Just think, this time next week we’ll be moaning about how wet and miserable it is, swearing as we trip over the air conditioning unit: “What idiot put that there?”

Thames Water have parked a gigantic vacuum cleaner right outside our flat, just in time for bed. Occasionally they turn it on, and I have to say it complements the sound of the pneumatic drill wonderfully.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! King Crimson Pink Floyd Michael Nyman Band Laurie Anderson Elizabeth Fraser Scritti Politti Dave Russell Lekhfa Juniore Julian Lage

Reports from outside suggest that Cuntstock is a lot smaller and more muted this time. Is that because the Hungarian money has gone away, or is it because the Kremlin money has been cut back?

Right. Going to commit a little light democracy. I'll need my passport, because democracy is another country, where they do things differently.

Microsoft Authenticator is the new Clipper, but somehow worse. In the name of security you spend your working life scrabbling for your phone and typing in numbers. The box to tick every day for the unmet promise of remembering you is a particularly nice touch. “Nice” in this case meaning “sadistic”.

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast

From now on, this is the only way I will travel.

Trying to set up a new phone which demands I prove I'm over 18, which doesn't seem to work either with a credit card or my passport. Thank you, stupid fucking Online Harms Bill, for making so many aspects of our life shitter in so many different ways.

Having dinner far too late because clocks. British Summer Time and the living is complicated.

Random thought: Has anyone looked at the correlation, if any, between disease in the population and the decline of cash?

MATTHEW BADLOSS IS IT

So is all public policy change from now on going to be enacted via TV docudrama adaptations of old Private Eye articles? If so, who's going to play Ben Houchen in a couple of years' time?

This is basically the only thing I can add to the ongoing Wuthering Heights hoo hah. In another week another film will come out and we won't have to think about it again. Jah Wurzel, though.

Not my house, but I know my way around.

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

As per usual, we're listening to the fireworks through the open window, and watching them on the TV, the perfect compromise between immediacy and comfort.

I just looked it up. On WB Yeats' gravestone, it says: Cast a cold Eye On Life. On Death. Horseman pass by. Which slightly disappointed me, as I'd hoped it said: Tread softly Because you tread on my face.

The post has arrived. I'm going to need ANOTHER PIECE OF STRING.

Don't show a Christmas mom these Memory Orbs.

Dear Radio 3, I have a couple of questions about this morning's output. 1. Why is it Down Your Way? 2. You do realise it's still November, don't you?

What I don't understand about Stranger Things is why does none of it take place at sea?

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, Charlie Brown.

My name is Ozymandias, Hopeless patient of the finest plastic surgeons Work on my looks, ye mighty And despair.

The doorbell just rang. It was another person who's booked a stay in one of the flats here (the majority are now Air BnB or equivalent) asking how to get in. I have no idea, but don't want to become an unpaid concierge. In case anyone's wondering what happened to all the rentable flats in London.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

A joke that's just barged into my brain and is making me laugh because that's how my brain works on a Friday night: What did the French waiter say, when he realised the carafe of water he'd just served had been poured the previous evening? "Eau d'hier!"

New Pynchon novel arrived today, something I’ve been able to say six times in the forty years I’ve been reading him and, therefore, be unlikely to say again.

Not that anyone’s interested, but personally I think that anyone(no matter what their citizenship status) who’s worked and paid taxes for five years with the intention to carry on doing so should have full voting rights.

The first rule of Bluesky: Always talk about Bluesky. The second rule...

Impressed by the number of sites that come up with "Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds." as I've been working on it for sixty years and I'm still not sure.

I wonder how many listens to the new #Cardiacs album it will take before I stop spontaneously laughing during Skating. It's been a few, with no abatement so far.

Perhaps while Donnie’s in the UK they could get Liz Truss to visit him. Worked for the Queen.

Petroc's hum is actually the Thames Television ident tune. Does he realise that? #Radio3

'Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech'

I don't know if this information is useful to anyone else, but White Bread Black Beer by Scritti Politti continues to be at least as gorgeous as it was the last time I listened to it. I'm finding this fact to be very helpful today.

Is there a sensible reason as to why this has happened to all the Pink Floyd covers on Apple Music? Also, "Four Young Men Viewed Through a Kaleidoscope" is an excellent title, and possibly as appropriate for the album in question as "The Piper At the Gates of Dawn".

After twelve hours, no one has yet found a way to demonstrate that this US fashbro getting shot isn't a good look for Keir Starmer. They're slipping.

The Mercury Prize reminds me of the opening of Titus Groan. Peake describes the annual competition of the Bright Carvings, lovingly crafted by artisans over the previous year.

A conversation with someone about tube strike bus queues reminded me of the legendary Bus Queue Story by @garius.bsky.social on Ask Metafilter: ask.metafilter.com/104881/Stand...

Post a meme made by you

“You know what they call the Hunger Games in France?” “They don’t call them the hunger games” “No man, they got the welfare state, they don’t know what the hunger games are” “What do they call them?” “Battle Royale With Cheese”

Watching what seems to be a documentary about life under a Reform government. It's called Children of Men. The pedicabs don't play that fucking annoying music, though, so that's an improvement.

I only just realised that the word "television" is made of a Greek root ("tele-", meaning far), and a Latin one ("visio", meaning to see). But they couldn't coin the word with a pair of Greek roots, because then the word would be "telescope", and that would be confusing.

Is that Marcella Detroit singing with Eric Clapton? It feels like there’s a listicle to be made of musicians who played at #liveaid that you don’t know about because they were in other people’s bands. (See also Thomas Dolby)

Ray Cooper did well for hind egg of considering the only other full-time tambourine players I can think of are characters in Hanna Barbera cartoon s. #liveaid

Musicians don’t seem to wear sweatbands these days the way they did in the eighties. Do they sweat less or have they just become stoic about it? #liveaid

The face I'm submitting to BlueSky for verification.