I’d love to just be able to do a web search that would turn up the dozens of wonderful essays and blog posts about songs I like instead of endless shitty “song meaning” lyric sites. I know you’ve all been writing these and they’ve all been disappeared by absolute slop.

I’m away with work — in Mallorca 🎉 My other half is sending me pics from the Self Esteem gig I’m missing back in Brum 😭

@joegrassby.bsky.social wondering if the Stuart Lester in the FPL league is the one I know IRL. I can’t find them on here, under their name, but I assume they have a Bluesky handle? Actually would be nice to have a list of all that group so we can do banter / they can tell me I’m shit (correct)

Just throwing this here for anyone else searching: The Polar sports watches Polar Flow mobile app is borked so you have to plug your watch into the big computer if you want to get data off it I had to load X to find this out 🥲

(You should read this yourself but) so basically the output of Richard Parker’s first 16 months in office is (1) a report commissioned by his predecessor (2) the firming up of an objective to “focus” by making jobs happen everywhere (you can’t focus on everything. You can’t. That’s not focus).

Oh god it’s the “cheese sandwich at my desk” discourse again. (The article mentions the WM Mayor is close to Reeves, and this is straight out of her playbook of being too sensible to enjoy food). Be normal, Dicky, ffs.

This is a depressing read. It’s not just about copying Manchester. The model of productive cities driving economic growth can be seen across Europe. Just inventing your own economic model is not vision, it just shows the lack of ability to shake off small town thinking

Right up until Covid lockdown I played football (soccer) every week with the same group of guys for about 6 years. We got the band back together tonight on our old pitch. A great old time but inevitably not without a physical cost 😬

Just got this through the post, it’s gonna look great on my running pack. The Birmingham area isn’t very hilly but this round bags the tops in the Lickeys and Clent Hills, and you get this little patch if you submit a valid GPX file at the end 😍 www.trailrunwestmidlands.co.uk/midland-tops...

🎶 Okay don’t be a bitch, The man’s got kids so don’t open that fridge 🎶 (This is making no sense to the average poster)

They should have ended this franchise when it was perfect (FIFA 98, PSX)

@whatismusicpod.bsky.social I’ve just started your manics run for the first time. I’m guessing you hear this a lot but it’s adorable that the big mates stuff was locked in from episode _minus_ one. Beautiful. Will you ever do The Office podcast as a premium tier (have you already?!)

That Emergency Alert was the most excitement we’re going to get during this International Break.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Just had the most incredible email from the Labour Party, asking me to rejoin because they’re sad they had to force Angela Rayner out.

Niche, but if you have (or know) a kid in year 6 in Birmingham, instead of the 415-page secondary admission arrangements PDF they give you at www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20119/s... you may find my HTML version at dracos.co.uk/made/2026-bi... slightly easier to read!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtNX... Turn it up, Jim Bob gets it - Art!

Every single @trashfuture.bsky.social listener is watching the cabinet reshuffle and trying to triangulate the ripples from November’s bombshell hen party accusations. DELICIOUS.

MEAL DEAL

Tired: school holidays are nearly over, lol be nice to have some peace Wired: holy shit can school stop emailing me every 5 minutes fucking hell lads

Hi friends I did some writing. Please check it out and if you like it please share it about? It's so hard to get things out there. edgetrinkets.co.uk/2025/09/01/a...

Proof reading my wife’s dissertation and wow academics in her field (business) have been coining some incredible words. Just some absolutely ridiculous stuff in here “And is this one?” “Yep a word” “How about” “Uh huh” “But?” “Shut up, or I’ll remind you that you’re from media and cultural studies”

The whole album is about 🔥 , about everything you think about 🔥 as being: cleansing, something that destroys everything in its path. It’s an element that’s everywhere; the metaphorical & allegorical interpretations of 🔥 are endless.” M. Stipe Happy anniversary to Document, released on 8.31.1987

Only covered half the water needed to resolve the order 👍

Rollercoaster nerds: Does Alton Towers have a little bag drop at each ride so you can carry a day pack about and leave it on the side while you ride?

Just been enjoying a little nostalgia trip through some old 80s Guernsey news: here’s Oli Reed being the most Oliver who has have ever Reeded youtu.be/9rmcxosO8Mc

Don’t know who made this but thank you

How does Batman's mum call him for dinner? She doesn't. Both of his parents were murdered, you heartless bastard.

@joegrassby.bsky.social fuck. It’s Friday isn’t it? Guess what I’ve not done. Stupid holiday brain.

Tour commentary: “And Liverpool has more public statues than any other city” Me: “they’re literally all of the Beatles, and most are terrible”

Today is the two year anniversary of 404 Media, which is hard to fathom. We wrote about how it's going, what we've done, what we're going to do, and what we've learned. We cannot do this without the support of our subscribers and for that we are endlessly thankful: www.404media.co/two-years-40...

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

The UK labour market has traditionally been marked by occupational gender segregation. 1980s children's TV character Long Distance Clara, a woman in the male-dominated road haulage industry challenged this norm, while her husband stayed at home to look after the children. In this essay I will...

Here's a thread about the wonderful but underappreciated concentration of modernist architectural gems in Faro and the Eastern Algarve. Photos taken last summer #ModernistFaro 🇵🇹🧵

Not been in The Old Irish Harp on Chester Road since 2008. Back then it had a gimmick menu of doing chicken on a spit. They had racks and racks of them on the go in the dining room. Only this sign remains to remind them of the terrible folly. Was that a thing? Rotisserie pubs?

After 24 years as a couple, 23 living together, 17 married, we’ve finally bought new bath towels. Honestly until today the provenance of all of our towels was a mystery apart from one that has the name of a very shit hotel in Frankfurt on it. Feels very grown up. Also towels are so expensive, lads

✅ shot stopping ✅ fucking about with it a bit too much at the back ✅ otherwise distribution is good 🤷‍♂️ as yet unproven in shithousing A fine understudy for Emi. Nice to have a backup keeper that doesn’t make me panic.

Artist’s impression of Matty Cash’s day. What a top lad he is. #avfc

Worried/excited to see what the world’s (new) number two is like #avfc

This weekend’s @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social feature is a treat: a ride along with Sutton Park’s head ranger, doing a drive by on the park’s history, stewardship and future. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/danny-champi...

It’s the one day of the year when I really fancy a big fizzy cold cider down at the cricket club. It’s the flying ant day of drinks. Nobody knows when it happens or why*. Things just align. One cider and then that’ll be me back on beer for 12-months. (Other than it being so fucking hot out)

Reminder Birmingham Bluesky - the code to join a Brummie FPL league is: 9k9yru

My advice to A level students heading away to Uni : the cooking times on oven chips are a lie .

Huh what do you know I guess it's the 7th birthday of Hell World today. Here's 33% off a subscription to celebrate! www.welcometohellworld.com/7-years-of-h...