Strong 'live, laugh, love' vibes. Plus it would look slightly better if it was painted directly onto the wall rather than looking like it's printed on 3 sheets on A4 and blue-tacked on.

The little spark of joy I felt when this unexpectedly popped up on my podcast feed last night - 🥳 This podcast has been a little light in the darkness recently - fascinating and entertaining with lots of culture and really thought provoking. Plus Alex is the BEST story-teller.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Happy #Caturday

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"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

Until our charger gets fitted next week, I am having to spend time in Starbucks while my car charges, so it costs me in tea and cakes as well as electricity. Long drive tomorrow, so need a full battery. Moving to electric is going to take some getting used to.

Forced to share pins, left open to fraud! 1 in 5 with mental health conditions risk financial abuse by sharing pins as banks don't offer carers cards, 3rd party notifications or controls. We want to change that. Full info www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/10...

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Misogyny is alive and well at Sky News in the 21st Century I see...

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

I have no interest in golf, but I am enjoying the overnight score in the Ryder Cup. All that uncouth behaviour from the home fans seems to be getting it's cumuppance 😁

A friend's teenage daughter has made an animated video for one of my songs. It's got a live premier on Youtube at 8pm tonight, so if you're free for 4 mins at 8pm, you can join the live and send some encouragement to her in the chat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPtU...

A story that’s attracted surprisingly little attention in our media: Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...

Farage's proposal here would crash the economy. An economy already struggling as a result of Brexit. Not only are the numbers false but it takes rights away from migrants who have lived and worked in the UK for years. Many who have British partners and children born in the UK.

Nearly Monday. Let's hope the world this coming week is less 🦇💩 crazy and altogether depressing than last week. Not sure I'm particularly optimistic about that, but surely it can't be any worse? If the autocrats and racists could just pipe down and give us all some respite, I'd really appreciate it.

Not one to listen to within earshot of kids due to discussions about sexual violence against women and girls, but well worth a listen for the grown ups. These are always educational and entertaining in equal measures and stay in the mind for the rest of the week as you mull things over.

Minute Cryptic - 2 September, 2025 "Anonymous tip: awesome puzzle book finally sent around to stores" (5) ⚪️🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 I scored: 1 under par www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s... Fluke.

Headed up by no other than the snake oil salesman Farage the Brexshit mouthpiece.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.

"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned & the last fish been caught will they realize that they can't eat money" old Cree proverb

"You can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress". I'm sorry, what?

There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

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Lately, Reform UK have claimed that their hostility to migrants stems from an overwhelming desire to keep women safe. But have they been equally concerned when the threat to women comes from someone they see as on "their side"? I took a quick peek at their recent record. ~AA

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just been camping for the first time in my life and i have some valuable camping advice: take everything with you. Everything in your house. Take your whole house with you and live in it. Live inside your house, at home. Stay at home, living in your house with everything in your house.

My 18year old loved it so such he's gone back with friends today.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-capel... Help save this culturally significant Welsh chapel from becoming a block of flats.

"Vote Reform for massive power cuts" is going to be a completely legitimate attack line at the next election. Because it will force them to explain and (a) when you are explaining you are losing and (b) the explanations will make them look like the lunatic fringe crackpots they really are.

My cat is RAGING because I wouldn't let him play with a frog and have shut him in to give the frog time to escape. Frogs are not good for cats, not cats for frogs.

Went to see A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bridge Theatre in London yesterday - what a superb production!!

I thought this had happened ages ago... Round here we only seem to get a couple of deliveries a week anyway... BBC News - Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bit weird to hear a whole discussion on my home village discussed by @herring1967.bsky.social and Glenn Moore on the latest RHLSTP... #Hurstpierpoint.

I did nearly half of my weekly hours today...long day (although I do work part time, so not as bad as it may sound - still longer than an average full time working day though).

Saw Sting play tonight. I have to say, at 73 he's still got it. Incredible performance. He's my songwriting hero - interesting chord changes, rhythms, melodies and time signatures, modulations, beautifully crafted lyrics - everything I aspire to.

I would so like us to normalise this! Just come and grab some stuff: get something that means something to you, and save the bereaved having to deal with it all. And have a jacket potato

In the words of that great poem and philosopher, Sting: 'Never saw no military solution that didn't always end up as something worse'.

Visited Istanbul and the medusa heads in the Basilica Cistern got me craving more podyssey. Is medusa on the list of future episodes? @alexpodyssey.bsky.social

I do not want AI on a train I do not want it in the rain I do not want AI on a boat I do not want an AI goat I do not like the AI spam I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am

I needed a laugh today. This is gold. 'Openly Picnicking'!! 😆

Bullfinch in the garden this morning - letting the garden grow wild is paying off.

The regional news programme is currently giving us the story of a drug smuggling plot. In 1984.

I have been saying for ges that building regs should mandate energy efficiency and renewable energy - much better to build it in the first place than to retro fit, surely?

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

ChatGPT is asked to create a map of Ireland and ends up doing the "if your nation wore jeans would it wear them like this?" meme. [Posting with alt-text I've spent far too long writing, in an attempt to convey just how gloriously, horrifyingly shit this is]

Is the BBC running seances now?

Written a song about this... Currently working on getting it recorded

Love this so much!!