Genuinely tempted to learn to play the saxamafone to join in with this next year; gr80.org/2026/04/20/t...

@melissartodd.bsky.social I'm back from my Ionian Sea Sojourn. The Crotone civic society gave a talk about George Gissing THE DAY BEFORE I ARRIVED. Could not believe it! All this and more in the eventual publication in the Gissing Journal 🤞

I’ve been marketed to by independent record shops, this year for record store day, like never before. It makes me wonder if for a lot of places record store day is make or break for them. So time for my annual reminder; a record store is for life not just for RSD.

Is it just me that experiences this; you’re on a train, you catch a glimpse of something amazing out of the window. Quick as a flash open the camera on your phone and then suddenly it is just trees, obstructions or a tunnel the second a camera has eyes on it.

I had a dream where “Fallout” was actually an immersive brain connected escape room and it was all being generated by the Macro data of “Severance” workers.

I genuinely don’t understand the mental gymnastics that a water landing is somehow conspiratorial

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

It's a damned shame that Tom Lehrer isn't alive for this. He'd have a tight three-minute song about this knocked out by lunch time today.

😂

People mistake you for a digital native, despite such things not existing, do they not? 😜

😂 you’re an honorary millennial!

Well if this one does well… your sequel? 😂 I’d read that too.

Isambard Kingdom-Brunel and his many contracts for providing transportation?

I wonder if the next big health crisis will be Millennial Blood Pressure, based on *gestures wildly at world*

Always good to see Tunnocks Teacakes being useful in lunar missions.

I think the issue here is some of these policies need support given the minority government, surely?

People always blame Mondelez for Cadbury chocolate going to the wall taste wise. But, Mondelez own Freia a Norwegian chocolate brand with a cult following. No recipe changes there. Same with the Swedish Marabou, similar national chocolate pride. No changes. Maybe... it's Cadbury management.

Fair play to the SNP. Election bumph through the door. Big pledges on the front, but on the back a link with a request summed up as “this is what we think, but what is meaningful to you?” Probably first time I’ve seen a political party bother to ask, rather than tell.

Escherburgh

"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves

I read this in Stephen Toast’s voice. (She’s a tough cookie in the voice over world. Not one to be messed with. Snubbed Bloody Ray Purchase, to the whole industry’s deliiiiiight)

I came up with a slogan for Edinburgh tourism to use. “EDINBURGH! There’s no downsides. Because it’s all climbing up steps”

'Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children' has to be up there as one of the best albums ever made, I think.

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

Petition: Government to advise monarch to refuse/cancel state visits with hostile powers The Government should advise the Monarch against facilitating a ceremonial head of state visit where a foreign state is engaged in hostile activity - whether economic, diplomatic, military or otherwis...

Can we cancel the King’s visit now? I bet he doesn’t even want to go.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

i could look at this photo for hours...

“He’s crazy! He’s threatening Armageddon! Why isn’t someone doing anything to stop him! Invoke the 25th! Impeach!”

You could’ve just voted for her.

You didn’t for “reasons”

And now here we are.

So, seemingly if I've read the EC rules right; you don't need ID to stand in an election, but *do* need ID to vote in an election in the UK...

Next bond film should have a plot where the villain steals all the worlds’ bees.

Listen to The Killers - Mr Brightside whilst looking at a photo of Jerry Seinfeld. (You can thank JT Jasinski for that song ruiner 😂)