Back in them thar 90s I was listening to Orgy. My friend/co-worker heard it and loved them too. So she went off on her lunchbreak to Google them. She came out of her office white as a sheet, genuinely surprised at the results that had come up for that search. We still tease her about to this day. 😅

My doctor is getting stronger. I’m up to six apples a day and he just keeps inching closer

This is why whale punk had to happen

I suppose at least making them visible from six miles away means that you'll be able to spot the pervospecs before they're snapping pictures of you

Even without the idea of Nigel Farage dictating what museums should display, the idiotic requirement to organise displays chronologically is risible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Am I remembering right that he was a university contemporary of Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones?

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS NATTER

I didn't realise you could get tides in coconut water.

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

"You can't beat it at Woolworth" sounds like something an old-time cop would say as he starts to write up a public decency charge

goooooing to the chip shop and we’re gooooonnna get ha a a ddock

Time to dust off the "are you going all the way?" joke not used since the 1970s. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Starting to develop an interest in professional sports www.westword.com/opinion/denv...

Julian Cope, Birmingham Powerhouse, April 28 1987

#ThisIsntInstagram #Churchyard They've seen some stuff

I don't know if this is one of the apps that Starmer scrolls, but just in case you do, Keir: probably not a good look to reveal you pay more attention to a statement from a random child than you do to the security vetting report on an ambassadorial appointment

Heartbreaking celebrity news this morning

UNSUNG HERO: Iris Long was an unlikely AIDS activist. A married chemist from Queens, she barely knew any gay people. She joined ACT UP to use her expertise to fight for treatments. May her memory be a blessing. By Richard Sandomir, w/ a small assist from me. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Is it me, or are there just too many commas here?

Just seen Geese live in Camden for Record Store Day. #recordstoreday

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

I'm not sure this is entirely true. They had to run advertising campaigns to persuade people to put ice in their drinks, never mind the constant 'you WILL have a computer one day' stuff from the 1980s. What's different this time is that the public isn't going "take my money".

Today’s poem is called ‘Utterly Betrayed’.

ffs one of the dishes that the BBC describe as "you've probably never heard of" is steak and kidney pudding www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Radio 4 Extra is repeating Meera Syal's reading of Anita And Me from Woman's Hour for the first time since 2018... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Saw the BMJ in the preview here and thought "well, the British Medical Journal is cleaely specialist but was it underperforming?" but it turns out its Builders Merchants Journal

FFS. Nothing takes me out of a film faster than failure to even do the most basic research. The Statue of Liberty is on an ISLAND. It is not buried in a jaunty angle in the sand.

In these dark and unrelenting times we live in, a little good news sometimes shuffles sweetly along. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“And he spake unto the Lord of his shock and confusion. That the walls of his confinement should be depicted upon as prawns. But then, through the Lords light, the realisation commeth that actually its flamingoes of course” Danny:E12

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

Really sad to hear Andy Kershaw's died. Probably the Radio 1 programme which was most Reithian in terms of educating as well as informing and entertaining. Can still remember the first track/artist I discovered listening to him... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9m...

For the frog sayeth: "Why did you sting me, Mr. Scorpion? For now we both will drown!" And the scorpion replieth "I can't help it. It's in my nature". FAFO 1:17

"What's vitally important now is we find out exactly who knew what, when, providing it doesn't turn out to be 'me' and 'before'."

“Of course in the old days Bluesky was only on for three hours a day. We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log on to it. Then when it shut down again we’d all stand up and sing the national anthem”

Not sure I can imagine a more Political Columnist Take than this. Not even particularly dunking on it, but it did make me genuinely laugh.

This morning I've discovered the Mandelson portrait in the NPG and somehow it feels even more disqualifying than that photo of him in his pants www.npg.org.uk/collections/...

I'm looking forward to seeing how Stroud will commemorate 16 June in years to come.

And the Lord said unto Moses "I've got ten of these, if you're going to carve them all onto rock we'll be here all night. Couldn't you just try and memorise them?"

Don't forget we've also got a Lord Darling

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

Slightly surprised to discover that the eye-wateringly expensive Royal Mail 48 service guarantees delivery within, erm, 72 hours.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: two, potentially three, entities that you can never really imagine having interacted interact as Davina McCall talks to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo on MTV Europe's live afternoon show Hanging Out.

"You're right! I should not have sliced off your arm. I will now try and remove the tree branch as your originally asked."

"I like the Pope. The Pope smokes dope" 1980s: T-shirt slogan depicting John Paul with a spliff 2020s: Political commentators describing Leo smiting JD Vance

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

This was my "Is there a doctor of philosophy on the plane?" moment.