I don't know much about art, but I know what I like. 🤢

@byronicman.bsky.social My son Preston has in the last 24 hours suddenly realised he loves muse. I just found him lying on his bed air guitaring to Knights of Cydonia.

A work of art

Today, I refereed an U11 match, as I have a number of times before. The opposition coaches were complete dicks, almost from kick off. I then awarded a pen against them, definitely could have gone either way. I felt the defender had time to get his arm out of the way, but moved towards the ball. ...

By the way, Happy Invincibles Day.

Well, the Promise Mascot Agency is certainly one of the weirder games I've played. I think I'm sort of enjoying it so far.

CassetteBoy does it again. youtube.com/watch?v=C8uO...

Racist newspaper uses a racist photo to accompany a completely unconnected story.

l appreciate I'm not going to catch the biggest audience by posting this at this time, but we just finished watching The Ballad of Wallis Island, and it is completely beautiful, heartfelt, funny, warm, affirming. And now it's our wedding anniversary, and that film was a perfect segue way.

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app. It’s hidden under Welsh news. Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times. Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️ 13/14

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit. Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth. Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

"I meant *Predator*. Predator."

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Last night I wrote to my Tory MP Lincoln Jupp asking him to consider closing his X account, or cross-posting on BlueSky for those of us who won't use X because of Musk. Today his assistant basically 'whatabouteried' me regarding some unspecified death threat to TERFs being much worse.

Sure, it's a catastrophic problem that every country on earth that isn't a failed state seems to have figured out. But it's also a revenue opportunity.

Thank fuck. I'd given up after failing the first boss multiple times. Life is too short for such frustration. Of course, if just the earlier ones become easier I'll just give up later. I'm a 53-year-old father and I really don't have the energy to spend my very limited spare time on difficult games.

For the last few days, I've been binging The Agency on Paramount+, and it's a cracking show. This is a recommendation in social media form.

It really must be clear now, to any decent-minded person, that the primary political activity of the next few years is to destroy this party.

Timeline cleanse

Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him. You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.

Preach it, brother.

A superb episode of #AlienEarth tonight. Just really high quality tension.

me thinking about how rylan said the refugees arrive at (four star) hotels and there's NHS in reception

What I find astonishing is that Reform's solution to the migrant crisis is to use YOUR money as a taxpayer to pay the Taliban to take someone back (aka imprison/torture/kill them) who is fleeing persecution. I mean pensioners are up in arms over the winter fuel allowance! www.ft.com/content/5885...

"The numbers arriving so far this month have been the lowest in August since 2021" - The Times mentions in the 24th paragraph of its front-page splash something which few people in the print, broadcast and online newsrooms of the UK are aware of www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

At least one Labour MP has the cajones to speak up

Nigel Farage refuses to watch the Red Arrows fly past as it would mean we couldn't see his face on this carefully staged photo of him pretending to watch the Red Arrows fly past.

Feed a duck some bread & he eats for a day. Teach a duck to speak, get a little suit & a job interview and I've lost my train of thought now

That was a bit Spursy.

ICYMI: Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

We've found an old abandoned Brutalist seminary near where we're staying in Cardross.

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

This is very nicely put together.

Starfury do really great events. It's the first Doctor Who event they've done in years, and my word the line up is GREAT! Ncuti! Jodie! Eccleston! These are whole weekend get togethers, not purely signing events. seanharry.com/home/flux/

🚨 JOIN US at 5pm today for the latest report from #BrokenNews. This time on Gaza. youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4

Sooner or later something terrible is going to happen at one of these hotels and the politicians and media outlets who have spent the past year whipping it all up will have to carry the blame

Please make sure you're pointing your anger in the correct direction.

Boris Johnson and Brexit are the only reason these small boats exist. Before 2018 there were ZERO.

If they arrive in time, and if I can figure out how to bring them on a train, we're going to have branded bags to give to attendees. BRANDED BAGS. It's surely the highlight of Events Season.

Come and join us next Wednesday, it'll be a blast

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Genius or sacrilege? The greatest beer sans alcohol. #DesignatedDriver

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News: UK Games Fund bumped up to the tune of £30m for next three years as a result of Govt’s industrial strategy. There’s also new funding for Games London and creative support for regions across the country to help grow games companies. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

Huge news for the UK Games Industry. Congratulations to @ukieofficial.bsky.social for driving this one through. www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

London Games Festival confirmed to be part of the Games Growth Package in this new Creative Industries Plan. Big investment into our programme will help us scale up the event, grow industry & consumer audiences, add more showcasing for games + generate business. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

Woop!

A super lineup. I'm looking forward to this.