David Attenbourgh's voice on this is like liquid velvet. James Mason levels of vocal beauty. Pour it into my ears and let me drift off into sleep.

At the

This is the corner of my home dedicated to my booze experiments. I’m a pissed Dr Frankenstein messing with primeval forces. On the go is a bramble wine, some bramble vodka and some sloe gin.

This joke amused me. They're worth a follow for that @ceefaux.bsky.social

Left my Airpod charger on the train. It's both a marvel of science and sad inducing that I can track it's journey across the country via my phone, but with minimal chance of ever seeing it again. It's been to Pinner & Milton Keynes without me :( PLEASE NOTE: I'm venting & I'm not asking for advice.

Anyway. Trying out a new thing next week in North London. I really want you to come. Roughly speaking you'll be submitting opinions, via form, and we'll get them all up on a screen and DEBATE THEM together. Live, interactive, and yes anon if you like (via phones) or non-anon, using your face.

This really smells to me like a vibe coded project extension. The exact kind of thing ChatGPT would suggest adding.

As a Beatles fan, thought I'd check out the street where the Cavern was on and of course it's a bit naff, loads of merch shops etc, but as it was raining it was beautiful. Light and water makes magic happen.

Sitting in a railyway station waiting for a train and just patted the seat next to me, as I would at home, to say to my dog I've seen out the corner of my eye, yes, hop up, I'll give you a stroke. It was a pigeon.

Made me wonder if the owner was ever tracked down and answer is, yes, but well, you watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdq...

A night away. So that's the pair of pants I'm wearing and one for tomorrow. Best make that two, coz you never know. Hmmm, have I packed any pants? Best throw two in there. Reader, I took away five pairs of pants for one night away.

I'm just RTing praise today. But I was really pleased with last night coz I was trying some new stuff and it worked.

Excellent night of frivolous fun @fesshole.bsky.social live with most entertaining @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social pontificating proceedings. Can recommend for a good night out.

Liverpool. That was one of favourite ever Fesshole shows. So many people wanted to contribute. It was a like a gameshow with so many people stepping up to do their bit. And my new tech *mostly* worked.

Probably the only useful thing I’ve learnt from running Anon Opin. For the most part, any old card will keep the lights on in a hotel room.

Not only are laugher tracks good, that is performing a show in front of an audience and recording their reactions, horror should be made the same way, and we have scream tracks. The news too. Do it live and have people booing and cheering.

On a train to Liverpool to do the Fesshole gig. I like this bit coz you get little bits of stimulation like nosing at strangers and looking out the window, and that it's in public makes it harder to slack off. I'd like a magic ticket so I could work random trains all the time. Enough seats empty.

Does anyone know how to get this gnarly looking distortion pedal working?

I have bought this to keep Matt happy. I still think my title "View Source" had merit for a web type-in mag. (Obviously I should make my own magazine with that title and go into a bitter rivalry with Matt like when Crash fell out with Sinclair User.)

My Bond, cold-ish take, is I just don't want Amazon Bond. Just don't want it. Amazon has never shown the care needed to steward something as well loved as Bond. Yes they'll employ good people, but they'll fuck it, because they're run by execs who thought up putting Amazon brand Vodka on subscription

Yes, I’d like a nice cup of dog blood, fresh from the severed heads

Really excited by this - there was a question mark on whether I could email the guests and get their fesses so to make sure I wasn't fucked and have no second act, I've built a system that projects a QR code into the audience & sticks contributions on screen without me knowing what they are. [1/2]

Apparently me describing a bowl of large green olives as "a collection of Shrek's severed bellends" just as my partner was putting them into her mouth is "the worst thing you've ever said, and there's competition for that"

Get your establishment wrong-un name by adding HRH Prince before your name, removing it, and double hyphening what remains with cake and an English town.

Do I know anyone in Liverpool? Coz if I do you should come to the Fesshole gig on the 12th and then I have someone to hang out with and catch up with afterwards. The last time I asked this it shook @sheepfilms.bsky.social out the woodwork and it was lovely to see him after a 20 year (!) gap.

Based on my vim experience, Davie had probably been trying to quit for years, but couldn’t work out what key combination he needed.

This BBC thing, the only dG that's worth knowing is the key presses needed to empty a file in vi(m). AM I RIGHT LADS?!

My guess is that a right wing Director General of the BBC resigning for not being right wing enough is probably bad.

There’s some beautiful sloes to find in the bushes at the moment - I love the colour of them so much

Imagine Musk, who clearly is in war with "the left" did a sentiment analysis on your old tweets and decided to publish all your DMs. And also deleting your old account actually did nothing to protect you, because they're all in a big old database in Musk HQ.

Bit of a tricky project for someone but sometimes I see the loading screen on an old 8-bit game and think someone should go through them and go, ooh I'm going to make the game that would exist if that loading screen was a gameplay screenshot

The ludicrous thing is believing the point of creating and playing music is to end up wildly financially successful rather than entertaining yourself and some friends *looks at my piles of synths and guitars nervously*

You can tell how much money is tied up in chatbots because it's getting the kind of fearful leeway even as it demonstrably causes the deaths of children that we normally only allow for guns

I do sometimes wonder why people are happy to broadcast their ignorance "I didn't understand any of this post" instead of quietly googling a few nouns and reading a wikipedia page. I don't understand loads of shit, but I do look things up. Although to be fair, maybe I should look this up instead.

Prepping some new treats for the Fesshole Liverpool gig next week - 20 minutes of live swearclock whilst people buy drinks and get their seats. It’s quite possible I’ll be upstaged by my own automated support act.

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me today: 1. I'm busy, I need to no be looking at bluesky, I'll just install a blocker 2. oh all these blockers are shit, as they're all pay-for-me nagware 3. I'll write my own 4. It's fucking wonderful but I still haven't started my work 5. Hey let's show people on bluesky what I've been doing

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Had 200g of tomatoes that were looking a bit tired and cooked them up with a little oil, salt, sugar and lime juice. Puréed and added water. Now I have the smallest amount of the most delicious tomato soup ever made.

Rob Manuel @ Gmail for my PayPal - I am very sick

Trying out an Anon Opin show - were you come down and share your opinions LIVE. You can be anon (i.e. fill in a form) and I'll (your admin Rob) will read them out or you can be not anon and say them with your face. Do come down. www.designmynight.com/london/bars/...

Just reading about that dude that made €400,000 pretending to have cancer by shoving an iPhone cable up his nose. I am very poorly, please send me money.

Oh god I just caught that bit where the monitor screen changes colours to softer night time colours and it felt like I was coming up hard on a John Lewis ad.

Spent two days putting together "Fesshole gold" where I've put 1,000 old fesses in a queue and it pumps them out as images, one a day at 7:30am.

I just got distracted that I could plug my fake 303 thingy into a guitar pedal, but what I really was trying to do was fix @yorecomputer.bsky.social and @randomsmashhits.bsky.social and I think I’ve done it

I’ve always thought it was a mistake to go back in time and kill baby Hitler when you could go back 9 months earlier and seduce his mother and then let your Allied sperm do battle with the Axis sperm before fertilising the Hitler egg.

Years of being on the local Facebook group and it’s finally worth it coz someone has posted something a bit funny

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