Here comes the bastard rain. #StormAmy

Here's a YouTube playlist of classic Human League TV appearances and videos including this version of Path of Least Resistance plus Only After Dark, Being Boiled, Circus of Death, Empire State Human, Love Action, Do Or Die, Open Your Heart and many more ▶️📺 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Since it's Julie Andrews birthday (+24 hours) here she is yodelling with Maria von Trapp youtu.be/g6j376yOlm4?...

BREAKING NEWS 🚨 ‘UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE’ Can’t imagine Barrowman and Mone will be quite so chill about returning that obscene £60m profit as they were when they first pocketed it.

🧤 Sol Brynn's busiest and best game of the season tonight. Four clean sheets in eight games. The last line of the joint-best defence in the Championship. Hugely impressive start to his first full season as #Boro No.1.

Whistle. Nils. Tough. Should've been wrapped up in a dominant first 45 - should've been a penalty! - but #Boro had to dig deep as Stoke pressed far higher & created chances after the break. Got ragged & Stoke killed time but still top, unbeaten & another clean sheet. #UTB

Stoke sucking the life force out of the game, of time and the universe itself. #UTB #Boro

The whole balance of the game has changed with Stoke looking far more dangerous and getting men forward while #Boro struggling to impose any rhythm. Bags of time though #UTB

Nils. Dogged #Boro worked hard, dominated territory & set shape & tempo but can't find the final ball. Two Nypan efforts skied but Strelec brought a great save & Conway should've had a penalty & was still complaining down the tunnel. A few iffy decisions. Frustrating. #UTB

Tetchy Teessiders getting ratty with the ref after a string of 45/55 decisions go against #Boro while Stoke are "getting away with murder." #UTB

Owwwwwwwaaaaayyyyy! #UTB #Boro

Doom and gloomers really digging through the history books for omens: 100 years ago this week top of the table #Boro lost their first fame of the season - 4-0 to Stoke. #UTB

Our Potters Pounding Posse #UTB #Boro

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Marc Maron on the Riyadh Comedy Festival American performers c/o @pataphysicien.bsky.social

According to Atsuko Okatsuka, Jimmy Carr, Omid Djalili and the other fearless free speech comedians who took MBS' money to play the Riyadh Comedy Festival had to agree not to do any jokes about Saudi.

Spot-on.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FT: 1-1. Great point. #Boro far from their best, it was a clunky first 45 & rode their luck but a gritty fightback to force a deserved late leveller with a cracker. Unbeaten run goes on, still top, showed resilience but a rash of yellows. We'll have to watch that. #UTB

GET IN! SENE! GAME ON.... #UTB #Boro

Ah, bugger... #UTB #Boro

Sheffield United have just gone an 11th consecutive half of league football without scoring. Mad #Boro

HT: Nils. #Boro a bit clunky and ragged at the back, allowing Saints the chance to dominate the play and create danger. That said, we've clipped the post and put one into side-netting, so there have been flashes. #UTB

Saints Ronnie Edwards is a name straight from the 60s. He sounds like he did a 12 stretch in the Scrubs with the Great Train Robbers. Loveable old school villain - but don't cross him. #Boro #UTB

*THWACK* #UTB #Boro

Owwwwwaaaaayyyy! #Boro #UTB

Our Saints Smashing Stars #UTB #Boro

Which #Boro player will absolutely clatter poor Finn Azaz in the first two minutes today? My money is on Morris. #UTB

Totally captivated by the orchestral swirls and intimate story-telling of Just Two Girls by Wolf Alice.

I'm about to dig deep into the cultural archaeology of 'Indie' and give this shambling, shoe-gazey hip icon a whirr. Some really good tracks. A few cringe ones. #FridayNightIsMusicNight

Deer in a Monastery Garden, 1912 #cubism #franzmarc

I think the Star Jets pulled out of a gig at Middlesbrough Rock Garden to record this edition of #TOTP

If @6music.bsky.social are going to play edgy effing and jeffing rap, then just play it. It’s so annoying and jarring with all those dozens of stuttering silences where the mofos have been cut out. It sounds like a Norman Collier remix. (One for the teenagers there.)

Worth remembering this when you hear Reform talking about swans, autism and ‘science never being settled’.

Brigitte Helm taking a break during the filming of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)

This sums up one of the huge problems with British media - utterly shameful

The era of United States as the chief cultural power and political leader of the Western world is so over. Social, political and legal norms are collapsing by the day. No one trusts, respects or can rely on what is fast becoming a rogue state.

This is an excellent point. 👇

This #Rapture … that would be so “Typical #Boro” wouldn’t it? We’re pissing the league and set for inevitable glory and then - BANG! - Armageddon.

What’s the dress code for this #Rapture then? I’m thinking smart casual, like in the Simpsons’ Protestant Heaven.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Mrs V is at the spa. She loves the hot stones and a bit of whale song.

Daft lad Cole Palmer has got a medieval haircut. #MANCHE

Whistle. A nervy last few minutes but a well deserved win for well drilled #Boro after a gritty team display. Worked hard to break through then dug deep as Baggies took charge after the break but a well worked second goal sealed it. Unbeaten. Top of the league. Excellent. #UTB

Ah bugger... #UTB #Boro

Whittaker coming on to get his redemption goal. #narrative #boro #UTB

Great goal just as Albion seemed to be getting on top. Brynn saved from Diakite at one end then #Boro hit back, neat run by Conway into the box, Hackney touched on for Sene to rattle in off the post. Changed the dynamics now. Kicked the crowd back into life too. #UTB

TWO! Sene tabs home after a good move #UTB #Boro