Dave Rutt

Looks like I’ll be digging my Seahawks beanie out of my hat box then

Superstars (British TV programme) - Wikipedia

Loving having Gladiators on my Saturday Night Tv. Perfect weekend telly! Wouldn’t it be great to have Superstars back too! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superst...

YouTube video by brassbone player Greatest Little Britons - (Brass Band documentary)

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…and this one from 11 years ago. Love the old ladies from Dinnington in particular. Great to see Duncan Beckley here. RIP maestro

YouTube video by Conor's Films FIRST | A Brass Band Documentary

Terrific little brass band documentary here: love this insight into this band & the people that make it. Love my brass bands youtu.be/iifJ4h4hFR4?...

So pleased it’s worked out like that! Love them both!

Falling in love with Slow Horses. One of those unique shows with charm. So good! Gary Oldman is brilliant in particular!

It’s been an absolutely wild week. I’m so proud to share this earth with all of you who are finding hope and joy and community no matter how dark the times.

That looks right up my alley!

I was watching Macclesfield v Crystal Palace earlier & ended up in an impromptu but brilliant nap. I can back around & Paddy McGuinness was showing me how to make biscuits

Drawing of a gorgeous sausage dog next to my gorgeous sausage dog

It’s arrived! Double sausage

Moose does the BEST drawings. Here’s my long good boy! I might just spoil my wife with that one for Xmas

Grid of nine images featuring retro-themed items, including a t-shirt, framed prints, phone case, Christmas gift wrap, cushion, and a mug.

It's been a very quiet week.
As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season.

So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture.

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I keep two glasses on my bedside table at night: a glass of water and an empty one, because sometimes, when I wake up, I'm not thirsty.

I want to live in a world where people are more Maya and less MAGA.

It’s all so bloody depressing

Dave''s fundraiser for Cardiac Risk in the Young Help David Rutt raise money to support Cardiac Risk in the Young

I’d signed up for the Robin Hood Half but had to drop out after my cancer diagnosis. However, I’m bloody well going to run it in my own time because I really want to raise money for this incredible charity (CRY). I’m delayed but not deterred

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There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in the dark.

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.

The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism

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Donate to Help Jason beat cancer & stay sane, organized by Jason Arnopp Hi, I’m Jason, a single dad to amazing six-year-old twin boys. I was diagnosed in June… Jason Arnopp needs your support for Help Jason beat cancer & stay sane

I’ve chucked a small contribution towards this old Metal Warrior’s cancer support. Jason is a legend of Metal journalism & needs our help. Best of luck with your recovery old chap gofund.me/6d610ef4bb

Loving the new Cardiacs album.

Cartoon of three panels. The first shows a flamingo standing in water, one leg bent, caption: Flamingo. The second panel shows the same scene, but just the flamingo's head and neck are above the water, caption: Flamingoing. In the third panel there are now just a few ripples in the water. Caption: Flamingone

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A can of beer is being offered to a dachshund, whose tongue is licking his lips

Just toasting mine. He’s been a good boy, at least for a few minutes

People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.

I’m going to go out on a limb here & say: ‘no’

A handsome dachshund stares at a laptop screen

Off work for a while, so someone has to be a wage slave.

We’ve been watching Wolf Hall, a fascinating study of how the fragile male ego of a fickle, greedy despot creates a culture of deep cruelty and mistrust, where everyone lives in fear of saying the wrong thing. Thank goodness we’ve moved on from those times.

…but thrash is the best genre! I’m very much looking forward to the new Testament in October. They always deliver the riffs!

I know, right? We have a good few villages around here that are former colliery sites. They *always* object to wind turbines and solar farms. I really do not understand the thinking at all

Wrote a bit more about how the *process of making software* is a social activity before it is a technical activity, and AI tools alienating us from that social activity directly undermine our ability to make software.

Robert Jenrick says UK asylum seekers should be held in ‘rudimentary prisons’ Shadow justice minister, seen as nurturing Tory leadership hopes, criticises Reform’s immigration plans as too weak

this is insanity and the speed with which 'sensible people' have decided this is normal discourse is completely terrifying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...