We saw The High Life musical last night, and as a big fan of the TV show, I thought it was BRILLIANT! However, my earworm from it is not the theme tune, but rather the Air Scotia corporate song... 🎶Air Scotia, Air Scotia, it's the airline just for me...🎶

This is becoming one of those pieces radio 3 is playing to death...

Turns out it wasn't hayfever I was suffering from yesterday. I've got a cold

Within you there are two eras. www.ft.com/content/5269...

What fresh hell is the Teams news feed?!?! I don't need MORE stuff I don't have time to look at?!

This is BRILLIANT - well worth a read

I've just realised something - I get annoyed by screenshotted news stories as viral posts on here, but I'm guessing they're cross-posted from Rocket Boy's Fascist Hellsite which downranks links and promotes rage-clicks

Conversely, I'd say the BEST named railway station is University

I popped out for a lovely 40k bike ride in the end last night, and this morning, even though it's now drizzly, I am DYING of hayfever

Just got around to finishing watching The Other Bennett Sister and wasn't it just the perfectest little show? The BBC really are on a roll at the moment with their commissioning

I've got #SHOTY rage after watching the first house this year!

Reading this and wondering when the first case of a student using a lecture capture to do an AI version of a lecturer speaking will happen 😬

I can't decide if I want to go for a tedious, painful, boring 10k run or a delightful, wind-whipping-past-me, 30k bike ride later...

The bloody chiff-chaffs are back

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Well, the Microsoft Virtual Events logo is, uhm, interesting

I do love this piece of music, even if it often sounds like they're singing "See Kim"

Like the old days. A thread.

I think I might have to bring out the big guns and pop an Omeprazole tonight 😬

It’s an acquired taste

More USAF and RAF activity over the middle east and eastern Mediterranean than I've seen for quite a few nights 😬

It's actually quite interesting with this Scottish election that we're getting some manifesto commitments that are properly using the tax and spend powers. I don't agree with most of the proposals being made, but it is good the ideas are out there 👍🏻

I entered a competition to win Wout van Aert's cycling jersey and I did not win Wout van Aert's cycling jersey 😔

I wish "oh, I wonder if I'll be cycling through nuclear fallout on my way home from swimming later" wasn't a thought I actually had to have

My lecture to the Swedes went well 😁 Very keen students some very challenging questions, including one that almost had me stumped: is there anything good about the UK's social security system? I ended up saying yes: Universal Credit is a very good idea, implemented very poorly

The quality of photos from Artemis II of the moon surface is incredible to witness in real time.

We're off to the Botanics in a bit because I'm sure NO ONE will have thought of doing that on a sunny Easter bank holiday Monday. Especially not the Very Middle Class parents dragging Jacinta and George around the place. They definitely won't be there.

Priest: "we offer you our praise, with angels and archangels and the whole company of heaven, singing the hymn of your unending glory:" Congregation of 100+ in unison: *noisily turns the page of the service sheet*

Time for my annual experience of just how unenthusiastically a congregation in a church can say alleluia

They've turned up the Christianity dial on Kate Bottley's Sunday morning religious whimsy on radio 2

This psychic on Rylan is truly the most awful thing I've listened to in a long time, and yet I can't switch off

It is odd how @tenorlead.bsky.social always sees a ghost whenever I'm putting the duvet cover on...

I used to live around the corner from Alistair Darling and NEVER saw him. I even managed to miss him when he was voting at a polling place I was working at for a European election

Jesus in the Bardo

I'm smiling wryly that the discourse is all about BlueSky dying, three weeks after Habermas died, when The Transformation of the Public Sphere kinda tells you why any form of social media is destined to fail within a capitalist society 🤔

When we complain about disruption due to planned engineering work I wonder what it was like in the 1960s when SO much of our infrastructure was constructed. The disruption must've just been endless

He died for our sins...

The great tits are popping by with a forlorn look on their faces. The robin is tweeting away despondently without realising that he's learning the consequences of his own actions and it will do him good in the long term

"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.

Our territorial robin has just managed to knock down our ceramic bird feeder on the balcony and break it, and now I'm going to have to clear it away and there'll be no bird food, and I want to go out there and wag my finger like a mum at the robin and say "look what you've gone and done now"

Happy Jesus Death Day!

The Artemis mission is reminding me that, on the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11, Live and Kicking did a competition where you had to answer the question "what was the name of the rocket that first landed on the moon?" They gave the answer as "Apollo 11". In behaviour that will surprise NO ONE...

Someone probably opened the calendar with a double click and didn't realise. That's how I usually end up with about three versions of Outlook (Classic) running. Although it makes you wonder what they'd be checking in the calendar 🤔 and what time zone is it set for?

This does raise the horrifying prospect that someone might rub a software update and we're going to end up with a spaceship with Copilot on it. And thanks to the documentary "2001: A Space Odyssey" we know how that ends.

This is an astounding piece of music, but it has rather suffered from over-exposure

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Paper submitted to a journal! Time to pray to the gods of peer-review...

Join us later this month for 'Rodeo Odes', a unique, interactive event exploring the links between poetry and equestrianism, with peripatetic readings ​f​rom Longbarrow poets mounted on hobby horses​. Pontefract Racecourse, 6.30am, Friday 31 April.

Here it is! Thanks @ohsteveoh.bsky.social ! I slightly misremembered it - the flat was in Primrose Hill www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...

One of the best April Fools ever was an interview with a fake female celebrity the Guardian did something like 15 years ago. My mum completely fell for it until the fake celeb was quoted as saying "I saw the planes hit the twin towers from my flat in Shepherd's Bush"