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I've come to the conclusion that my Peter Storm walking boots are crap. They ruined my London trip and now I'm hobbling after seven miles around Liverpool. I need to buy new shoes.

Does anything still work in this country? I can get to London in the time it takes me to travel 15 miles home from Liverpool.

Train in was cancelled and I had to pay extra to travel earlier and now the train home had been cancelled. Fucking state of it. This is why I don't come into the city. It's a misery every single time.

Why is it the fashion in men's jackets to make it look like you're having a special day out with your carers?

There were two girls in the park arguing and the one said " you're a slag, you've shagged everyone in The Rock and Fountain" and the other said " so, I don't care, I enjoyed it, at least I can get a shag unlike you".

What new kind of marketing hell is this right in the middle of the bookshop?

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They cancelled the cheap quick train so it's £9.30 return to Liverpool and I'm stuck on the slow train. 40 minutes rather than 18. Nice day, though...

Tonight's film.

I was atacked again outside the corner shop.

I mean what do I do with it? It's a Huion 220GT V2 pen display. Used for years and now I'm just tripping over it. Still working AFAIK. Providing I can find a box, I'd post it to anybody who wants it otherwise it's going in a cupboard until I decide to bin it. Works with PC with a HDMI and USB.

I've got an old pen display I don't need and am constantly tripping over. Can't be arsed taking it to CEX (it's a long way and a lot of effort without a car). Wonder if I should try to give it away or just bin it. Always feels wrong binning tech that still works but donating always becomes a saga.

I baked cookies. Yeah. I know...

'Whatever the pressure on me and others... I'm going to act in the British national interest in all the decisions I make' Keir Starmer says he would not buckle to Trump's criticisms as he set out plans for closer EU partnership

Impressive so far. A refusal to be bullied into an illegal war by a mad US President should unite the nation. But Brexit Britain is, of course, not a normal nation.

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I deleted that post. It was getting out of hand with people telling me to consult lawyers, ffs. I got out of academia so I can write my own books so I'm not going to waste a moment longer arguing about a lost credit to a book I don't actually give a damn about.

Tonight's film. Glad to be back watching something without stormtroopers. Well, I assume there are no stormtroopers. Bogey plays 'Dix Steele'. No. Really he does.

I might have to delete that previous post. I don't want my small irritation to become bigger than it deserves to be. The exploitation of postgrads in education is one of the grubbier sides of academia but at least in my case I was well compensated.

This is Pulitzer shit right here.

Wasn’t going to have time to finish this this week. ... and yet here we are. "hairpin”

I forgot the engineer was coming to change the meter... Why did nobody remind me?

Somebody is going to have to remake that Mitchell & Webb sketch but with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard realising they're the "good" guys... I've never understood anti-American sentiments before, being a fan of their cinema, literature, music, comedy... But Trump is annihilating their soft power.

Come and get your AI slop from Dylan…only $5 a month.😬 #Desperate

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Well done Newsnight for enabling Jacob Rees-Mogg express his "feelings" – unmoderated by any attempt at journalistic scrutiny – that there are "hundreds and millions of people who are *technically* eligible to claim asylum here." #Newsnight

Delighted to see that the cover is out in the open. www.waterstones.com/book/pea-gre... www.amazon.co.uk/Pea-Green-Bo...

Now this is what I'm talking about. My vision finally fulfilled! Thank you @frmo.bsky.social for making my day.

Reform UK is coming for our NHS 👇 bylinetimes.com/2026/03/30/r...

Who needs Morocco when you have camel stickers?

The postman has come...er, I mean been.

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I'm be glad to finish then and get back to films I've not seen and might be more interesting. Expecting the least from this one. This trilogy has almost no discernable arc.

Finally upgraded my eight year old 27" monitor for a cheap but decent 32". Feels like I've entered a Brave New World. What do I do with all this screen space?

I like "quirky" but there's a point where it becomes so infantile it no longer makes any sense. I'm waiting for a DPD delivery but their tracking icons make no sense. Is that a Moomin in Luigi's hat carrying a carrot?

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Didn't expect this to become a rewatch of all 9 but this time my favorites have been the original (IV) and, surprisingly, last night's (VII).

What seemed like a bargain quickly turned into something else

The man’s a cunt. #Farage