Watching girlbands forever, and basically Mel Blatt. ❤️

Post an image that will always make you laugh

Two very strong albums, love the BB’s sample soup but don’t love their MCing so a doomed vote for Madonna it is

“A true national treasure” may be pushing it slightly, stretching the meanings of the words “true”, “national” and “treasure”. I mean, I quite liked him, but I don’t think @christhebarker.bsky.social is hurriedly rearranging his front row.

Amber and Nikita. They are the WALRUS.

I’ve just discovered that: “The term captcha—Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart—was coined by researchers in 2003.” From @charlesarthur.bsky.social’s morning newsletter.

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif.

Good luck getting purple today 🤷🏻‍♀️ Connections Puzzle #872

The light here in Madrid this evening is positively apocalyptic.

Irresponsibly posting my location on social media

There’s a big pink cross in the sky this morning here in Madrid

Lovely sunny autumn day here in Madrid.

Just watched A House of Dynamite.

Home is where the hat is.

Is this the longest cast list on IMDb? 9,339 actors are named in “Doctors” (2000 - 2024).

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...

I don’t know if we are experiencing your named storm here in Madrid, but we have major, whistling gusts blasting our front balcony. Not even a breeze on the back balcony, however.

Things are not what they seem in the art of Thomas Deininger.

The London Business School might want to rethink the name of this course. www.london.edu/executive-ed...

Peak Canadian is partying in the streets while obeying the traffic lights

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

How do I get to be one of the testers on the guardian’s filter column? They’ve recently paid people to test mattresses, vodkas and chickens. I’d happily rate anything they wanted to chuck my way. Specialist subjects include, but not limited to,

Avalanche: what Gino D’acampo does around midday

Just popping out to LIDL, or 50-1-500-50 as the Romans called it.

I bought some rather gorgeous squashes yesterday, but ChatGPT tells me they are just decorative. Is that true? Can I not eat these? How should I cook them?

Thunderbirds are gone. #strictly

edit: turns out the guy in the story is a nasty horrible racist prick. Naturally the BBC did not feel this was important to disclose. But it absolutely is, he is not just "some guy" he's a racist media figure. english.elpais.com/culture/2025... english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

It’s Bookshop Day so here’s a poem in celebration of all those amazing bookshops out there.

Aldi openly selling drugs now. #banthissickfilth

If they ever make a film about Cameron Crowe, Ciaran Hinds is surely a shoo-in.

“Next up: Green Gartside and Hugh Grant with Transporting Doodoo on the Woowoo Pillow.” Actual line from a dream I just had. It woke me up, unsurprisingly.

Fuck you, you fucking bitch.

Autocorrect has become weirdly shit, right? Is it just me or fuedvdverinr have yo correct pretty much everything get write?

I’ve just this moment discovered that Roger Miller doesn’t sing: “Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve-four-inch room”. Made sense to me.

Surprising discovery of the day: Randy Crawford hasn’t had a single solo US Top 100 hit. Ever.

I didn't realise you could delete the Discovery feed because they don't call it deleting. You unpin it. But it's the same effect, it's gone and you don't accidentally click on it any more.

The esoteric art form of ambigrammia, or pieces of writing expressly designed to squeeze in more than one reading, revealed a new “kind of beauty” to Douglas Hofstadter, he writes:

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

I see strictly are using a combo QR / NaviLens code. Interesting.

Shrink-wrapped gammon.

Weirdo. Just use the rest is history, like the rest of us.

I second pretty much all of this, even though the author is a little too hyper-locally focused. The rest of the city also has its charms. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Bernard Manning’s niece is the new Archbishop of Canterbury.

American Fiction is on iPlayer. It’s very good. You should watch it.

Connections Puzzle #843 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 FUCK YOU

I’d never had to worry about them.

I’ve just been reminded of Mornin’ by Al Jarreau for the first time in 40 years, and my evenin’ is instantly 110% smoother. youtu.be/kzXNdLVZs3k?...

Over the last week, I’ve been watching both Masterchef and Next Gen Chef. Obviously, there are similarities, but the biggest difference is probably their attitude to product placement.

Phew