In minor enshittification moves you can no longer read reviews on IMDB without an account

Having lunch in a little green patch of public land with a few benches / trees and noticed the amount of litter around. I felt public spirited enough to do a five min clean up and just as I was binning it all, a council bin man spotted what I was doing thumbed up said "nice one mate". Proud.

“Being very racist is like making love to a beautiful woman”

This includes me. Such a shame this is creating a bad smell about what is (was?) a great festival and fun to take part in.

Shocking. I'd expect better from Richard Osman.

Didn't watch Eurovision, no big boycott reason but chatting to son instead. Look Mum No Computer is a star whatever the votes say, he's my type of interesting dude, a mad tinkerer of electronic bollocks & I hope it's worked for him, in that it's boosted profile and followers for his channel & gigs.

Roger Waters screaming is a vision of how good Youtube was. That's all it is. A compendium of his screams. If someone put together this video now there would be 20 minutes of explanation that said NOTHING. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcXB...

Oooh. Roland from Tears For Fears has his autobiography coming out this summer. I question the sales wisdom of putting old wizard Roland on the cover, rather than young pop star Roland, but it's not going to stop me reading it.

Don't feel bad if your own personal 100 best books is mostly Douglas Adams, Sue Townsend, George Orwell, books about the Beatles, Kurt Vonnegut, show biz biographies of anyone vaguely famous in the 80s and that spooky book you accidentally read your kids where it turned out everyone is dead.

My guess is Andy Burnham won't be popular as PM after a few months of the right wing hate machine saying he fucks dogs, and lefties will hate him too once can't turn on massive spending coz bond markets or whatever it is at the Treasury that stops people doing anything fun (spiders).

My cancellable view on computer games is they got shitter with 3D coz it's pain in the arse being a little dude with a limited field of vision walking everywhere. Reminds me of wearing a big parker hood in winter where you have to turn whole body to see anything. Give me a god view thanks.

If you want my advice on your weird projects, in the words of Ken Campbell, make them wilder.

The Amstrad CPC could display 4 colours from a choice of 27 however, alternating the pixels you could 'mix' them and display a further 6 colours. I've always found it beautiful.

Well done that photographer, waiting for just the right moment to go, got it, Mickey Mouse.

Isn't this just the two actors who played the same guy in Game On?

Last push for Manchester Fesshole gig - come to 53two - 7:30pm. I promise good times, well, you'll hear local fesses & learn about the people of Manchester. Got 21 submitted by the audience & normally it'll double that during the show and here are their names TICKETS - sites.google.com/view/fesshole

Me: to-do lists are important as it's outsourcing your sometimes flaky executive branch of remembering what you're meant to be doing to something you can control Also me: why don't I just whip up some javascript app to work as a to-do list instead of doing anything on my to-do list?

As a kid I used to be able to hear how different BASIC commands affected the CRT whine on the monitor. For/next loops were very distinctive etc. Dunno if I could hear it now and don't have an Amstrad CPC 464 to test it with.

Hotel thoughts #428 Seeing as I'm incapable of making tea with teabags on strings with those little bits of cardboard on the end without the cardboard ending up in the tea, maybe they should be made of hard little biscuits instead?

I watched Jurassic Park last night and I've clearly turned a corner in age, as Jeff Goldblum dressed as Michael Hutchence banging on about chaos theory now feels a bit embarrassingly try hard. It's like mate, you're already Jeff Goldblum, you don't need the cherry wank on top.

I'm calling techno/occult band Hewlett-Packard Lovecraft

I assume this is a satire of sorts to make you understand you're playing absolute bullshit, but the thing is, it's such a perfect replication of this type of brain zombifying game that you can waste hours on it.

Thinking about birds having an app to indenity mammals and it going "human" "human" "dog" "human"

This is my nightmare - I could totally see myself doing this. Also yes, I am promoing a gig in Manchester. Do come. 53Two. Tonight. Bring your enemies.

Fucking hell. If one my family starts asking me for facts about my life for a "eulogy" then I'm going straight to the cops.

