Wondering if the jewellery plans include gold teeth?

Starting the week with the inspiring realisation that we’ve got the prospect of an #lufc fixture and England playing cricket coming up this weekend. Yay.

Hey @gary-loader.bsky.social - look what I got!

Don’t look so sad sailor boy - the remembrganza will be back next year… @remembrancewatch.bsky.social

The letter to my grandmother and her sisters, telling them their brother had been Killed In Action.

I know there’s a lot of discontent about recruitment, but I can’t be alone in thinking this #lufc squad should be better than the sum of Farke’s parts?

Not able to watch it, but just checked stats on BBC - I assume there’s a problem with the feed for the #lufc stats, because apparently we’re not involved?

“Where’s my fucking poppy?”

"Where's your fucking Poppy?"

Another thoughtless, ill-considered BBC headline. Junior copybots need editors around to say “just have another go at that” from time to time.

19.5 stone - I questioned how many people would be affected by this, but apparently it’s 2,200. People are big these days. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How are you getting on with that Life of WG Grace script that it’s just occurred to me you ought to be writing @paulsinha.bsky.social ?

Did that Remembrance Poppy madness account not make it to this platform? A shame if it didn’t - I want to see front gardens filled with crocheted Tommies, plastic flags, wonky silhouettes of the fallen, and random bits of “army stuff”, with poppies bigger than a house. Lest I forget.

Subway’s new sandwich - the Copper-stopper.

Installing a new printer - which of these seems most likely?

Sands to the left of him Sands to the right of him Sands in front of hm Lone and level Vast and trunkless legs of stone Wrinkled lip, shattered visage’s frown On the pedestal these words appear, Look on ye mighty and despair My name is Ozymandias

Oh I wish I’d looked after me works And not left me legs buried in dirt Look on them there And ye mighty, despair Oh I wish I’d looked after me works

A whole five months before you can do horrible things to Liverpool again @sarf-london.bsky.social

Just recommended My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult to my youngest, and ended up explaining promo inserts: “This is the record label doing their own ‘You might also like…’, but in paper. Then, rather than download, you could Mail Order records & T-Shirts”

FIRST time so far that I’ve heard this clarification that it is a civil, not criminal offense. You have idiots dressed up like they’re storming Iwo Jima, taking people down to the concrete, beating them, shooting them, for NON-CRIMINAL offenses. Take back this narrative Right fucking now

What the fuck? Scum up to 4th? Have I switched timelines? I thought this was the year they bounce around the relegation zone and meltdown until Casemiro gets sacked and Rooney takes over. This isn’t nearly as much fun. #lufc

First ten minutes of BBC News at Ten was two items about criminal asylum seekers. Fifteen minutes into the programme they touched on this “local item” from London. Starmer’s nobody’s favourite, but he has got a lot to work against.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Cromartie, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, German Bight

“Our parents aren’t having children…” My brother’s coming to stay tomorrow night - I must ask him who the fuck we are if this is true…

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

This is wonderful. I’m constantly amazed by how powerfully pervasive Punk was for a while, and how there’s not been anything like it since.

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of.

On what would have been her 100th birthday, I have to acknowledge the enduring impact of Margaret Thatcher on the UK, evidenced by the group I saw falling out of a cab at 11.30am in Liverpool on Saturday. “Have you got the cans?” “Yeah, relax we’re in Thatcher’s Britain”.

What five events defined your childhood? - Moving to the country - Seeing The Legend of Boggy Creek - Getting grandma’s colour TV when she died - Making camps - Getting a video recorder That’s actually been quite fun exercise; there are so many other events jockeying to be on that list.

Without saying The Matrix, Fav Keanu Reeves Film? River’s Edge

Urgh. International break is such bollocks. When does the football season start? #lufc

With daughter on our way to Liverpool university open day, planning to play Observer Book of Open days to tick off - suggestions please: - kid in a suit - dryrobe mum - resentful sibling in forced attendance - Beatles T-shirt - crying parent - crying candidate - doppelgängers of ourselves

Was the “How big would a slug have to be for you to call the police?” one of yours @watsoncomedian.bsky.social? On the train with daughter, and she is pushing for an answer…I am undecided.

Tennessee explosion is weird. When I worked in a pyro factory, each process on the section was in a different building, no more than two people in each building. Two rooms per building, nobody ever in the same room a process was running, blast wall between rooms, soil berm between buildings.

Covid & flu #vaccinated

Everest rescue update from BBCR4: “…the rest are being brought down in stages.” Seems impractically flamboyant…

There’s a rallying cry! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I had no idea this is a law!

Teenage colleague is applying for various jobs atm. Another applicant to one job was using AI to generate answers, including to “What is your dream destination?” That’s insanely grim, when you need to refer to AI to generate your dreams…

This is so much more insanely creative than “Farke Out!” #lufc

Morning all. Crown St, Gorbals, Glasgow 1970. Credit TSPL

This is not an opiate-induced imagining @berryh.bsky.social, this is a real thing. If I knew you, I’d pop one in the post, but you’re just a Bluesky buddy, so you’ll have to sort yourself out. Feel better.

I hope this guy doesn’t ever plan on living in London… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thank you! Tickets available for Worthing, Leeds and Liverpool. Also we're trialing an Anon Opin show in London. sites.google.com/view/fesshole

BBC R4’s production of Chekhov’s “Ivanov” just used the phrase “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” to describe the French. Quite a relaxed translation…

Roses can be shades of red A baby sheep's a lamb