Bryan

One of Doherty’s weakest

The council really don't want me to see my council tax bill.

Is listen to a lot more Bowie than I used to, and have got over some of my prejudices, but fuck me Diamond Dogs is a shit album.

How the 'red v blue school wars' exposed the social media gap between children and parents Parents were frightened by social posts that seemed to encourage violence at schools. But it was more complicated than it looked

Elements of 'they've invented the bus' in this. Schools have always had mythical rumbles with other schools. I remember talk about how Bushey Hall were coming to the bottom field tooled up with chains and sticks.

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Just realised I think it's the bloke being tortured in Bored (Young Ones).

Of course if I don’t get it I’ll be more likely to want to leave earlier.

I hope you’re doing okay. i hadn’t used to be that bothered about promotion, but now I’m basically working at that level anyway, and the pay rise would potentially bring retirement forward by a couple of years.

Spent about 2 hours so far this morning cutting 100 words from a promotion application. Still have 30 to go.

Every time I listen to something on 4 Extra and think 'This is great', it seems to be @nadiamolinari.bsky.social's name at the end, so I'll definitely be listening.

It's a bit of a shit question, in a '% of people who say roofs are grey' way.

Has anyone ever done a study of headlines on when actions of past governments are identified as such, and when they're framed in present tense so it seems like the current one?

Unmuted someone whose feed is very realtime news. After 4 hours I remember why I muted them, because it's all so unremittingly depressing.

Sounds good. He was in a tiny venue here, but I'd held off getting a ticket, and then ended up writing against a deadline on the night it was on.

I nearly went the other week, but forgot on the day. Was it good?

I know next to nothing about Roosevelt, but I get the impression he wasn't a massive cunt. So Starmer responding in kind would seem appropriate, if petty.

Nice to see lots of tits in the garden as spring comes around.

Fucking nincompoop.

I'm now thinking of Bill Bailey in Hot Fuzz

Which comedy character does Mel Stride sound like? (I realise his name also sounds like a comedy character, but his timbre and vocal fry sounds like someone possibly from the 80s).

Sorry what's the point of this?

Is he still in parliament?

Trump's complexion is exactly what you'd have in a film if you wanted to unsubtly get across that someone is a disguised non-human. Presumably that's what his make-up people are aiming for.

The people who voted for Johnson got what they wanted. The people who voted for Starmer haven't.

Screenshot from Apple Music of a very Christian looking song called 'When I Found God' by 'Xodus'. X-O-Dus was also the name of a band on Factory records who are probably best known for the single English Black Boys released in 1980. I don't think this is them.

I've a feeling this isn't the follow up to English Black Boys.

Blimey, had no idea of that. Cocteaus' name always seemed the perfect fit for them, and that tune isn't.

I think I gave up trying at 1300, but could probably have worked out 1200 with some effort. I found myself thinking that if I got stuck in 1200 I’d probably get by, but that assumes pronunciation maps.

Don’t often have a lot of time for paparazzi, but on this occasion, lol

I do miss the Durutti Column. Listening to a 1998 bootleg (not a gig I was at, but adjacent).

We had that for a bit, but they dropped it partly because it was annoying, and partly because having the clitheroe kid voicing the north east was just stupid.

Had some of those grief moments this week when the reality of someone's death actually being permanent strikes you. I think it's the first hints of spring doing it.