Nick Drew

Was complimented on my running by a stranger on the bus after sprinting to catch the @11bus.bsky.social in Cotteridge tonight. I'll take that

Small handwritten sign next to a bar saying "Guys We do not do Childrens Partys Baby Showers Gender Revels (sic) We will do a 21st only"

GUYS WHAT HAPPENED HERE

Morons are running America.

Happy birthday to Gillian Gilbert. Photo taken when New Order played Birmingham's Imperial Cinema in Jan 82.

Because we all desperately need to learn to listen - to each other, to our own sense of wellbeing, to the planet. What could be more important than that right now?

The best thing about this is, I am not sure that Trump (if he saw it) would get that it is sarcasm

ULEZ expansion hasn’t hurt high street spending - Centre for Cities Large scale credit card transaction data shows that the expansion of ULEZ in 2023 did not reduce demand for high street goods and services.

BLOG | ULEZ expansion hasn’t hurt high street spending 🚗

Using an expansive credit card transaction data set we investigated the impact of ULEZ’s expansion in 2023 💳

Read our latest blog from @oscarselby.bsky.social 👇

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

Underpaid Funeral Strippers
is the name of my new death metal polka band

⏹️ FULL TIME! WHAT A WIN!

Down to ten men for over half the game but the lads come away with all three points!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Send a former solider (Jason Statham) to this jail for a crime he did not commit, and have ourselves a movie.

pt2
Romantic Gestures vol 1 - Fort Romeau
Electric Soup - Tioklu
Dennis - Sega Bodega
BUTU - KOKOKO!
PREGOBLIN II
Intricate Inner Workings of the System - The Bug Club
Cascade - Floating Points
Dostrotime - Squarepusher
World of Work - C Connolly
3FOR82 - Machinedrum
In Waves - Jamie xx
Akoma - Jlin

Albums of the year for 2024 in no particular order: (Part 1)
Pull the Rope - Ibibio Sound Machine
L'Ecstasy - Tiga & Hudson Mohawke
Here We Go Again - Stetsasonic
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis
Nandakke? - Aili

I find myself oddly repelled by scented bin-bags

It's like Speed. Only it's that the bus can't drop below 50 people bloody coughing.

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg I ask Putin: "Yeltsin told you to 'Take Care of Russia.' Have you?"

I asked Vladimir Putin: “25 years ago Yeltsin handed you power & told you 'Take care of Russia.’ Do you think you have? In light of significant losses in Ukraine, Ukrainian troops in Kursk region, sanctions, inflation…” Here’s his reply. Producer
@lizashuvalova.bsky.social @bentavener.bsky.social

*applauds*

But what happens if my cathode ray tube goes after Morecambe and Wise?

Really happy to discover that there is a football team in La Paz, Bolivia, called "Club The Strongest". You need to have a certain level of confidence to pull that off

Kirsty McColl 11 October 1959 - 18 December 2000 ❤️

Terry Hall, 19/3/1959 - 18/12/2022 🫡🖤🤍

It's that time of year when I always keep a copy of "Messiah" in the car. Because, y'know, just in case...

the year is 2034. there are thousands of specialty accounts on twitter. stair guy. smell doctor. cutlery gal. sports them. liquor baby. chef raccoon. finally, men can no longer post any photo without being criticized.

Josh Shapiro called the McDonald’s employee who reported Luigi Mangione a “hero.”

She will NOT get the $10,000 reward money because she called 911 instead of the tip line.

By the way, Josh Shapiro got $15,000 in donations from United Healthcare last year.

Numbers are fun.

View of St Mary Magdelen church in Yarm from across the churchyard

Today's concert venue is St Mary Magdelen, Yarm. I doubt the rehearsal will finish in time for me to go and watch Yarm and Eaglescliffe v Bedlington Terriers @camsell59.bsky.social

Driver change at Rookery Road, is that Chinny waiting at the stop with a gaggle of pensioners, shouldn't they be indoors?.

That's what that Elton John song should have been called

The Media won't acknowledge this video of the farmers blocking an ambulance with its blue lights on so could you could RT it so people see it?

Mildly tickled that the emails from the Owlet's school's "no-reply" broadcast email account now appear to come from a "Mr N Reply"