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I do not want to jump into the flag debate, but my train is delayed due to "people being lowered over bridge parapets to attach flags" & speed restrictions being applied, which is both new & bonkers with wires. Hoping EMR toilets are working for once - if I'm trapped for a while
And then EL James was inspired to begin writing after seeing the movie Twilight, wrote some Twilight fan fiction, then wrote 50 Shades of Grey... This is all making me feel very old, I was an adult when 9/11 happened...
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Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts
The headline could have been "cheer on hundreds of cyclists raising money for charity" but it's easier to stoke a divisive narrative.
WATCH: Historian Anthony Seldon criticises Nigel Farage and accuses Keir Starmer of 'flip-flop' #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTayzyD7K2E
But of course...
I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂
the juxtaposition of 'let's enjoy Paddington bear!' and 'let's deport human migrants to the Taliban!' is too perfect
I saw someone painting a red cross on some white dog poo earlier. Made me proud. And nostaligic.
The Mirror seems to get what is happening though #r4today
At a guess, the Afghan refugees stuck in hotels waiting to have their acts of bravery for British soldiers honoured will have done immeasurably more for this country than the shits spray painting roundabouts with a can of wrong colour paint they probably stole from Halfords.
BREAKING: Lucie Connolly has lamented that free speech is diminishing in the UK because you can't even call for buildings to be burnt down with innocent people inside them without being held accountable 😭😭😭
If you went back to the 2000s and told someone the future has a website called "x dot com" that has heaps of pornography they probably wouldn't be surprised until you said the UK Prime Minister and Elmo from Sesame Street post on there.
I see what you mean; on the Back Catalogue listing you hardly notice the fire any more, it's too small a detail in the context of the wider picture. The other images are more simplistically effective
We drove past these just a few days ago. The D781 road cuts straight through it! But given the road is so straight, I guess we can blame that bit of cultural vandalism on Julius Caesar in his conquest of Gaul?
@newsthump.com are also on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/news...
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It's great, makes it all the more impactful when Ian Mcdonald can think of nothing negative to say about a song, like Yellow Submarine. Sad about what happened to him, and he never got to writing a book about Bowie.
This is what HS2 was going to fix: capacity on core routes being at such a premium that we are reducing, not increasing, bike provision. And now, thanks to this government, things are going to get worse, not better.
Incredible work
So the fess is terrible parenting? In Behavioural Management theory, Consequences should be Immediate and Certain in order to best influence future behaviour. This is maybe the most extreme example of what not to do that I've ever seen www.robpilz.com/single-post/...
This is 100% because people laughed at the picture of him shouting at the kid mowing the grass.
What do the colours mean? I've only ever really done Strava (unpaid) for cycling
NO MORE MISTER NIGHT SKY.
If only there was a good train service to Crewe.
🎶Bravely ran away-away🎶
Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
I laughed at this video for like 2 minutes straight last night and now you get to
It's hard to grasp just how stupid he is, but this helps
Learning Tom Lehrer and Stephen Sondheim knew each other from childhood summer camp forces me to imagine a conversation in which they both said, “I’m going to be the best there ever was at the kind of songs I will write,” and they were both correct.
Tom Lehrer was the best. R.I.P. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
That's not how you spell that word surely Wordle 1,497 5/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
The internet is still unbeaten
It was more interesting when Lloyd Grossman was on it: youtu.be/Os82UYqssSc?...
It's really interesting seeing people's reactions to hearing your favourite music for the first time. There's also films - there's an entire genre of YouTube video it seems, based on snips of people reacting to the Sixth Sense ending for the first time...
The Telegraph slammed the BBC for “championing” Bob Vylan…. But the Telegraph forgot to mention it gave Bob Vylan a glowing four-star review last year and trumpeted that they “had somehow established a mood of feel-good catharsis." Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
If I want to listen to music in public I wear headphones. My old man opinion is why the fuck are there so many young people, not all, but many, who don't get this simple bit of common courtesy? Just been at the gym with some twat playing music on his phone in the changing rooms. SHUT UP.
