Doing one of its many "I'm a Battleship, honest" impressions

Man answering his phone outside Reading Station: It’s too late, I’m on the train.

FUNFORMATION

District or Circle?

Still possibly one of the greatest Armistice Day tweets of all time from the good old days on Twitter. #inremembrance #lestweforget #cockdestroyer

If you have never heard 'Fanfare' by Eric Matthews, go and listen to it now. I bought that album. The other stuff on it wasn't much cop (and it might have the worst sleeve notes ever). But to have a musical epitaph like 'Fanfare' would be amazing.

Evening

Cool. I'm going to create 80 more actors. They still won't get any 'work'.

This is one of mine.

Scenes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is! But it appears to be AI slop.

The first minister has said the continuation of a former Tory adviser’s position on the BBC board is “untenable”. www.holyrood.com/news/view,fo...

Is there a genre of music called 'Haunted Banjo'? I would listen to that.

Artists! Is your studio haunted by the bowels if a stallion? A short news item from a 1930s edition of the magazine ‘The Artist’ #ghosts

New metaphor for 2025 just dropped www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some lost Morrissey song titles in there too: - Ox in a teacup - Fatty Bodies - Saline Matters

popped down on my lunchbreak and preparations are well under way for the ceremony this evening

those beautiful naked women have made a compelling argument i am going to steer this ship into the rocks

The Scotsman’s Poem of the Week ‘Fox’ by Ian Hamilton Finlay

( @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social )

In my inbox this morning, and email that begins: "Dear $Firstname, I have been a fan of yours for many years".

Ok but will I understand the plot if I haven’t read the first Ross Kemp Gangs?

Edinburgh Poppies - in WW1 Scotland lost 1 in 10 males aged 16-55 with 147,000 souls giving their lives. Every man & woman's name is inscribed in Rolls of Honour in a Casket on marble plinth in the Shrine at the Scottish National War Memorial inside Edinburgh Castle. Their name liveth for evermore.

6. reboot Call my Bluff

The thing that really gets me about fascists is their refusal to apply standards of conduct consistently on social media.

was tim davie wearing a poppy when he resigned

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

Hotels that don’t allow guests. Bold business model. Still, four star rating. Not bad in the circumstances.

Also, massive golf resorts that look quite interesting but don’t exist.

Playlist of the music used in #GoneFishing Series 8, ep3 in Manchester: open.spotify.com/playlist/6Gr...

This is, legitimately, a very good idea.

Telly show idea. Great British Great British Show. Several Great British shows go up against each other to impress a judge who cries a lot and a judge with a posh lady name, to be crowned the greatest Great British show. Presented by Sarah Pascoe (after show to follow. After).

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election? Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)

London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)

Just think how warm and flat that will be

"If I did not know better, I'd say this was an orse's willy"

Davie didn't resign because the BBC misreported anything. He resigned because he didn't want to *defend* the BBC from right-wing criticism.

SORRY THESE ARE LATE I TOOK TOO MANY EDIBLES AND COULDN’T ESCAPE THE CORN MAZE

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The BBC interrupted its own Premier League football commentary for this 'breaking news' and honestly, the nation thought "Tim Davie? WGAF?"

Belongs alongside this magnificent specimen

I seem to be the main psephologist of this unsuccessful attempt to make electoral capital from this culture war skirmish in the tea rooms of the National Trust, despite its value as a political science case study bsky.app/profile/sund...

We will be closed for four days from Monday while we move to our new shop opposite our old shop and will reopen on Friday 14th November. It's twice the size of the old shop meaning the sales space will increase by 50% and we will have the extra storage we need plus an office, kitchen and 3 toilets!

Last week it was Big Bean inserting its tentacles into all aspects of our lives, now Big Nut is having a go.

Nature: healing

Bill Kelly, the manager of the 1930 Australian team, lays a wreath at the Cenotaph to commemorate Anzac Day in 1930