i laughed a lot - the questions are brilliant www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeY5...

for a while when my eyes were bad i listened to The Rest Is History pod and quite enjoyed it - just tried it again and, my god, these guys are insufferable. Either the scales have fallen from my eyes or they've got a lot worse, e.g. Holland's 'acting' is way more frequent and offensive

I'm closing my Amazon account - what's the best place sell my books online? Any tips from #self-published #writers appreciated! @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social pls share, thank you :)

yesterday was extremely tense, wasn't it? For me it was like that time in 2015 when my boss asked if we could have a quick huddle after the meeting. I, having not worked in an office for 23 yrs and not up with the lingo, thought he'd said 'quick cuddle'

I just signed this petition, so give it a sign and boost it yourself if you agree with, y'know, trying to throw spanners in the works of AI c.org/6qYtxZDPnF

I'm glad the US pilot is safe but the sheer discrepancy shown by most Americans of all political stripes between the value of the life a soldier who *literally signed up for this shit* and the value of the lives of thousands of civilians who didn't is indefensible under any coherent moral code

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

#20DayBookChallenge Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Doing this to give myself something to do here, and to make me remember books)

UK Artist Prudence Staite created a playable chocolate record which worked just like a vinyl record, and played 'You Sexy Thing' by the band Hot Chocolate #womensart

View from Artemis II today. Crescent Earth. A view humans haven't captured since 1972.

Frank T. Lockwood (British, 1895-1961) "Newsagent's Shop, King's Norton, Birmingham," 1958 Watercolor and gouache #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

struck me this morning that it might be significant that americans invented 'mad' to describe angry

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ah the pang of nostalgia for my old Polo's cd multichanger. It got a disc stuck in it and I took it apart on the kitchen table and fixed it before realising it had a fucking laser in it and that that was a really bad idea i had

seems a job with The Shield of the Americas is the new 'going to live on a farm'

We heard the meaningless rambling of a confused, dementia ridden old man last night. He is unfit to lead this country. He must resign or be removed. He’s destroying US society & economy and our allies’. He *must* resign or be removed.

Siouxsie Sous Chef Joe Plumber Paul Welder

Omg my heart… Joni nailing the end of Big Yellow Taxi at the Junos 🚕🚕🚕💛

so i watched springsteen's intro to his concert and... wow. Idk, I just think it could've been humble, couldn't it? it could've been inclusive. It could've referenced the foundational genocide. But instead it was the same old exceptionalist claptrap that's got us here.

FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife

just made an embarrassing number of attempts to fork a piece of melon on the bottom of the plastic container before realising i was seeing my own finger

Just saw about Dylan's new AI racket. Liking him is akin to getting a boil that keeps coming back. Episodes of pain, quickly forgotten, but ultimately just disappointing.

I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon

oh thanks for this - i'll give Stateless a spin tomorrow

scott mills sounds like a temu house of bruar

Went to see Project Hail Mary. Enjoyable hokum. Agreeable mince. Pleasant bobbins. You get the drift.

kind of wish the ppl who screencap some fash bs merely so they can quote dunk on it, thereby bypassing all attempts to mute fash personalities' names, would... stop it

indy march in edinburgh, anti-fash march in london, no kings in US 💯💯💯

Fascinated by Marco Rubio’s hairline. It’s almost entirely without substance or form. It is liminal, unreachable: a madman’s lilo. A cow’s memory of war

Brilliant ocean news! 60,000 oysters are now in the Firth of Forth - double the initial goal! Oysters can stabilise the seabed, store carbon and boost biodiversity. So this is a big win wildlife and ecosystems. 🦪 This is thanks to years of hard work from partners, communities and supporters. 👏

Here’s the thing. Driving is a privilege. Voting is a right. To attached a privilege as a requirement to exercise a right is a Constitutional abomination.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

listening to records while filling c.150 holes in bookshelves and oh i'd forgotten how much i love this www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHh...

“The problem, as I see it, is that you both are extremely adept at pushing each other’s buttons.”

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS NATTER

he inspired me to learn to whistle when i was wee, but i did it by sucking air in rather than blowing it out - took ages to get it and then someone told me that girls aren't supposed to whistle bc it makes the virgin mary's nose bleed so... Just a lot more complicated than it should have been really

Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid

19-year-old Siouxsie Sioux during her very first performance at the 100 Club in London, 1976 Photo by Barry Plummer #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #siouxsiesioux #punklegend #history #punkrockhistory

oh god, this always destroys me... RIP Whitney #totp

"T'Pau there... Or if you're not from Yorkshire, it's The Pau" - Alan Partridge #totp

always thought this had a great hook - and Belinda's vibrato is just grand really #totp

Talking to my sister tonight and we mentioned House of Games. Me: 'What's it about?' Sister, drawing on a roll-up: 'It's that cunt off Pointless and they have to guess words.'

this is true - but it's also true that forums were often limited in permitted subject matter, and audience, whereas asymmetric social media gave people freedom to address any topic they want and have what they say read and amplified. I've never had reach on socials but I imagine it's quite addicting

Also re Rosetta Sharpe, this is a sublime interpretation of Sam Phillips’ song youtube.com/watch?v=dl0e...

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Shall we run and then jump? #oilpainting #art

You are living a reality... youtu.be/NhNhixbYIpM?...

Just saw a post from my former employer featuring an incompletely punctuated dependent clause, and while it's tempting to say it wouldn't have happened in my day it definitely would've because I was only the editorial manager and had nothing to do with socials. But still.

Today i've been to the Shelter shop, Morrisons, VW dealer, TK Maxx, M&S, B&Q and Tesco. Nice sunny day for it. Everyone was in a great mood!

Not enough that Reform has a 24/7 cheerleading channel (GB News)—they also get 37 mins live on the BBC, while the Greens' press conf. don’t even get a mention. Is Ofcom asleep, or selectively awake? And the BBC?Are they failing to do their jobs, or doing exactly what they’ve decided their job is?