I found somewhere in the UK that can do the Talk of Thames print! Not that there was anything wrong with the one in Shanghai, but local (well, Exeter) is better, it's carbon balanced and it's £250 cheaper* which means I get to add another extra to people's orders!

All Studios of ITV booklet orders except for Talk of Thames put in — waiting to hear back from China about that one. Next job is ordering the extras!

Third "one a day" ceterizine since I woke up, because I have ALL the hayfever and my body is 80% snot and 20% histamine bumps.

I am trying CBD oil for my anxiety. Mostly I'm now anxious about having to have any more CBD oil because it's disgusting.

At 14 that could’ve been me. At 51 I can do about 3 centimetres.

Australian kids now congregate on obscure Wikipedia talk pages and at the foot of forgotten old blog posts, both places with basically no moderation whatsoever. If the goal was to drive under-16s into unmoderated spaces with no protections at all populated by pornbots, it was 100% successful.

For the Glory of the Sontaran Empire!

I bought comfort food — veggie sausages and pre-made mash — for tonight, but don't have the wherewithal to actually cook them, so I'm going to raid my scant savings and order Chinese food because too much salt and pepper beancurd is also comfort food.

I am unwell.

Here's where the story ends.

Me: I'm trying to get this anxiety thing under control. Husband: "I'm here to support you in every way." Me: Thanks, I really need… Husband: "But under no circumstances text or call me while I'm at work, because that will only upset me." Me: Uh… Husband: "You're not going through this alone!"

The commercial tendering of BBC programmes doesn't suit me as an old-fashioned socialist, mainly because it creates a pretend market (cf the NHS and the railways) that diverts screen-money to shareholders and also makes all jobs temp jobs. He's still right. This could be the making of the show.

Anti-fash counter-protests outnumber fash marches all the time and it would be cool if the press made a big deal about it.

I'm not one to defend our railway police, who in the spectrum of useless policing don't do well, but here you can see the real police diverting the fash proto-rioters on to railway land so that the under-resourced BTP have to deal with them, rather than Sussex Police having to fucking do anything.

In today’s edition of ‘Oh for fuck’s sake’ I give you: Meters Fete’s Hunny This was all on the same walk around Norwich.

"Politely disagree" has always been code for "they didn't argue with me, they just changed the subject". And all queer people have done that. Not right now. Not when I don't know where the exits are. Not when I don't know if my straight friends will actually defend me.

[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,

Chloe's artwork often raises the hairs on the back of my neck for being so dreamlike while also being so real, but this one, one of the first I ever saw of hers back on Twitter and an *instant* follow because of it, speaks to my soul for some reason. Captivating. Do check out her website for more.

Am self medicating with cider again.

From the picture roll, I would assume that playout of this is being handled someone other than LWT who would usually do sport for the network. I'd go for ITN probably, due to the international satellite link. Although... sync loss into ITN was unusual, so perhaps it was Thames?

Reminds me of when the fash came to Liverpool a decade ago and ended up stood behind the half-closed shutters of Lime Street station left luggage office, cowering from the rest of us. Some of them were crying as the police escorted them away. Poor babies.

A displacement activity and not at all an excuse to get high off the Sharpie fumes: postcodes where the Studios of ITV print project has sales. Failed dismally to do it in 4 colours — had to use 6 in the end.

Misinformation is everywhere. Listening to Hannah Spencer you realise how cynical & targeted it is. Confirmation bias of all who oppose her leads to most believing fake news without even an attempt of double-checking the 'info' they read. All it takes is a screenshot of her shirt & a reverse search.

Beginning the work of processing the Studios of ITV orders, starting with making a very reluctant PayPal give me a list of names and addresses of people that ordered. Apparently this is unusual and their system requires time to think about it.

Yes sir, I *can* boogie.

Nacho, nacho man (Nacho man) I've got to be a nacho man I've got to be a nacho, nacho man

The sheer fucking brutality of this murder by The Onion is breathtaking.

100 days of Hannah Spencer MP And she's just getting started 💚

(Our bedtime routine includes unplugging the entire internet, because the government told us to.)

We all laugh at this, and rightly so, but Steve's slow descent into shithouse maddery is just so... disappointing, heartbreaking even, for someone like me that loved him deeply from about when I was 13/14. He was never normal and often not rational, but hey, neither was I! And now here we are.

It was always the Tories that knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. But here we are under a Labour government that is determined to get everybody working harder (GROWTH!!) by removing any and all support that lets people, you know, like, actually work at all. Fucking insane.

My new but hopefully short-term thing, which is a real delight, of slowly building anxiety all day is being self-medicated with too much alcohol of an evening (hey, it works, so 🤷). Looked at what my GP might do for it as an alternative to me getting pissed. The NHS used to offer a range of meds.

David Icke's mob of weirdos found an article of mine — about Associated-Rediffusion in 1955 — and applied some sort of numerology to it that 'proved' I knew something deep and important about the Illuminati (or something equally blithering). Weird questions arrived by email for *months*.

From being alive, presumably

Last couple of hours for this! £25 gets you NINE reprints of staff magazines, audience brochures and explanatory guides all about the studios of ITV! Plus fun extras! Delivered to your door worldwide in July!

The sheer fucking brutality of this murder by The Onion is breathtaking.

How to deal with a nightmare diner ft.trib.al/m1k9QgM #FTEdit

I have put the central heating on for an hour. Ridiculous. Starmer's Britain, hey?

Mum says she wants bath sheets — green, to match her bathroom accessories — for her birthday in a fortnight. They must be absorbent despite her use of fabric softener. I'm going for these: www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-e...

An ITV franchise in its death throes is always fascinating, but we're too easily distracted by TWW and Southern's strops to see how the internal politics at the dying ATV caused its biggest show to get (even more) unhinged. This is something I should, one day, write about.

Did a search to see if this was A Thing That Was Happening, and it has happened to one other person on here. Was about to do a "yeah, me also" post to them, but then it turned out they were a HUGE Ross-in-Staffordshire stan (blocked ages ago, but he has sockpuppets and name-searches) so, nope.

Back in the day, I sort-of got what Mrs Whitehouse was banging on about — because TV sets in the Wolverhampton area didn't have off-buttons and couldn't be turned over when something ribald came on — but it's fascinating that prudes are now *choosing* to subscribe to and watch TV that shocks them.

Fessed up to her on the VideoFone2000™ that booking this was giving me anxiety, even though that's really weird. She fessed up that she didn't want to go in the first place. We agreed that we'd look at it again in September — cooler weather, fewer kids, but more midges.

Monzo just cancelled my debit card. They don't say why, just that there's an on-going investigation. A new one will be with me between 12-20 June. This is possibly the least convenient thing that has ever happened to me.

"Hi Dean, we really need a piece about [Subject], and we're on a really tight deadline" Time between request and me submitting finished article - 2 days Time between me submitting invoice and them paying it - 8 months Weird how 'urgency' never seems to go both ways

Fascinated by the concept of a left-wing digital rights group that only does X and Insta for socials... linktr.ee/labourdigita...

Because the image of bands are so carefully curated now (and our impression of The Beatles in retrospect is that their image was carefully curated, which is not inaccurate) it's easy to forget that the was no line between "pop stars" and "light entertainment" in the 1960s. A pop act *was* an LE act.

There are a lot of photos of the Beatles. And this is one of the ones I like.

I am *loving* this story on NotAlwaysRight, mainly because I can feel in my bones the frustration of the waiter and how she reduces it to just a "uh huh" in response about 15 times. The comments are a binfire of people condemning her for that and armchair diagnosing the customer, of course.