I finished the latest season of #ForAllMankind today. Until this season it had been an exciting alternate history show about the wonders and politics of human space flight. This season was about unlikable people having boring conversations in corridors. And a Titan mission with almost no Titan.

Evan then went into a massive tirade telling me that as a gay man, he wasn’t happy about being told he now had to consider trans men as potential partners. Absolute insane stuff. All of the crazy lies of the time poured out of him. And the fury in his face. Wow. Vile experience.

Even so, not exactly World Cup winning form though is it?

I was raised on these streets.

I was raised on these streets.

Man Waving Pride Flag Like Wand at Egypt-Iran World Cup Match Accidentally Turns Both Teams Gay: tinyurl.com/ycxhuuxf

Just as well we're having that hydration break.

"Men" who identify as "Gamers".

I've started watching the black and white version of Spider Noir. It looks fabulous. The craggy closeups of Nic Cage are reminiscent of the way Ric was lit and shot in Casablanca.

A leather guitar strap I bought in 1989 when I was 17.

Very much enjoying numerous social media posts by Merkins claiming Turkiy's winner was offside, because of their complete failure to understand how offside works.

I don't know where I lost a bit of Woke, as I am achingly woke. Needed more "burn down the AI centres". I totally resent the "people are starving no space science" question. Where the fuck is the money being spent? On Earth, giving people jobs.

Lovely and cool in West Dorset this morning. Sunny. But a lovely breeze. This is my kind of summer weather.

Enjoying the highlights of the USA missing sitter after sitter.

Big light show in the sky south of us and heading out way here near Beaminster. Close enough to hear now.

Well done Ecuador. Great performance.

Justice for Ecuador after the VAR fail.

The video games corporation is discontinuing their popular product, the video game

I don't think I'll be buying a new gaming PC soon. I'm not paying £1600 for a machine that should be under £1000. The games business is so fecked right now.

Here in West Dorset the temperature has dropped and there's a cool breeze. Feels so good after days of burning hell.

I think us Europeans should try to learn from our US friends, so here’s a list of American Bluesky tips to stay cool in the heatwave: - just rent places with aircon already installed - have very cheap energy - be wealthier & ignore the poor - stay hydrated, arrogant and dismissive - elect fascists

I can just about live with the heat. Just. But all the idiotic Merkins telling us it's not very hot can get in the sea.

I've been up since 05:45 thanks to the heat. Our bedroom is the hottest place in the house, and no, not in a good way. I have at least got half my WFH stuff done for the day.

She fucking lied. Yes, we knew it. Yes, we knew they knew it, but here she is, many years & suicides later openly admitting she fucking lied. Anyone citing the Cass Report as a valid document is a despicable, rancid cunt. No exceptions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rumours of GTA6 being $100 are true. The regular version is obviously cut down and the Ultimate Edition is the proper game.

OMG the footage coming out of Venezuela this morning. Absolutely horrific. Massive death toll expected.

Lucky escape?

Good lord Scotland.

Oopsydaisy. #WorldCup2026

Do Essex next. They are just as murderously negligent. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Shashlychnaya restaurant on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow, 1975

The Met Office Red Warning has been expanded to include our village (among others - we're not special) for today and tomorrow.

It's reached the "too hot to wear a watch comfortably" temperature here.

GP on the BBC this morning parroting the oft-heard “stay indoors between 11 and 3 because the sun is hottest then”. The sun is *most intense* then, that’s the time of day you’re most at risk of sunburn. The hottest part of the day is usually between 4-6. Thinking you’re safer at 5 is daft.

Too hot here already. I don't know how I'm going to get through the day's work.

I've just looked at the Street View of where I grew up in Stockport, where my dad still lives. It was such a leafy road when I was a kid, and even ten years ago still was. But most of the trees have since been cut down by various utility companies.

Nice to see the BBC gearing up to honour the full time two on two break dance fight.

Same old England.

Well that was a very dull half of football.

Holy shit, FIFA's on the correct side of a human rights issue? "FIFA treats the rainbow flag as a statement of human rights and will allow fans to wave them inside the Seattle stadium, according to Hana Tadesse, a spokesperson for Seattle FIFA World Cup 2026."

Today I'm using one of those neck fans. It doesn't actually do any cooling. It just makes a lot of noise, which distracts you from the heat.* *Stolen from Shane Black.

People who drive at 40 on roads with 20/30/60 speed limits to have their cars thrown off a cliff.

People who indicate after beginning their maneuver, or not indicating at all, will have to watch their car being crushed.

Newspapers will be fact checked and have to set the record strait in big front page letters no matter where they hid the lies. All media companies broadcasting/printing in the UK must be UK owned.

Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history. As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.

What an awful night of humidity. Didn't get a whole lot of sleep. WFH today is going to be fun. We've not even got to the hottest part of the week yet.

The Steam Machine price and low production numbers is a sign of things to come for the next PlayStation and Xbox. The hardware market is fecked.

Bugger. The rain missed us to the north a few miles. Shame.

Some blessed relief for us in Dorset.

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…