Tangental tribute to Anthony Head www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3P...

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

Further to the covers thread floating about, this is a hugely underrated cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIpN...

Once you notice that Ross Kemp has confused "benchmark" and "setting the bar" and keeps saying "they've set the bench high" on The Bridge Of Lies, you can't stop noticing

As @shawndra-ra-ra-ra.bsky.social has taken Song To The Siren, I'm going to pick this www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvzO...

I’m old enough to remember some rightwingers calling out Obama for having an opinion on Brexit, presumably they’ll be shocked by this

You know your economy is borked when they're boarding up the charity shops www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I pooped IN my pants, I didn’t poop my pants, and there’s a really big difference there,” she said

Righto.

Presumably he'll be taking very firm action on any organisation that uses & thereby helps promote the "disgusting" social media site concerned. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you've seen the screwworm story, here's a thread detailing how MAGA is helping the maggots

An apology to The Sex Pistols in Sounds 4th, June 1977 about last weeks advert for 'God Save The Queen'. @sexpistolsofficial.bsky.social @virginrecords.bsky.social

Was it "can you do something I can wring a think-piece out of?"

You can understand Farage being upset; you spend all day trying to carefully trying to calibrate your thin veil, and then...

Was amused by these two stories being next to each other - take the kids' phones, make 'em engage with the real world... oh, shit not like that

The story isn't badly written, but the headline on this would suggest something good and positive has just happened www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The overruling of Cheshire West is going to fly under the radar because a lot of the people impacted are so utterly denied a voice that even their deaths won't be heard about until an enquiry in a couple of decades

This is horrifying. It classes disabled people as not fully human, because it is saying that they cannot ‘feel’ the same way as an able bodied person would in the same circumstances. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Oh, no reason.

If this is too financially complicated for you to immediately understand, basically Elon Musk is stealing your pension, and the rules that were in place to prevent such a theft have been waived for no obvious reason.

Amongst the other details of the Murrell case, let's not lose sight of the lovely job someone did parking this in a tight little space

Peel Backwards - 10-11-91 - Peel's just read out a bit from a US fanzine, Conflict, which lists the sort of things British people eat and could have been a Bluesky post in 2026. Spotted dick, can you imagine?

See Farage has abandoned the dog whistle for a fucking tuba

I'm surprised this hasn't been turned into a feel-good British movie, from the producers of Fisherman's Friends and The One About The Rural Pub

Another huge victory for AI, then

I think any decision taken on GB News under Grade's leadership of Ofcom needs to be reviewed, and quite sharpish

I see Peter Kay's topped up his phone data

My backwards march through the Peel shows just threw this up for me, and I remember hearing this go out and it's the same goosebumps all these years later www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sTj...

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

the links to the Chronic (and also the Northants Telegraph) at the foot of BBC News stories currently going to a Nexis newsdesk sign-in page Oh, looks like it might be all the 'other sites' links

as part of the BBC’s on-going commitment to representing a diversity of ideas, June will be Pride & Prejudice Month

"This sort of outrage," snapped Father Parakeet of St Joeys Of The Immaculate Plumage, "is why we do not take the Guardian in this Presbytery."

Has the Daily Star really dragged three entire pages out of Frank Skinner's 'sideways look at life' column in yesterday's Observer?

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Call me old-fashioned, but I'm going to wait until The Bloke Who Invented Jenga has told us his opinion

A single source in a book by Lord Ashcroft claims Farage is banned from Desert Island Discs? Well, it must be true then. Because he’s famously been kept off the BBC’s output hasn’t he? You barely see his grinning toad face on the corporation’s channels.

Englewood getting pushback on using AI to promote energy saving www.westword.com/news/englewo...

oh god I've completely lost it at this

Have just had my first "organise your Christmas party" email of the year

Love this bit on Ai from the Royal Society. A classic case of the probability engine getting itself in a mess and revealing its complete lack of understanding

Is it because the last three trains in the UK are being replaced by a bus service? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Am amused that this hotel's desire to stress that it has a five star rating makes it look like it's got a sweary name

She promptly escaped to the Los Angeles underground where she survives as a soldier of fortune…

If you look at anywhere in the US on Google Maps rn, the street view figure is Dua Lipa

Working on a more creative type of graduation speech in case I ever get invited

Stretch Armstrong origin story

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

And away we go (again)

RIP Marcia Lucas, whose skill as a film editor and storyteller made a clunky independent film called STAR WARS greater than the sum of its parts. Rightly referred to as "Lucas's secret weapon," Marcia had an uncanny talent to see a film from the perspective of an audience--and won an Oscar for it.

“Rentokil is looking to employ a three stone rat. Your job will be to sit in the middle of our office being invasive vermin while we go about our daily business of removing invasive vermin.”