This young man Manchester Madgwick seems to know everything. What a mind. Bravo 👏🏻

#UniversityChallenge

Yay!! #MagicFlute at the cinema

As Andy Kershaw once said the great thing about R3 is it plays you the stuff you didn’t realise you loved…

Half of all the world's bluebells are in the UK. I can't imagine living in a country where the woods don't turn into this every spring.

Jet plane flies faster than goose.

nah. it's got to be the english way: get pissed in spoons no matter the time!

I've never tried to do a 21-kilometre run before so as far as I'm concerned it remains possible that I'm actually faster than that, I don't think we can definitively say the robot is faster than all humans

Even if we can so what? It’s a machine: why is it surprising that it’s faster than humans (except obviously you)? So is a car, or a plane, or even me on a bicycle.

Police investigate attempted arson attack at north-west London synagogue Minor smoke damage but no injuries reported at synagogue in Harrow, after spate of similar incidents in recent weeks

Fuck this, fuck them, and fuck anyone who "gets why" this happened.

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

The correct option is Business=LTTA (grab porridge & tea from Pret as you run to the gate), Pleasure=ETTA (enjoy a relaxed glass of wine before strolling to the gate).

Good morning Bluesky

‘Simon Being Taken out to Sea for the First Time since His Father Drowned’, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, 1983, photo by Chris Killip. Weekly ritual to prevent him becoming afraid of the sea, where the community earned its living.

"Portobello mushrooms" only arrived on our shelves in the 80s and 90s as part of a cunning marketing strategy

In those bygone days where giving a product its American name gave it a whiff of unattainable glamour

Children somewhere in the north of England, 1965, photo by John Bulmer.

One of the joys of the internet is that one time when this has done the rounds, the guy who was originally responsible saw it and chipped in: bravenewmalden.com/2011/02/03/t...

Just 2/10 in John Clarke's Saturday Quiz in the i paper (answers in the paper or here later)

RIP Andy Kershaw - loved his description of the power of radio to open you up to stuff you didn’t realise you loved

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

I should hate Dignity by Deacon Blue. I *should*. But it gets me. Hits my soft underbelly of sappiness. And then comes the wave of shame #TOTP

CJ Lewis is now called JG Hughes except in airports and railway stations #TOTP

John 13:34

Police believe he has Lynx to dozens of other unsolved crimes

If your toaster starts working like this website today, report it to us on SaferProducts.gov.

A small but exceptional Naked Man Orchid (Orchis italica). Saw this hyperchromic stunner in central southern Crete 12.04.26 #orchid #orchis

Bless

This gem from Wikipedia

need a Catuccino

Things COBRA hasn’t yet worried about but probably should

Today has been improved a lot by the tremendous comical possibility of a Trumpian Antipope. Perhaps Calvin Robinson's true destiny opens itself before us.