Listening to some Badfinger courtesy of @super-deluxe.bsky.social. Thanks Paul!

Phone is groaning under the weight of emergency podcasts

Seems like the perfect night for a round of 1972's hottest new boardgame!

I know we're all talking about Manchesterism these days, but the decision not to build air conditioning into the Metrolink tram requirement is looking short-sighted on days like this 🥵

Ah, the ceremonial Freezing of Fuel Duty. Feels like it should be announced by a herald, with the King and Queen driven to Parliament in a 1989 Ford Sierra.

So… hypothetically… if there was an election (or song contest) with 25 candidates, one of which was super-controversial, and passionate voters were able to vote 20 times on multiple devices… that would massively favour the pro votes, because the anti votes are split 24 ways.

If Andy Burnham could make the wifi on Avanti West Coast actually work, that would be swell

Should have bought shares in this gif

Just sad that "King Kenny" isn't Kenny Dalglish.

Really enjoyed this! Highlight for me was 'Mother', and the footage looked incredible #powertothepeople

Wait, @eggpod.bsky.social is back? This year is looking up!

This was great, some *very* interesting revelations!

The Iraq War and Tony Blair are now the equivalent of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam when I was learning about them at school. Is there a GCSE history exam about David Kelly and Andrew Gilligan?

Argos just isn't the same without the laminated book of dreams. A touchscreen doesn't cut it.

Well this seems to be a book aimed squarely at me - you've got my backing!

Can we just reboot this year and start again?

Iconic for Stephen to dress like Wilma Deering for the final #traitorsuk #thetraitors

Why not try 'Spaghetti Omelette' - from this 1989 Italian-Australian cookbook

Having consulted the historical documents, 1994 wins for me!

Something particularly chilling about seeing Casablanca described as a "franchise".

Found a page from the 10th August 1946 edition of @manchestereveningnews.co.uk behind my skirting boards. Headline is "Truman to accept British plan for Palestine". Anyone know how that panned out?

Yeeted from elsewhere

Great punchline to the young man (4:16) who describes exactly how to circumvent the law.

Honestly, give the editors the £87,500 #celebritytraitors

A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif

"credible people"

I don't think this is great, but the sums involved are relatively small and the alternative is presumably even higher spend on hotels. This seems like the best outcome for families. Obviously it would be better to have available housing stock, but we are where we are.

I fear this pizza in Spain could cause an international incident 😬

Important not to set expectations too high at airports. (It was good).

I watched The Day Today on DVD through the PS5 recently and honestly it looked great. Years of Blu-ray conditioned me to assume DVD is basically equivalent to watching a home recording from the neighbouring ITV region on an E240 in long play mode.

If the next Doctor Who special isn't these guys teaming up, I'll eat my fez.

Well #doctorwho was totally nuts. I loved it!

Getting a new phone means checking each of the 87 open Chrome tabs on the old one *just in case* there was something really important I meant to read in 2023.

It's sparked some comment over the years, but is not very current.

Authentic map of the world beyond Pittsburgh. Is it too late for the book @jayforeman.bsky.social ?

Cobus 2700 really has a stranglehold on the whole giant airport transfer bus market don't they?

Not the main point, but why do American politicians in general, and T in particular love these printed flipcharts? Is the tariff on imports of large displays from South Korea too high?

The IOC:

Got to admire Norman Foster's commitment to the bit, designing a giant circus tent to reflect the ongoing clown show at Man United. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Obsessed with the insistence that the Sony Walkman should be referred to as the "Walk Person to be non-gender specific"... In 1989. Everything new is old again. With thanks to the amazing BBC Archive youtu.be/qXG-RGCatwA?...

🚨 My phone is groaning under the weight of emergency podcasts

BBC2 showing All The President's Men feels pretty pointed.

When you need somewhere to stay in Yorkshire

🔴NEW🔴 I did a deep dive into Musk's disinformation campaign about grooming gangs for @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right... Please read it, I have had to look at a LOT of far right content so make it worth it 🤪

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All trussed up and ready to go

Delighted for the opportunity to own Spearhead From Space for the fifth time 😍 (I appreciate those are rookie numbers for many #DoctorWho fans) www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...

I love how the interest rate on my credit card has gone up, yet the rate on my savings account correspondingly went down.

I'm seeing #PaulMcCartney in two weeks (for the first time) and am very excited! But despite knowing the #Beatles backwards, there were big chunks of his solo career I'd never quite got around to, so I started a deep-dive in October. So I thought I'd highlight some new (for me) discoveries...

Wait. What?