Mobland, but with Stephen Toast and Ray Purchase.

I think AI might, in a perverse way, be good for music, in that I'm turning off a lot of shit music now because it sounds like AI and a lot of it is probably just shit music I'm not prepared to tolerate.

I'm on-trend, who knew? www.bbc.co.uk/food/article...

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

This is very exciting. I recently read/reread all the George Smiley books and this one was absolutely brilliant. If you've read it then merging it with The Spy Who Came in From The Cold makes perfect sense as Lecarré essentially rewrote the context of that story. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

I can't for the life of me work out why mirrors don't turn things upside down.

In addition to the #Transformers Advent calendar this year, ye olde Peinforte tradition of dropping Hans Gruber off Nakatomi Plaza continues unabated.

One of the lives Stoppard saved was mine.

He said the OBR raised concerns with Treasury officials about leaks to the media in the run-up to the Budget, adding: "We fucking trumped her though didn't we?"

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

“That sounds illegal”

I want to know what those two ladies have just seen in that magazine.

Listening to Nina Simone. Loud.

The first episode of Backlisted was published on 30th November 2015, ten years ago today. @backlisted.bsky.social ‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏 www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...

Once Upon a Time in the West. Been meaning to rewatch this for ages.

Is anyone, outside of pulp writing, ever described as "rangy"?

Very much enjoying sampling the oeuvre of Mr. Scruff. Don't know why I've not listened to much of him before.

In case you thought I was fibbing about the coffee.

“--it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back...” --Tom Stoppard

🌞 Good morning! Coffee on the beach for sunrise. Glorious.

Go on. I dare you. Lean your seat back just one more time...

Ah shit, I liked him. I watched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern recently after seeing Hamlet. Wonderful writing.

I'd like a Microsoft Teams AI filter for my face. Just enough to send me into the Uncanny Valley for everyone else so they think I'm clever enough to develop an AI avatar to attend meetings.

The view from my window as the sun sets and the half moon rises this evening is absolutely beautiful. I'd post a picture but I know you'd work out where I live and come and steal my jewels when I'm on holiday.

I wish I'd known that before my annual appraisal.

I was supposed to go out for a long walk today, but my room was full of books and music and needed supervising.

Great poster!

Perfectly understandable. I spent some months when I was small terrified of being consumed by "The Blob" when meteor showers occurred after I somehow was allowed to watch the film.

They allegedly decided that it couldn't be awarded to a PhD student. Couldn't, that is, until they later awarded one to a male PhD student.

And did absolutely nothing to stop them.

The Atterbury test: A human being may only be defined by me as possessing intelligence if they can fool me into believing they are a human being.

Seagull messing about and acting daft.

I've been trying to find a version I came across of Love Can't Turn Around by Farley Jackmaster Funk where Daryl Pandy goes absolutely apeshit and it's brilliant. Can't find it, but his TOTP appearance is absolutely joyous. youtu.be/xlO1w_8QiBk?...

Fuck me, these look bleak.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That’s when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

My sister died from cervical cancer, it's awful. This is incredible news.

The arguments against buying a £12 football shirt from China are kind of hilarious.

You used to know where you were with milk: quick sniff and you knew right there if it was grand or you were doubled up dry heaving for two minutes and down the shop. Now it can smell of nothing and still blob out like cottage cheese, ruining a finely crafted cup of rosie. I feel a bond is broken.

I have a missed call on my phone from some people who do bouncy castles. I have never ordered a bouncy castle, have no plans to order a bouncy castle and do not, as a rule, associate with purveyors of bouncy castles. What can this mean?

I was in Herefordshire last weekend. Bloody lovely.

The (closed)Richard Dunn Sports Centre in Bradford. Richard Dunn was a scaffolder and boxer who took time out from working on this building in 1976 to go and fight Muhammad Ali. c20society.org.uk/news/listing...

Bold.

I'm about to be found out.

The rose and the raven

Jesus Christ.

Ordered this on a whim when I saw this feed. Also, cold war electronica is right up my strasse. Arrived today, and not disappointed, what a great magazine! AND a double CD.

I've always said this.

I merely mention this, I don't know if it's relevant, but Kingswinford is where most of the gunpowder plotters were caught.