@duncanbatey.bsky.social
is allegedly a gracefully ageing rocker whose life was demolished in a freak meditation accident back when he was a computer scientist but also very definitely a singer-songwriter and t'ai-chi enthusiast based in Glastonbury, UK duncanbatey.bandcamp.com
<thinks> hmm, maybe it's why I have such an aversion to sweeping and mopping...
Ah ha!
I have no idea what that is, but it sounds great.
From the Department of Unexpected Correlations and Questionable Causation: popular new album release = more fiddling with phones when driving = more distracted drivers = more accidents = more deaths.
Conclusion: we should ban the release of popular new albums.
www.musicradar.com/music-indust...
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<backs away reaching for riot shield>
Tease.
Next up: honey badger totally indifferent to random bloke wagging his finger at it.
Can we just, once again, note that the British government should absolutely not be inviting this firm into our democracy?
Just in case somehow you've missed it this morning...
scifibulletin.com/2026/03/13/t...
The final two paragraphs. As usual, it's a case of "follow the money".
Terrific article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social laying out the facts to counter those on the right who claim that renewables are the reason for the UK's ludicrously high electricity bills and we should therefore drill more in the North Sea.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Telegoons revived the Goon Show on TV just after it had ceased to exist as a radio show. For kids like me whose parents weren’t fans, it was first exposure and first love. I still see the puppets in my minds eye when listening to the “real thing”.
Good MORNING!
Ha, yeah, although I've (hopefully) let go of it - I eventually saw they were acting out of pain and fear, as was I at times - forgiveness all round. I had some fun writing things on slips of paper and then ritually burning them! Surprisingly effective. Forgot to unplug the smoke alarm though, oops.
Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).
Can relate. It's like l'esprit d'escalier only times many. As if in shock. I think my longest was nearly two years after the fact, at which point I realised quite how unfairly my by-then ex had undermined me and suddenly it's "now hang on, wait a minute - that was outrageous!!!"
Yup!
It was a very long shot, but always worth a try!
That used to be me, but then... things... happened in the 90s that left me with a Very Nervous System such that actual fully caffeinated coffee... you've seen Gremlins, right?
Indeed. By the way I keep meaning to ask and forgetting - a long shot, but do you by any chance have a relative called Claire Parry who grew up in Romsey, Hampshire?
Tell me how the hollow hearts
of fragile men beat--
the echo, a ghost
of smoke, the thrum
of shadows, a host
of night gone slack,
terror twisted into agony,
swallowed down
like stones,
like seawater,
like desperation,
& they are each drowning
feverishly--
don't let them
also pull you down
@TinyPoem
PS I don't know about "old one", but you look like you should be in the running to be the next Doctor. Which is, funnily enough, often what people tell me. Two friends are convinced they've seen me wearing a Tom Baker scarf (I have never owned such an item. I wear a snood). Maybe it's the long coat.
That's good to hear! No, I *think* I looked at it when Philip Pullman raved about it, but wasn't sure it was for me. There is yet time.
Oh, that's purty.
Feather clouds above Glastonbury Tor.
It's just a familiarity thing, I suppose. As I was growing up I only heard or read "orientate" in UK English for getting your bearings, so although I was aware of the use of "orient" for the same meaning in US English, it still snags when used this side of the pond.
It cuts both ways, trust me.
That is Very Cool! I love David Fickling books, they take real care over them.
OMG that's me! The old one on the right.
& congratulations Jessica Mary Ellis! Can't wait to read your book, it sounds wonderful.