Peter Benchley's Jaws (Eric Carle version) for @mitchbenn.bsky.social
SHOWBIZ EXCLUSIVE Leaked Oasis set list
It's not even 7:30am but this'll probably be the best web page I see today thick-coins.net
This cartoon is hot right now… www.worldofmoose.com/products/30-...
What
Love it!! Happy Pride, everyone!
This is not a long distance on a train - Peterborough to King's Cross is 80 miles and only takes 45 minutes. I know people at work who regularly come from much further. But this demonstrates how much harder it is to commute by car, can't get any work done or have a rest. The answer is more trains...
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Nick Park's first animation for Aardman was the dancing chickens...
“I like the way Reform combines nationalism and socialism” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
Or of this...? youtu.be/QvzM_eRKubQ?...
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Questions that make my mind go blank: “Why do you want this job?” “Know any good jokes?” “Been up to much lately?” “What did you do yesterday?”
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Paul Simon: "There were times when I'd ask Black Mambazo to sing a minor chord; they couldn't sing a minor chord. They just didn't hear it." youtu.be/ZHaGhF_vhjk?...
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the movie JAWS which was originally released on the 20th June 1975. #Jaws50 It's also your occasional reminder that Robert Shaw who played Quint in the movie, grew up and went to school in Stromness #Orkney where his father was the local doctor. 🦈
Trump cant kill everyone But he'll try asbestos he can
Some drivers really are spoilt miserable little twats aren't they? Put a bit of joy into some kids lives and get reported cos some manchild had to wait an extra half a second. Twats. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No YOU just wrote Javascript that replaces the word "walk" with "wank" because you're procrastinating again
Animation in 1982...
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC
#booksky
The oldest song Genesis played in those concerts was a small snippet of Musical Box ("brush back your hair, let me get to know your flesh") from 1971. That would be the equivalent of Radiohead on their 2017 Moon Shaped Pool tour, playing songs from the Bends or OK Computer...
Wild that Natalie Appleton of All Saints would take the Roy Orbison role in 2025. I remember in 1992 when Genesis played Earl's Court, Phil Collins talked about "songs from a distant era - the '70s". I remember we all thought (at school) Genesis were some ancient band... 1/2
... and the map doesn't even have room for Lebkuchen...
Yeah, I know, it could be wurst...
kemi badenoch* sketch (*kemi badenoch is the leader of the conservative party)
Simply incredible youtube.com/watch?v=apBW...
Assuming your wife saw them in 1995, when she was (say) 17, then that's 30 years ago, a fifth of 30 is 6 years, 6 years younger than 17 is 11 years old. But it entirely depends how old your wife was in 1995...
Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
Germany apparently
So I Googled and this is Stuttgart www.stuttgart.de/leben/mobili... specifically the "Zahnradbahn" ("tooth-railway" or what Google calls the "rack railway") www.stuttgart.de/tourismus/se... . More on Stuttgart's cycling ambitions to be a "Fahrrad Stadt" are at www.stuttgart.de/leben/mobili...
Half a dozen of my most priceless albums: Genesis 1971-76. In that short time Genesis conjured up glorious, sublime images of all conquering giant hogweeds, mythological multi-gender gods, pied pipers, dragons, a soaking wet yet still unperturbed King Canute, …
That isn't Scotland is it? maps.app.goo.gl/5CFUyEmpsDTX...
Walk on fare for two from London to York at 4pm on a Monday: £345*. "Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!" Peak trains:
One of my favourite videos on YouTube, about one of my favourite Bowie songs youtu.be/6gCUBRFkvvU?...
Two things are true: 1. This is an important moment for a lot of people working hard to give us a more joined up railway system. 2. An org previously classified as public by the ONS became public according to Companies House, which will change very little. www.bbc.com/news/article...
It was right there… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
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"Take them all out" said the wise old man… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
OK I was thinking Aztecs so this rules that out. Hmm... the Khmer Empire maybe...
Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam in 1987 and today
It's a lot quicker than it used to be
*fest
The lips and mirror ball were great, it went downhill after that, another generic bondage costume & strobe feat
Lovely
#HappyToast #Eurovision #Drawalong Latvia
Can I guess this was one of the ones you pre-sketched?
#HappyToast #Eurovision #Drawalong Luxembourg
Andy Elms 