Ha! I finished mowing the front garden and put the mower away just before the raindrops started to hit.

So I went to Cass Art in Liverpool, intending to buy a tube of Venetian Red watercolour and a fan brush, and then the sale jumped me and well, I definitely still got my Venetian Red and fan brush, among other things.

On the 471 to Liverpool.

Martin Lewis evidence to MPs… the biggest area of complaint I get about energy bills is on the Standing Charge. Just a small part of the evidence given at the Commons Public Accounts committee. You can watch the full session here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

We're really wasting the concept of a Great American State Fair because a REAL Great American State Fair would have fried foods even God didn't dare to imagine.

This is killing me. I was a little kid during the Bicentennial, and it was such a big deal. There was stuff going on for the entire year, you couldn’t move for tacky merch, it was huge, dumb fun, and this is just pitiful in comparison.

I can’t begin to explain how much it’s benefitted me to start making art again after a very long time away. It’s quiet and absorbing, and even though I’m Not Great, I can see old skills resurrecting, and I improve pretty quickly. I’m able to let the horrors go, and concentrate on what I’m doing.

To be clear, I am appalled and disgusted by the other rulings today, it’s just that amendments are our end run around them.

Uh, if certain members of the Supreme Court are going to fuck with actual amendments, we urgently need to do something to curb their power.

Since we're talking about the difference between 1976 and today here's a link to a piece about Jesse Lemisch's amazing collection of "bicentennial schlock," currently housed at the Beinecke. (gift link) 🗃️

It was called Freedom 250 because that's how many people went.

This is some cowboy builder bullshit.

Virgo: Your unremarkable presence in society continues to go unnoticed. Keep doing the bare minimum and having little to no impact on people’s lives. If it wasn’t for the security video at Arby’s no one would even know you exist, and even that footage gets erased after three weeks.

Every coder in 2027 taking a call from the boss who fired them in 2026

Back from a walk around a very refreshingly breezy West Kirby, with a baguette from Tuile and some picky bits for lunch. I feel surprisingly human!

Me: Albert, I need to go get some exercise. Albert: No, we stay in front of fan.

A mere 27° in the house this morning. Positively cool by recent standards.

Rapidly becoming Ossoff-pilled.

omg I found a box of lolly ices I’d forgot about at the bottom of the deep freezer. Thank you, Past Me.

Thunder!

Happy Lottery Day!

It’s still quite warm, but more tolerable today, I think?

Paxton is like a performance art piece to show how much shit Texans will eat and still vote Republican

absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got

Emu was despondent, after Rod Hull resigned. He just sat there not doing or saying anything

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

OH COME ON

The lads are very ready for some cooler weather.

Oh look, it’s the guy who groomed his decades younger wife!

Do they still have shitty Labour consultants? Because this is shitty Labour consultant style.

I can say I have never enjoyed a trip to the Woodchurch Sainsbury’s more. The car park may be a mess, but the shop is blessedly cool. The temperature outside went from 24° to 27° in the half hour I was there.

The bloody pollen is acting as an evil force multiplier for the horrendous heat.

I'm down on the south coast this week and there are warnings everywhere in this heat wave that you shouldn't try to cool off in the sea because the privately owned companies that run the water supply have flooded the waterways flowing into the sea with sewage. You can smell it some days, it reeks.

My only comment on the air conditioning discourse is that we’re all hot and exhausted at present and couldn’t do anything about it right now even if we had the money and HVAC personnel to fix it. Please have mercy.

Definitely a picky bits dinner night, because no way am I generating any more heat by switching on the hob.

Not loving it. Up to about 28° they’re very happy, but not so much in the 30s.

Well, allegedly that’s the high temperature, and I hope that proves true.

I’m just going to keep sitting here in the shade, doing my crappy watercolours, and waiting to make our next all cold foods meal.

24° already. It feels like I am bracing for impact.

I guess this is one way of saying, we keep trying to foist the same dickheads selling the same shit onto you despite the ongoing horrific collapse of everything, and still you hogs refuse to buy it.

lol

The heat today wasn’t completely terrible—I can do 25° no problem, as long as I don’t spend a lot of time in the sun—but I am dreading tomorrow.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Oh I vividly remember these!

Jesus Christ, it’s quarter to nine and it’s 28° in this house.

I listened to a podcast today with an American host loudly and confidently being wrong about everything that just went on, right down to his very ill-informed explanation of Burnham’s positions.

Gerald melting again.

I mean, if I were to take up embezzlement, this is probably how I’d get caught, too. Instead, I indulge my habit somewhat infrequently.