agree - the shenanigans with the owner and her husband took me out of the story and I zoned out - reminded me of how I felt about the boring Packard mill storyline in Twin Peaks

Going to tell the grandchildren this was The Mandalorian and Grogu.

Looking out to a sunny garden with a cuppa while Sometimes it Snows in April plays on the radio. Bliss #prince

My London: Notting Hill residents paint houses black to put off 'rude' influencers.

Johnny Nice Painter out off of The fast Show having one of his episodes triggered by the colour black.

JOHNNY.

www.mylondon.news/news/west-lo...

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Reform's James Bembridge is collecting rotters like a 12-year-old trying to complete a Panini sticker album

This is the sort of discrimination ducks face on a daily basis...

And yet the world just looks away & walks on by

Such a weird brag. Humans who run races don't run to beat machines. Cars go faster than us, as do horses, for that matter. A robot beating a human record doesn't change that record. As a feat of engineering it's impressive until I ask what the applications are, because I can't think of benign ones.

I was mostly hitched to Peel's wagon but enjoyed the overlap in their tastes when Radio 1 aired them back-to-back in the mid- '90s. Much like when Riley and Coe still had their own shows it provided a solid musical education over 4-5 hours.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes]

Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.

Me: wut?

Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

see also:
Janet Kay nailing "games" in Silly Games.
Bill Withers elongating "day" in Lovely Day.

“Hey, remember how I smashed your favourite glass vase a few weeks back? Well, I’ve picked some of the bigger bits out of the carpet now, so this is a great and brilliant day.”

"I would rather w**k with a razor".

Pretty clear response from bloke in Wales when asked if he would consider voting Reform...

The man from Reform (who took it in good spirits tbf) is Zak Weaver, a former Tory staffer who defected in February.

Same, robot. Same

Hugh from the Armando Iannucci Show

“Of course in the old days Bluesky was only on for three hours a day. We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log on to it. Then when it shut down again we’d all stand up and sing the national anthem”

New material from Tom Waits, Massive Attack *and* Boards of Canada, plus official announcement of Neko Case's Thelma and Louise musical, in a single day? Might need a lie-down after all the excitement.

There is no greater metaphor for the lie behind the American Dream.

This whole set of reports is a disgusting focus for Today and the whole of the BBC, who could be focusing on the pressure on migrants an the lack of safe routes

"Your own. Personal. Negus.
Someone who rates your chairs,
Someone who cares"

Yes. The bird thing was good last week and he made the dad swap sketch 100% better. Shep, Sidi and Dring doing sterling work too

Pretend they didn’t make it back to avoid going to see Shitler.

Is that ‘45 seconds with’ branding from ep1 a one off then? Most odd

"A primitive form of humanity, subject to all the rudimentary emotional and egotistical instincts you would expect of such a life form. His contact with the world does not improve him, but it does corrode the world." @iandunt.bsky.social catalogues a horrific week substack.com/home/post/p-...

And the Strait of Hormuz, which did not open

Same

open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/t...

Fucking hell

This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of Trump and the people around him. They don't give a single solitary shit about those who have gone before them. They are Year Zero, fundamentalist lunatics. America failed to understand that fact last time they voted and that's why we are where we are.

Excellent use of their time. 10/10, no notes.