Have spent most of the weekend decoding Viginere cyphers. Astonishing how quickly the time flies by

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

How on earth do you flip a truck doing 12mph?

Cracking evening out at the local pantomime. Great show. #Woking #SnowWhite

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

It's that time of the year again when I get together with a couple of friends to affirm how thick we all are in attempting to solve Pablo's (RIP) Armchair Treasure Hunt (www.pablosath.com/current/puzzle).

Very sad to read this. The BBC seems to be scared of its own shadow; desperately trying to pander to the far right, apparently unaware that nothing they do will be enough. Better to stand for your values than to be dragged down in a desperate attempt to survive. Bon chance @robinince.bsky.social

It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.

Holy cow! Just posted a few Christmas cards abroad. £3.40 each! Same price for France as Australia. Was not expecting that. When did it get so expensive?

Exactly this. The plan is asking Zelenskyy and all Ukrainians to trust their lives and futures to the word of the man who invaded them and the word of the man who betrayed them.

Utterly horrendous story of life in Spain under Franco combined with religious oppression. BBC News - Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain - so she was locked up and put in a coma - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

I see that the resident NYT oxygen thief Ross fucking Douthat has been opining on feminism again. What a complete prick that man is.

This is the story that just keeps giving isn't it? I mean are they really trying if their password isn't 'L0uvre@2025!' ?

Saw Deliver Me From Nowhere this evening. Not usually a music biopic fan but thought this was good. Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong were excellent

Just spotted that BlueSky now has bookmarks - happy days!

Of course the venal Farage is cosying up to the religious whackjobs in the US. The sooner they crack down on political contributions from abroad the better. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Two friends in two days have announced that they are retiring. Man alive - it's getting harder and harder not to think of it myself, but I don't think I'm quite there yet. Mind you, one bad day at work could easily push me over the edge.

I get annoyed by the AI bollocks that is returned when I do a simple Google search. Have learnt that throwing a random swear word into the search bar stops this nonsense dead in its tracks. #toptip

Some much needed laughs at Dara O'Briain's show. I didn't have the grooming of an innocent Canadian family on my bingo card 😂

@natschatpodcast.bsky.social As a Nats fan from the UK, I just wanted to say thankyou for your excellent coverage over the last season. You accompanied me on my morning walks after every game - including this morning. Hopefully next season will be better. As Yazz said "The Only Way Is Up" #GoNats

Have spent all day listening to a 'drip' in the kitchen that I couldn't find. Concerted effort of over an hour established that it wasn't a leak, but a low battery warning on my old Carbon Monoxide detector. Feeling like a right dope! I'd bought a new one but forgot to remove the old one.

Sorry to hear that Robert Redford has died. Loved his performances in Three Days of The Condor and Brubaker as well as the more popular stuff like All The President's Men / Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Spent many hours watching his movies over the years. RIP

I've succumbed and put on a pair of jeans. First time I haven't been wearing shorts since April. Winter is coming.

Well that was annoying

It's August. Far too early for the C word to be invoked. And disturbing how much of the display is already gone.

Watched The Thursday Murder Club on Netflix. Enjoyed it though Ron wearing a t-shirt I also own (all hail Bruce Springsteen) made me feel old!

Finally had to acknowledge that my car is utterly filthy. Have dropped it off to allow a phalanx of energetic youngsters to descend upon it. Inside and out for £23. Rather them than me

Also tacky as fuck.

Some @privateeyenews.bsky.social are only so-so. Others are for the ages…

Feeling a bit out of touch. When was it that we moved from the Richter Scale to the Moment Magnitude scale as a measure of earthquakes? Was listening to a news report and thought "wait what".

It is my goal to spread this trick for cooling down your car far and wide. Maybe you know it but I just learned it and it works like a charm. youtube.com/shorts/oKRcb...

holy shit lmao

Back from a wonderful weekend in Scotland celebrating my niece's wedding. Her new husband is a sweetheart. They had a ceilidh and the reaction of the non Scots present was hilarious. Evening ended with the classics Auld Lang Syne and Loch Lomond. Makes me miss home more than usual.

lol what happened here

Think this needs a fifth option: E) All of the above.

wrote about what the protests say about the strength, or lack thereof, of the trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

Had my first trip on Eurostar today. What an excellent service. Only went as far as Lille this time but will happily go further in the future. Either way I'm in France in plenty of time for Springsteen tomorrow night

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

@slangsonsports.bsky.social Happy Birthday Sarah!

Not sure I've ever seen an interview quite like this one!

If you know, you know

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

I relish every time you get to see Olympians race normal people who you can see what world class athleticism looks like on a relatable scale

The assembly call went out in the street WhatsApp group at lunchtime. Would be a shame to waste such a glorious day, so 10hrs after we all met up for a swift half at our local, I've just got home. Good neighbours are a great thing!

Here are my Top 10 WORST Dogs!