What an unexpected delight: Mr Angry Pants from Bear Behaving Badly is in an episode #twentytwelve. We *love* Mr Angry Pants. (That's a series reference.) #W1A #TwentyTwentySix etc

Peter Jarrett: Tomorrow Clark Bryan, piano YouTube video by Clark Bryan

An obscure but lovely piece of jazz: 'Tomorrow' by Peter Jarrett. We play it more romantically than this. It just has the one 'Batman' chord, but it took me off on a riff!

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)

Batman Opening and Closing Theme 1966 - 1968 With Snippets YouTube video by TeeVees Greatest

I just played this for a 15yo piano student (for educative purposes...). I LOVED this in the 60s – I get a whiff of the crazy smell of the wheels of the dinky Batmobile. #batman www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK4H...

These are the children of successive govts since 1979 who "weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence". (Misquoting Dickens here.)

‘Exam-obsessed’ schools leave pupils unready for work, Alan Milburn says Former minister leading review into young people and work cites survey showing most teachers decry lack of ‘soft skills’

A belated epiphany from Alan Milburn. The mania for measurement was a key aspect of Blairism, and it is brutal. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Grim. I’ve followed you for a few years here and at the Hellscape previously, and thought you must be a brilliant teacher. Aside from the bigger issue of the boundless stupidity of it all. Good luck.

I don’t know what they said because I had already blocked them. it is upsetting though, even when you know a troll is batshit. I hope you have emergency chocolate.

Boris Johnson didn't pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary.

The media must have missed that one.

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC

I can't stop looking at this one!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edge
As The Daily Rothno

One of my adult students sings to himself as he plays, at certain points – he isn't aware of it. And I feel exactly the same as he is feeling, in the same places, at the same time. #pianoteaching is music-making, and it's incredible.

I think it is possible to express an opinion that the person running a Govt should have exercised better political judgement.

I think this is unknowable. One would need to be privy to the inner workings of his mind.

I think it was pretty clear that mcsweeney wasn’t working.

I can't see a way out of this for Starmer, and I'll prob. still be a Labour member at my funeral. Perhaps Morgan McSweeney was the culprit – for his pal Mandelson. But Starmer had the shockingly bad judgement to hire McSweeney in the first place.

They could do Trump on Jesus. He was so weak on Crime - gives Christianity a bad name. Etc.

Jesus was weak on crime too. I wonder how long it will be before trump has a tantrum about the messiah.

I even had this ridiculous thought process and still didn't realise: "Hm, the arm action seems quite weak but the stone is travelling quite fast. It must be a matter of technique." 🤦

A small thing, especially in the big scheme of things, but please could you tell your presenters it's 'anti-semitic', not anti-semetic (although anti-semitism is vomit-inducing). #c4news

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda:

The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

#BlueSkyArtShow #Openings
Rome

Trending: 1. Army Leadership 2. Iran War 3. Political Firings 4. Pam Bondi 5. Pam

This is a beat away from being the saddest haiku ever

A 3.5” floppy disk

Blew Tiddler and Tadpole’s minds today by showing them this 3D representation of the Save icon.

That’s the one.

"All of us who are really serious about lifting people out of poverty" says Tory Steve Baker, Chair of the ERG. And not a squeak out of the presenter: it's as if this is taking place in a parallel universe. #Newsnight