So… do we think this ‘announcement’ is damage control for RFS or damage control for his tone-deaf comments about being friends with TERFS?

Minimum wage jobs are *not* minimum effort jobs. Every worker deserves the right to live on their salary alone. Every state benefit claimed by someone in employment is a failure of employers to pay living wages, and a failure of government by allowing businesses to pay less than a living wage.

Direct trains from Gent to Amsterdam starting at the end of the year? OK then!

I want to talk about It’s A Superpower?? like an excited toddler wants to show you a new toy. The Daily Tism made an audio sitcom. It comes out in early July. It’s producer by us & @andrewhickey.500songs.com , who has pretty much now funded a mini autistic comedy industry. What a guy. 1/

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Fine, here's one...

#Glorious25th #HowDoTheyRiseUp

That Alan Moore, he writes a good Swamp Thing, doesn't he... Brought to you by me, working my way through he entire Saga, having just read issue 45, the Sarah Winchester Mystery House-inspired issue.

I’m finally watching For All Mankind Season 2, and just made it through Rules of Engagement. The scene between Ed, Karen, and Kelly about Kelly’s choice of college and then about Shane was one of the best pieces of writing and acting I’ve ever seen. Just devastatingly good.

Happy birthday to Bob Dylan. I’ve met him many times, but he's a notorious prankster and always pretends to be someone else, like a postman, a priest, or a doctor’s receptionist. No matter how doggedly I insist “I know it’s you, Bob!" he never breaks character. Often the police are called. Legend.

I can't believe how many politicians are saying "let's ban trans people from public life, but in a way that is respectful". Are you fucking thick? Who is this for?

Received this image in an email from the Comedy Store in London earlier today. If you want to celebrate their anniversary with an audience composed of people semi-manifested in our universe and clones of each other seated throughout what I'm assuming is an audience...

As an RHLSTP (rhlstp) fan from the beginning, I am delighted to finally hear the uncensored royal family chat from the Sofia Hagen episode a decade ago. Well, let's be fair, it was only the Andrew stuff that was censored...

In a nice move, I've got a ticket to see @alicefraser.bsky.social hosting @thegargle.bsky.social live at the Bill Murray for the end of June.

Seriously, someone thought this would be a good idea.

I can't believe the cowards didn't put any raw studio footage from Warriors of the Deep on the bluray. They could have just done the 40 minutes or so of the Myrka filming, that would have been enough. There should have been another way.

Cracking into the season 21 bluray set, because Warriors of the Deep has to be done to unlock the rest of the goodies. I read the novelisation many years ago - my copy is the only hardback novelisation in my small collection - and I'm not exactly relishing this one...

Absolute banger, and time for a semi-regular reminder that David McAlmont sung this live at my birthday over a decade ago - we went to Massaoke (mass karaoke) in King's Cross, and he was the special guest, and he hit this after blasting out Young Americans and was incredible.

I'm never a fan of the Doctor Who Escape Room features on the bluray sets, they always struggle with translating the fun of an escape room to a 75 minute bit of video. But I did just laugh at Toby Hadoke, getting frustrated with a logic puzzle, moaning 'If it was pictures of Pat Gorman I'd be fine!'

Fantastic news, congratulations to Steve! I've been backing Shelfdust on Patreon for many years, and am delighted to see this.

The new Spotify app logo is apparently a glitterball, but it wasn’t until I cropped the screenshot that I could see it. Just looks like a green slopmess.

Not saying I’m dealing with my insomnia badly, but at 4am I was reading Our Worlds At War tie-ins and being mad about multiple Supergirls.

I know it's a minor thing when compared to the terrible AI smoothing, but the Seeds of Doom disc has a special feature called 'Trailes and Continuites' and this might make me even more annoyed than the AI...

I'm enjoying the accidental dichotomy of my Doctor Who bluray watching hitting The Seeds of Doom at the same time that I decide to give Alan Moore's Swamp Thing a reread.

Read the Midnight press release. Sighed a lot.

I know it’s only A1, but it’s nice to get the results of my second Dutch speaking test back and move from a high ‘goes’ to maximum marks. Feeling more confident with adding in vocab from beyond our exercises, and mixing up sentence structure (in this case, switching from standard to ‘inversie’).

"The system is rigged to minimise the lives of Trans+ people, to deny credit for their contributions." @foxenlock.bsky.social 

Teen Titans Go To The Movies has the absolute best take on this.

I should be working, and yet...

Omnibus reading got me to this point:

Hey, having a bad day? Have you tried to rotate photo by 90 degrees in the bluesky ios app and still have the entire thing showing? Huh, not having such a bad day now, are you?

Delighted to discover that the SNL UK props team found actual props - crockery and the standing lamp - from the 1984 Pork advert. Going above and beyond.

Ladies and gentlemen This is Maybo number 5

Snuck into town to spend the evening watching Amadeus at the cinema. Managed to have never seen the film before (although the 2016 National Theatre production with Lucien Masamati as Salieri is incredible, and hopefully on NT at Home). Really looking forward to this!

It is definitely wrong of me to respond to the statement ‘wij dansen’ with ‘Nee, Ted Danson’. Dutch classes are going well…

British Pork was utterly unhinged, a complete delight, and elevated by Fouracres repeatedly being unable to speak with laughter at the sight of the British Pork Board. Genuinely brilliant bit of comedy.

My new favourite member of the SNL UK cast is the production person desperately making sure the host gets to the right spot in front of the music stage to introduce the guest. Stellar work last night!

A sex toy but it’s a headband with two dildos stuck to it and a stuffed rat grabbing onto them, is this something?

Ugh. Just seen someone on insta describe Ghent as Harry Potter-coded. No, it's fucking history-coded, and we're pretty welcoming to trans folks as well.

Sharkey and George and Grogu

Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham will host Saturday Night Live UK on 9th May, with the final episode (16th May) fronted by Doctor Who actor Ncuti Gatwa. www.comedy.co.uk/tv/fyi/1085/...

LRTs: Read the whole thread for some glorious context that is usually left out of any telling of this.

(The quotes here are from @adammacqueen.bsky.social’s book, Private Eye: The First 50 Years, and the images from an old post by said satirical magazine on a social media platform where decency now fears to tread.) Anyway... Private Eye knew their case was solid, so responded:

It is, today, the 55th anniversary of that gift to satire James Arkell, whose solicitors wrote to Private Eye on this day in 1971, prompting everyone’s favourite reply. You may know the story, but I put it to you that you cannot hear it enough. We begin with that initial letter... 🧵

Did you know that in the basement of Waterstones Picadilly Circus there is currently an entire room dedicated to Kid's Comics? You should go and not just because Go-Man was on display so prominently! But seriously go check it out because it is running until May 31st!

Oh wow really

Who at SNL UK hates Nicola Coughlan so much that they put Jimmy Fallon in back to back sketches?

The quarter (pint) mass experiment. Is this anything?

That thing where you know you’re on the edge with a bottle of milk but it passes the smell test and then you get two-thirds of the way through a mug of coffee and there’s a… mass… lurking there.