Copilot's AI 'hints' have infested my Word documents, so trying to write anything is like having it critiqued in real time by a hyperactive 6 year old "What does that mean?" "Are you sure about that?" "Why don't you do this instead?" "Who's that?" "Is that really a word?" "I like this word better"

Converting the whole “disaster emergency horror stress” thing of the shower unit explosion into a positive “slight disruption because I’m upgrading the house” thing. Mental reframing FTW. Starting with instashelves in the shower, but also the wallpaper for the wrecked room arrived this afternoon.

Picked it up again. The chapter on the HIV/AIDS pandemic is 80% the two of them whining about how they're VICTIMS because they grew up *after* it. The 'shadow' of it has been life-ruining for them. Fuckssake. Try actually living through it. I did and guess what: NOT A VICTIM. Giving up now.

I'm not actively trying to lose weight (and the general trend is slow enough not to be an issue) but it's interesting to see it happening, and to see how festivals, illness and stress events directly affect my body.

The front is like a Look-In drawing of the cast but run through AI. The back features a completely different McGann brother for some reason, possibly the fifth one, Archibald.

"I did 'Milton Berle' in charades at Sandringham on Boxing Day and Camilla got it in 3 seconds."

Does this shirt make me look gay?

Shaved my head, trimmed my beard and had a long, hot powerful shower for the first time in about 2 weeks. Bliss!

Food £200 Data £150 Rent £800 Used Boxed Sets of The Upper Hand £3,600 Utility £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Reminder, in light of the awful incident in Golders Green, that anyone who victim-blames or engages in antisemitism or whataboutery isn’t doing anything to help Palestines or end the genocide. They’re just opportunist thugs

Ivor Dickie was a stripper interviewed for Woman's Journal, but ID refused to be photo'd, so they reached out to Beryl Cook and this artwork was born 😁👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Ladies Night", 1980, @theboxplymouth.bsky.social, features in Jack's new book, Hotties in Art: www.waterstones.com/book/hotties...

My brother shared this in the family whatsapp so coming to a work place near you the best email ever

THE LEAKING SHOWER UNIT HAS BEEN REPLACED!!!

analtogether funkier

I’d have just said 44 mins tbh @scottygb.bsky.social

Found the folder with all the Victoria Wood Quote of the Day screengrabs so I've started it again in Bluesky form.

Phone, Porn Addictions Converging Nicely

Started the day with a broken tooth (rear molar, no pain, gonna leave it be) if you want to know just how great April 2026 has been for me.

"That money should be spent in our communities and on our public services" @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaks to BBC Breakfast about the failed experiment of bus privatisation and the Green Party's policies to boost buses.

New blog: Brizzle Kicks - www.merseytart.com/2026/04/briz... - a look at a couple of new (to me) stations in Bristol, with side musings on graffiti, recycling, and the only restaurant a British person would ever need.

Do you know, every job I've had where you were often expected to be in work till very late or all night with a lot of downtime still carried an expectation that you be sober throughout.

It's really really not my thing, but I am slightly curious.

“Flowers For Men” (2025)

The current queer history book I'm reading is virtually unreadable, and not just because they're actually podcasters and write like it. It's the fucking *victimhood* all the way through. Breaking away from the narrative to labour how *awful* they had it growing up in the 1990s.

Another Labour MP making clear they don't care about you losing your job unless it's the kind of thing some imaginary caricature of a Sun reader from fifty years ago would class as "a proper job", amazing.

People's understanding of the term "false flag" is obviously very wrong, since I've seen Archduke Ferdinand's assassination and the Reichstag fire both described as "false flag" on here and... I'd just like for people to pick up a book now and again you know?

*reads CNN for investigation updates*

Not a C&W fan normally, but...

After 27 years of gentle persuasion on my part, I have just started my husband on Twin Peaks.

New shoes *spits*

Our family being posted when I was 4 and us moving from HTV to somewhere with both YTV and ATV. I was absolutely enthralled. 46 years later, I've been running @transdiffusion.org for over 2 decades.

From the northwest, this is Jamie's second-screen clock. www.mcmweb.co.uk/project_pend...

Christ, who’s floating this insane idea?

Eliza Acton's Macaroni a la Reine tonight.

A very happy #NationalTelephoneDay to all who celebrate. To commemorate the occasion, a video which I made a couple of years ago. Two totally terrific Trimphones triumphantly trilling. A veritable Trimphone symphony. A Trimphony, if you will!

Christ, who’s floating this insane idea?

I have now added these four drawings to my main website thingy as originals for sale. Had a potential buyer for some of the Van Gogh ones lately.. not sure where that’s going but looking through them I do like some, they have had some moods and moments. Also APES 🦍 #art www.chloecumming.com

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Recently I was talking to find colleagues and said I that I felt like there should be a place for continuity announcers in iPlayer. Think they thought I was mad. But this style of announcement is - in my view - far more effective than putting some bland, generic warning text on screen.

Today's second-screen clock from www.mcmweb.co.uk/project_pend... is from the (very) north.

if i buy this will i be as happy as the guy staring at a garbage bag half filled with his shit

"He shoots - he scores!" - Sergio Leone on set, pointing out what Clint Eastwood and Ennio Morricone's jobs are.

Well of course the tallest cinema bosses are going to replace it how the hell else would they get up there

Drama as Spud starts the day with a tonic-clonic seizure. He’s fine now and enjoying the extra attention.

Bless him, he was so scared of hurting me that he was so ineffectual that it took ages and hurt lots. I didn’t help by swearing up a storm. “Pull harder fuck fucking hell fuck no harder fucking bastard twist it now fucking fuck fuck I SAID SHORT AND SHARP fucking fuck fuck this fuck.”

The run - and it was a run - upstairs to bed by HRH was almost entirely successful. This is a complete joy! Of course I dislocated my right hip trying to keep up with her and can’t get it to go back in properly, but it’s still a win and I will agonisingly slowly defeat anyone who says otherwise.

My timeline right now is 50% Keir Starmer pissing himself in the back of a taxi, and 50% talking about a new fossil that could have come from a 19m octopus. BlueSky, we’ve made it ✊

An example: a newspaper day ran from 5 AM to 5 AM, based on when readers could first see the next edition (evening papers too, for mad reasons). Television in the UK tended to use 6 AM to 6 AM to be "today" mainly because of TV-am's start-time in 1983.