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People who don't look at their WhatsApp for three hours when you're on a manic episode are a menace.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Morning.

Do you have a "process" for visualising the dark spaces and black ink? When I draw like this (not as well as you obv) I struggle to get the balance between the white space and the dark blocks.

That is astonishingly beautiful. I have an ebony guitar bridge to make in the not-too-distant. I may give that technique a try.

Nice to see Robbie Williams finally feels he can sing about himself

Oh wait...

That is fabulous!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

While waiting for an international bank transfer to clear I'm researching how the UK stacks up against the rest of the world in workplace deaths for a one-line throw away quip in a comic script I'm writing

How's your day?

Sorry, I can't come into the office because my cat would be sad.

Just about to get the final sign-off for the latest audiobook - a psychic horror story set in the close confines of a Royal Navy frigate

Just submitted an audition for the next - a compendium of short stories about The Phantom of the Opera

And so the cycle goes...

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

Excellent! Thank you.

My immediate question is do you have plans for an audiobook?

Asking for an audiobook narrator who's been dying to have a crack at Holmes 😉

WAITER: You're married with a kid when you could be having fun with me. So, what'll it be, sir?

CUSTOMER: Can I hear the specials again?

A reader‘s letter in the times which reads as follows: Old adversaries Sir, Your obituary (Jan 19) of Mr Justice Blofeld rightly referred to his fine sense of humour. When he first sat in Winchester a barrister called Richard Bond stood up to open the first case. Mr Justice Blofeld began to stroke the white ermine on the sleeve of his High Court judge's robes as if stroking a cat. He then said with a smile: "We meet at last, Mr Bond." Sir John Royce Clifton, Bristol

This was posted by @mambarlife.bsky.social in the Other Place and it’s too good not to share it.

I'm on it!

And unusually I'm a middle-aged white guy so it should be really fresh

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Can you imagine how much time we'd have if we didn't have to keep saying "You're on mute" or "Somebody has muted their microphone"?

That is fabulous!

Congratulations on achieving Boffinhood

Well deserved

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

This is a relatively succinct way of putting something I've been trying to articulate for some time

I would add that we mock people who dare to hope or heaven forbid trust anyone or anything

If Only Frankie Went to Hollywood

You're on particularly good form at the moment Mr R but this is a corker.

SCREENSHOT SAYS: heilsbergdvm 1d Hubs and I don't have any children, and the Breeding Season Intern hasn't moved in yet. Two of us. There are TWO adults in this house. I have a service set for twelve people. WHY ARE WE ALWAYS OUT OF BOWLS?!?! heilsbergdvm 1d I AM HORSE VET PEOPLE OF THREADS I AM A HORSE VET

This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.