Althea and Donna's TOTP appearance was just on BBC2. I always forget just how bizarre the BBC orchestra doing its best impression of the Studio One sound is.

For me to try your shit I don't need a sprayed edge or a blog or an interview or a substack or a baffling patreon or a winsome insta story or trending audio. In this house we make vibes based assessments on: book cover; one line pitch; if your casual posts make you seem like a sicko

Today I very belatedly realised why Mandy's best friend in Mandy is called Lola. It's another Barry Manilow reference isn't it. Obviously.

If anything, one should be rewarded for tackling Garnacho

My BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art can now be found and played here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

All the discourse today is just awful

Saw a prompt which is basically "is there any art you dislike for 100% aesthetic reasons?" and... that's most art I dislike??

the album version of all the single ladies is called all the album ladies

The McCartney LP got to no2. Ram got to no1. Yeah, sounds like everyone hated him to me. They mean the critics don't they, certain critics? The rawk guys. Yeah they thought the Beach Boys were risible too, because something something Monterey...not Greg Allman something something Jerry Garcia...

Watched Man On The Run on Prime last night. V enjoyable apart from that really jarring bolted on stuff about how unpopular he was post Beatles and how something something Led Zeppelin real rock etc etc. That whole Rolling Stone magazine agenda that has since been utterly discredited. And rightly so.

Yeah, my take on this is that the bank shouldn't be sending out matey Spotify Wrapped type annual reviews and if they do, I have no interest in reading them.

ian huntley is dead. i'll always remember how the british press attempted to incite hatred against the trans community by reporting he was transitioning, then apologised to him for incorrect reporting instead of apologising to trans people

#THETENX5 Day 32 "Infinity Guitars" by Sleigh Bells (2010) Makes you wait, but delivers what the title promises. tidal.com/track/206265...

Suede’s best lineup: Brett Anderson (vocals), Bernard Butler (guitar), Mat Osman (bass), Simon Gilbert (drums), Stephen Fry (euphonium), Ian McKellen (kazoo), Pam St Clement (vibes).

4pm today on BBC Radio 4 Extra it’s the repeat of my adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The State of the Art, with Sir Antony Sher as the ship. So proud of this amazing production by @nadiamolinari.bsky.social

Here’s an easy mnemonic to help you remember the 26 letters of the alphabet

The song Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus makes me so incredibly, disproportionately, needlessly angry I genuinely cannot describe it. I would happily drown everyone involved in its creation.

Breaking: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has started a letterboxd account. Skeptics point out it has been mostly logging TV shows.

Always weird when you can see someone else's mist miles away when it's perfectly clear where you are.

The party of strictly defined genders and knowing a woman when they see one has studied pictures of Sydney Sweeney and declared she's a man. www.huffpost.com/entry/erika-...

Shania Twain is an anagram of Hawaiian Satan. #totp

If you were a student in the late 90s, you'll remember this bloke turning up at EVERY party #totp

Long shot but does anyone have a Pioneer DVD remote they don't need? I know you can get them off eBay but thought I'd ask here first

Ronaldo's got a serious knee injury 3 months before the World Cup, you say?

The Day of the Triffids A number of films have been donated by a former BBC employee. With these were reel-to-reel recordings made in August 1968 of ‘The Day of the Triffids’, which had been broadcast on Radio 4 FM in June and July that year. These copies are of very high quality.

Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀

one of the biggest errors in video games was when a bunch of people decided, apropos of nothing, that protagonists should be silent so the player can view themselves as the player character.

Yeah, there's a big gap between a 5-10k longread and an 80k book, but those are the only shapes you're allowed for many pieces of non-fiction. In the days of Pelican paperbacks, 100-200 pages was a very normal length to explore an idea.

ICYMI: Behold the cover of The Killing of a Chestnut Tree by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social! Coming October 27, 2026. This cozy, fantastical mystery introduces Havelock Harper, an all-new queer gentleman detective in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes. Be gay, solve crimes!

#THETENX5 Day 31 "Oh Man The Future" by De Lux (2015) Seven minutes of slamming disco-funk and predictions about the future that sound like David Byrne doing an impression of The Amazing Criswell after a head injury. Flawless, no notes. tidal.com/track/214946...

i think ebay is the funniest one so far due to my cursed recommendations

Lovely guest vocals by the Clangers on this new Shabaka track. tidal.com/track/480061...

I've long been of the opinion that one of the bricks in the wall fixing the "productivity crisis" is making access to the OU and similar opportunities cheap and straightforward.

they’re just begging for a car chase

And that's why all the buses that usually go this way have been re-routed past my house today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's almost like billionaire agents of discord and hate have created a narrative that is starkly at odd with the reality of life in Britain isn't it.

Please send voice reels to sara @ thedailytism dot com . Due to generally high volume of things like this, we will only be contacting actors we’d like to move forward with. Must be free on the listed dates & be generally neurodiversity positive & affirming as this is an autistic project. 2/

Casting call! Looking for a woman voice actor, 50+ who is versatile and a vocal chameleon / can play many different bit parts in an audio comedy. We’re recording in London on 13th & 14th April. This is a paid opportunity. Actor does not need to be autistic! 1/

Shoutout for @petefrasermusic.bsky.social on 6 Music!

I've been buying in Bulk.

Just looked through writing gigs on LinkedIn, half of which turn out to be training AI when you click on them. Came back on Bluesky and to find someone complaining that writers who want to be paid for their work are "money grabbing twats". Sometimes I think people deserve gen AI slop.

Shut up about the flags, says local politician who spent £75k putting in just 164 flags nobody wanted and nobody needed, while the roads have become more uneven and potholey than when the romans built some of them

there's an old adage: "when a product appears to be free, you're the product" (usually, this means the product makes its money through advertising) in light of the last few years, we can add an addendum: "if a business is run at a loss, it's another business's operating expense"

And yet here — he activated the Guide again — was his own entry on how you would set about having a good time in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, which he had always prided himself on as being one of the most baroque pieces of invention he had ever delivered.

AND INTRODUCING JOHN HURT AS THE WAR QUEER

Reasons a cis women might have Y chromosomes: - Twin brother - Gestating a child with a Y chromosome - Bone marrow transfusion from someone with a Y chromosome - Being intersex (we know of XY women who have naturally conceived and given birth)

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

If my kid had the costume already in his wardrobe you bet I'm not coming up with a new one for him

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