As Vodafone staggers back to its feet, I'm feeling smug at having physical media in the house! Listening to the Gramophone Record of the Year 1996...

Dear people asking companies for internships... It helps to read the *publically available information* about the company you are contacting... you know, the stuff on their website? BEFORE you send the covering email with your CV. Even better if it doesn't scream LLM-generated!

Now *that's* more like it. #Paso #Strictly

Is it me, or are those tails about a foot longer than traditional? #Strictly

I do like watching Nikita dance! #Strictly

Had a really weird dream last night, about a real-life Wacky Races type event taking place somewhere in the Highlands, but with wide roads, all sorts of crazy vehicles... Dream interpreters, have at!

Ronseal Man (RFKJr)'s latest idiotic utterance... about people who have been circumcised being twice as likely to be autistic because of paracetamol... AFAIK boys are still much more likely to be assessed as having autism. Boys get circumcised... Correlation IS NOT causation.

If you are in any way financially, physically, emotionally, mentally, capable of doing something nice for yourself then do it. Just fucking do it. No waiting for a reason or some arbitrary timeline. The world is unredeemingly shit and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is the nice things.

London folk, recommendations for a decent but not spendy Middle Eastern at the top end of Great Portland Street?

Congratulations to Marina Corino Machado on her Nobel Peace Prize! Reading the official press release, the paragraph describing Venezuela would also be applicable to the current USA?! (The one starting "Venezuela has evolved...") www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Took me a while to get started... Connections #851 🟦🟦🟩🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟨🟩 🟦🟨🟦🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 And 7/10.

Happy with this :) Connections #850 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Sending out the bat signal that, if you want a sexy, irreverent Regency Romp written by yours truly, then the entire first book is available to read, for free, online, and the second one is starting next week. Just give @earlofforthenby.bsky.social a follow for updates. 💜

Hi @goingmedieval.bsky.social and @lukeisamazing.bsky.social, is there an RSS feed link for the Patreon WNSD Pod that I could copy across into PocketCasts (usual podcast app, resolutely NOT using Spotify). Just finished listening to the Crusades :-)

Dear Bramble, if im going into the office today, I'll need to disturb you. But you're so warm on my lap! #ProofOfCat

6/10, but Connections worked. Connections #848 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Something to make all of us feel good about ourselves, whatever the shape or size we are. youtu.be/UAgz0o500vs?...

Apologies in advance if the weather gets weird(er), I've just switched over to the heavier duvet.

We had a very nice day out, but made the rookie error of not checking the opening times... so @fizzandnonsense.bsky.social got the boots of her dreams, but we failed in the fabric fondling!

Today we (me and @fizzandnonsense.bsky.social ) are going on a Women's Day Out (I hesitate to say Girls' Day Out as we are both on the mature side of 40). Off to Fabworks!!! #SewSky So yes, to all the skeptics, you can make real, deep and lasting friendships via Twitter (Mark 1).

Know your rights.

Like dinosaurs or have a kid who does? Live near Yorkshire? Join @annebrusatte.bsky.social and me Oct 18 at the @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social for an afternoon of family fun, based on our new book children's book My Grandparents Were Dinosaurs! harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/event/anne-s...

#BarometerWatch #StormAmy 3rd October, 09:09. Has dropped to 29.62 inches since yesterday, nowhere near as dramatic a when Storm Eowyn was on the way, so hopefully will do less damage!

Time for #StormAda #BarometerWatch. 18:34, 2nd Oct. 29.8 inches pressure (I've got an old aneroid barometer).

Listening to the end of the Coffee Cantata while drinking my morning brew :-) @tommckinney.bsky.social

Anyone who still has the Facebook app installed on any device, even if you don’t or barely use it (like me), check your settings!! A “new feature” has quietly been activated and it allows Meta to SEE AND SCAN your ENTIRE camera roll!! !!MAKE SURE TO DEACTIVATE THIS!!

#SundayPixWorship St John's Edinburgh this morning.

#SundayPixWorship As part of this weekend's Doors Open in Edinburgh, visited both the Central Edinburgh Mosque (purpose-built), and another one which was converted from a church.

Oops... the costume designers don't like Thomas Skinner! 🤣 #Strictly

Happy #Caturday #NotMyCat #ProofOfCat

Thoughts of subverting flag-shaggers... add assorted Pride flags to all their Saltires, Union flags, and George Crosses!

9/10 including various guesses!

Dear newscasters, when Felon47 spouts medical/scientific bullshit, DON'T report what he said without stating that it is scientifically garbage!

:-) Connections #834 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I've ordered 5 metres of unbleached, undyed cotton calico from William Gee (I ordered medium, but I think they've sent heavy). I'm planning to use it to flatline/underline a wool/cashmere coat, so do I pre-wash it, or use as is (given that it's to be incorporated into a garment that won't ever go

#SundayPixRailway Trams count don't they?

I think it might be time to switch duvets!

This year the women look much stronger than the men... #Strictly

Some of us remember Alex Kingston from Moll Flanders!

The sheer half-arsedness of the flag-shaggery is so completely appropriate and the most fantastic satirical metaphor. We are PATRIOTS and our country is FANTASTIC but we can't be ARSED painting this roundabout any better than THIS.

Happy #Caturday #BlackCatsOfBluesky #ProofOfCat

7/10, meh.

Anyone wants some ethical copywriting doing - would be very happy to chat. Contact form on web page in bio.

That's me doubly jagged (both in the same arm).

Listening to @tommckinney.bsky.social : the Living Presence idea is obviously where Flanders&Swann got the "orchestra actually playing in your living-room" line from, for their Song of Reproduction. (Very different from the song of the same name in Grease 2).

Science FTW... am having both my Covid and flu boosters tomorrow afternoon. Good thing I like a Friday evening at home with my cats :)

Nice thing that happened on my way home from Evensong: I got the Pride pin from @quiresandplaces.com this year, and was wearing it on my jacket lapel last night. Got on the tram, the conductor noticed it and thanked me for wearing it (they said they're trans, so it was good to see support).

9/10 :-)

@darklyadapted.bsky.social remember when we saw Louise Alder as the *replacement artist* at Wigmore Hall several years ago? #LNOP

Anyone else watching #LNOP feel this Bernard Herman cantata owes quite a lot to the Sea Symphony?