Just thinking back to when the national ID card was another of the nails in the Blair government's coffin. Also remembering when Blair argued for this again last year and was turned down, Now, all of a sudden, Starmer seems to be getting a semi at the idea. Fucking Blairites. Shitehawks all.

Today has been a non-stop carnival of insufferable arseholes. I would like it to stop, preferably by them all being launched into the sun.

Existential Dredd “AM I THE LAW?”

The first time I did a project that needed subtitles, I spent a day reading all the style guides I could find because I wanted the words to be as clear and representative as possible. There was a LOT to learn. Even line breaks are critical re. reading speed and scanning. Needed care. Fuck AI.

We've lost an absolute legend. One of those rare musicians you could identify after hearing a single note, and who changed the bass world forever. You can't listen to Solid Air or Go Down Easy without feeling hypnotised by how deep he could dig into the groove. www.clashmusic.com/news/legenda...

Just was a Peugeot with a huge dent on the nearside rear corner and the wheel at such a twisted angle and camber that it looked like it was dragging. Whole car went down the road sideways, and he was booting it too accompanied by clouds of black smoke. Some people are animals.

Still not been raptured. Considering closing the skylights and applying for a refund with a free off-peak rapture to be taken within the next three months.

'Good evening everyone! I'm your host, Jimmy Kimmell, and it's great to be back so I can say I'm not going to have my hands tied by these chickenshit capitulating motherfuckers, and I hope their share prices end up in the same place they shoved their principles. I quit.'

If we can persuade the rapturers to live stream it we can get rid of the flat earthers at the same time.

Frank Sidebottom's lawyers will be in touch.

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Next up: UK Government spends a billion on AI in attempt to find a bit of Palestine left standing to recognise.

"The Nazi regime quickly targeted German universities for restructuring according to Nazi principles.." United States Holocaust Museum perspectives.ushmm.org/collection/h...

Superb sci-fi short I just stumbled upon. The Dust channel can be a bit hit and miss but this is an absolute gem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMq...

'immigrants are taking advantage of the law' is such a thoroughly vile statement from the home secretary. It's the fucking law. It's a process that should be open to hearing everyone equally. You're saying *some* people don't deserve the same process, you soulless ghoul.

Remember this same variety of thick twat vandalising the home of a paediatrician years ago because they can't think OR spell? The government of the time didn't do anything about that either. This is a dormant poison in the British psyche that won't go away unless there's a big fucking antidote.

Crap day so I decided to switch my brain off and self-medicate with this for a couple of hours. Kind of worked a bit.

‘… and I said, “Andrew, I’m Jeff’s best friend. Let’s stop arguing in front of the kids’”

No, Sky News - I *intend* to miss every moment* of that bloated fascist's visit to the UK, and I'm not sure why you're kissing his corpulent ringpiece so hard * Note: If something hugely embarrassing and humiliating happens, I will happily watch the shit out of that on repeat.

Fucking dork. The state of it.

100 men: 'I bet we could take it.'

'We *did* try to roll out facial recognition on the racist rally, but the software kept getting confused. Here, I wrote down the error message... ERROR: NON-HUMAN LIFEFORM DETECTED. CLOSEST MATCHES: - BAKED BEAN - PLUM TOMATO - BABOON'S ARSE'

Too many to list, but Truth Seekers is way up there.

I don't want to see any more game remakes until they give me a combined edition of Interstate '76 and Nitro RIders. How many games since have let us hit a key to have our partner in crime read us a beat poem over the walkie talkie? We've lost our way.

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

Y'know, I wasn't planning to visit America but I always had it in my head that I'd see at least part of it some day. Given how things are going, how little time has passed since the election and how quickly so many people joined in, I don't think it'll be safe for outsiders again within my lifetime.

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

It's been my firmly held belief FOR YEARS that if every child was taken into a room full of musical instruments and friendly people who understood how to talk about them, and let loose to try everything, the world would be a far happier place.

(Valkyries swoop in) What's this? We only take brave warriors who fell in battle. This greasy pile of rat turds is a galloping coward who appears to have been electrocuted whilst trying to fuck a dustbuster. And what the fuck's going on with his eyes? (Horse washes him away with a giant stream)

oh my god someone slashed our tire

Oooh, I know, I know - is it 'being born into a dynasty of murderous bastards who took everything from the land and gave fuck all back while changing the rules so we couldn't take it back ourselves?''

The only positive thing to come out of today is that casual observers are finally discovering the depth of hate that's being platormed as reasonable to huge audiences. Hopefully they'll consider hearing us out in future when we say something they're not aware of is a bigger issue than they realise.

Checking out of the news for today. There's only so much I can stand to have my view of reality warped before I feel like sitting on the floor and going bu-dum bu-dum bu-dum until bedtime. Sparing a thought for those poor kids in Denver though, because nobody in the UK media seems to be.

I'm all in favour of people discovering the joy of quality compact cameras, but re-releasing a ten year old one with a price hike because of celebrities seems cynical. Still, with the Ricoh GR IV at a ludicrous £1200 it might be a smart move. www.theverge.com/news/774095/...

Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker

I've always wanted that slimy weasel Mandelson to crash and burn in public over *something* but this wasn't on my list of possibilities.

Saw my first new Prius on the road today, in grey with black trim. My word, that car cries out for far better colours than they offer. Sucked all the life out of a rather nice design.

Finally read The Remains of the Day. Fuck, that was sobering. One of those times i never thought I'd feel sympathy for a character, but then...

There isn't even a special place in hell for Mike Johnson. They won't have him. He'll have to sit around the back, by the bins, for all eternity as even the demonic rats give him a wide berth.

Seeing people wake up to what an utter twat Wes Streeting is goes some way towards paying for all the shit we took over years of calling him out as a bad 'un.

Just tapped into a chain of short, creepy films on YouTube by accident. This one is about as minimalist as it can get, and all the better for it. Have you seen this, @thestrangerous.bsky.social? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UWB...

There's something about setting up a cheap telescope and looking at the rings of Saturn that never fails to make me slightly dizzy. Whole fuckin' planet, man, out there, with rings and stuff. Little tube. There it is. And I'm just little me, down here.

Not checked in with the backrooms for a while. Game's still strong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdY...

There's an unfeasible amount of want going on now for reasons that - I'll be honest with you - I don't entirely understand.

Bloody cancel culture, you can't say anything these... oh.

DON'T PANIC!!!

Baritone guitar strung up with some lovely new D'addarios, and properly set up. I'd kind of fallen slightly out of love with this as it settled down from new over summer and became a bit of a challenge with the factory strings, but I'm feeling good about the changes.

Is that a GLE in the staging lanes at Santa Pod? I'm not up on modern Mercs.

"Oh no, I've Defected to reform"