Got to love when the clocks go back an hour when I have an early flight. Arrived at the airport 05.15 and still managed a full 6 hours kip!

If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Who’s your favorite reccurring (that is not part of the regular cast but kept showing up) sitcom character?

Dear Laura Kuenssberg Don't you think it time you gave PROPER coverage to the issue of Reform, Nigel Farage, Nathan Gill & Russian bribery? You seem reluctant. Just as Fiona Bruce seemed desperate to shut it down when Zack Polanski brought it up on #BBCQT WHY? #bbclaurak #BBCBreakfast

Unsolicited dik dik pic

Dear Nobel Prize Committee, Please please please give the Peace Prize to Greta. 1. She deserves it. And 2. The rage from Washington would just be so fucking funny

He says it’s not about skin colour but a “preponderance” of one kind of people in a community. My area of Edinburgh has a “preponderance” of white people but I suspect Jenrick wouldn’t complain about that. Racist prick.

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

I wonder what the female fish sound like 🐟

Great to see Twickers full for #RWC final. England full back is incredible. I wish I could hear the ref properly. England will win this by 50.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Favourite 10 TV comedies in the order I think of them Still Game Derry Girls Red Dwarf Early Simpsons This Way Up Frasier The Thick of It Northern Exposure Chewin the Fat The Good Life

I am privileged teach a session to interpreters about deaf/interpreter power dynamics. It leads to reflective discussion. Been talking to a deaf academic from Texas who has had her lessons on the same subject cancelled. A deaf person is banned from talking about power. God bless America 🇺🇸

Post five pleasures in life: 1. The smell of fresh basil as you add it to a ragù 2. Climbing into a bed made up with clean sheets 3. Swimming in an empty pool (of people, not of water) 4. Coffee and a pastry at a sunny pavement cafe 5. Being happy to see people and them being happy to see you

I will never forget sharing a stage with Erin Doherty at the Edinburgh Festival in 2017 and being blown away by her performance. I said to the DSM “She’s getting an Oscar one day”. She’s just got her Emmy. I wish I’d put money on it now. Honestly one of the best actors I have ever seen work

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

I’m thinking of it! (Just wish I’d brought my car)

Anyone fancy some tasty Fanny juice? #Lisbon

These are the things that make me proud to be British 🫡

A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection. This is not who we are nor who we should become. Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.

open.substack.com/pub/friendly... This makes me so cross. And sad. But happy that I’m now free of this nonsense.

Walking through the Meadows on your way to do what now? 😳

Have often thought this. I think the whole Bible could be summed up in four words: “Don’t be a dick.” It’s not a bad philosophy for life

Fun fact: during the Biden administration, the White House ASL interpreters didn’t use the widely-adopted sign for Trump just in case it was seen as disrespectful to the office of the President (they signed DT instead)

I felt sorry for the White House ASL interpreters … until I realised that they don’t have them any more

Got to love @lothianbuses.bsky.social Car in the garage today, got 5 sparkly clean and on-time buses around town and it’s only cost me £5.50

Was out for a coffee today and used the toilet before I left. When I was in there, someone was rattling the door, obviously in need of a pee. When I opened the door… it was Ed Balls. (This is not a joke)

Our volcano was smoking today. Just a gorse fire, but we’ll take what we can get www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who remembers when flasks were made of glass and tartan, and they’d break if you dropped them?

Bluesky! Join me in wishing the fabulous @kitdewaal.com a very Happy Birthday 🥳 🎂🎁 If you read her latest post and subscribe to her substack you will make her very happy. (It’s free btw) Let’s see how many new subscribers we can get her today 😁 open.substack.com/pub/kitdewaa...

as a cis dude who can be tremendously oblivious: this shit is not hard “these are my pronouns” okay, great, I’ll use those, the end

If you’re wondering how much Scotland is looking forward to the looming visit of the President of USA, Google “Janey Godley Trump” and click on images

Who wants to tell this ignorant monstrosity that the most flood deaths in Texas happened at a *Christian* camp.

@anilseth.bsky.social Just had my mind blown open by your Guardian article. Most interesting thing I’ve read in ages. Thank you sir

This is the most interesting thing I’ve read in ages. So easy to think we see the world as it is…. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Question for tennis fans: why do Wimbledon do all this “love” and “deuce” nonsense from French, when at the French Open they very sensibly say “zero” and “egalité”? 🎾

If you have a Neff slide and hide oven, do NOT under any circumstances try to remove the door. The YouTube videos lie; it is not that easy. Even the oven repair man has been close to tears

Really enjoyed this article. A reminder of the privilege of speaking a global language and that some of us need to remove the broomstick from up our arses

If you’re enjoying watching the sign language interpreters at Glastonbury, may I share this piece I wrote about the challenges of BSL signing for live arts. The complexities of it all are fascinating. www.timeout.com/uk/city-life...

If this guy turns up unexpectedly you can be sure he’s carrying a bottle of wine 🍷

He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone. My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.

Woken at 7.30am on a Saturday by a ship’s horn giving long blasts. The joys of living by a port 🚢 ⛴️ 🛳️

Yes please 😍

I always have a brilliant day on Friday 13th. Always believed it to be the power of suggestion or manifestation. But today I was quite unaware of the date… and had another wonderful day 😃 I must have backwards luck

Driving through Edinburgh with the roof down. Nice! Caught in the annual taxi parade (all the black cabs covered in balloons taking kids to the seaside). Cool! All the drivers had supersoakers and spray washers and were delighted to see a convertible…. SOAKED (repeatedly)

I came back from my Iceland trip on cloud 9 and immediately caught a cold and felt like shit. But now the cold has gone and I’ve bounced back to at least cloud 8 😃

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes