Meme of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer saying,"and I'd just like to say in my defence that a dog ate my homework."

The winning robot beat the best human time. Might look like a quaint engineering experiment but now these things can out-run us, how long before they are armed too? This is surely the future nobody wants - other than some deranged warmongers.
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Spanner.

Nah! I'll be sending them an invoice for aversion therapy! 😹

Roger Whittaker - Mexican Whistle (Live on Austrian TV, 1976) YouTube video by Spotlight Music Show

Fabulous! This is my favourite of Whittaker's whistling oeuvre.
youtu.be/HzKQfrNseoI

Custurd creams?

A lot of focus on the mischievous bird, but there are way too many dogs in that house. I can smell it from here.

The Good Life on Mars
#TelevisionMergers

Only Fools and Slow Horses
#TelevisionMergers

Peaky Minder
#TelevisionMergers

Call the Midwife Next Door
#TelevisionMergers

Magic Roundabout The House
#TelevisionMergers

Got my post-apocalyptic outfit sorted.

Screenshot showing icon for the Donald Draws app.

I downloaded the Donald Draws app back in 2017, at the beginning of 🎃's first term. Still relevant.

Should there be a comma in that sentence?

#FakeNews, Chinstrap, as the #IsleOfWight is the #SunniestPlaceInBritain™

Cut the mus-turd?

If you see this, post a robot.

Shoddy undercrackers. It's the same with socks. I can burst through the toes in one wear. We used to have decent stuff.

OMG! I *can* buy that prawn cocktail flavouring. What a time to be alive!

I would buy that prawn cocktail crisps flavouring.

Also, you won't need to make that time machine in your basement, I can show you a place where it's always 1952.

To be fair, the #IsleOfWight, despite its downs* is pretty utopic.

*see what I did there

How I arrived on Bluesky.

I'm thinking far more fundamentally; about how food could be unprocessed, utilities nationalised and housing existing to house people, not for profit. Insects worshipped. Basically I'm disappointed that we are not living in a socialist/environmental/peaceful utopia, instead of war and degradation.

Harold Wilson is trending

Too late, we've gone back further - over on the other channel #HaroldWilson is trending.

Be great to have a joyful programme in mould of Tomorrow's World, but called Today's World, in which we are told of all the great advances and improvements on our daily lives, so that boomers like me won't keep droning on about how much better things were before enshittification.

'Take me home, Island Roads' - CP columnist shares her frustrations Earlier this month, I went to Southampton's Mayflower Theatre to see self-styled 'mentallist' Derren Brown. In his show, 'Only Human,' the…

NEW COLUMN: *Take me home, #IslandRoads* In which I weave tale around a trip to #MayflowerTheatre to see #mentalist #DerrenBrown, with eternal gamble of catching the last #RedFunnel #RedJet, plus added frustration of pesky road closures on the #IsleOfWight.
www.countypress.co.uk/news/2587802...

Same with 'mobile' phones. Only gubbers like me remember having a landline fixed in a draughty hallway.