Political podcasts are doom scrolling for the ears.

Just tell me a classic joke. Like "What's brown and sticky? A STICK"

Saw four TFL blokes chatting on the tube, different ages, mix of races. They all looked such good friends and actually gave each other cute little fist bumps when they departed. If anyone wants to write up their lives as a feel good sitcom, I think I need it right now.

The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites and Mort (but it might not have been all of Mort as we only have a printout rather than a digital record.)

The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites. From A Life With Footnotes: He bought the Amstrad in FY84/85. He started keeping a diary on it in Feb ‘85, when he was finishing up The Light Fantastic. Diary makes reference to that book being in “files”, and Equal Rites starting as a file just called “girl”.

Absolutely no one: Anon Opin:

Depends on whether you believe comedy has some sacred duty to tell truth to power? Which, I'm not sure I do, I mean, fine if you want to, but I don't see much evidence that comedy produces political change. Therefore, using politicians as simple hooks to build jokes round, is also fine.

AI is utterly tainted, at this stage in the game it's just bad PR to mention it. It's like trying to sell sausage by making the advert all about grinding up pigs.

If anyone knows which two novels Terry Pratchett wrote on an Amstrad CPC 464, please tell me, as they're obviously the good ones which I should read.

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Obviously, I know that I don’t bullshit @fesshole.bsky.social and it’s exactly what I say it is - but it’s still nice to read 100+ replies going “yep, you published mine”

I'd have assumed he was more of a bottom

Remember, speculating exactly why a famous person has lost their job, will easily produce actionable libel if you post it on social media. Do it on Whatsapp with your friends, you absolute fucking idiots.

My guess is most musicians aren't that fussed about either of these types of fan comments, what they want to hear, is what they're doing NOW is interesting and relevant.

Number three now. I'd say getting to number two is now a shoo-in.

My brother-in-law knows someone who meets up with his mates at Birmingham New Street on a Saturday at 3pm. They wait for the first team in England to score, then they get on a train and go to that town for a night out. It's not even anything to do with football, just a random destination generator.

You know this guy is good, of course you do, but I'll tell you exactly how good I think he is: I can be bothered to zoom to read his cartoons, every time, and he never disappoints.

For me, it's actually easier to run projects like Fesshole for real, and they're exactly what they say they are, which is the public submitting stuff, but a day doesn't go by without me reading someone saying "he makes them all up for engagement" It would be so much more work, it would be insane.

I love Douglas Adams but I've never been convinced that a song called Hot Potato would be a hit, coz you can't sing "potato" and sound cool. ANYWAY. Googling it, and La Toya Jackson ‎put out a single with that name in 1984. Massive flop. Vindication for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DJ...

My lover’s got no money he’s got his

Rigged up the tape player so now can listen to cassette audiobooks like your dead nana

Looking forward to seeing this as the front page of the Daily Mail. Because that's how it works, right?

Poor old Bungle (the grey one), he has to put up with Boop who loves him, and wherever he sits, Boop will find him and virtually sit on top of him.

Reviewing things I can hear right now: Neighbour nattering on phone ★✩✩✩✩ Hum of traffic ★✩✩✩✩ Cat flopping down the stairs (cute) ★★★★✩

Just listening to an Andrew Belew album and thought 'I recognise that voice, surely that's not Belew doing an impression, it's spot on'. Anyway, here's a Bowie track that 99 out of a 100 of you have not heard before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6L_...

I love McCartney, but I don’t find this a brilliant bit of advertising. It’s simply says there’s nothing digital that’s not for sale if you’re rich enough.

New McCartney song. Wasn't expecting that today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1I...

My small hand in this was giving the basic idea to @monkeon.co.uk but it's all his own work and well worth a look www.monkeon.co.uk/the-time-tra...

They talk about Trump and how to handle his latest craziness. Of course they do.

I found reading this a bit gross as it made me think of Bishop in Aliens being plugged back in and all that milky goo coming out of him

Keep coming back to this photo of Jon Moss from Culture Club and marvelling at his tiny child-like foot.

Just thinking how there's a small scene of people making fan edits of movies - snipping out scenes here and there, re-ordering things and how the same doesn't really exist for books. Technically quite doable, it's just text in a big Word document. Then thought, nah, no one does because it's *hard*.

We all know that the magazine business has crumbled because web but the numbers really are quite mind-bending. Just reading about 'John Bull' which closed in 1964, coz they couldn't raise enough ad revenue on a circulation of 700k. Those numbers would put you as the third biggest mag in the UK today

Remember when Paul McCartney and David Walliams played Fred & Rose in the Fred & Rose story?

Not going to put it on the account but yep

I can't keep publishing fessholes that mention @herring1967.bsky.social - it's like his fans are using my account to talk to him and I'm his secretary

As a pre-teen in the eighties I would go in the bath and my younger sisters would gather round chanting "bring out the Branston" from the popular advert. I would then proceed to squeeze out a teeny tiny poo to much applause. What can I say, the black & white TV was on the blink.

For really serious stuff, I'm not using anything as trivial as a laptop, I'm using a proper computer, that is my desktop, with a numeric keyboard and two screens.

I just managed to spell Syd Little so poorly that a Google Image Search returned this

You might know me because of my occasionally entertaining crowd sourced internet projects but my true genius lies in soup. This is tomato, red lentil and onion but what takes it to the next level is a good dollop of Marmite and slightly ashamed to say it: Heinz ketchup.

Too late to put the genie back in the bottle, but I think music streaming would be more pleasurable if you got say 4 LP tokens a month and you spent them on stuff you wanted, thus building a collection & encouraging you to re-listen rather than the tendency to see it as content to be consumed once

The immensely talented artist Philip Castle died recently. He created the posters for A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket as well as album artwork for the many great bands. Retro gamers will know him for his work on the original Elite box artwork. RIP.

I've seen a sneak preview of this. Believe the hype.

Vaguely amusing that badges I give out at Fesshole live shows are occasionally turning up on eBay

It's bizarre that there's a full album of Bowie's work from early 90s and it's not on streaming. Is Tin Machine II his best LP? Probably not, but it's much more fun listen than Tonight/Never Let Me Down/Black Tie. Bowie shouting along with a blistering rock band, there's plenty to like about it.

I know what you're thinking, what would 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 look like, if the monster was a t-rex from Jurassic Park? Well wonder no more, for I've drawn it.

Looks like one of the great Smiths single covers but it's actually, the very horrible, It's 'Orrible Being in Love (When You're 8½)

It’s very funny Roger Waters rerecorded a version of Dark Side of the Moon without the guitar solos. Pretty sure a good 50% of the joy in Pink Floyd is the epic guitar solos.

"You haven't got scissors for hands Robert, you've got totally normal hands, and I will not help you to go to the toilet"

I'm on a gameshow and I've just pressed a big buzzer marked "NO!"