Out-of-Office is on. These KPIs and stretch goals will just have to meet themselves for a couple of weeks.

will retweet this every time i see it. until i die.

new suzanne vega banger just dropped

They had a news helicopter tracking Andy Burnham's train to London, for this

everyone who got fleeced by this guy absolutely deserved it and he’s right to go back to the same well of dipshits

nice joke, lol, reminds me of this unrelated political thing i can’t stop talking about

No offense but I think if you let your sports thing make you be mean to toddlers you should go to prison.

Can you imagine. Julie and Billy get caught up in some international intrigue/corporate espionage. Maybe they have to pretend to be married. It turns out James Urbaniak has been a Karla-trained hood this whole time. That kind of thing.

me: i must practice the dharma also me:

two late middle aged french guys who live on a farm and make techno. living the dream

i was trying to rank my preferred final match-ups before the France/Spain semi yesterday. The potential for English heartbreak after coming so close (and with Kane at his peak) adds spice to things, but I can't in good conscience hope for them to progress. They might win! That's unconscionable!

love that the trade union i'm a member of is coming out with this shit. inspiring.

I never thought I'd get the chance to see Patti Smith live, let alone in Limerick. I never take for granted how blessed we are to have John Hennessy/Seoda Shows and Dolans bringing amazing music to us but this was extra special. Thanks @foggynotions.bsky.social too!

Michael Playton, amirite

Cool dads across the Treaty City are once again in a sartorial bind: what to wear to go see Patti Smith during a heatwave.

Anyway, I rang his constituency office and said my piece. If he is still not familiar with the effects of listeria, he can come and visit my son's grave with me.

“I know the Minister is going to give me a logical answer about the dangers but…” Might stop you there, Deputy.

Someone should do a podcast where they talk about what it was like to be on SNL

they have Finches sparkling orange in the Moyross Tesco. very welcome development.

there's probably a more politically-correct way to say this, but I reckon they're going to row back on this hotline. this isn't England.

No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

sorry? are you okay? why have you described tomorrow’s game as a garden of forking paths & you hope it doesn’t go to the lottery in babylon of a penalty shoot out, leaving one sides world cup dreams in the circular ruins while the others celebrations could be heard on tlön, uqbar and orbis tertius?

Please, it's vitally important you snitch on your neighbour

While JK Rowling and Amnesty are being mentioned in the same breath it's worth remembering why she lost her job there.

Asking ordinary people to make not-insignificant sacrifices (let your plants die, no paddling pools for your small kids in the heat) to cover for utility mismanagement, and then adding neighbour surveillance as enforcement, is an indictment of our government's relationship with its citizens.

let him do ‘and they were roommates’

i swear if I see one more post about that Event Horizon flag

Pebbledash again. It's the Summer of Pebbledash. Pebbledash's world, we're just living in it. Stop the Pebbledash, I want to get off. And good for them. Never listening to a note of their music. Get a proper name. Aerosmith, that was a good band name. The Gossip. That kind of thing.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

Tom Cruise needs to save the world in the first trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's #Digger. Watch: thefilmstage.com/tom-cruise-a...

A few highlights from my childhood badge collection:

Best friend and I, convinced we could be pop stars (like the Spice Girls) recorded ourselves singing a song we wrote. No clue what address to use, we posted the tape to "Record Company London" with a letter and my address. Amazingly, EMI wrote back, saying sorry but best of luck.

I remember A. A. Gill had a weird thing against Sam Neill. Anyway Gill was a prick and Neill seems like he was cool. There's a lesson there.

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

A pilot who flew an €8.4 million consignment of cocaine into the Midlands claims he was a "people pleaser" and childhood trauma made him vulnerable to a "Walter Mitty" drug smuggler jrnl.ie/7097832

when you've achieved everything that La Hopkins has, all that's left is to rip off Debussy and whack it out on Decca.

When people say that someone who has recently died was much nicer than their public persona, I just think: but most politicians (indeed most people) are capable of being perfectly amiable in a social context. Even people with the vilest views aren’t literally frothing at the mouth 24/7

it's not actually an honor to end up on the cover of Viziers Monthly. it shows your machinations aren't subtle enough

They say "public" in this paragraph, but they really mean "press".

LOL, oh that loveable scamp Ian Hislop

lol obviously this guy is a massive chancer but what was his supervisor at

With all the Bonnie Tyler remembering, it's worth noting that Jim Steinman, who wrote "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero," didn't write Take That's "Never Forget." He merely added all of the best bits.