Dr Jamiebear 🏳️‍🌈

Going back to such companies and trying to pass security can be a nightmare too. "Now, which was it for this one, Bowdensmith or did I go with just Smith? Yeah, I know neither match the Bowden-Smith on my driving licence but that's a problem of your own making."

Right Said Fred, when I quote tweeted one of their demented anti-vax/anti-mask posts with the words "Far Right Said Fred".

"You Bet!", apparently 🤷 ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Can_Do

A halftone black and white image of a TV studio. Pertwee talks to a glamorously dressed woman while a man points a rifle at a set of targets, while another glamorously dressed woman looks on.

Today in "1950s television was very weird" we have Jon Pertwee hosting an ABC Weekend TV programme called "Can Do!" where Lonnie Donnegan is showing off his marksmanship skills in the Alpha studios in Aston.

When Boy George was complaining about Katie Hopkins getting banned from twitter, and I suggested he could chain himself to a radiator in protest

MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s.

🚨 Wide ranging powers have been voted through to restrict Internet access 🚨

Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.

This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.

Steve Reed accidentally catches 5 minutes of a Robin Askwith film late night on BBC-2 and the next day there’s a national ban on doorstep milk deliveries.

4 frame comic. a street journalist is interviewing a tall light brown man with a pink scarf and a tshirt of the band Angine de Poitrine. off-frame, the journalist asks : sir! are you worried about homophobic parents who might want to trans their child rather than have an effeminate son? the man replies : wait wait wait wait wait. are you implying that some homophobes might not also be raging transphobes? Never heard of that. trans kids are currently being hunted down, outlawed, marginalized from social life, singled out in their own schools, and you're asking me about some hypothetical parent who might pressure a child into being trans so they might what? fit in better? transitioning as a child in- volves years of determination. every adult in their life is likely to cast doubt on who they are. if they are lucky and have supportive parents, their families are often ostracized by their community. the idea that someone sees the hardships a family with a trans child goes through and thinks "they must have forced it on them" makes me physically ill.

Wait wait wait wait wait

3.6 million kids in poverty in one of the 7 richest countries in the world and you’re celebrating giving 50,000 or so of them turkey twizzlers 5 days a week while spunking over £1bn down the sink on ID cards.

Why is Labour so fucking tone deaf?

Apart from the hideous graphics, let's be real for a second: According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation there are *3.6 MILLION* children in severe and acute poverty.

Now, I am favour of (almost) any measure to feed more kids, but come on; you are not systemically 'lifting kids out of poverty'

My habit is chopping chilli peppers and then going for a pee.

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

Is 0.0034 very very faintly better, or very very faintly worse? I'm not sure of the scoring system!

Still, this red-green colourblind guy is giving himself extra points either way.

Dec 1986 Poster Map issued by the Greater Manchester Passanger Transport Executive and showing a diagram of the railway network in the County at that time. This includes the now Metrolink lines to Bury, Altrincham and the Oldham Loop. The upper section of the poster is dominated by a photo of a BR "Pacer" train, in the PTE's orange livery, along with an interior view. The title "Greater Manchester's Railways - settingt he pace in Greater Manchester' is a play on the Pacer name.

Greater Manchester's Railways - poster map issued in Dec. 1986 & making a play on the use of the BR Pacer trains as seen here in PTE livery. Soon we'll be seeing yellow Bee Network trains but possibly not a Pacer! #manchester #railways #trains #britishrail #map

A map of the English Midlands showing UHF coverage in green and VHF coverage in a red outline. VHF losses include Chester, Frome, Aldershot and Northampton; UHF gains include Boston, Peterborough, Dunstable and Gainsborough.

April 1969 map of the planned UHF 625-line transmitter network in the ATV Network region. More info: transdiffusion.org/2026/03/10/i...

"Utterly failed"
@rachelmillward.bsky.social lays out the reality of privatised water - explaining why water must be returned to public hands.

A dog with his mouth open looks down the camera lens

A dog reclines looking satisfied

Gave Spud a bedtime brushing with dry shampoo as a post-seizure pampering session.

Please poke his eyes out with a biro before putting it in the recycling. It won’t help, but also it really helps.

Said this before, but Arthur Askey's first TV appearance was on Baird's experimental transmissions and his last was on Channel Four

Reeves giving her budget Plan B statement at the moment; doesn't really work as she doesn't have a Plan A to start with.

Blimey, Trout & Salmon.

The Eclegraph Log in Q News Iran crisis Sport Business Money See all News Iran war LIVE Latest updates LIvE Markets Expats fleeing Dubai abandon pets in scramble to leave Travel restrictions and costs force animal owners to take drastic action as Iran targets Gulf states Tr

Two points:

1. They’re not “expats” they’re “migrants.”

2. Them abandoning their pets will hopefully give each and every one of these people just a little bit of insight into the incredibly hard decisions refugees have to make when they’re fleeing war zones.

Seizures are not uncommon in herding dogs. This is the second one he's had, but the previous one was 3 or 4 years ago.

Drama as Spud has a generalised tonic–clonic seizure in the hall. My attention drawn to it by Rabbit getting hysterical and her rushing over to him with her toys one at a time and dropping them at his twitching feet.

He's fine now, but may need a shower later as he's covered in sick and wee.

If there’s a time in your life when you’re *not* amused that someone was once called Dick Bumhole, I don’t want to reach it.

A man talks to his phone. The phone claims to be benign and full of fun things. He is persuaded and picks it up. A stream of horrors blasts him off his feet.

The current Wondermark cartoon wondermark.com/c/1582/ has been on my mind a lot lately.

Jaw ache springs instantly to mind.

*looks sad in a former-lifelong-Morrissey-fan way*

Chris is in bed with what seems to be covid. His first sick day from work in FOURTEEN YEARS according to rosters (they don't count the 2x 14 days he had off when I had covid and he had to isolate).

Jo Cox was killed by a man like that guy harassing Hannah Spencer

"Agree with us or else" is very much the theme of this anti-trans movement. Or else you will be sued. Or else you will be harassed. Or else you will suffer violence.