Who would have thought that JD Vance - the Jimbo Jones of the US government - would be bad at delicate diplomatic negotiations?

@markradcliffe.bsky.social are you playing the pet shop boys on 45 instead of 33? #bbc6music

It's weird reading the CIA book club whilst surrounded by doublespeak from the entire US government. Where did it all go so wrong? #booksky

Was thinking someone should airdrop copies of 1984 across the US but that wouldn't work. Someone should make a film adaptation where every character is played by a woman with an assault rifle.. with a kid rock soundtrack.. and one of those scrolling news tickers saying "This is about Trump"

Dear BBC news, please could there be a news update that doesn't start with "President Trump says..". Please don't use this as an excuse to tell us how many people have arrived in small boats... Or what Nigel Farage thinks about whatever Trump has most recently said. Thank you.

In another episode of what do right-wing arseholes see when they watch films: Having seen Hegseth's stupid speech about the Iranians being rats and the US bombing civilians for peace I then watched Dune II.

Why do the flash dust magnet family have a glass shelf with nothing on it about a foot from the ceiling?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u... I hope they offer him 2 surgical options. The one informed by a century of medical science and the "sawbones" version where a grubby barber with some hand tools just makes it up as he goes. I wonder which he'd prefer.

@bbc6music.bsky.social Why do you keep repeating Farage's tantrum about losing a by-election? Imagine if ReFuk had won? I very much doubt you'd be repeatedly telling us the Green's opinion about why they lost. There is no conspiracy. The people of Gorton and Denton chose the Green candidate.

Seems to me like the perfect number of political parties would be 0. We should celebrate whenever someone decent becomes an MP. The parties, the donors, the whips the back-biting and mud-slinging all just undermine democracy. When you get a job you figure out how to work with whoever is in your team

I assume "family voting" is largely a euphemism for male coercive control?

I feel like the 6 nations / Pixar crossover crowd might be quite niche but since the last score I've been expecting people to repel from the ceiling of the stadium.

Just tried to book a pub table. The website said we'd be sat outdoors so I phoned and they had some chatbot thing that got the date and day wrong. Eventually managed to speak to a human and it was sorted in under a minute. What a time to be alive!

So they arrested and released him on suspicion of misconduct in public office but there's an act going through the house at the moment which aims to define what misconduct in public office means? That seems arse about face.

How to get to heaven from Belfast is pure unadulterated brilliance. Derry girls was great but this is somehow greater.

Just been added to a list called "techno-pessimists" which as someone who works with unmanned, robot, research submarines seems quite funny.

emersoncollegepolling.com/january-2026... How is this ok? Blue is "approve of Trump". Red is "disapprove of Trump". You could make an argument for red and green but choosing red and blue the wrong way round is either incompetent or deliberately misleading.

A reminder to the media and others trying to claim this Government and Starmer are worse than anything they've ever seen, a Government which has only been in power for 19 months. Here's a handly list of the scandals we had to endure from the Tories between 2011-2024.

What's the deal with most of tiktok being backwards. It's really weird seeing right handed people playing guitar left handed and pianos with the high notes at the wrong end?

Saying Vance got a mixed reception got shutdown pretty swiftly on the BBC commentary.

Be funny if all DJ sets were accompanied by awkward commentary from a sports presenter. "Ooh! - change of track"

It's been raining for so long there's a guy in the street trying to round up 2 of every animal outside a Jewson's.

Why are so many robotics stories seemingly about creating sex-bots? Aren't robots supposed to save us from monotonous repetitive tasks? If there was ever a case for leaving some aspects of life to the humans... Source: Interesting Engineering search.app/q64fP

I know it can't actually be very long but the apprentice trail on #6music seems to go on forever.

@djdebgrant.bsky.social #6music I feel like this gorillaz song sounds a lot like another gorillaz song - maybe melancholy hill. It feels like time travel.

@markradcliffe.bsky.social how about Jack Black interviews Sean Bean and his family in "Jack and the Beans talking"

Just saw an advert for the new series of the apprentice (UK) Arguably the origin of all this geopolitical shit-storm. I wonder if anyone looked out the window and wondered whether making a new series was that good of an idea.

Just heard a term I'd not come across before that feels like it explains a lot of how shitty everything has become: "retail politics".

If they made a contemporary Mary Poppins what would Burt's down to earth profession be and what would the song be about.. I'm imagining something where you work from home riding a laptop and a song about how often you have to reconfigure your teams audio settings.

I need to be pro more things. At the moment I feel like I'm almost entirely defined by things I'm anti and that feels very negative. What causes should I be advocating for?

Listening to the Reith lectures. Really interesting. I've never understood why morality would need a religious component. Morality to me is just a natural, logical consequence of being a herd animal rather than a solitary predator species.

A Climate Change Christmas 🎄🎶🎵 It'll be lonely this Christmas Without you to hold It'll be lonely this Christmas Lonely .. but mild It'll be unseasonably mild Without you to hold This Christmas

The thing I always think about this is fiction based in reality anaethetises you into accepting the world can only be as it is. Fantasy and sci-fi allow you to imagine the world could be different. Both imagining the future we're sleep-walking into and the better one we're failing to create.

"In the wild everything is always either In front of you or behind you .. or maybe beside you .. or maybe above or below you but the things behind you are in front of you if you turn around." - Sausage

Let's build data centres instead of houses Let's defund public services instead of taxing riches Let's destroy rivers for shareholder dividends Let's replace experts and facts with AI and probability Let's build concentration camps for immigrants Let's ignore any laws that get in the way Let's not!

Is everything a perfume advert now until 2026?

Not sure who takes life advice from Johnny Depp's sausage perfume adverts but I feel like some of them might die on safari.

It's funny (depressing) that Isaac Asimov and then Star wars taught us that when we invented robots they would be adorable and childlike but now, thanks to a few damaged and insecure rich arseholes, they'll most likely be randy, misogynistic racists.

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.