Walts are absolutely fascinating characters. If he rocked up in an old regimental blazer and a couple of medals no one would have clocked him, but its not enough so he has to go full-on Admiral and pretend he's Lord Lieutenant as well

Another incredibly confusing day of getting the news via BSky when you have the 47th president's name muted in your feed

Heard about this over the years, but never watched it until now. Absolutely fantastic, they literally don't make them like this any more. 40 years old so slower paced yet also at a breakneck pace at the same time, in a way that modern series absolutely refuse to do

Perfect home if, like me, you dream of becoming an annoying brutalist version of Jonathan Creek

James Watson absolutely in the category of "I thought he was already dead", for me

I love my football, but seeing this banner makes me seriously want to reconsider the obsession

Just called across a cafe to ask my other half to pick up some napkins while she was at the counter, and the gesture I made for them was as if I were a freakishly giant referee signalling VAR

Phenomenal thread

Sadly I think the other reason for this is that a lot poppy sellers & RBL volunteers are now either too infirm or have died of old age in the last few years - fewer places to get them from

The Mary Earps memoir is extraordinarily awful, or at least the extract in today's Guardian is. Appallingly self-centred and vindictive. Does her absolutely no favours, I cannot understand why she thought this was a good idea

*Rio Ferdinand voice* Legion d'honneur! Legion d'honneur! Legion d'honneur!

Probably earlier this week. Was scanning some documents with my phone camera, did one side, needed to turn the page over, so I swiped the phone screen and then got puzzled when it didn't work

Constitution nerds: doesn't this sort of thing need an Act of Parliament? Like the titles stripped from German princes in WW1?

It's that time of year again

Surely everyone is by now familiar with the Viz magazine house style and can spot this for what it is?

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

The funny thing about this saga is that she was already famous, found the body and got him a state funeral and herself an MBE. Absolutely didn't need to make a libellous film to say "needless to say, I got the last laugh", but did it anyway, which ironically was a very Alan Partridge thing to do

One of the worst changes Britain last twenty years has been the ever-growing miserliness of our national character, the moneysavingexpertisation of an entire nation which is now convinced you can scrimp and save yourself to success

Editor: You get those photos of Chris Tarrant and Cookie Monster? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin respectful just like you asked

Think one of the key things why adverts are such a thing with them is that people in ads are usually enjoying themselves and having a nice life; seeing non-white people be happy is something that drives your typical racist absolutely mad

Idle enshittification anecdata: restaurant we went to tonight got slammed with a string of Deliveroo orders just as we ordered, and they lost our order in the chaos, and were so slapdash we decided to cut our losses and leave

Lol @ someone forgetting to pull the AWS ads during half-time of the football tonight, where the semiautomated offside isn't working because of the AWS downtime

Walking past this place in Forest Gate always made me double-take

Makes me really sad that Heist Podcast is on indefinite hiatus, it would have been a hell of an episode this week

Need to know if they were as hard done by as they say, or if the food/service was actually just plain bad

us-east-1 going down seems to come earlier and earlier every year

So lots of people defend Starmer as a proper football fan but this is an argument against - fans all across Europe know that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans make Millwall look like the Quakers

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Attitudes to generative AI in C21st are like television in C20th - some people have become clearly addicted to it, while others will performatively declare they don't use it all

Hurray, it's leafblower season. Why bother taking five minutes to rake up fallen leaves when you can spend twenty annoying your neighbours

A wonderful bit of nominative determinism - the chairman of the Society of Ploughmen is called Stephen Cheeseman

Growing up in Plaistow makes this very easy to answer

A property for the Foucauldian in your life

This guy has always reminded me of Noel Edmonds, and he's getting ever closer to emulating him

Watching the final weekend of the baseball and all I can think about is how much the commentator sounds like Peter Griffin from Family Guy

Been wondering why it stresses me so much and have just realised... it reminds me of Windows Vista

Was in New York on this day and pre-enacted the Doug Emhoff/Kamala Harris meme by continually showing @maharafiatal.bsky.social my phone every time there was a new funny Tweet

Oh wow liquid glass is hideous looking isn't it

this is a recurring phenomenon in the UK: older people who are somehow convinced that they personally lived through WW2.

Feel this story is being somewhat underreported - not just the scale of the attack but also the fragility of the industry

Alien: Earth really is good isn't it

Yeah this might be a good idea today

Lol Radiohead tickets and iPhone presale going online at the exact same time on Friday, what could possibly go wrong

Another great day to have the US President's name muted on Bluesky and so be utterly baffled by what everyone is talking about

God I hate the tone on the emergency alerts. I guess thats the point but still, fuck this

It's obviously a fake rumour, everybody just get on with your weekends as normal

"Racism as a hobby" is an interesting way of looking at it - the self-organization on social media, and the sense of community and the performative aspects that entails, are certainly hobby-like. Wonder if there is a link between this and the decline of traditional hobbies

Not really interesting unless we also see what the average Brit thinks what each group gets paid (and as a followup, whether they change their mind when told what the real amount is)