The tiny dancer lyrics make no sense. Surely it should be "the tune she knows, the words she hums" #6music

When I first joined here there was a lot of "there is no algorithm" and "we are the algorithm". I have no idea what that means but empirically it seems to involve my discover feed containing quite a few naked men in their bathroom photos. I'm not sure what I've done to achieve this.

Beautiful

Make a band singular The Bombay bicycle individual

Why is almost everything now a sequel or a remake? Oh ... I see.

In the 4x400m they put the best athlete last but the biggest problem is negotiating the stopped runners. Surely the best chance of winning is getting out in front early. #tokyo2025

Pretty pleased with how my cantilevered sit/stand desk on wheels project is going. No power tools apart from the cordless drill for dowels.

Or to put it another way, non-artificial intelligence.

@bsky.app feature request please. You can react to a post with any emoji instead of the heart icon. You still just show a single total reaction count and the most common emoji. That way you can express support for posts where "like" isn't an appropriate response - eg dystopian news updates.

I see James Dyson, inventor of the single use disposable vacuum cleaner, is in the news today. Fun fact-he is the largest land owner in Lincolnshire and pretty universally despised by all who have dealings with him.

Is this the plan now? Boycott everything until what? I'm boycotting Meta which means I've lost touch with my older relatives - Facebook and my younger relatives - Instagram.(I can't decide how I feel about this) and I'm still using WhatsApp anyway. I can't imagine Darth Zuckerberg gives a monkeys.

I'm always surprised that the divine comedy reminds me of the doors and that Michael Fassbender thing Stevie Martin just chose on #6music reminded me of both.

Vanilla Ice was almost a chess grand master. He was great in training but in competition he stole queens under pressure.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Microsoft to build super computer in Essex. In the 80s IBM built a computer that beat chess grand masters. Microsoft's will aim to beat a bored 8 year old at mousetrap 3 times out of ten whilst reconfiguring any connected audio devices every 5 minutes.

Since Trumpty Dumpty went up on the roof of the white house the other day, I wonder if Charlie could take him up on the walls of Windsor Castle, preferably while all his horses and men are otherwise occupied.

Whenever there's athletics on like #tokyo2025 I start hearing Steve Cram commentating in my head when I'm somewhere like the supermarket. "Ooh he's got himself a bit boxed in. Needs to find some space here."

The problem with using songs as beds on #bbc6music is they start to trigger my circadian rhythms. Chris Hawkins just played Buzzcocks - Everybody's happy nowadays and now my brain thinks it's almost clocking off time.

The job of accountants is to ensure you pay the correct tax - not to ensure you pay as little tax as possible. The job of solicitors is to take responsibility for ensuring transactions are legal - not to ensure the solicitors can't be blamed if they aren't. I blame the professionals.

I've just realised who Robert Jenrick reminds me of. Manny's crappy boss in the first episode of Black Books. "What's that you're eating - soup?" Simultaneously vacuous and pompous.

Today has been a FFS kind of day

Today has been a FFS kind of day

Anyone else think #6music #cloudbusting is being massively undermined by what they call news bulletins but what I increasingly think of as "Nigel Farage's same thought for every day"?

Slightly diminish a band Fairly Furry Animals

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Generally I love #6music but some songs are aired so often it's like the goal is to make people hate them. The first time I heard that "don't tap that glass" song it was fine. 100th listen in, I'd happily tap the glass on the off chance that Tyler the creator was viciously savaged by the monster.

I feel like Fiona's very specific playlists is a maybe weekend afternoon #6music show that needs to happen. "Staticy music for humid weather before the storm breaks". I'd listen to that.

"..a purely financial decision" is always code for a profoundly unethical one. Why did we decide that there is no requirement for business to consider morality?

There are a lot of humans. One of them must be the best. I think it might be Patrick Grant. #6music

I'm not sure this was entirely thought through

Anyone here committing an act of rebellion to commemorate Bastille Day?

I feel like I'm not really reading the room with this but does anyone else feel like watching Alcaraz is a bit like watching Big? Like he's somehow a 14 year old trapped in a grown man's body. #wimbledon

I think they have a wider, more encompassing goal now: "Make humanity history"

@norcrosscricket.bsky.social When they change the ball they choose from a briefcase of balls of a similar age. Does the ball they rejected end up in that briefcase? Does the ball have to pass the rings test to go into the briefcase?

@laurenlaverne.bsky.social Corduroy Out of here was '94. How about Practice what you preach or January woman?

youtu.be/Ap3xdTkIF6U?... I would urge people to watch this. Clive has absolutely nailed it.

Ridiculous! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdfwC5RQ/

The act of condemning war crimes is not antisemitism and it doesn't become antisemitism if the perpetrators of the war crimes happen to be Jewish. That's not how prejudice works.

How are you supposed to act when the government, the police and the media all appear increasingly unable to make a rational judgement about anything?

Diego Luna eloquently explains everything wrong with Trump's America. No swearing. No name-calling. Just a really strong, well-made case for empathy. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdyWVUBt/

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

For decades people have believed wearing glasses they don't need can make them look more intelligent and more interesting. Now at long last there are glasses you don't need that you can wear to make you look less intelligent and less interesting!

It's sort of worse than that because on the surface the internet all looks the same these days but under the covers it is all wildly different which makes it fragile and hard to maintain in a way that's invisible to most users.

Long shot but does anyone remember a blog post (medium or somewhere) that was a joke about the ease of modern online banking compared to writing a paper cheque?

There appears to be a step in here where they thought "What our porn site needs is an encyclopedia"?!

Happy Pride. Keep being the best you!

There are 4 years until the next GE. Can we stop talking about this like it's already happened and spend that time making sure it doesn't?

Does the pope have to get a work visa or do they automatically get Vatican and/or Italian citizenship?

Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝 Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive. Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