The one good thing about BlueSky being not mainlined into journo brains like Twitter used to be, is any of us could write the worst post in the world, you could come out and say you like eating cats, and get dunked by a million replies, and Buzzfeed or whoever isn't going to write about it.

My hot take is it IS a job but the job is mostly about branding, marketing and promotion. I could absolutely put together a set as good as many DJs, but it's not going to sell any tickets, because I've not done the work making DJ Rob Manuel sound like a thing that's fun rather than fucking awful.

There is a light that never goes out Is a song by the Smiths There is a light that never goes out Is also a problem for Smoths

You know which group needs to be banned from social media? Those who lack basic media literacy to know when something is a jokey hot take, or something is a serious policy suggestion that has to be earnestly debunked.

With bot posting accounts it's hard to give useful ALT tags as the code doesn't know what the image is The choice is a. Don't run the account [not good] b. Have AI burn some forest to read it [not good] c. Just give what info you have [best compromise] Amused how this one was accidentally correct

Watched Stop Making Sense last night for the umpteenth time and got so excited by the BIG SUIT I ran to the kitchen and got paper and scissors and tape and made BIG HANDS, which I'm going to incorporate into the next live Fesshole show. This is what art can do, it can expand your mind. And hands.

A £2 charity shop find today – which episode should I watch and why?

Enjoyed the Fesshole gig last night and also sticking Swearclock on stage as my warm up act. Genuinely love that I get to do the odd gig, not my entire life, but as a bit of treat for myself to show off in public

It was a ridiculously fun Anon Opin show last night in Leicester, which roughly achieved my aim of making it a mutant game show, and tonight it's the Fesshole show at the Sue Townsend Theatre - do come down if you're in Leicester events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/fessh...

Doing weird/horrible/stupid opinions with Anon Opin at the Tønne Bar in Leicester tonight. events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/opini... And that's followed by Fesshole at the Sue Townsend theatre tomorrow. events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/fessh... Do pop in - you'll have fun at my expense.

As social media a home for intrusive thoughts that I don't want to actually have to make: Apple FarageBand - the music app where all the preset loops are German marching music and samples of Enoch Powell saying whatever the fuck he says, ooh rivers of blood baby, an ting.

There's nothing like being away from home to be reminded that Whatsapp as a desktop app regularly wants to be updated with a massive fucking download, that's inconvenient on mobile data. Every time, I wonder how many people this has killed because some crucial message didn't reach people on time.

If you’re in Leicester tonight, pop into the Tonne pub for 8:30pm and try out your terrible opinions

Reminds me that leaky digital stuff was how I found out I was going become a dad. I noticed “pregnancy symptoms” in the Google history or auto complete and was “is there something you need to tell me?”

Just notice that somehow cut and paste works between my laptop and desktop. That is, copying on one, copies to the paste memory on the other. This is both useful and weird witchcraft and I'm troubled, like someone has walked over my grave.

Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday for Fesshope and AnonOpin live at Leicester Comedy Festival with Lord @b3ta.com himself

I asked AI to draw me some £10 notes and print them out and I was arrested when I tried to spend them.

There's a common thing here where people get loads of favs / shares for lolling that people are getting fooled into thinking a Magic 8 Ball is alive. But it doesn't actually matter if something is conscious or not, so much as is it dangerous? And the AI games the techbros are playing are dangerous.

Yeah, I guessed

I am enthusiastic about your content and I’m also not enthusiastic about it

This repurposed picture hook is anti-Bungle technology to prevent Bungle from opening the breadbin, because he’s a cat that’s so greedy he even steals bread.

I'm doing three shows in Leicester this week. Currently writing slides. Do come. * 14th - Fesshole VALENTINES special events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/fessh... * 12/13th - Anon Opin / Opinion War - try out your TERRIBLE opinions and see if they land events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/opini...

There's been 17 swears submitted to swear clock today - you can do better than that - get busy please docs.google.com/forms/d/1vXJ...

It's the countdown to 12pm to see if isthereafilmon.bsky.social fucks up or not on posting there there ISN'T a film on tonight. Are you ready for the pure adrenaline drama. Also lol at @christhebarker.bsky.social who made the image for me and accidentally stuck painted fingernails on a CHILD.

