Haven't seen it since it first came out when I was a nipper - loved it then, had some of the toys.

Edmund Blackadder (for it is he): Does your father know you’re out? Amy Hardwood (recently revealed to be the highwayman The Shadow): He had to go. E: You mean he’s dead? A: Yes, dead as that squirrel! E: Which squirrel? (she shoots a squirrel, which falls with an “eep” and a thud) Oh, that squirrel. Of course, you killed him for ruining your chances of marrying Prince George. A: Huh, I despise the Prince. Don’t you know it’s you I want? I want a real man. A man who can sew on a button. A man who knows where the towels are kept. And yes, I crave your fabulous sinewy body.

Kemi when someone mentions putting squirrels on banknotes

A Barcelona fan accidentally turned up to Exeter City's St James Park last night instead of Newcastle

Browser tab rendered illegible by the text of the app display underneath. Usability score: nil

Seriously, it's a mess

Congratulations to the UI geniuses at Apple for this piece of excellent built-in functionality in their own web browser suggesting an installed app by writing it over the tab bar on page load rendering both illegible.

One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.

Grammarly window showing "Scott Weingart" helping me out with a helpful writing tip.

I just made up the most inane-yet-me-sounding 150 words I could think of and shoved it into Grammarly, and indeed the first 'AI expert' it came up with to help was me.

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

Most of them only once though.

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

Are regulations … are they … good??

I saw a group post this and have to say that it is amazing.

Sir Bobby Robson’s legacy at Newcastle and Barca endures – and he continues to change lives The former Newcastle and Barca manager built teams in his career and now his foundation continues to do the same as it helps fight cancer.

Sir Bobby Robson’s legacy at Newcastle and Barca endures – and he continues to change lives.

#NUFC

@sbrfoundation.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...

X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific

Most striking note: 800 million spam accounts on 300 million users.
Junk accounts out numbered users more than 2:1. No wonder the algorithm is such a mess.

Photograph of part of a church. A small tower and end of the church, fairly modern in well faced stone with decorative scroll work round the main stain glass window

St. Gabriel's Church, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2026

#photography #heaton

I don’t swear a lot on social media, but I swear that if they fuck up Bluesky, I’ll…

If only we had had a way to generate clean energy for free from the wind or the sun or the tides or something, so we didn't have to blame every government since Thatcher for failing to address the energy insecurity and pretending that fossil fuels were OK.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

Every chance it's been done by them before!

I thought of Mad Max Bygraves and then ISIHAC and the endless Lionel Blair jokes sprang to mind from my youth

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

The Total Number of School Shooting Incidents By US State Between 1966 and 2025

Data for Europe: brilliantmaps.com/school-sh...

It will be an immense relief if this war really is nearly over, & I don’t want it to continue for a minute longer. But God almighty, what a self-defeating mess. Somehow the US has made itself look weaker ultimately by projecting strength.

Like many previous presidents We've got involved in a land war in Asia Well did it work well for those people? No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might but... But it might work for us

If I were the runner in the background with the yellow top I'd be running straight over the top of that car

New @bsky.app CEO needs to be "seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution"

I GOT THIS! Woohoo dream job incoming!

Brushes up CV.

Checks references.

Reads job spec.

Sighs sadly, brushes off salt and pepper, and puts away fish guillotine.

Man sitting on comfortable sofa:
"I don't see why they don't have the balls to just drive really slowly through an active war zone where there's high explosives raining down while sitting on top of 300,000 tons of highly flammable liquid."

"Beware the Green Menace" in which the Menace tracks down and taxes unsuspecting billionaires and tax avoiding companies in order to fund public services.

Note for the Daily Mail:
Maybe try not to make the nickname for your feared opponent sound like an MCU superhero with a complex backstory.

Tax those massive, and massively polluting, American pick ups into oblivion. This is Hertfordshire not fucking Wyoming.

Add a word to a film to ruin it.

The Lionel Blair Witch Project.

Add one word to a film to ruin it.

Mad Max Bygraves