@adamthomaswalton.bsky.social That Chroma gig you mentioned on Thursday is the album release party for "25 Forever". Me and @nikkip51.bsky.social will of course be there, behaving "responsibly" 🙂

Corporate Welfare. UK Govt to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset. The Govt isn't taking an equity stake in return, won't receive any dividends. It isn't a loan and isn't repayable. Political parties demonize human recipients of welfare but hand free money to corporations.

Anyone know if you need photo ID for in person voting for the Senedd elections? Only reason I ask is that there's zero mention of it on the polling cards

Jordan Pickford at the car park

Staying up until silly o'clock to watch an NHL ice hockey match for a team that's been letting us down for at least 30 years. Two rhetorical questions: 1) What could possibly go wrong 2) Why do I continually do this to myself Note to editors: I do not have to be in work tomorrow, but still...

Love to see this, the guys at Spillers are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. The shop - both in the current location and the old one on The Hayes - has happily been keeping me culturally rich and fiscally poor since I was a teenager 🙂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

First time I went to Philly in the late 90s, I remember being blown away by how many recognisably Welsh names were on the SEPTA (Philly area public transport) map. Then came across a Welsh Baptist church with a huge Ddraig Coch flag in the centre of the city. Thought I was hallucinating 😂

Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.

When my uncle got engaged to a French woman, my grandfather went back to night school to brush up on his French so that he could give a bilingual speech at the wedding. Ended up doing his GCSE French exam the same year as my cousin - and getting a better grade 😂

I want the finest telephone box known to humanity, I want it here and I want it now

Turned x0 today. Cooked a banging Sunday lunch with the family, got given vinyl and whisky. Now chilling in the garden with McClusky, a Rocky Patel cigar and a glass of Bruichlaiddich. Assist to Jesus for the long weekend 😂

Jesus has re-entered the chat

"My love is bigger than your love We take more drugs than a touring funk band" Is one of my favourite lyrics. Up there with anything SFA ever came up with and I can give no higher compliment

Daily Mail readers hogging seats on a table of 4 on the train? Colour me shocked.

This obsession for American pickup trucks on UK roads is insane. Dave, you live on a fucking estate in Doncaster not on the prairies of Montana. Tax the bastards to oblivion

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Genuinely bizarre 15 mins that involved a bloke that didn’t know how to operate the toilet lock & another that got sucked into an arm wrestle with a woman that was trying to win the lingerie that he’d bought for his girlfriend off him

Coming home from Cardiff on the train at 8pm and people are hammered. Getting crucified on Good Friday seems to be a thing 😂

Originally, of course, it was Storm UK Gold Classics.

Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom We’re sorry MS Office has gone wrong Ground Control to Major Tom Tell us have you tried to turn it off and on?

You know your colleagues are awesome when you come back from lunch and find a @spillersrecords.bsky.social voucher on your laptop as a birthday pressie. Look forward to treating myself to some tidy vinyl with it 🙂

Signed.

Granny sitting Bernie Sanders style in a folding chair (it’s freezing) wearing a homemade scarf holding a sign that says FUCK THIS SHIT 💀💀💀

'Police gave chase hoping to retrieve the haul, but the thieves just gave them two fingers'

A similar robbery took place in the 1970s, but was foiled

So he just made that up and then wandered off to the next lie? It's kind of what they do innit? Make shit up, then wander off... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Incredible alt text alert 😂

Watching this really puts Labour Party efforts to denigrate, belittle & scare voters off voting Green into perspective. This is exactly the kind of message that former Labour members desperately wanted to see coming from the party, & exactly the kind of thing Labour used to say & maybe even believe

Feckssake

"Add one small onion (finely chopped), then half an onion, then a quarter of an onion, then an eighth of an onion..."–Recipe for Mandelbroth

Splott!! In The Name Of Love

A minor miracle has occurred - a delivery service delivered something when it said it would 😳

Between 1980 & 1990, privatised U.K North Sea oil and gas raised £166 billion in tax. The Conservative Party used it to halve income tax for top earners. Norway used their publicly-owned oil & gas revenues to fund 1st class services and establish the world’s largest Sovereign Wealth Fund.

France: transport policy of carrots and sticks work! Would be interested to see data on this not just anecdote if anyone has it.

Spending the evening listening to @remhq.bsky.social's IRS era albums and it kind of makes the world seem like a better place. I came at the band through my uncle giving me a copy of Out Of Time just after it came when I was 14 and then went on o devour their back catalogue.

Can relate

It's important for people in Wales to understand that Farage is fundamentally an *English* nationalist. He sees Welsh people as essentially lesser than english people. A Reform UK government would be an enormous step backwards for devolution, Welsh language revival, and Welsh self-determination.

You are five times more likely to survive being hit by a driver doing 20mph vs a driver doing 30mph. Great to see Enfield rolling out new life saving 20mph zones. Slow down. Slower speeds save lives. #VisionZeroLDN. 👏👏 Enfield Council

The tribes of Britain c. 540 in the time of Gildas.

Brilliant, this.

More potholes means more people wanting to buy larger SUV-type cars (which they believe will be more resilient to potholes), which means heavier cars on the roads which will create more potholes. What's driving this (pun intended)? A very wet winter. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I'd love to see one of these "ooh aren't the roads awful" articles concentrate on the 2 biggest factors in the deterioration 1) More cars 2) Ever heavier cars exponentially increasing the wear and tear People need to understand the impact of their choices www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A G&T for the chef once the Sunday Lunch prep is under control is family tradition. And who am I to argue with tradition?

There is a very widespread lack of understanding of the physics (F=ma) of crashes and how much force a body can be exposed to without breaking. Ever bigger cars x lack of respect for speed limits is catastrophic for people crossing the road or riding a bike.

World rugby: Okay. So you can win this entire tournament Ireland: Okay, great! World rugby: as long as England win their game. Ireland:... World Rugby: So obviously you would want England to- Ireland: -Shush I'm thinking.

Just booked tickets for David Byrne in Cardiff in July Means we've got Self Esteem/Kae Tempest/Joshua Idehen at Cardiff Castle David Byrne at the Castle Flaming Lips at Depot all within 6 days. Tidy run of gigs, that.

dubnobasswithmyheadman

The depressing thing for me, aside from the needless loss of life, is how we normalise this kind of behaviour and offer absolutely no meaningful deterrent for doing it.