Got our quote the other day , sorely tempted despite probably not staying here for the 5 year payback period

Don’t hate me , but I’ve never been a big fan of Prince. Wrote a few recent songs but he’s not even close to the best guitar player ever as some people would want you to believe

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)

Gave up on 6 awhile back, around the time Radcliffe and Maconie lost the afternoon slot. No regrets listening to radio 3 most of the time now. I do miss hearing new, interesting bands but not as much as I thought I would

And here’s me thinking I might give this Claude Desktop thing a go. 😬

Just got my quote for solar panels and a battery - nowhere near as high as I thought and sorely tempted despite the fact that we might move back north soon.

💯 plus I can’t get past the two most senior detectives in the force doing in the field stuff in the sharpest suits known to mankind. They should be in an office moaning about budgets and the ACC breath down their necks regarding the excessive overtime

Didn't realise Forward was out already !

Legit going to try this and dredge up some old unix memories

That Phil Oakey All Seeing I had more than a touch of Blue Monday about it

Was planning to see The Monochrome Set too, but the lurgy got me :-(

#TOTP god, 1999 really was shit.

Quite - in some ways you really
Couldn’t make it up

Finance leaders warn over Mythos as UK banks prepare to use powerful Anthropic AI tool Release of new Claude model, so far limited to US firms, will expand to British institutions in coming days

Current status: working out just how many £20 notes I can get under the mattress.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict YouTube video by eddieredblood

Happy birthday to this cheeky Charlie 🖤 #PeteShelley youtu.be/uwAtifCoB3I?...

Here’s a feed cleanser.
Dogs catching treats.

Your periodic reminder that LLMs are incapable of "understanding" anything and that it is all a function of "self working card trick" of language probabilities; it just generates likely sounding bullshit. Sometimes that likely sounding bullshit is accurate because likely sounding things often are.

😮 I can only imagine

Fair point Dave - farmers are a separate case lol. The Range Rover crowd on the streets of brum are the ones that wind me up

Stop private companies draining our NHS! I just signed the campaign calling to cap private profits on our NHS!

38d.gs/2nnm

SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists Engineers link reduced lifespan of roads to shift to heavier cars, some bought to navigate damaged surfaces

I’m not going down that route tbh

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

From our Brummies United Against Racism group: no surprise who’s not signed the pledge 🤷

CARDIACS - FIERY GUN HAND - MANCHESTER, Albert Hall - March 12, 2026 (HD) YouTube video by abcglobus

There is a snazzy video online of us Cardiacs playing “Fiery Gun Hand” in Manchester the other day, for those who can tolerate such things. My impossible keyboard solo begins at 3:59

youtu.be/povE3Y68mqg

Sign the Petition Request for the Removal of Divisive Flags from public lamp posts in Birmingham, UK

c.org/cnr5ZpbPP4

My son is about to take his 40th flight - we are extreme day trippers Rhona Paton started a group sharing tips for extreme day travellers which now has over 30,000 members.

I eat fish so this is fine … FFS, kid ain’t gonna have a planet to grow up in

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Deeply distressing for all of us’: families react to Girlguiding’s trans exclusion From September, trans girls, and young trans women who volunteer, will have to hand in their UK memberships

Can’t say I have much sympathy here - no 10 year old kid is capable of making this kind of decision about their sexual status

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Half listening to the classic fm hall of fame while cooking and constantly amazed at the presenter’s amazement when a piece they been playing non stop for 12 months make a great leap up the charts.

End Palantir’s NHS contract NOW Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contra...

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Mostly depressing stuff from the USA tbh

Think I’ve just about had enough of this platform. Also Meta . Can’t think of many reasons for hanging round here anymore.