Thomas Rushton

Is that the one with Doner meat, onions, and extra chillies?

GWS!

I went to two duvets last week... :-/
...but I refuse to take the blame for the weather.

The fun VW? What, you mean Fantasia on a theme by Tommy Tassles? :-D

And it's Haydn...

Name and shame! (The orchestra, that is...)

What. The. Actual.

Happy birthday @dgmelkin.bsky.social !

We're not cross at you, we're cross with you.

No, wait. That doesn't help. We're with you, cross? Also, not necessarily helpful. Buggrit.

Hopefully you feel less like this soon.

Experience: I am the world porridge-making champion Thousands watch the competition on a live stream. People cheer and chant like it’s a football match

There was an article on the Grauniad's website the other day... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Don't go giving them ideas.

Wait, did I miss it? Again?

@theaifix.show
@smashingsecurity.com

A lot of us have spent ages making sure computers give correct answers and it’s honestly pretty annoying that no one actually seemed to want that.

Yeah - last time I was in .nl, I tried speaking Dutch and was asked if I was German... *shrug*

Frankly, I'll take that. :-)

Whereas putting it in Notepad is a serious "WTF, dude, seriously WTAF?"

Notepad. A lightweight text editor, cluttered up with Copilot. Ugh.

Oh go on then. It's not as if I haven't just taken delivery of 11 novels by the one and only @cstross.bsky.social oh wait. (Laundry files vols 1-11, if anyone is that interested...)

John Who?

Imagine my surprise...

I thought it was a wizard...?

A photo of a sheep, except the sheep's body has been given extra shine and black stripes running diagonally down its length, making it look like a popular mint sweet - or, a "bah, humbug". No? Oh well, someone tried...

Ugh. Here, have a stripey sheep.

Extract of a piece of music showing two notes (with a couple of passing notes) joined by five slurs all in parallel.

Looking at the bass parts for the next Enigma gig (20th Sept, Chester). HOW MANY SLURS? How do I do this? HOW?

I've pointed this out to the MD, who's just replied with a smiley face reaction. *sigh*.

If you want to find out how I deal with this, come to www.tickettailor.com/events/enigm...

"Give it to me"...

I sometimes find myself shouting at the podcast version... Idiots, almost all of them.

Nice to see I'm not the only one that refers to them as pimps...

It's been a busy month. See below for the first slab; then there were a couple of concerts... and then a musical holiday. For the play list for that, see thelonedoublebass.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/w...

Have you tried the "Dateline" podcast? 600-ish hours of WTF were they thinking...

Some absolute belters of lines - "he was shot 37 times. This was no accident"

Well, that was a cheery couple of hours... :-/

the words "zeugma" an "syllepsis" are wandering through my mind, but neither of them seems quite right. Ho hum.

Ooh. Just started watching this. Now, place your bets on me finishing it tonight...

The "Le Mans" start for exams? That sounds unpleasant.