Thought For The Day: Hay-on-Wye had a passenger train line and station until 1941. @hayfestival.bsky.social

A genuine delight of an album, this. Come for the marvellous "Live From Her Majesty's" theme, stay for the outstandingly magnificent "Swirley" reimagined as a big band standard (that will absolutely be my theme tune if ever I get a late night talk show...)

It’s all just a little bit of…

There appears to be up to 40% off stuff on RedBubble at the moment, which is good news as I've just added more Negus Nuggets to my store. T-Shirts, Mugs, Cushions, and much more. Gosh! www.redbubble.com/people/aldup...

Don't hackers normally take money out of your account?

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

You think you know the ‘story’, but to hear Giselle Pelicot yesterday at Hay talking what happened to her was incredibly moving. The absolute shock and horror when the police first told her really hit me. Courageous doesn’t come close. An incredible woman. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hay!

You can't, in fact, withdraw someone's comments from the record on their behalf.

Samaritans Report a 40% increase in calls from the Trans Community since April 2025. I telephoned the Samaritans n 1969, in 1971, in 1974, and in 1978 I am still here because of those calls. Call the Samaritans, anytime for free any, from any phone, on 116 123 www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...

I'm exercising my right to 'Bye'! #totp

Soft Cell and Amy Grant. Play THAT. #totp

Oh Freddie. #totp

This is great and all (genuinely love Beverley Craven) but the setting is SO Two Ronnies #totp

The rundown was dubbed in the dark. #totp

No thank you #totp

"This one's very familiar" - No-one #totp

Snooker Loopy is the ONLY reason I remember the ball order. #totp

Play the B Side!!! #totp

'Spirid in This Guy' #totp

Holding Back The Years. A song I stopped loving long before it left Playlist A. #totp

"Love! There's a crooner on the decking again" #totp

#totp youtu.be/pgsVEj3c560...

I'm here just in time for the 'Sad Songs to Make YOU Cry'. What is it with 80s DJ intonation? #totp

The Samaritans are calling out a 40% rise in suicidal Trans people using their services due to this Labour Government & their anti-Trans legislation. @andyburnham.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Segregation kills. www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...

🎵 Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya Bermuda, Bahamas, calm down Judith Chalmers 🎵

Sorry to hear that the holiday presenter Judith Chalmers has died. She'll be remembered most for Thames TV's After Noon Plus and travel show Wish You Were Here? Grampian's Kay Duncan introduces Judith Chalmers here from 1986. RIP Judith

Got some lads in to do the guttering.

The moral panic against trans people is utterly indefensible and entirely predictable in an age where the experiences of one's own life and the evidence of one's own eyes count for nothing when measured against the torrent of online bile that's swamped our daily lives. -

I can’t help but think that it’s weird that this disappointing government, people who have opinions for money in newspapers and rightwing grifters all want me to care about other people’s genitalia. I don’t. I never think about the genitals of random strangers. That’s normal. It’s weird to care.

Stop being weird about toilets.

This story, insofar as it deals with the National Railway Museum, is utterly absurd. If you rock up to a museum event expecting to dump a load of stuff on the staff, and are then surprised to be politely refused, then you clearly have no idea what museums are for. www.cityam.com/a-state-of-t...

The life of an introvert really just boils down to working up the energy to act like an extrovert, until you can go home and be comfortably introverted

A racist troll, called Will Mellor a ‘traitor’ for appearing in an advert, in a mixed race family, and ended up gloriously slam dunked and destroyed into next year and beyond….. Fuck Around and Find Out Biyaitch 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽😂😆🤣😎👇🏽

“Obviously we weren’t actually listening to our own radio station”

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

My solution to HS2 is to give every passenger £1000 if they agree to set off from home 10 minutes sooner.

Today I have mostly been having a chest infection. #Amoxytastic

Look! Mum's a Computer.

It all started to go wrong when cameras followed Maureen Rees behind the wheel of a car, and the public started laughing at other, everyday, people.

when you utter “cereal” in a hard-surfaced room

Turns out it wasn’t social media, people have always been vile. This clipping calls for the drowning of (checks again) Jimmy Hill.

Turns out it wasn’t social media, people have always been vile. This clipping calls for the drowning of (checks again) Jimmy Hill.

I wonder what Jeremy Bentham would have thought if told that in its 200th year UCL’s communications team would no longer know the difference between “your” and “you’re”.

The most satisfying wires of all time spotted at the Paramount lot

"Nisi decree you, decree you... NISI"

This is worth watching for Joanna Brooks' clear 'F you' to her twin brother.