My puppy is cute. Look at him. Look how cute he is. #puppy #FlatcoatedRetriever

I gaze at the Steam summer sale, at all those heavily reduced games I'd not get around to playing, yet I so covet them

I have a theory that the Home Office acts like the last outpost of The British Empire. It doesn't see the population as deserving of rights, but as a subjugated hostile population that needs to repressed so they don't rise up and try to change the current order.

Think that it's been well over a month since I had my last snout. I have moved over to vaping as giving up nicotine turns me into a psycho, but given I smoked from the age of 12 to 51, I'm pretty pleased with myself. (Not noticeably fitter or healthier, but maybe that will come with time)

Well, if the cap fits

Ironic that the Supreme Court judges that are trashing the US constitution are described as 'conservative judges' rather than counter-revolutionary judges.

Firefox stop trying to add more features to your functionally complete browser. It's finished, do security updates when they're needed and take the rest of the year off.

I keep thinking of a post which claimed 'All wars are bankers wars', a sentiment I sort of understand*, but is also nonsense. As any Civ player knows warfare long pre-dates banking, and more sensibly that bankers don't really have a role in starting wars. *was a teenage reactionary lefty

This feels mistaken, suspect that all Northern European NATO members would feel obliged to provide forces to defend Denmark in the face of US aggression. The US doesn't have well trained Arctic troops, and the Nordics do.

Yup, we're going to release lions onto the outfield if they happen to lose.

The lovely thing is, the BBC couldn't settle: few would accept licence fee payers money being used in such a way, so they're obliged to fight it, and fight it as hard as possible. He may rather regret trying to hit out at Auntie

I've got a terrine dish I use that was a wedding present for my parents, so early 1970s. I've got a leather coat that's from 1943, but I can't claim I regularly wear it

50 years after posing as ‘Peter and Jane’ for Ladybird artist Martin Aitchison, these two recreated the scene for me. Her smile!

It's provably too hot when I'm obligated to put my beer bottle in the fridge between glasses Normally they stay cool for the full 750ml

Trying to convice my mate who has solar panelled air con, that he needs me to come over and be his personal chef for a few days I'll accept numerous indignities to stay somewhere that's 22C

Think I got blocked for pointing out how old UK housing stock is and that America have been the worst country for pumping the atmosphere with carbon It made them rich, but they externalised the costs.

beer bottle just slipped from my hand, landed sideways on the surface, so I had to shotgun the foam from about a fifth of a big bottle of Leffe Bruin Thankful I engaged in enough underage drinking that I've surprisingly retained that skill

Please join with me to mourn and respect the death of a pair of very good and well enjoyed dancing shoes. This was their final weekend shimmying around the dance floor

Perhaps I am getting too old to go out on a Friday and be trying to make my home on a Wednesday So shattered, worked behind the bar at a festival until 6am most nights, then had 2 days of after party Fun, but I'm horribbly broken

The sound system has been powered down, so I'm listening to improvised jazz It's pretty decent considering how late in the weekend it is

My lift isn't a bad driver per se but he's a very diligent cleaner of cats eyes

escaped the oppressive fug of London's weather and it's nicer in the countryside

Cadging a lift to my annual, semi-retired ravers, weekender in the countryside, on an old converted hippy bus, that has her own paint-job and name Proper old school

To the gentleman who glared at me for not pressing the WAIT button , I'd not pressed it as it's has no impact upon the light cycle, it's there to placate idiots.

Logging out as the sleeping pills have kicked in

Looking at my feed, it's clear why so few drama kids feel welcome to attend football academy auditions, far be it a young person have a diverse skillset

Doing cards is about the only time I ever hold a pen; If he had saved any of his father's day cards my Pa would have an archive of me slowly losing the ability to manage joined up writing

The annual weekender has decided to have the same "time traveller" theme as last year; sorely tempted to come as myself from last year so I can wear the same outfit

and I'd like to thank my news to noise sponsor Ground News

Think I've had my first AI reply I'm open minded but I'm sceptical an onlyfans trans porn performer really cares about Roy Hattersley on Spitting Image.

Suspect someone has done a Grok make this stupid comment sound more statesmany

Well. Alright then. I suppose we'll see what Israel and Hezbollah have to say about this.

Feel slightly ashamed my memory of Roy Hattersley is much more of his Spitting Image puppet than of him himself. On the other hand I remember a shadow cabinet member from my childhood, which most people not on this website will not.

I listened to a few episodes of Syed Ways, the R4 show he shouldn't have been given. What was notable was how he assumed his conceited thought processes were universally shared, rather than being a personal failing.

No one told us fascism was going to be so embarassing and so pathetic. And, yet it always has been. The most embarassing. The most pathetic.

Things that Dominic Cummings believes and the nature of reality have been shown to be deeply divergent enough times that what he reckons has negative value

Oh no

There are obviously many benefits to giving up smoking fags, but the one I'll enjoy the most is never having to take apart another squealing graphics card and scrape the gunk off its fans.

Wasn't this one those songs that ruined a whole summer by being No1 for far too long #TOTP Not a touch on that Adams/Prince of Thieves song but still

Yes you could!

"Ne-phil-im" FFS #TOTP

apparently there are 4,100 people on youtube watching Bill Kristol, watching the Trump name being taken off the "Kennedy Center"

He needed someone whispering "You are not a god", but as he didn't, and wouldn't have listened, a member of his praetorian guard should to do the kindest thing.

Firefox, old chap, why do you feel the need to keep adding things browsers don't need? Didn't want the funny side bar, and do not want your new widgets either. I get just doing security fixes is boring, but some products are complete.

A very old youtube reply to late 90s-early 2k Gabba content gets a reply once every couple of months. It's mostly an old man fondly reminiscing about their daft raving days, and each time it brings me joy.

After listening to Turi Munthe on OGWN, he made me more angry than the Brexit stuff What a sloppy thinker; logic and reason are not inherently communal practices and using examples of collaboration to show that they are intellectual dishonesty

UK politicos, just because someone leaves a pair of clown shoes outside your dressing room does not obligate you to put them on, and walk out over a field of rakes.

Because metaphors are tricksy, please don't blow up in my face

The world should take on a better version of the British system: for $1billion donation to UN development funds you can call yourself Lord for $100billion donation you can call yourself Space Lord For $1trillion you're allowed to go into outer space and prove yourself a Star Lord