GENUINE fact (not a "bit"): The date is 5^2 / 3^2 / 45^2 It is probably the last time in your lifetime where all three numbers are square (the next one being 1/1/2116)

Now playing. One of the true classics.

This is astonishing.

Sorry, mate, can't hear you - I've been raptured.

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

A short thing about music. Please indulge me. My son and his girlfriend did a pub gig this afternoon. Here they are. Voice and keyboard. Jazz standards. They were good, but that’s not the point. (1/n)

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Proof if needed that there’s good people out there

I will repost this EVERY TIME I SEE IT 🐅❤️

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

I'm not 100% sure why this exists, but I'm glad that it does, because it's very well done.

Now playing. This is so good. Every bit as good as Disgraceful, but it doesn't even warrant a Wikipedia page.

Seeing as it's her feast day, it would be remiss of me not to mention that Hildegard of Bingen gets a mention in The Riddle of the Fractal Monks. More about it here: www.jonathanpinnock.com/books/mathem...

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

God, I'd forgotten he'd directed Ordinary People. That was a hell of a film.

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"

Well, I guess we do this one next. Seem to remember Oldfield's guitar solo at the end was rather lovely.

Now playing. One for the completists. Steve Hillage is having fun.

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

Brilliant piece on the casual erasure of of a female artist from a landmark moment in pop culture. And the answer to the question, Why don’t Peter Blake’s other album covers have the power and impact of Sgt. Pepper?

Don't know where I found this, but just putting it here before I delete it.

Sad news. This is one of the great cover versions.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

This is quite the maddest thing I've heard for some time, and that's a pretty high bar.

Time for another reading catch-up. Some books I liked and one I most definitely didn't. www.jonathanpinnock.com/2025/09/what...

I am getting very soppy in my old age, but this brought tears to my eyes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUE...

Ah. I see voting's open for the National Trust elections again. I'm assuming that the usual numpties have crawled out from under their rocks?

This may well be the greatest thing ever to appear on BlueSky.

Now playing. Forgotten what a lovely, evocative album this was.

Well that was a bit of a let down. Have they made it quieter?

"Stoner's Boner"

A lovely walk to Burnham on Sea last night and a delightful audience to play to Next destination is NEWCASTLE Robinince.com

Also at @burnhambookfest.co.uk, went to a superbly stimulating workshop given by @robertgarnham.bsky.social. Wrote the first short form stuff I'd done for years.

Fantastic day yesterday at @burnhambookfest.co.uk, topped off by a wonderful performance by @robinince.bsky.social. Also nice to chat with him in the green room beforehand about King Crimson and other odd things. What a lovely bloke.

Well, this is absolutely wonderful

Oh, that’s gorgeous.

This is how you do it #Welcome

www.jonathanpinnock.com/2025/09/what... I blogged about what I read six months ago. Not sure why I did this, but there it is. Feel free to read it.

I’ll give you a clue: it’s pissing it down.

Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?

Finally got round to reading this excellent collection (courtesy of one of the National Trust's 2nd hand bookshops) and - given the numerous appearances of @nicholasroyle.bsky.social in the acknowledgements - was very pleased to find not one but two INCLUSIONS. Plus a mobile phone number!

I did not know this. What an excellent policy.

Loaded up the fixture list for the new skittles season, lads.

Oh, god help me. Been resisting this podcast for aeons, but I finally caved. It's basically a supermassively expanded edition of one of those Wikipedia binges that you end up on while listening to Sounds to the 60s over Saturday breakfast. Still over two hours to go and absolutely hooked.

I am on tour again next month with lots of new stuff created at Edinburgh Fringe - Penzance , Glasgow , Newcastle , Chorlton , Burnham on Sea and lots more Robinince.com

BURNHAM-ON-SEA!

I will be back on the rails in September - Penzance, Glasgow, Newcastle , Burnham on Sea, Morecambe and many more - dates here Robinince.com