I am utterly and completely sick of hearing about all this bullshit.

BlueSky just showed me an advertisement. It has started.

There is something seriously wrong with Trump, I think he might be having some sort of breakdown.

#PseudoRothko for today

#BreakingNews Starmer announces a three-pronged response. 1. New England to be seized, by force if necessary, by the UK. 2. Reparations to be paid by US for lost territories. 3. All US citizens currently in UK territory to be interned on the Isle of Wight.

#night #colour

So, arguing with me about the wrong thing that ChatGPT told you to do isn’t going to make me want to help undo the mess you have made.

Well, who would have thunk it?! Muting certain words in BSky seem to make the whole experience rather more pleasant!

Boris Mikhailov

Today I had to deal with a USian telling me, confidently and incorrectly, that the USA invented beer.

Today was the day I remembered that I need to clean the connectors for my EV so that it doesn’t misbehave when trying to get it to charge at 0100 100 miles from home. #doh

So, who has spotted the Nash amendment proposed for the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill? It’s worth having a read as it proposes client-side CSAM again.

One makes the most of it when one can.

Incidentally it also blew away (or ran down) several pedestrians and a dog on the way...

Why? #pointless #tech4thesakeofit

To be honest, I would be VERY concerned if there was an unexpected solar eclipse.

4691 irradiated haggis.

Now that football has gone home, can we stop hearing about it please?

Why do Brits alway seem to do turkey for “Christmas Dinner?” It’s not traditional or even particularly pleasant.

Just wondering, when is this “Thanksgiving” thing so I can stay home and not have to hear about it?

I bought an iFi Go Blue Air to use with my in-ears; I am *shocked* at how much better the sound is than using a DAC dongle.

In today's Fountain Pen News, I have had to modify yet another Parker to seal up the lid vents so the pen does not dry out in 20 minutes in my pocket.

Amazon Prime movies are getting more and more irritating, with 9 minutes total of adverts with the first 15 minutes of this movie. Not impressed and not renewing.

@marcdavenant.bsky.social ooh, the Q3 mono is now available!

Yes, and it should be about a new winter jumper.

On the way on the train and someone had propped a folded-up Brompton against the offside door in this carriage. At Loughborough Junction that door opens and the folded-up bike falls out onto the platform. The owner doesn’t notice until the train is leaving and he goes past his own bike…

What is the thing with square toilets? Is this some sort of joke or is everyone else’s backside squarer than mine?

One of the problems around the criticism of the BBC is that individual issues are used to attack the corporation as a whole and but extension everything it does. However it must be borne in mind that the vast majority of what it does is very important and to destroy that work for1/2

Why are there *so many people* in London? Don’t they know I wanted a quiet trip to the shoe shop?

I really love that KGUMusic, a Ukrainian company, puts notes on their valve oil about what to do if it freezes. 🤣

I can't for the life of me work out where that is!

I hereby announce that I am running for #POTUS in 2028. Vote me!

Yay. Trumpet disassembled, thoroughly cleaned, dried and reassembled with clean lubricants and all seems well. The recent difficulties have been resolved by washing out the lint/fluff that somehow got into the 3/2rd valve crossover. Normal service resumed.

Listening this morning Zoot Allures - Zappa, Francesco.

#Rail people, what is this? It looks to my untrained (?!) eye like a fishplate which is clamped in place but there appears to be no rail join there. 🤷🏼‍♂️

USA. You have a problem. A big problem.

People who have the stupid blippy-ticky noises on for the liver phone keyboard should immediately go to jail, not pass Go and definitely not collect £200.

#NowPlaying Ed Askew “A Child in the Sun”

Someone has switched the lights out…must be time for bed.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNights #Photography 📷

Last night’s view. My radio was not massively keen on the RF environment.

Coffee launch party at Carnival Coffee today for their family farm coffee, La Familia. A superb brew. 👍

This afternoon’s homeward listening is Guthrie Hoban, Erotic Cakes.

Interesting 2m propagation this morning. I am hearing the F5ZBF FM repeater in JN09ia from today’s location on the Downs in the Southern edge of the Greater London area. Not strong enough to work with my HT on a mag mount but good enough for me to practice my French. 👍

The Ch4 documentary on Trump and his relationship with the truth is really interesting.

@Apple this ios26 “Liquid Glass” business is pointless. iOS 18 looked absolutely fine and I have just had to go through faffing with settings to make stuff legible again.

The smell is wonderful.

Well done Apple. iOS 26 simply makes everything look less useful whilst simultaneously changing nothing.