I'm doing three shows in Leicester this week. Do come - it'll be fun. * 14th - Fesshole VALENTINES special (lol) events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/fessh... * 12/13th - Anon Opin shows - come and try out your TERRIBLE opinions and see if they land events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/opini...

I made a bot version of my "is there film-length thing on the Beeb" tonight? Why? Because I'm trying to watch more terrestrial TV after ignoring it for 25 years, and I'm slightly worried me (and people like me) ignoring it are killing it. Do your bit. Turn on the Beeb tonight.

The sooner Keir Starmer resigns, the sooner he relaxes and becomes quite insightful and affable in media appearances and we can all go "why wasn't *THAT* guy PM?"

Yes. It it's completely absurd opinion to not put it in her top ten. On numbers alone it's 3rd - and would likely still be no 1 if it wasn't for a recent TikTok boost for Army Dreamers and Running Up That Hill being in Stranger Things. Anyway, the point is LOVEJOY. It's a funny association.

I'm getting fact-checked but I can show my workings so whatevs. Wikipedia has the Beeb and the source checks out to a quote from Kate saying it was a TV series.

I've always known that Kate Bush wrote Wuthering Heights after catching 10 mins of a dramatisation on the telly, but I'd never looked it up, but I'm glad I did. Heathcliff was played by Ian McShane. Yep, true story, Kate Bush wrote her best song about Lovejoy.

Not sure I should have stuck a search into the admin screen for my bots

I have cooked round food for dinner tonight: homemade round soup and homemade round bread

Ooooooh. There’s a glimmer of possibility that the right-wing of Labour will lose control of the party. Probably not time to get the bunting out yet, but still, it’s deffo time to think “do I still have bunting in the attic?”

Hadn't noticed this, and found it slightly intriguing, in that most performers I've met, yeah they want the money, but they enjoy being on stage, and you can't get them off. But maybe he genuinely didn't enjoy it as this clip about nerves suggests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLCi...

Sometime wonder what I'm doing with my life, where I'm posting a thread with a road map for a swearing clock, but it is an IT project, like any other IT project, and it occasionally needs a roadmap to tell users the road ahead

Ok, because reasons, I new to strike up a chat with someone who is very into computer games. What is the hot topic of conversation in that world at the moment? Also is there any kind of service, where I could read say, 5 social media posts a week, and get a handle on video gaming controversy?

In things no one cares about I've done an a/b test listening to The Cure's Boys Don't Cry '79 mix vs '86 mix (2026 remaster) and yeah we all know about the different vocal, but it's the bass that's the problem. The '86 mix turns down the bass guitar & loses a lot of the rhythmic movement of the song

"B3ta newsletter has 'full confidence' in monospaced fonts" * WORD GAME - yeah yeah, but quite fun * SPY ON LONDON - well the traffic anyway * BISCUIT TECHNOLOGY - the science of dunk b3ta.com/newsletter/i...

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

OK at 4pm - I'm going to experimentally stream a B3ta newsletter - that is read it out, click the links, talk about it. I'm not really thinking this is a thing I'll do often, more it's just try stuff and see how it feels. BE THERE SOON. www.twitch.tv/robmanuelb3ta

If you build a tool, it's odd how you don't even know how it could be used, until you use it. Mucking around with a b3ta newsletter viewer that displays the text line by line, under control of the cursor. The idea was that I could try presenting it one day, and you don't want a wall of words 1/2

Knowing someone has an interesting mind is a much better predictor of whether a book will be worth reading than subject matter. Unsure quite how to sort Amazon by the interestingness of the minds of the authors however.

In things I didn't know that have slightly improved my life, you can create a link to a specific cell in Google Sheets. Yeah so what, but if you have a large spreadsheet, clicking that link is far quicker than scrolling to find it, partly as the the sheet doesn't have to load needless data

Isn't the truth about Starmer that he's going nowhere because Labour always bungles or bottles throwing out the leader even if they fucking hate them?

I just did 30 seconds skipping whilst waiting for an old cup of tea to microwave. I tell you Big Skipping Rope is taking you all for mugs, you don’t need one to do some skipping.

Would it be better for Starmer or worse if he said what most assume to be true: "I knew Mandelson was dodgy but we need good relations with the US, he was in with them and this is realpolitik etc"? As it is, he's painting himself as naive, which isn't a great look for a PM.

Not right for fesshole but I appreciated the phrasing