final whistle like a real hardcore fan supporting his team to the very end, win or lose. The tiresome, tuneless tit that he is. #TheFootball

I bet Matt Le Tissier has some fucking spectacular theories about this.

I still haven’t seen HS1. Was it any good?

@actualnames.bsky.social maps.app.goo.gl/37NaPp28TjMr...

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Ep 76. We're joined by Pat Lydon who's been to the world's biggest record fair. @justplayed.bsky.social is back with new releases. There's records 'filled with stuff' chat, news, letters and the quiz. pod.link/1456163688 Support the show ko-fi.com/webuyrecords

I can't be the only person who sees it as a huge warning flag if a British person uses the recently made-up word 'leftist', which comes from right-wing Americans who think not having to pay for an ambulance is dangerous Communism, so they equate 'left' with 'Marxist'.

You can choose to respect a flag but if you rely on it to make you feel special, you might be confusing it with a security blanket.

Not watching Eurovision - not a boycott, I'm just tied up with other things until about 2:30am.

If we’re so much poorer than Americans why is my bluesky feed full of Americans asking me to contribute to their gofundme to pay for their medical bills?

Bit presumptuous of Chelsea fans to have their parade through London *before* the cup final

Wes Streeting demonstrates how in touch he is with ordinary people by announcing he will be running for the #Labour leadership during the FA Cup final... 🙄

Thanks, Sunday Times, for the tedious parade of wealth in your annual rich list. Now do a feature listing the poorest people in Britain, and why they're getting poorer.

If you could make a show where posh, beautiful people genuinely suffered, I’ll be honest I’m never not watching that.

To mark the passing of Alan Rothwell, the extended intro sequence to Picture Box courtesy of @seanreynard.bsky.social youtu.be/C3q0hxKHpA4?...

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Trying to work out whether the distant rumbling sound I can hear is thunder or someone moving their bins.

Goodbye. Good riddance. Piss off!

Been tinkering around in the background making a bingo card for ex-Reform UK councillors. If anyone has any suggestions let me know… refukked.lovable.app

There's some very nasty looking storm clouds to the northwest, and they seem to be heading this way.

A while ago there were some allegations of impropriety by Wes Streeting at his election count. Did anything happen, or has it been swept under the carpet?

I'm spending a few hours this afternoon sat under a glass roof, with thunderstorms forecast. Could be fun!

I'm convinced that Streeting is a Tory sleeper agent.

"Earlier today the Prime Minister spent 17 minutes with Wes Streeting" The poor bastard. I feel a lot more sympathy for Starmer now.

Ministers should get their own back and camp outside Sky TV and shout "Are you still broadcasting shite, Sam?" as Sam Coates enters the building.

Thinking about the utter chaos to the BBC1 schedules if Starmer resigns on Saturday afternoon/evening.

There's still a bit of tidying up to do with this 2.11BSD installation - most of the files in /etc are the ones from the 1994 patch 195 install tape, and need replacing with the more up-to-date ones stored in /usr/src/etc. The script to start networking, for example, is very different.

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

Urine-Swapping Scheme? Didn't they do The Riverboat Song?

HASN'T THIS NATION SUFFERED ENOUGH?

"Coronation Streeting" was RIGHT THERE

My current earworm is a tune I can't name. I think it's the closing theme tune to a long-forgotten TV show that I heard during my childhood, possibly one that was just ending as we switched channels. But which one?

This letter is incredibly unusual for a ministerial resignation in that it actually spells out in plain English why Phillips is resigning, and why she thinks Starmer should go. With worked examples. Genuinely quite refreshing.

David Cameron 2010-2016 Theresa May 2016-2019 Boris Johnson 2019-2022 Liz Truss 2022-2022 Rishi Sunak 2022-2024 Keir Starmer 2024-? Mark E. Smith 1976–2018 Martin Bramah 1976–1979, 1989–1990 Marc Riley 1978–1982 Steve Hanley 1979–1998 Craig Scanlon 1979–1995 Brix Smith 1983–1989, 1994–1996 ...

A TV quiz show based on Wordle? Isn't that just Lingo?

Then this evening I've had to pull off some data from an ancient Windows XP PC. It actually felt older than the 2.11BSD system I was playing with earlier, despite that being initially released in 1991, and in turn derived from AT&T Research Unix v6 or v7 from the late 1970s.

Last year I installed the earliest surviving release of 2.11BSD for the PDP-11 (patch level 195), and gradually updated it a patch at a time to the then latest patch level 490. Since then several more patches appeared, with the last being patch 499 issued back in January.

Somebody’s description of this as the night of the short sporks is my favourite way of putting it.

I am in a church and HOLY CRAP PHIL COLLINS IS HERE.

Wes Streeting is, and I can’t put this strongly enough, an absolute fucking cunt.

Oooh, #ThisMorning are going to be chatting about the political situation, I'm sure we will get a totally balanced, unbiased view from Gyles Brandreth and Camilla Tominey.

For those who still follow it here..... don't

Whatever the question is, Wes Streeting is not the answer.