Watched 2001 (again) last night and was waiting for the scene where objects are facsimiles of objects, but without the functional use, and isn't that a bit prophetic of generative AI? Anyway. Turns out it's a memory of the book, which I also read as a kid, and yeah it IS a bit like that.

I had one yesterday, singing it all day. Completely failed to do numbers here though.

Woh-oh woh-oh-oh woh-oh Woh-oh woh-oh-oh woh-oh

Struck by this Apple ad and how far their communications fallen since Steve Jobs. This is all tech specs and jargon and not telling how it'll answer a need I didn't even know I had until I saw it.

Book recommendation algorithms are shit. Read a book on horses and it'll give you more books on horses and no, I don't want more books on horses, I want more books that were as delicious to read as that book on horses.

What's Brown And Sticky? Your Grandad's Bumhole It's 8:00PM

OK I'm 4 years late on this but it's just shitty a useful thing, a slightly more populist Booker prize, is gone because, I dunno, some corporates did some sums and went sod it.

Someone has left their tape collection in the free books pile at East Finchley station. You could probably build a personality profile from this and narrow it down to a Gen X male, reads Mojo and owns a razzy leather jacket that’s getting dusty in the wardrobe

My fess is I sent out a post to 1.6 million people asking them to come to a gig in Manchester and spelt Manchester wrong. (Do come to the gig, it's on this Thurs at the 53Two in... ̶M̶A̶N̶C̶H̶E̶T̶S̶E̶R̶ Manchester)

Lol. I mean, swapping in something written by this man isn't without it's own set of things to annoy people.

With Wes Streeting being unpleasantly smeared over my timeline like dog shit walked into a carpet I wondered if Wes is short for Wesley, and of course he is. I bet you 50p he adopted Wes coz people kept saying this to him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=afhM...

Never heard this before today and it just stopped me in my tracks. From 1966 and clearly a sardonic reaction to the draft and American military adventures, it's as relevant now as ever, and probably even less likely to get played on the radio. Ladies and gents it's KILL FOR PEACE

Pluralise a song by a band, because if it's a band performing, it doesn't make sense to be singing in the first person. We Are The Walruses.

I'm not going to listen to Starmer's speech or have an opinion on it, in the same way I'm not going to listen to a new Noel Gallagher solo album.

Been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd again and hadn't noticed the See Emily Play melody in the outro of Shine On You Crazy Diamond before. A little flag, if you missed it, to say, yes it IS about Syd. youtu.be/Pd-qu_ErkbE?...

I saw Jeremy Corbyn in my local taco restaurant this Sat night. From the location, I reckon he'd spent the day on his allotment. Suspect he had the best day of any Labour leader, ex or present. Just good vibes, sunshine and tending veg.

Well I've just googled "blonsky device" and gone wtf, and now so will you.

I opened a package while walking through the park and signed because I'd accidentally bought a dozen whistles instead of just one. A kid asked why I sighed and I explained. She then asked for the other eleven. I wonder what a five y/o did with eleven really loud whistles.

The only upside I could see as Wes Streeting as PM is that it would be slighly amusing to hear football crowds chanting "Wes Streeting is a fucking wanker" by about two weeks in.

If you read them from the beginning they're the words of a dog who desperately wants you to come over because they've seen a frisbee

Would be a great strategy for a bunch of Greens to stand as Reform candidates at the next election, then defect, I mean, it's clear Reform are doing fuck all background checks.

Thought I'd go in and check on him on Shitter and the replies to his posts are awful: memecoins, people telling him to fuck off, weird racism, and just the worst of the internet. I think if he does have AI psychosis, then the context is, the computer saying nice things to him is a refreshing change.

You could make a track looping the intro bass riff from this Pink Floyd song, drop a beat on it and you would have the Chemical Brother's Block Rocking Beats. I don't know why you'd want to do that, but you could. (The chems actual sampled something else entirely) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-c...

Got a hunch there’s a correlation between voting Reform & the local Facebook group being run by a crap admin who is happy to let it descend into toxic political ranting instead of “no politics here, this group is entirely about posting jars of gherkins and saying ‘found by bin, free if you collect’”

@robmanuel.b3ta.com feel like a b3taician could make a website the counts the quitting/fired reform councillors