Such excitement seeing Bill from @allodarlin.bsky.social was wearing a Martha shirt I own, if only I'd also work it tonight!

What on earth is BakeOff doing with this showstopper. Why does the pastry have to be a foot high.

We did not make it. There's five of us trying to get to Scotland, a woman at the station said she'd all her manager go see if they'd put us in a taxi and now seems to have disappeared.

Update, train unexpectedly terminated in Shrewsbury. Been put in a taxi to Preston to try and make a 8.41 train. We don't know if we're going to make it.

In the middle of such train madness that I honestly think I'll be lucky to get home today.

Introducing the niece to Lord of the Rings, 3 weeks old is the perfect age, right? @davemercer.bsky.social

I really wish we'd kept records and had the data on how many times we'd had to say 'Fuck off Paul' in the over a decade we've done co-ordinated Bake Off viewing.

Excellent Monday night gig that finishes at 10 and is at a venue about 3 minutes walk from the station? The gig gods are with me tonight.

Yesterday when it started being reported that this was going to be the press conference I messaged @abbis.bsky.social saying that it was another thing to guilt pregnant people over and the idea was clearly that they should just live with pain, and lo and behold.

This is amazing.

Is this my perfect film?

New niece has arrived.

And this week we're back to watching a day late and coordinating when to pause

at Linehan’s trial, he claimed under oath that the then-17-year-old trans girl he harassed has been involved in trans activism since 2013 and when it was pointed out to him that she was only 6 years old then, Linehan replied “so he says”…implying that she was lying about her age?

Since when have fondant fancies included jam.

What better way to start your holiday time than with a trip to the doctor because your ear's still not right (just picking up some more eardrops).

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

I know this and telling @abbis.bsky.social about blonds are my friend jobs :D

"but delete your emails"

if you work online all day, avoid eye strain with the 20-20-20 rule! after 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then leave ithaca to fight in the trojan war and return 20 years later a broken man

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1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

How many times am I going o rewind BBC Sounds to keep listening to A Minor Place by Bonnie Prince Billy?

Every time I see the Gaza pictures I break a bit inside.

i just realized all these people on my tv are pretending. they're showing me all these little stories about their lives and they're not even real

Summer in Scotland: there's a person at the bus stop wearing wellies and that seems a really good idea (earlier my train was delayed because of flooding).

Petition to stop men "just asking ChatGPT" and then sharing reams of OT stuff that fails to actively address the point at hand. HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR FELLOW HUMANS WHO ARE TRYING TO ENGAGE WITH YOU. We could all ask ChatGPT whatever - don't waste my time and water.

This idea of craft can be increasingly important as AI replaces much of human labor. As a tailor friend put it: it's the difference between a hand painted Mona Lisa and a computer copy. Even if others can't tell the difference, some people may value the handmade version bc it represents human skill.

Desperate to know who the other high risk acts were.

World war 3 how exciting! Wait... I'm being told it's not exciting at all. So whose fault is it then? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As soon as we start fucking off international law when it suits us, we can no longer turn around and try to impose it on others.

Honestly Taskmaster, a yogurt task why would you do something so nightmarish

Met a man in the hotel lift last night who had just been at his 61st Springsteen gig (it was my 2nd). We bow down to that level of gig going devotion.

If only there was a way, passed down over generations, that could make writing human.

Guidelines were described as: “fuelling a culture of hostility and suspicion towards abortion and pregnancy loss”. We can see where this is leading…

I get that no one’s bothered about the opinions of progressive urban lefties because it’s supposed to be a given that in the voting booth we’ll swallow our pride*, but I’m tired of the discourse just being “we should immiserate refugees to pacify [constituency]”. *morality

I was so determined not to get distracted in @assaiedinburgh.bsky.social today and just pick up my Owl John order, but then I saw the new McLusky album the moment I walked in so had to get that too. Had to run away before I spent too much (or talking the guys ears off again)

Beaver's Return - A new ltd edition print in my shop at www.stephencollinsillustration.com/shop/

Imagine how much thinking I've already done about what books I can get for the new nibling.

It's too early in the morning to have to listen to the sky F1 commentators fill time by chatting shit.

You want me to make friends? The thing that killed Julius Caesar?

babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months

Of the vampire movies Nicholas Hoult has been in, Renfield is by far the best.

The Prince Charles - a West End institution - is under threat. Support them, unless you want to see another fucking M&M superstore where this beautiful cinema is. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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I appreciate this so much! And hopefully return the favour when I encounter any especially @abbis.bsky.social specific content.