@hanrattydave.bsky.social there was a point in this weeks podcast where Chris talked about his brother sprinting back for Basket Case. I too know that album back and forth so knew to be ready when our 10 year old heard his favourite band play his favourite song

“Just Breathe” is fine because I’m having a wee cry instead youtu.be/XTb9GNIxpMk?...

Walking the dog and having a sing a long and realised I’m just making noises. Then it moved to Even Flow and the vocalisations went downhill from there

Petition to ask Vedder to document Yellow Ledbetter

@shaneir.bsky.social do you recall what these bits were for? Can’t figure out where they connect

Years ago, I bought an old (1941) OS map of Newcastle, Co Down from Oxfam for a quid. While there was some detail on the left, the rest was just sea and empty. My niece studied art at @ulsteruni.bsky.social so we challenged her to fill in the blank with “lovecraftian madness”. Today we hung it

My wife’s contact list is like a medieval Yellow Pages

@shaneir.bsky.social One for you www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/v...

Just posted in case you were comfortable that this is happening on the other side of the world www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And the lesson is mansplaining is a thing

Well, the greatest GamesCom 2025 moment has already happened - Limited Run games has announced He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction a 2D brawler based on the classic cartoon. It better have the original music and Adam ➡️ He-Man transformation sequence

Turned down for public funding again, 2nd time in a month. The advice remains: "try again next time" - we've been trying for 10 years! Meanwhile, surviving on our own The arts scene in #NorthernIreland is deprived, with the minister in charge completely absent... We'll keep promoting #vgm though

From Flashbak - flashbak.com/northern-ire... Never seen these before

One of the great observations. I knew I was doing OK when I could fill my car with petrol at any stage of the month without having to consider the cost

I love that the kids are to blame for this. It’s like the cyclist that inconvenienced the car by being in front it

Choose the route of civility

No podcast needs to be 4 hours long

The waters are not shark infested. They live there

For broadcast, CMAT’s performance will be voiced by Stephen Rea…

I’ve been listening to This is a Mindfulness Drill by the same band for the last few weeks and it is great

Pacific Rim was released 12 years ago today. I love this sci-fi gem. Art by Alex Jaeger (and no, the Jaegers weren't named after Alex ☝️):

Tame for 2025, but scandalous stuff for 1996

This was not yesterday

Herself is burning her teenage diaries. Archeological treasures as they are uncovered

The burpee exercise was invented by Royal Huddleston Burpee

Genuinely one of the best films of the 2000s

Apple had an inadvertent Punisher logo

(Sorry for briefly spamming my own prints on here, but unfortunately it's still necessary to make some sort of tenuous living from drawing due to a significant delay in successfully wooing a wealthy bachelor farmer and being whisked off in his John Deere to a life of diamond-encrusted wellies)

These people have never seen a science fiction film

We’ve had a new pool installed in the last week

Giff Gaff still gives 5Gb free per SIM. Not a huge amount but has been workable enough for me when away as long as I can hop onto wifi.

Airport thought, if you’re a family of four with phones travelling to Europe now for a 2 week holiday, it now costs an extra £112 on top of your monthly month mobile bill to use data in your phones (maybe more, but 3 charges me £2 a day)

Mario Kart, but Asterix….

I give Lurgan and Craigavon a lot of grief, but sitting out beside a great leisure centre staring across a lake where there are people paddling and there’s a paraglider flying overhead and people are out walking and honestly things could be worse

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

At a Zine printing workshop at Belfast Print Workshop. Have decided to make the @hookland.bsky.social spy training manual

MOT time

Faith No Mower

Trump giving strong Rocket Raccoon vibes

This is going to either give us some superheroes or the awakening of the Great Old Ones

Apple continues its quality decline with its latest update to my Mac mini where I have to plug in a wired keyboard to enter my password because the Bluetooth keyboard connected to it at all other times cannot connect

Guinness can’t split the G

It’s a very petty act of resistance but one of the most effective things the media could do is when reporting on Trump and Musk would be to put the reporting alongside the worst photo of them they could find

FWIW I also believe the same is true with Netflix. The serendipity of discovering a new genre because you picked up the box beside the film you wanted, or a new series because you were lazy and didn't switch the channel and watched the next programme that came on

And in NI (maybe elsewhere, I don’t know) you have access to a full library of eBooks, Magazines and audiobooks for free that don’t count towards your physical library quota

I spontaneously picked up You Can Do Anything Magic Skeleton! by @chuckwendig.bsky.social and @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social this morning and randomly opened right to this page and hot damn, universe, message received

Colour catalog lists this as Panzer Grey