This would collapse the company I was most recently on staff at.

#ScottishWidows aren't on BlueSky - however. Today, 18 September, I received a letter from them dated 7 August relating to something from early May. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Application withdrawn 🎉 A rare piece of great news. What next for the building, I wonder? Perhaps owner will want to sell. Or will water down their plans and still want to demolish the building.

Hmn… a lot to chew on in this

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Developers are desperate to demolish East Lodge in Lammas Park. Much-loved locally, it has architectural merit according to the Victorian Society. More visual appeal than the six-storey block of flats the developers want to build. Inside a public park. www.ealingtoday.co.uk/default.asp?...

In Liverpool it would be important to know whether legal precedent stretches to ‘knobhead’

I love that this word was popularised by a band called Les Goristes. I know someone who only wants to talk about illness, unhappiness or death among friends (only one or two are mutuals). She's La Goriste from now on

Gary Numan watching a seagull fly away with his paper #totp

Man Explains Autumn to Aliens from Outer Space #R4Today

Big tech will pull the plug on free AI. Can creatives afford to pay? https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/108795/ Remember when Netflix was eight dollars a month? Now it’s nearly tripled in price, carved into ad-riddled tiers,…

'Our avian friends' Amol trying to avoid saying birds twice in the same sentence on #R4Today. Unofficially auditioning for #JustAMinute?

'Bro moment' 😳

The story behind sounds so much more interesting than the actual programme #DestinationX

The far right claims to be 'protecting our women and girls' - AYE FCKIN RIGHT YOU ARE LADS. 🐂💩

‘See it, say it, salted’. This is EXACTLY why slugs won’t use the London Underground

If brain box Judith didn't know the name of the Louvre, how on earth did she manage to answer question number 1? And did we actually see footage of her doing so? #DestinationX silly programme

Judith: 'What's that museum?' Darren: 'The Louvre'. Is she a stooge? #DestinationX

I am totally losing my faith in our nuclear power stations watching Judith in #DestinationX Wtf! Thank god for Darren the cabbie

ugh there were too many 'Laurences' in my teenage years and no newly-woke Martyn Gibson's whatsoever #TheArchers

Great longform opportunity for someone New York based:

If the diocese accepts the shop in a church idea maybe Susan could get a set of special tabards made up, with the christian cross on them, crusader style.!! #TheArchers

It's the other way around. Ignoring the typo and other nonsense and getting to what they're trying to say… when your curiosity's ignited you go beyond what you (and possibly others) already know or understand to discover more. If you break this down and it sounds prosaic you know you're in BS land

In terms of bother of making: number of people who'll enjoy it this works for a big party. Interesting video if you like cooking youtu.be/2w-PInTe0B0

This is great - the historic Calstock Ferry has been revived. It's solar-powered, and goes from Ferry Farm on the Devon side of the Tamar across to Calstock in Cornwall, as well as upriver to Gunnislake along a bit of river seldom seen as it's so inaccessible calstockferry.com

For anyone disturbed (and who wouldn't be?) by tonight's episode of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, this may help. Interesting too: "Flanagan acknowledges that Kurzel's series is 'a darker vision than mine.'"

London Oyster photocards are going up - the one I get is going up by 80%, y-o-y. I wonder how much it will be going up next year and if subsequent increases will take it into the realm of paid-for travel? @bettertransport.bsky.social www.timeout.com/london/news/...

In case you're wondering what the hell just happened #Beck

Yerr SO electric Stella, yerv recharged me batteries #TheArchers

Errr - who is watching Combine Cam? #TheArchers

Ruth seems to ask Stella a lot more about herself than Plop #TheArchers

Ruth fixing the gate to keep Pip out. #TheArchers

#ArchEnders prediction: - Brian returns, sacks Stella (again) on the spot, Stella defects to Brookfield. - Brian goes home and dies of a heart attack. We hear Jenny's voice saying 'Oh Brine". - Miranda and Brian were secretly married in the Cotswolds. #TheArchers

If harvesting wheat is that exciting, we all need a go. #TheArchers @dumteedum.bsky.social

Imagining nastiness is weird. We really do create our own realities. I find it disturbing the way real people, their businesses and livelihoods were maligned in this way #TheSaltPath observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

A moving watch. Interesting to note too that the doctor interviewed (with knowledge of CBS) says walking is counter-productive for CBS patients, and that John says he thought he ought to be doing more walking because of the book #TheSaltPath observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

David, Ruth and Stella are going to do polyamory, aren't they #TheArchers (after the harvest, obvs, no time for that now)

I've noticed that people in my age group have a tendency to make silly choices in the mountains and often overestimate their own abilities (perhaps remembering what they could do 40 years ago). An average of three hikers a day have died in the Dolomites this summer 🏔️ snowbrains.com/english-tour...

Hugh Wallace (The Great House Revival) with TikTok star Maryrose, Maryrose's Mum and the builder with the huge digger. Brains, humour, brawn, aesthetics and social media influence, all bases covered

Voices to give you the chills. Wonderful music all for an £8 gallery ticket #ArvoPart

When two people were as recently into each other as Brad and Mia were, they remember the dates of birthdays. I'm not buying that Mia's unaware #TheArchers

'Ah, okay 😳' is the correct response I think, if someone starts telling you about a 'ferrets' wheel' #TheArchers

Feeling like a 'resource being sweated' and it's not safe to speak out, ridiculous KPIs, no line manager, gaslighting so not being able to function is framed as the individual's personal failure instead of a systemic one. This disease infects the private and the public sector. #DoctorsInDistress

Gone are the days of spontaneity - I just booked tickets for a gig in April 2026. Same for a talk next March.

Just had to switch off #R4Today for obvious reasons

"Why every brand looks like this now" Jon Rowlandson nails what's going on at agencies these days and I wonder whether that could go some way towards explaining the University of Warwick debacle. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonrow...

"If you’re designing on a computer you’ve got a ready-made image and you don’t like this and you don’t like that, so you get it altered. But what you lose and what you miss is the ideas coming while you’re drawing. You’ve got time to think, and one idea grows out of another." youtu.be/X0VMLZm-BNo

Oh dear, f*ck up on the boundary setting front. Susan's forlorn hope for reconciliation trumped her innate knowledge she was being manipulated. Neil saw, waded in - but ruined the ring for Susan. Really sad #TheArchers

'The best advice I’ve been given – and I needed to hear it when I was young is “The competition is never as good as you think it is.”' Janan Ganesh, journalist and political columnist at the Financial Times

What fantastic website. Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, “The Black Man in the Cosmos” www.openculture.com/2014/07/full...