I'm fed up reading about what passes as American 'politics' now. I started muting threads, then people, then realised that this was the same cesspit I recognised from Twitter about a decade ago.

Blatter's gonna Blatter. And this has nothing to do with a personal feud with Infantino for managing to out-corrupt him. (Or is he now saying that the USA is a worse place than Qatar?)

Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Waiting for this monstrous creature to be fired up.

Light in the snow ❄️ #SundaySilence

A stunning song by a stunning band with brilliant lyrics and what might be the greatest intro in the entire history of everything. At one time this album got daily airplay along with The Rite of Spring (really) and Phaedra.

I'll take that. #Hearts still on top, #Celtic still looking underpowered and #Hibs consigned to oblivion. Not a bad weekend's results, really.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Lies, lies, and damn lies.

OK - Gentle Giant have been visited and (mostly) passed. I would say Free Hand is maybe their best, with Octopus very close behind. The Power and the Glory tries just a bit too hard to be 'awkward' at times. But hey - it was 1974 when the wheels started to come off prog rock for many others too.

I'm not entirely sure why people are saying 'this is enough' or 'Fascism is coming' or anything else that implies that a collapse is on the brink of happening in the USA. It started in 2016 and has been going on over the last decade. It's not 'coming'. It's right here, right now.

Anyone planning on watching this - don't.

Oh fuck off and die

@jonathancoe.bsky.social Having cracked the code for the names of Sophie's dinner guests on the cruise ship I feel like I have won a Masquerade hare or something similar. #MiddleEngland #MATH

'On May 6th Britain was asked to choose a new direction and the people spoke with a loud, unanimous, decisive voice and what they said could hardly have been clearer. They said, “We don’t know.”' @jonathancoe.bsky.social - brilliant. A real LOL moment. #MiddleEngland

A photo of the racist graffiti painted on a wall outside #Edinburgh Central Mosque last Friday has been published by the Muslim Engagement and Development support group. Police are still 'carrying out enquiries' Anyone who thinks #Scotland is free of racism should read the FB comments.

How do you know when a Tesla is self-driving? It indicates.

Thus spake Private Bone Spurs.

This year is going a bit crazy already. Two more are scheduled so far. #ambient #mellotron #skymusic #freemusic #NotAboutBletchley

Whilst I have little doubt that social media of all stripes is a cancer on some childrens' lives, is prohibition (again) the only way to do this? Who is policing this? What are the consequences? Have we even defined what 'social media' is? It all seems a bit half-baked to me.

Listening to this masterful album again. The weird thing is that the songs only took about three plays to be branded onto me forever. #NeutralMilkHotel #InTheAeroplaneOverTheSea

One #Osman (Os) SI unit of measurement of self-loathing, defined as being the amount required to sit through an episode of The Rest Is Entertainment with this babbling ninny, listening to her third-hand tabloid thoughts about a nonentity being a nonentity. #IsMarinaHyfeMadeOfCocaine

If I were the King of Denmark - which I am not - I would genuinely take the note from Trump sent to the Prime Minister, wipe my arse copiously and inexpertly on it, and sent it back through the correct diplomatic channels.

A joke for the history buffs.

If the #USA keeps picking random fights around the world then there are two massive consequences: 1. We will be forever distracted from seeing the #Epstein files 2. My BlueSky profile will run out of space due to the sheer number of flags I am having to put on it.

'Judge Katherine Menendez ruled on Friday night that federal agents cannot arrest or pepper spray peaceful demonstrators' Something tells me 'Judge Katherine Menendez' is going to end up in cuffs upside down in the back of a van in Minnesota. #ICE #BeGood

This man is on the crack pipe.

Amazon is increasingly stretching the definition of the word 'delivered'.

Could it be possible that #Jenrick ends up without a party at all?

Fucking hell on toast. 'We do not use AI except for when we did'. #PoliceAreArtificiallyIntelligent

So our choice is between the right ring and the very right wing? No thanks

Okay Gong. I tried. I really tried. I am sure it all makes sense if you are wandering in a THC paradise of teapots, gnomes, electric cheese and shit, but it means something less than fuck all to me. Now shifting gears. Onto Genital Giant whom I know little about.

Excellent news. Now. These tiresome Epstein Files. Where are they?

HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE? #nyckelharpa #bach #erikrydvall

Just rediscovered this: weird how something you did completely escapes your memory.

Well, I can cross #Portishead off the list of 'no really, you have to hear them...it's amazing'. Only about 20 to go.

I know it's wrong to even think it, but... #mandelson #epstein

What is the problem, #Denmark? Just offer Greenland in exchange for the full and unredacted #Epstein files. Job done.

🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.

You just know he'll be thrilled about people in another country using his name like this. #Iran

"Another bout of inspiration from 3.12 to 4.07 pm. From 4.27 to 6.47 pm various occupations (fencing, reflection, immobility, visits, contemplation, dexterity, natation, etc.)" - from 'Memoirs of an Amnesiac', Erik Satie

How long will it be before we stop referring to this outright fraud as a 'psychic'?

You know, it strikes me that if it's OK for one side to riot and physically tear elected officials from office, then it's done for the other side to do exactly the same thing. #Minneapolis #Minnesota #ICE

Amazed that the BBC news can take such a trivialised view on what is happening right now that a TV game show can make the top five stories as though it was actual news.

Amazed that the BBC news can take such a trivialised view on what is happening right now that a TV game show can make the top five stories as though it was actual news.

My other favourite Erik #Satie story concerns not the composer, but a conversation I had with a friend about him. - And you'll never guess what, but he worked in strip joints... - OH MY GOD NO! - ...as the piano player. - Oh thank heavens for that. Get. That. Picture. Right. Out. Of. My. Head.

Good grief...

An exceptionally well-written account of the trial of the two men who cut down the Sycamore Gap tree.