<checks out the window for other signs of the apocalyspe> But, seriously, if someone like this can look at the figures and see what they contain with crystal clarity, the only reason for this not happening on mainstream legacy programmes must be by choice. This is not a party on its way to power.

I honestly don't get why composing a guitar solo doesn't get you a co-writing credit. All those iconic guitar solos and Steve Harris takes the sole credit for so many of those songs. Dave, Adrian, and Janick should have a co-write for every song with their solo on it.

I don't have much love for my hometown of Stockport. I've not even been there for nearly a decade. But it's lovely to see they rejected Reform, and the council has gone from NOC to LibDem. Fuck Reform. Well done Stockport.

I've realised since my recent ASD diagnosis I take on too many opinions as my own, adopting them without realising. Thankfully not in matters of morality. But it has led me to unfollow/sub several hobby YouTube channels this week. I was being too easily led by their dogmatic approaches.

TIL that all the panic over the Reform vote is down to our terrible electoral system. The actual number of reform votes has barely moved. They just split the vote better. Electoral reform, now.

Something that stung at end of being on Infinite Monkey Cage were frequent backstage invites for various anti trans activists - including to our small party for 201st episode - people who wrote vicious things about me & then lies about me after resignation. It was really rotten. www.robinince.com

Modest proposal: People who use "staycation" to mean "going on holiday" to be placed under indefinite house arrest.

I'm just going to find and replace Reform Party with Putin Party when anyone who voted for them is in earshot.

Take the paper out of their printers. Hiss ‘Russian traitors’ at them as you pass them in corridors. Refer to them as the British Union of Fascists. Call them all Nigel or Vladimir. Stand up en masse and leave when they come into the canteen. Total exclusion. And keep doing it, and doing it.

Sky News projecting a national vote share for Reform of 27%, based on results so far. That’s four points down on what they achieved in local elections last year. Somewhat of a counter to the prevailing narrative. More evidence that Reform appears to have peaked.

Finally a good episode of #ForAllMankind this week. I'd been losing hope given the focus on dull old Miles and the teenage soap opera, but this week it got back to doing what it does best.

The song I've listened to the most over the last week. The Passage by Hanging Garden. youtu.be/DaE_gszJ88M?...

The Unending EP by Hanging Garden. Four really beautiful songs.i live this record so much. music.apple.com/gb/album/the...

Norfolk isn't going to get its bins collected.

Some perspective.

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

I suppose this is what it feels like to be a good German in 1933.

Doesn't seem like anywhere near me is showing the Maiden movie. This is what you get for living in the south west. No metal scene to speak of.

Alas no voting in our area today. So unable to do my bit for democracy and decency.

Seems to be evil buzzy thing day here in Dorset. I was awoken too early by a very loud buzzing thing behind a window blind. And now I've had to shut the windows while WFH because massive big and yellow things keep trying to get in.

Baby Metal and Band Maid in the Forza Horizon 6 tracklist: forza.net/news/forza-h...

Does anyone know of a map app that has an AR mode, so I can look at a landscape and it actually labels what I'm looking at? #Android

An EPIC MOVIE deserves an EPIC BURGER. In participating restaurants from July 1. Subject to availability.

An EPIC MOVIE deserves an EPIC BURGER. In participating restaurants from July 1. Subject to availability.

I've been calorie counting to lose some weight. So far no big struggle. Until I had McDonald's for lunch. Didn't go mad with calories, no fries, sugar free drink. But I've been snacking and eating like a pig the rest of the day. Coincidence? Or some shit in Maccies food.

My job involves giving tech advice, and many of the people I deal with are older. Recently I've seen more people come to me with an opening gambit, "Before I called I asked Chat GPT..." And 9/10 the info they have is wrong.

I disliked the movie Atonement intensely. A horrible cruel piece of work. But I still think its one absolutely amazing Dunkirk panning shot recreates the event better than the whole of Nolan's film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Ca...

I think Nolan needs more Harryhausen. Or at least to get over himself and use some good CG. The effects are very "man in a suit" and the Knights Who Say Ni. It seems an odd empty world, with little scale. Which was also the problem with Dunkirk for me.

I think Nolan needs more Harryhausen. Or at least to get over himself and use some good CG. The effects are very "man in a suit" and the Knights Who Say Ni. It seems an odd empty world, with little scale. Which was also the problem with Dunkirk for me.

Hmmm that new Odyssey trailer. Some pretty goofy dialogue. And it doesn't look very grand or epic to me.

Reform is a racist party. Voting Reform is a racist act. We must not shy away from calling this out. They don’t get to hide behind “legitimate concerns” and feel sorry for themselves. Their hatred and inadequacy has made them very ugly indeed.

I enjoyed Apex on Netflix. Though it ended sooner than I was expecting. Some ropey CG, but also some lovely use of location shooting and pleasing photography. I did guess a major twist in the petrol station scene near the beginning. Though I also expected something that didn't happen. 6/10 fun.

I was watching Apex when my wife said, "who is the actress doing Lidl Charleze Theron?"

Discovered my new kink.

Some fabulous photos here. Quite a Half Life vibe. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

My PC has preinstalled Forza Horizon 6. 146 GB. That's a chonky download. About ten or so more GB than the version on my Xbox Series X.

If you ever need a good example of what's wrong with this country then see the massive fuss over the Green Party leaders comment, and not the police repeatedly kicking someone in the head.

This morning I measured 47V AC between the metal on our dishwasher door and the sink. That ain't good.

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

In a post promoting the British Army and their actions, Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, actually used footage of Bloody Sunday. There are no words.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

I've known Dawkins was a loon since he released The God Delusion. Many militant atheists agreed with his general thesis and so gave him a free pass on the many factual errors, lack of research, and generally poor scholarship. A dreadful book that tainted his previous brilliant science writing.

#ForAllMankind has got itself a little lost this season. The focus on Miles and his family is dull, they are hardly Gordo and Tracy. And as we know trade disputes don't make for great sci-fi. Mars Base is also the most studio set looking studio set. Where's the grandeur and spectacle this season?

I watched the footage that’s on the bbc story and elsewhere and it mysteriously doesn’t show the officer laying into a prone suspect. this does and, be warned, it’s pretty fucking horrible. rowley should be sacked. he won’t be, but he should.

There's no way my poor autistic brain could do this without thinking too hard. I require spreadsheets and a readout of my full music collection. I don't think I have the energy for this project.